FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue

Plot synopsis:
Crysta is taking care of three baby animals and demonstrating greater control over nature. She and Pips begin a small contest over who can grow the more impressive plant, while Pips expresses a desire to see more of the outside world.
Suddenly, Batty Koda arrives in a panic, warning that human poachers are right behind him. These poachers show up with their dogs and capture the three baby animals. The first rescue attempt while still in Ferngully fails, and results in a huge forest fire, destroying a huge part of the forest and scarring Mother Kangaroo. Pips and the Beetle Boys volunteer to follow the humans to town and rescue the babies, convincing the reluctant Batty to be their guide. They arrive at a town amusement park. They are so fascinated by the rides, they are reminded by Batty to resume their mission.
All this time the fairies have been healing the rainforest and Crysta finds and helps one of the poachers' dogs (she called him Boof) abandoned and caught in a trap. She takes him on a journey to the town. Pips and the Beetle Boys meet a girl named Budgie who is hard at practicing for the clown act. Pips flies over to her and introduces himself and his friends. She gives them shelter in her trailer. Batty has located the poachers' place but the others ignore him too fascinated by modern human utilities. Bark and Batty go to make a rescue attempt, but Batty is caught.
Budgie tells Pips that she has been working on her clown act for years, but she has never been all that good. Pips tells her that she is trying too hard, and she should just do it. Back at where the babies are, the animals are very scared and fear they will never get back home. Batty overcomes his terror of the situation and manages to reassure them. Then the poachers take all the cages and load them onto a big truck. At the fair, Budgie goes to a contest stand and wins a stuffed kangaroo, which reminds Pips of the babies he's supposed to be saving. He tells Budgie about them and she offers to help him out.
They all reach the old warehouse. The poachers drive off, and Budgie jumps off a ledge and lands on the truck. They drive past Budgie's grandfather, and he sees that Budgie is hanging on the truck tarp, and he drives after them. Budgie manages to get inside the car and frees all the birds in the cages. The poachers see Budgie trying to get in the car and are enraged seeing all the birds flying away. One of them climbs out of the truck and tries to get Budgie off. She manages to get away from him, but he unlatches the car she's on and sends her rolling backwards on the road. She ends up with one side of the car dangling off a cliff. When she falls, Batty catches her and manages to lift her all by himself up to the top of the cliff (in spite of her being double his size) allowing Budgie's grandfather to catch them in his net and bring them safely to solid ground.
The group then head by clown car to the ship where the animals are being loaded. Pips undoes the conveyor catch so that the catches land in Budgie's grandfather's car. A struggle for the cages ensues between the poachers and Budgie. Boof and Crysta arrive to help. The other dog turns against his former master. The boat gets away and the fairies use their magic to stop it growing a gigantic tree. Nugget almost drowns as he escapes. Budgie and her grandfather adopt Slasher and Boof while all the animals and fairies return home.

Tags: psychedelic, fantasy

Review:
The original FernGully is one of my all time favourites, it is funny, beautifully animated, moving and even scary in places.
However, the sequel, while I didn't think was as awful as the cheap and unnecessary Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy To The Rescue, was very disappointing.
Third, the baby animals and Budgie are very sweet and cute.Sadly, that's where the redeeming qualities end.
This sequel did have some very cheesy moments, and lacked the magic of the first film.
The original FernGully's animation was colourful, fluid and solid.
Also in the original, FernGully itself had a sense of wonder, and it was like a Fairytopia, but I didn't get that here.
The writing was also nothing to write home about, and even with the presence of Batty, the whole adventure suffered from a lack of laughs.The villains were rather lame, compared to the terrifying Hexxus.
Hexxus gave me nightmares when I first saw the original at 9 years old, and it was not only how he was animated, but also Tim Curry's (a very talented and underrated actor) imperiously chilling vocal performance.
There are a number of long, drawn out and even pointless scenes, giving the film an uneven sense of pulse.The characters weren't as likable as they were in the first movie, and I did think overall the voice acting was poor.
And in the sequel, most of it was about Pips, seeing that Crytsta is such a great character, there should have been more of her and she should've gone on the rescue mission too.
