Product Details

• Actors: Claire Bloom, Joss Ackland, Roy Kinnear, Sally Ann Marsh, Rik Mayall
• Directors: József Gémes
• Writers: Robin Lyons, George MacDonald
• Producers: Emõke Marsovszky, Marietta Dárdai, Robin Lyons, Steve Walsh
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Hemdale Home Video I
• VHS Release Date: December 19, 1994
• Run Time: 82 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630315977X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #135,730 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Evil goblins living underground plot to capture a princess and marry her to a goblin prince and thus take over the kingdom. The princess is helped by the magical ghost of her grandmother and a brave boy from the village.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OUTRAGEOUTTHHH!!!!! My favourite movie!, March 3, 2005

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S. Zogg "Fan of Cartoon Villians and Amos" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Princess and the Goblin [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I absolutely adored this film when I was younger, and now I'm in my late teens... and I still find it hysterical! Although the animation is a bit cheap at times, it's all a part of "The Princess and the Goblin." You just learn to love it.

The music is strange, there is a King who whispers almost ever word, and a goblin prince with a wet lisp who sprays saliva over everyone. It's friggin' awesome!

One of the strangest parts is when Princess Irene and her friend Curdie ("the mining boy!") look up at the sky. Irene says "Look Curdie, the moon!" and they explode into hysterical laughter.

The movie is made of psychotic moments like this. My dad and I have created a running commentary for it.

THINGS TO LOOK FOR: Some of Sigmund Freud's beliefs about mother and son relationships (very.. freaky.. overtones..), a Pig-Man in the background of one scene, rumpled sheets in Irene's bedroom after the prince finds her... Just to name a few.

Although I've looked into in waaay too much, this is a cute and funny film that will be enjoyed by kids and adults alike.. If not for different reasons.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fine Family Entertainment, May 17, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Princess and the Goblin [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This UK adaptaion of an old victorian classic is a big hit with my four year-old.

Evil goblins living underground plot to capture a princess and marry her to a goblin prince and thus take over the kingdom. The princess is helped by the magical ghost of her grandmother (voice of veteran British actress Claire Bloom of Brideshead Revisted, The Haunting, BBC Hamlet, etc, fame) and a brave boy from the village. The goblins are pleasantly scary but mostly farcical - my daughter thought them funny, and she also liked the songs. The big difference this film has with the usual Saturday morning fare, and even many Disney movies, is that it is not nearly so loud. My four year-old loved it, but her eight year old cousin, while not disliking it, was clearly perplexed by the lack of volume and found the story somewhat strange. It might be best for children who have not been exclusively inundated with typical Saturday morning TV. Most of the voices are British, a few are American...

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOMELY ENTERTAINING!!!, July 11, 2004

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Angela Seaman (Shoreline, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Princess & Goblin [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The Princess and the Goblin has been my favorite movie for about 10 years now--and even though I'm a lot older, I still absolutely love it and find it very entertaining! The animation is excellent, the actors are wonderful, and the music is beautiful. People say it's "just a kid's movie," but I don't think that's true at all. I watch it almost every day and NEVER get tired of it. The book is also wonderful. I recommend this movie to people of all ages. It's a true masterpiece!