The Thief and the Cobbler

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The Thief and the Cobbler

G

1995

1h 12m

Kids & Family

Action

Adventure

Comedy

Fantasy

Animation

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Three gold orbs must shine from a minaret to keep ancient Baghdad safe from an evil warrior and his hordes.

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Glenn Kenny

New York Times

09/22/2016

Though several distinctive animated movies have been released this year, "The Thief and the Cobbler," even in its sadly incomplete state, leaves them in the dust.

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

12/29/2010

5/5

A must for family viewing.

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Mike Clark

USA Today

01/01/2000

1.5/4

An Aladdin rip-off burdened by songs so dreadful that even Academy voters will refuse to nominate them.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

01/23/2024

4/5

...The Arabian theme is bent with imagination, creating dizzying worlds for the characters to step nimbly through....

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Cory Woodroof

615 Film

06/02/2022

The animation on Zigzag alone, and Vincent Price’s voice performance…just immaculate. The sequence where the thief makes it through the Rube Goldberg death machine is one of the great moments in animation history, too.

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Tim Brayton

Alternate Ending

08/19/2017

5/5

This is simply one of the most important and best animated features ever made. Or not made. Or whatever.

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Vincent R

@RT80109935 Feb 5

I know this one on Rotten Tomatoes is the Miramax version, but thank the lord for that we got the recobbled cut. I can see Richard Williams vision to this film and it's so peak. I love this film, the characters, the animation, and even the soundtrack (even though it's just music from Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade)

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William M

@William428 Jan 28

How can a film that took over 20 years to complete still look so rough?

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Noel L

@RT15930389 Aug 16

It was a lot like the story of Aladdin. However this was made before that. Which makes the animation, the dialogue, and the plot that more amazing.

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Cees T

@RT15093300 01/26/2025

Extra thicc Him and the cobbler were cool, and some parts like the mechanical stuff looked smooth like CGI, but the pacing sucks. I'd cut half an hour, tone down the camerawork, flies, color filter, and rotoscoped birds, flesh out the abstract backgrounds, and add credit music. Recobbled Mk4 version is 5/10 - Meh. Iznogoud, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Dragon Ball Z, Aladdin, The Lion King (1994), and Modern Times (1936) are better.

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Sjoerd v

@Sjoerd 01/12/2025

Applicable to the restored cut of the The Thief and the Cobbler Recobbled Cut Mk4.

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Noe G

@RT06896914 04/06/2024

The thief and the cobbler is my most favorite Miramax film I give this film a 10/10

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Synopsis

Three gold orbs must shine from a minaret to keep ancient Baghdad safe from an evil warrior and his hordes.

Director: Richard Williams
Producer: Jacobus Rose, Fred Calvert
Screenwriter: Richard Williams, Margaret French
Distributor: Miramax Films
Production Co: Miramax Films, Allied Filmmakers
Rating: G
Genre: Kids & Family, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 25, 1995, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 2, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $635.4K
Runtime: 1h 12m

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