Product Details

• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Lions Gate
• VHS Release Date: September 11, 1991
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302000750
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #328,659 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Not-So-Little Match Girl, November 3, 2000

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Smart Shopper "davis•hunt" (Eastern NC, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Little Match Girl [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I purchased this video for my kids in the hopes that it would be somewhat like the traditional story, but I soon realized that it was very different. It's not really meant for children; they cannot grasp the significance of the new story. I wonder if some adults would get the full meaning, either!

This video also features jazz music, which most children and teens won't fully appreciate. It's a video for adults! They'll think it's pretty good.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good, December 27, 2001

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Lawrence Brown "Larry Brown" (HOUSTON, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Little Match Girl [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video is pretty good. We enjoyed it. It's kind of a primitive yet stylized animation style. The voices and sound effects are good. The pacing is just right, not phrenetic like MTV, but not truly slow and careful like British drama. The story is somewhat fleshed out from the Hans Christian Andersen original, which is only one and a half pages long. The story is more elaborate, but also kinder and easier to swallow, which admittedly reduces the story's impact. The ending is in contrast to the original. The social message of this story is much stronger and more blatant than the original, an accomodation to today's calloused viewer. There is a fair amount of enjoyable music.

As for being appropriate for children, the slightly less dismal plot makes this video more so than the original story, tho I wonder if telling such a dismal story to a child does anyone any good.

4.0 out of 5 stars TwinTina, December 22, 2010

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TwinTina - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Little Match Girl [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Quick delivery, great shape. It was a gift for a friend of mine who has been looking for the original for a long time. It is the right story but the not the original. Still good.