Movie Review: Anastasia

Plot:
The daughter of last Russian Tsar, Anastasia, is found by two Russian men, Dimitri and Vladimir, who seek the reward that her grandmother, Marie, promised to the ones who'll find her. But the evil mystic of the Tsar family, Rasputin, who for some reason survived in this film, still wants the Romanov family to be destroyed forever.

Cast:
Anastasia - Meg Ryan
Dimitri - John Cusack
Rasputin - Christopher Lloyd

Review:
Okay, as evidence of my last Blog, you all know I am in love with Russia and Russian history. I know this isn't exactly Russian History but there is Russia and my two of my three favourite cities in it: St. Petersberg and Paris. Which are both in my two favourite countries. So I was partly sold and then there was a guy called Dimitri who was from St. Petersberg and then I had to watch it.
The story starts off in the Catherines Palace, where the Tsars were the siege happened. A young Dimitri saves a young Anastasia and her grandmother from the Bolsheviks who Rasputin helped by sending weird green bat ghosts to open the main gate to Palace. Anastasia hits her head and get amnisia and 10 years later she is leaving the orphanage on the way to St. Petersberg to find her family. She wants to find passage to Paris and that is when she meets Dimitri and Vlad, who are con men trying to get the money off of Anastasias grandmother for finding Anastasia.
Okay, I told you the start to the film. I loved the whole film but I don't want to give out spoilers. And I don't want to write out the whole film for you. Thats boring for both me and you.
There are loads of famous people in this film, normally with cartoons you have never even heard of one of the actors but I have heard and watched a load of the films these people made.
This film has all the characteristics of a Disney film yet not the out of control prices of a Disney film these days. I mean 20 quid for Beauty and The Beast, really, I'll really only watch it once and I have the beat up overused VHS from when I was four, I can easily climb behing my TV and hook up the video player I once got my hand caught in (I was 18 months, its acceptable). This film was 4 quid (and if you are not from the rainy shores of Britian and don't know what 'quid' is, its a colloquial word for pound) and it was on sale for cheaper than that.
I totally recommend this film for both the old generations trying to recapture child hood with princesses and catchy tunes or for kids who have an actual reason to watch it without feeling like a werido. Either way, I recommend you watch this film.