And although Zak isn't in this sequel, seeing as his and Crysta's relationship was one of the original's main focuses, I was saddened that Crysta appears to have completely forgotten about him.
Secondly, Robin Williams actually made the first movie, he was absolutely hilarious and his humour effortless.
However, I didn't like the new voice actor at all, he lacked the hilarity and vibrancy of Williams, and I found him rather loud and abrasive too.
All in all, a hugely disappointing sequel, with very little of the magic of the beautiful original.
Kids may like it, but fans of the original and adults are guaranteed to be disappointed.
Ferngully is one of my favorite animated films of all time, I loved watching it while I was growing up, it had great animation, wonderful characters, funny moments, terrific songs, and a touching message.
It was such a great movie for kids and I admit that I still watch it to this day.
So I figured I would check out the sequel and see if it would be anything like the first Ferngully.
The story wasn't bad, but without the same voices, it was a bit distracting, and the new characters didn't have the same charm as the first Ferngully.
For the kids, at least under age 7, this film would work for them, but for me, it doesn't.Crysta and her friends are back, Pips is having a bit of a problem excepting his life.
Crysta, Pips, and Batty wanna help restore the forest, Crysta stays home to create her magic while Batty and Pips go to the town to save the baby animals.
There Pips meets a pre-teen girl, Twig, and she helps him out to save the baby animals.FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue isn't really worth the watch, for the kids, yeah, but for those adults who enjoyed the first one, there's no point to it.
when we watched fern gully as a kid we fell in love and watched it at least 20 times, a few years later i rented this movie and didn't bother to finish watching after 15 mins.
Watching them both years later i still love ferngully but ferngully 2 may as well have been made by monkeys.
It has no quality music, no memorable moments, sure it has magic but it's meaningless, there's no deeper meaning, they didn't have robin Williams and the voices are horrible.
The only good thing in this film is about saving wildlife from poachers but the way that they went about it...i expect this kind of stuff from crappy TV series, not sequels based on a truly great filmregards, Reaper.
Let me first start by saying that I am a huge fan of the first movie, The Last Rainforest: with its intriguing animation, original beautiful storyline with the strong themes of environmentalism and deforestation.
The characters were splendid and fresh, and the villain Hexuss, played by Tim Curry, absolutely terrified me as a child.So watching this movie felt like someone was attempting to butcher it beyond recognition.
The first of the many things I saw wrong with this film is the animation.
A few hunters kidnap baby animals (who are not even that cute or worth feeling too sorry for) and the residents of Ferngully have to go and rescue them.
All the actors from the original film have been replaced by less professional voice actors.
Voiced by Robin Williams in the first, the newly voiced Batty in this sequel is just loud and abrasive.
For some unknown reason, his head antenna is missing, he has hands instead claws and automatically overcomes his fear of humans to cheer the animals up when they are locked away.
They are the repeated stereotypical human hunters who view animals as nothing more than object to be killed and sold over for money, with horribly bad dialogue and silly laughs.
I loved the first part a lot so was looking forward to watching this movie.
But i think the quality of this movie is poor.
The drawings of part 1 are bright and nice, in this movie even the wings look crappy and the glowy tail you see when they fly looks horrible.For me i watched it in my own language (dutch) I hated that there where other people for the same characters and the pronunciation of names is all wrong.
I really found the first FernGully movie interesting, and liked the idea it got across to young children.
Now, busy with regrowing trees, FernGully puts the fetching of the animals job on the shoulders of Pips and his gang, along with Batty Koda.Anyways, I was watching this the other night out of boredom, and even laughed some.
I think it is a good sequel that lives up to the first FernGully and encourage parents to buy it for their children to add to their movie collection..
How could you ruin the beauty of which the movie first started off as.
I would love to see a part 3 where they redeem them selves.In the first movie batty was goofier and lost his antenna?
Pips changed totally, he acts like the hero instead of the cocky type of guy we used to know in the past.
Please meet "FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue"!
Perhaps the absolute worst sequel of all time!
