Product: The Rescuers Down Under [VHS] (1990)
Rating: 5.0
My favorite Disney movie. Excellent. Better than the original Rescuers
I grew up with this movie as a kid and I've always loved it. The DVD made me fall in love with it again. I hadn't seen it in years. It's just a beautiful movie with a great plot. When I was growing up, I watched both of the Rescuer movies, but I didn't understand the concept of a sequel. Down Under is definatley a better movie in my opinion, which is not very commonplace for a sequel. The music is beautiful, the story is fun and interesting. You don't get bored and disgusted because of sameness and vulgarity, like you do with 98% of kids movies today. I will definatley show this movie to my children.This movie is intellegent and funny. Joanna and Frank crack me up so much even to this day. This movie gives a strong message that poaching is wrong and that all animals need to be treated with respect. That's a good message to kids.The wombats in this movie look all cute and cuddly, but in reality they are big, smelly, and not cute at all. But I guess that's Disney for you! I love those cutseyed up wombats anyway. :)I know it was only 16 years ago that this movie came out, but back then, kids movies were quality works that kids as well as adults could enjoy and cherish. Now, kids movies are just crap.The only bad thing about this movie is that barely any of the characters except Jake the little guide mouse and some of the animals in captivity actually had Aussie accents. I didn't mind this at all growing up, but now it's bothersome to me, not to mention it isn't very authentic. I understand it's a children's movie and kids don't care, but if you're going to make a movie about a certain culture or region, do it right. Cody above all, should have at least had the correct accent.