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If you know what is good for you, you will not tell your daughters or nieces that this movie exists.

*Shadow curls up in the fetal position*

"Make it go away. Make it go away."

 :teddyr:

I can accurately predict that I will NEVER watch this movie.

I LOVE this movie.

My daughters tried to watch this on cable one day, but I turned the tv off and forced them out the door until it was all over.  I'd rather sit through a 8 hour Smurfs marathon.

Every day is a rainbow day indeed.  Seems the 80s couldn't pump out enough happy fodder for little young ladies.  My wife was obsessed with the Care Bears and still partially is obsessed with them.  We have two movies somewhere in the house, Andrew you might have inpsired me to eventually take them on. 

Andrew,

Your video clip took 6 months off my life. 
I still remember that damned song they sing!
AHHHH!!   :buggedout:

Unfortunately, I can say that I've seen this horrid piece of animation.

Quite unfortunately, I watched this for the review one night while the kids were up.  Jenna continues to ask us if she can watch it again.  Katie has repeatedly told me that she might use that as grounds for divorce.  Like anyone else is going to marry a woman with three children, one of whom is a Rainbow Brite addict.

Ash, it is funny that you mention death when you talk about the video clip.  Mofo Rising yelled at me for the short clip from the theme song when he did the proofreading.  Let me quote him:



We also had a short discussion about the type of drug user who would suffer the most from the film.  I originally used a PCP user, but changed it to LSD, because I think more people would understand.  However, the more I think about it, the more I think that exposing someone who is under the effect of PCP to "Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer" would be the best way to achieve complete annihilation of the senses and destroy their soul.

Oh, and our previous discussion about this hideous film:

http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,112753.0.html

Don't know what it says about me but as a young boy, I watched not only this but also Care Bears, Care Bear Cousins, Strawberry Shortcake and My Little Pony. If it had anything magical in it, I found myself drawn to it.

Ahhhh! My eyes! My eyes!
Oh....my- brain- hurts! I've gone all B.G.Gumby!
(Whimper)...
Oh, how i long for a .50 throught the brain meat.

Your are as cruel to us, as to to yourself. The fact that you warned us about this...thing...is no excuse. Oh, i feel like the floor of a movie theater.....This flick could kill diabetics, ya know...

Okay, that clip was enough for me.

I have a few less brain cells now.

If I were to ever see this movie, I would probobly hate it too, but keep in mind that ITS MEANT FOR 4 YEAR OLD GIRLS and NOT targeted toward ANY of us here on the board. It's probobly AMAZING for little girls. .........and maybe for 15 year old girls who for some reason still watch care bears.

Ok, so I finally watched the video clip.

I really did not know that a person was capable of bleeding from their eyes, nose and ears...at the same time. Seriously, I think I'm suffering from the mother of all brain hemorrhages. I need medical attention ASAP. Oh, the drooling, facial ticks, muscle spasms and sudden onset of Tourette Syndrome can wait. I need to have C***S***ER!!! my head looked at A**F*CE!!! and soon.

That's very true, but I'm sure I speak for several of the other parents here when I say that generally I try to avoid bringing movies like this home because I feel they insult kids' intelligence.  There's so much in the way of good fantasy available for kids, there's no need to waste money, time, and brain damage on crap like this!  It's a vehicle to sell more crappy plastic toys, just like the heinous My Little Pony movies.

How can anyone not like this movie?  It's got robots, lizard monsters, the (near) end of the world, and the annoying valley girl even buys it at the end!  Hell, the boy even gets to shoot somebody with his rainbow gun.  (Whether it actually killed him or just froze him for awhile is open to discussion.)

As far as 80s animated features based on Saturday morning cartoons go, this falls well short of TransFormers: The Movie but can stand up there with the GoBots/Rock Lords movie and is probably equal to G.I. Joe: The Movie.

When you get down to it, the evil princess should have been killed by a headshot by a Marine Scout/Sniper, as mentioned in the review.

