By the movie's end, Dimitri wins Anastasia, Vladimir wins Sophie, and I guess we can be relieved that the filmmakers spared us the Bartok-Pooka nuptials. Only the songs disappoint. The action here is alive and energetic, and the train sequence is genuinely thrilling. It's clearly set up, so that even younger viewers can understand Anastasia's fate and her hopes. It gets a couple of neat twists out of the idea of making Anastasia a fraud who isn't a fraud.
Animation is the road less traveled for the movies.