Product: The Rescuers Down Under [VHS] (1990)
Rating: 5.0
Probably the only good sequel Disney has done
The first Rescuers was released way back in 1977. Disney had this idea to bring it back for Disney's first sequel. They brought back Bob Newhart(who sounds slightly different) and Eva Gabor(I love listening to this woman's voice) to reprise their roles as Bernard and Bianca and it's still quite good.Pretty much like another reviewer said it's kind of a rehash of the original but using different events. Cody, a kind of animal liberator let's say, rescues animals in traps that would otherwise end up at the hands-and then down the barrel of a shotgun-of poachers. He finds a massive rare golden eagle and quickly befriends it(and just FYI: turn your brain off slightly, the bird apparently understands English). Mcleach, a poacher finds the boy and a golden feather so he kidnaps Cody in hopes of finding Cody's eagle.In come Bernard and Bianca, mice part of the Rescue Aid Society. The former of which is actually trying to propose but always gets interrupted. They meet up with Wilbur, the cousin of Orville from the original and fly to Australia and meet Jake, a kind of tough mice in a way. Which sets up a love triangle between the 3 mice over Bianca.First, 2 things stood out for me: the score. It's a really great score and especially love the opening theme. The "Mcleach" theme is nice but it sounds like everytime Mcleach arrives with his massive truck, the score repeats itself, kind of like how the Imperial Theme always showed up whenever Darth Vader was around.Second is the animation. You can see the transition Disney would make into more detailed and complex animation that they would do in the Lion King or the Deep Canvas system from Tarzan and Hercules's Hydra fight. Personally my favorite is either entering Australia with the Opera House or Orville's dive in-between New York buildings.Too bad Disney couldn't replicate this type of film cause the rest of the sequels were just god awful. They even made 2 Aladdin sequels, nevermind one. But this was the first one and oddly enough, it's the only good one despite advancing technologies. Go figure.