Films like this are painful to me.  The thing is, I couldn't skull it, because completely screwing with it was pretty fun (talking about the dog eating the boy, the Scout/Sniper, locking a PCP addict in a room with this film, etc.).

Shadow, you should try watching eighty minutes of that.  I have lesions on my brain that have given me a very rare form of Tourette's.  Sufferers (LIKE, OMG, PONIES!) are known for (PRETTY! PRETTY!) strange outbursts that lack cursing, but (I WANT TO RUN BAREFOOT THROUGH BUTTERCUPS!) are also disturbing.

Get this:

The IMDb score for this film is 6.4 out of 10. An somebody on the boards is saying its the best animated kids movie EVER.

I don't need to watch the clip now. My brain has already melted out of my skull.

Just to reiterate what that one guy said on that previous post...

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pj3yd5oMtM

>The noise wakes up Rainbow Brite, who immediately asks Twink for a handful of star sprinkles.
>You know, just to get her going for the day.

When I read this, I thought you were going to add, "She then prompty snorts it." 

:)

Wasnt that a rip off of my little poney and Strawberry shortcakes with a bit of the carebars?

I really dont remember this lame series, being a young kid at that time i used to watch the stuff that really matter GI JOE Transformers.

Now that is BAD!!!!

 :bouncegiggle:

Hmmm... I don't know. That clip you showed didn't seem all that brain-damaging to me. That's not to say I'd enjoy a movie like this. I definitely wouldn't want to see it in any situation where I didn't have control over the volume (so that I could turn it way down during the sappy songs), but I don't think anyone would break if you used this as a torture method.

I'm game to try reviewing those Care Bear movies myself. (What, they made TWO of them?) I'm not big on movies for kids, but I always did have a liking for any kind of line drawings.

I'd almost forgotten about this sacrafice to the tv deity. Thanks for the flashbacks and the hiliarious review.


...the princess is really the best reason to see this one. Seriously. She drags a gigantic jewel around on a leash as a pet. Way to go lampooning sexism and consumerism in the same movie.

You know, I think I would like to see a children's movie where the evil brat takes a
.50 calibur round to the cranium.

Well I'm not a fan of this movie I have to say I do have memories of being forced to watch it while I was younger with my sister who was a big fan of it, along with the My Little Pony series and movies. The only cartoon like this that I liked to watch with her were the Care Bears. Altough if I get kids I wouldn't mind them watching this, then again most of my family are grade school teachers and are extremely tolerant on these types of shows. (My mom likes Winnie the Pooh for gods sake) myself included, at least I'd be able to spend quality time with the kids and know what they are talking about.

Did you notice that two of those sprites were wearing scuba masks?

aaaaaaaaaaargggghhhh!
seriously
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!1
i must destroy all traces of this piece of cinematic feces from the historic record before my sister finds about it
and i shall chase you down to the end of time
for posting that %$#@^^%$$^&(there aren't anymore keys left on the keyboard) video clip

This movie... I can't hate this movie, it's so cute an innocent... even though it can kill grown men :P

Quite a bang-up movie. No, I'm serious. I honestly like this movie and would watch it  anytime. A movie with all of those colours and fluffy characters is always bound to amuse me. And the rainbows...oh! They should make more movies featuring rainbows the way this one did.

I watched this movie all the time when I was a kid and I turned out okay.

In fact, it still has a special place in my heart.  I wish someone in Japan would remake Rainbow Brite as an anime.  I don't trust American animators anymore...

And I dare them to do it WITHOUT any transformation sequences...and I double dog dare them to do it without hentai undertones  :wink:

I own this movie and I still love it, but your commentary made me laugh so hard I thought I would cry! I am completely aware that it's a horrid colorgasm of unrealistic drivel, but I still love it. I expect that's because I was riveted by it when I was 3 and I was subliminally brainwashed by Hallmark and Mattel.

Just a little something I found.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhYkdrSmyHo&eurl=http://www.i-mockery.com/blabber/2008/08/09/rainbow-brite-and-the-star-stealer/

I think those monsters are made up of fish(I think that they are called golems?).  They only burst into "rainbow" fish because of the rainbow powers.

