Product: The Rescuers Down Under [VHS] (1990)
Rating: 1.0
The makers of this film watched the first movie, but did not read Margery Sharp's books!
After having loved Disney's first adaptation of Margery Sharp's The Rescuers series, The Rescuers from 1977, I decided to give a try to one of their many unnecessary, badly done sequels. Well, I wasn't disappointed because I wasn't expecting nothing more than pure garbage and that is what I got.The makers of this film obviously watched the first movie, since the whole plot manages to completely rip-off the original's touching dramatic plot and somehow turn it into tasteless, bland, cheap comedy at the same time not managing to capture a single element from Margery Sharp's books, which the first film had done so beautifully.Not only that, but the story is unrealistic and uninteresting, too many corners are cut and it bugs me that it doesn't even bother to keep on the same style as the first film (Which was attempted in 101 Dalmatians II - Patch's London Adventure), the ending leaves lose-ends all over the place, a couple of caged animals are left there to rot despite helping the boring "hero" boy and saving his life, but either way, these lose ends don't even bother me because I cared so little about the story and characters here that what happens to them in the end matters to me not. The thing that bothered me the most was how the film had Bernard and Miss Bianca engaged in the end, I was like WHAT?! That's a bucket of cold water and a knife stabbed onto Margery Sharp's heart! She never would have allowed that to happen in her stories. Absolutely sickening.There's many other flaws with the film besides the boring, copied story, the tasteless comedy and the empty characters, but the bottom line is, stick to Margery Sharp's books and Disney's 1977 film, avoid this at all costs.