# FernGully: The Last Rainforest

Ferngully: The Last Rainforest is a 1992 animated film that follows Zak, a young slacker working for a logging team cutting down trees in the rainforest. Little do they know that they are coming close to a magical place called FernGully, and its fairy inhabitants. Crysta, a young fairy with slight magic ability, shrinks Zak to fairy-size, and together they fight to save the home that is threatened by logging and a polluting force of destruction called Hexxus, who the loggers accidentally release from his twisted-tree prison.
    Directed by Bill Kroyer. Written by Jim Cox and Diana Young

## Zak

* I wish... I wish the human tales were true! They're not here to protect the forest. They're cutting down trees. They're destroying the forest! And I was helping them do it. Batty was right. They're coming this way. You can't stop them! You all have to leave.
* [as he leaves with Tony and Ralph] Guys, things have got to change.
* [to Pips] Keep the stereo, dude.

## Batty Koda

* Humans don't feel anything. They're numb from the brain down.
* Awesome use of the language, dude.
* [hits a tree] Red Light! [hits a second tree] Red light again!
* I have but one claw... but beware!
* Delicious and nutritious, tastes just like chicken!
* Human tales? Humans don't HAVE tails. They have big big bottoms in bad shorts! They walk around going "Hi, Helen!"
* For a minute I thought you said you were going to Mount Warning.
* Oh, gravity works.
* Why do I not believe you?
* It's Darwin's grab-bag!
* You know, Zak, truth doesn't always win friends, but it certainly influences people. You're not half-bad for a hominid.
* Well, alright, gummy! We're goin' to war!

## Pips

* Help it grow!

## Magi

* There are worlds within worlds, Crysta. Everything in our world is connected by the delicate strands of the web of life, which is a balance between the forces of destruction and the magical forces of creation.
* The humans have released Hexxus. Gather everyone in the circle.
* All of the magick of creation exists within a tiny seed.

## Hexxus

* Mmm. Delicious. A first class smoke. Mother's milk. What is this delightful thing? And how did I get out of that tree? Of course! Humans. What wonderful creatures. So clever, so helpful. I must take this human thing to... FernGully!
* [crawls to the Leveler's engine to absorb power] HIT ME ONE TIME...HIT ME TWICE! [absorbs energy as he grows into true form; grunts and moans satisfyingly] That's rather nice.

## Dialogue

    Pips: Why are you always going to Magi Lune instead of me?
    Crysta: What could I ever learn from you?
    Crysta: Are you OK?
    Zak: AAH! What happened to me?! I'm-I'm three inches tall!
    Crysta: Oh... I shrank you.
    Zak: You what?!
    Crysta: Well, it was the most amazing thing. 'Course it's not really what the spell's supposed to do... But Magi Lune will fix you!
    Zak: [Incredulous] You... you shrank me?!
    Crysta: Yeah.
    Batty: Catches on quick, doesn't he?
    Crysta: We better buzz off. It's getting late.
    Zak: Buzz off?! I'm not buzzing anywhere! Now un-shrink me, and I mean now!
    Crysta: Well, I guess I could take a bash at it.
    Zak: "Take a bash"?!
    Crysta: Actually, I'm just sort of learning.
    Zak: [Does a facepalm] Great! I've be shrank by an amateur! I don't believe this. Okay, okay, c'mon! Bash away!
    [Tony and Ralph are cutting down the tree containing Hexxus; this causes the Leveler to shake violently]
    Tony: What is that?
    Ralph: Hey Ton', you think the Leveler can handle this baby?
    Tony: Sure, the Leveler eats everything.
    Ralph: Kinda like you.
    Tony: [grabs Ralph] How many times a day I gotta threaten your life?
    Hexxus: New orders, boys. You're going to FernGully. And I want you there by morning.
    Tony: By morning?! Oh, I don't know if we can do that.
    Hexxus: You'll just have to work harder, then. Double shifts. No breaks.
    Tony: No breaks?!
    Hexxus: And make sure you've got plenty of oil!
    Tony: Roger that. We'll give it a gas.
    Ralph: Hey, Ton'... you know what this means.
    Tony: Yeah. [chuckles] Beaucoup overtime!
    Hexxus: Oh, what a miraculous device. [chuckles] I'm really getting the hang of this! I do believe we are destined to be soulmates.
    Crysta: What are the trees like where you live?
    Zak: Not like this. I live in a city.
    Crysta: Ci-dy?
    Zak: Yeah, you know... buildings, traffic, cars, lights - a city. Most humans live in cities. There's not many trees there.
    Crysta: But how can you live without trees?
    Zak: Easy.
    Crysta: Well, trees give life. They make the clouds, the rain, the air.
    Zak: We've got air.
    Batty Koda: Yeah, if you don't mind getting all your minerals in one breath. [coughs loudly]
    [Zak and Crysta have just come on dry land after swimming in the grotto]
    Crysta: Well, I suppose I'd better find Magi and get you un-shrunk.
    Zak: There's no hurry.
    Crysta: No; I promised.
    Zak: Wait 'til tomorrow. Come here.
    Crysta: No, I've got to tell her about you anyway. [spins around like a tornado and water flies off her and onto Zak] Wait here; I'll be back as soon as I can find her.
    Batty Koda: Nobody cares about me.
    Zak: I do, bat man.
    Batty Koda: Are you sure?
    Zak: I'm positive.
    Batty Koda: Only fools are positive.
    Zak: Are you sure?
    Batty Koda: I'm positive- I fell for it! I should have known!
    Crysta: Well, come on.
    Batty Koda: My heart! [gasps] Oh my heart! I can't go on! I don't think my little wings can make it!
    Crysta: Hmmm, maybe you should wait here for me.
    Batty Koda: This is a fabulous idea. I really think we should fly with that, only, why don't you stay here with me?
    Crysta: It's okay, really. I'll be right back.
    Batty Koda: Why do I not believe you?
    Crysta: [about a tree] Can't you feel its pain?
    Zak: [Confused] Its pain?
    Batty: Humans can't feel anything. They're numb from the brain down.
    Crysta: Ow!!
    Zak: Careful!
    Batty: This is the last time I save you, human!
    Zak: No! No, Batty! Batty, take me back to the leveler!
    Batty: Are you crazy?! That's lemming talk!
    Zak: Wrong channel! [smacks Batty's wire]
    Batty: O Caesar, emperor of Rome!
    Zak: WRONG CHANNEL!
    Batty: Well, alright, gummy! We're goin' to war!
    Zak: Yes! That's it! Back to the cap, Batty! Let's go!
    [After Hexxus is defeated]
    Crysta: We did it, Zak. Now Hexxus can never harm FernGully again.
    Zak: But humans still could. That's why I have to go back. There's a part of me that really wants to stay.
    Crysta: There's a part of you that will always stay. [Gives him a seed] Remember, Zak. Remember everything.

## Taglines

* For Our Children and Our Childrens' Children.
* Do you believe in humans?
* They live in a secret world touched by magic and adventure, and the only human who has ever been there must now fight to save it.
* Just beyond your dreams lives a secret world. Where every tree is a home. Every sound is a song. And humans exist only in fairy tales. Until now...

## Cast

* Tim Curry - Hexxus
* Robin Williams - Batty Koda
* Samantha Mathis - Crysta
* Christian Slater - Pips
* Jonathan Ward - Zak
* Grace Zabriskie - Magi Lune

## External links

* FernGully: The Last Rainforest quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* FernGully: The Last Rainforest at Rotten Tomatoes