Screw that! I like this, it's nearly as good as Care Bears 2.

Rainbow Brite Rocks!!  :bouncegiggle:

(http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb106/celticqueenmegumi/uggbootsrainbowbritecopy.jpg)

I am not ashamed  :smile:

Rainbow Brite is awesome! What the h*** is wrong with rainbows and a talking horse? You clearly have no imaginative play or fantasy.

I can assure you that I still have some imagination, but this film is not the sort of thing you show to an adult male and expect optimum results.

Which leads one to wonder why you reviewed it in the first place....

 :buggedout: Rainbow Brite rocks hard. So do all the My Little Pony Tales, and My Little Pony episodes/movies. Care bears were awsome too. It's rediculous and it amuses me, but it does have it's own magical qualities and I have always loved it. Even my brother loved it when he was little.

Long live psychadellic rainbow horse warrior girl spritey fuzzy furball people! Ponies and rainbows and plots that don't make sense!  :bouncegiggle:  :twirl:

You wanna see a bad movie, you go watch Manos: The Hands of Fate. That will for sure traumatize you. :teddyr:

YAYA! marry me. Marry my liitle finger. Yeahj, Rainbow Brite up your butt world!  :thumbup:

[cheesy German accent]Wat iss diss Man-ohs, see andz uff vait you speek uff? [/cheesy German accent]

Boy, did I have too much to drink last night  :lookingup:

Oh GAWD . . . . Of course, I had to download that clip, didn’t I!  What is it about human nature that makes us do things we KNOW will hurt – maybe even kill us?  My computer knew – it crashed as I tried to download it.  Dear computer – why don’t I listen to you?  Why did I try again?  It’s only 31 seconds, but suddenly I feel the overwhelming need to switch off the internet and get out of the house, swallow an emetic, get drunk and eat too much – unsure in which order.  I erased the file with 32 pass Gutmann. 

The director is Japanese! I suspected so. This is their way to take revenge for Hiroshima.
No one is so gruesome and mercyless as a meatball out for revenge!

I once was that PCP addict---> :buggedout:
After reading the analogy about the blue room, I must ask, "Are you sure you've never done PCP? Maybe a little peyote? Because it was a mighty realistic example you shared.
Now excuse me. I believe I've peed myself from the gales of uncontrollable laughter your site has caused.  :thumbup:

I scrolled down from the review to the pictures and, I swear, was nearly blinded.  :buggedout:

OMG ITS A DOUBLE RAINBOW!

....


It's so bright and vivid, what does it mean?

I dunno, I rather appreciated this movie when I was much younger, if only because it was the first time I saw a female character in some sort of action/danger/whatever scenario who didn't have to be saved by the Contemptuous Male Hanger-On every single damn time. I mean, yes, it's got more than its fair share of facepalm moments, but at least the heroine's willing to metaphorically get her hands dirty (even though apparently no dirt or grime can touch her... yes, it's a kid's cartoon.)

That said, now that I'm well out of grade school, I don't think I'd be able to sit through the whole thing either.

Believe it or not, This is NOT the worst rainbow brite movie ever made. Look for a little gem called "Rainbow Brite: San Diego zoo adventure"

And it scored 6 out of 10 on IMDB. Undeniable proof that jesus died in vain

I just made the mistake of watching that clip:   OH SUFFERING CHRIST MY DIABEETUS!!!  My teeth just turned black, and my toes withered and rotted from circulation withdrawn from the extremeties to keep my brain functioning!!  Andrew, you REALLY need a stronger warning before subjecting people to that clip! It's like 890lbs of sugar and food colouring concentrated into a 30 second clip.

And to think I grew up in the target age market for this drivel!  Fortunately I managed to avoid all such girly material then and stuck to Gi-Joe and the Transformers.

For the chemo required for this clip, I refer you all to: ( I cannot post hyperlinks for some reason, so go to youtube in your browser  and add watch?v=Gp9Vn3f7wsU )