ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

JohnHowardReid Throughout the 30s, the 40s and indeed well into the 50s, M-G-M was the principal mainstay of Saturday nights at the pictures with a ready supply of historical melodramas and spectacles, escapist musicals, friendly knockabout comedies (not too rough or downmarket) and above all high-grade soap operas that no other studio could match.By the early 1960s, M-G-M had lost a great deal of its exhibitor support. No longer was the lion an instant guarantee of entertainment quality, but even the entertainment value of such films as Night of the Quarter Moon, The King's Thief, The Rack, Gaby, I Accuse, The Living Idol, The Seventh Sin, Underwater Warrior, Count Your Blessings, The Beat Generation, Key Witness and All the Fine Young Cannibals was decidedly tatty. The studio did not help relations with its once lapdog exhibitor friends by its brief flirtation with Cinerama. Here was a three- screen, three-projectors, three 35mm films process that could only be shown in theatres expensively re-equipped. So what was the film like? Rather dull actually. All the framing story directed by Henry Levin was a real bore, save for some wonderfully picturesque scenic shots of castles in Bavaria. George Pal's fairy- tale material was certainly more lively, with the process' potential entertainingly explored in a runaway coach sequence. All the same it was hard to enjoy the film because of Cinerama's many technical shortcomings. The three screens were often imperfectly joined, the dividing seams were always visible, and the luminosity of each screen sometimes varied considerably, accentuating a flickering effect that was almost always present, though at times less noticeable than others.But the biggest drawback was that the screen was simply too big to accommodate actors. Scenery, yes, special effects, maybe; but human beings, especially grossly dull humans like Laurence Harvey and Karl Boehm and Claire Bloom — whose deadly lack of charisma seemed inordinately magnified — definitely not. The support players came out of it best, but even the best of them — with the notable exception of Russ Tamblyn — seemed dwarfed and over-awed.

ladykristel_7 I wasn't alive when this movie came out, but I remember being a little girl in the 80s and they would play this movie all the time it seems on the TV. I loved the Dancing Princesses. It was one of my favorite parts of the whole movie. Even though the cinematography isn't the greatest compared to movies today, I don't care, this movie will always hold a special place in my heart. There is just something so magical about fairy tales and growing up. I work with kids now as an adult and I just hope that with all of the technology we have access to, that they haven't lost their imagination and creativity. They need to be reminded that they are kids and fairy tales are still magic.

pennypotions My parents took me to see this movie when it first came out. I was 12. My girlfriend went with our family and she was Mennonite. She didn't have a TV and never went to movies. But her family let her go with us. We were mesmerized by the fantastic stories and the music was excellent. It was action packed and it used a new process called Cinerama, so it felt like you were really there. It stands out in my mind as a wonderful memory. I am now a Grandma and want my 6 year old Granddaughter to see it. I can't imagine the new one being this good. Even though I love Terry Gilliam, it sounds like he has changed the core story and added the latest cutting edge special effects. There is something to be said for 'less is more.'

TheVid ...of course, even those moments are going to appear lackluster without the overwhelming effect of Cinerama. This combination of hokey biopic and fairy-tale vignettes consistently offers Pal's harmless brand of corny sentiment and his engaging puppetoonery. Underwhelming indeed, if not viewed in letterbox on a large projection TV with multi-channel sound.