So out of respect for the hard working animators, I'm giving this movie an extra point but that's about as kind as I can get for this movie.In all honesty, it still starts off OK enough.
It's incredibly annoying and I just can't see how anyone could ever enjoy this movie, not even little kids.
It gets sidetracked and doesn't ever get back on track on time again.The movie also features some of the absolute worst voice acting I have ever heard in an animated movie!
If you are a person who thinks that it doesn't really matter who voices an animated character, you should really watch this movie!
It might have been possible that the voice actors had to do their lines, before the movie was even finished, so they had nothing to work with yet.
It surely does sound that way, since the voices aren't really always corresponding with what is going on the screen and the characters don't interact very well or naturally with each other.It's also weird to hear all of the the characters from the first movie getting voiced by some completely different people in this sequel, who don't sound at all like the original actors.
This is especially notable for the Batty character, who in the first movie got voiced by THE Robin Williams.Also the songs in this movie are some of the absolute worst ones you will ever hear!
Why do animated movies actually so often feel the need to have songs in it anyway?
There is no good reason for the songs to be in this movie and it's only distracting and annoying, also because it's so absolutely horrendous to listen to.The movie gets all the more worse to watch, when it also decides to be cuddly cute.
It makes you mad to watch, instead of warm and mellow.Believe me, this movie is even worse than I'm making it sound already!2/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/.
It's been more than a decade since this movie was made, but for the 90s kids who are considering watching Ferngully 2, to be honest...
I read previous reviews before I watched it and they did say that Ferngully 2 was no where near as good as the first one.
But being unbiased as most movie reviews are, I watched it for myself and this was my opinion about it.Ferngully 1 was about all the elements of magic, story telling, eerieness and an amazing message & lesson.
It reminded us of how much we should appreciate animals and the forest.My first impression about Ferngully 2 was it's VERY different.
The first Ferngully was for not only kids, but also for adults as well.
So throughout the movie I was thinking that I was a 3 year old kid watching the movie.
It's about Ferngully in the first 1/4 of the movie and then later on, it's nothing to do with Ferngully and that was the disappointing part.
But because it wasn't based on the forest, my interest in the movie went down and down as I watched it.
I started playing my Xbox 360 towards the end.As mentioned in a previous review, there are new voices.
The original cast like Samantha Mathis who does Crista and Robin Williams who did batty.
They're all gone and there are new voices for each character.
I agree with another review that the change of cast was really distracting throughout the movie.I think it's silly that the director actually thought that he would succeed with this movie by getting a new cast.
When a movie has a sequel, it needs to have the same voices.
It's not going to work and that's what Ferngully 2 did.
The new guy who did Batty sounded almost like Robin Williams, but I would give his voice 6/10 in terms of sounding like the original batty.This was made in 1998.
If I were making the movie, I would contact Robin Williams and the old cast to do the sequel.
Too bad that it's been 20 years and they're all aging and we can't make a better one today.Remember in the first one that animals didn't have those cartoonish eyes like the Simpsons?
Ferngully 2 put those kind of eyes onto the animals in the movie with a bit of eye colour.
This cartoonish eyeball feature brought in the element of a kids movie and I didn't like that at all.In terms of the music, again, it wasn't as great.
It was just simple storytelling music in a kids movie style.
There are a few messages in the movie, but they were not implemented in a way that people would remember it.
The first one's message is to stop killing our forests but these movie's messages weren't treated seriously but just passing messages.What I did like about the movie was one of the characters was Australian.
Overall, I was disappointed with the film and the director should've known that his work wasn't going to succeed.
He should've sat down and watched the first one and ask himself "how can I deliver a message that will impact people like the first one did."I'm really disappointed that out of the 90s movies that came out, this one had to have the terrible sequel..
i really liked the first version of the movie AND the sequel!
sequels are never quite as good as the original, so i don't even take that into account anymore while watching one.
like other sequels, it had a more involved and complicated plot than the original, but not so much that it was confusing.
i thought Crysta's character changed to much; she was too "Now children, let's look both ways before we cross the street" sort of thing.but other than that, i liked it a lot.
the soundtrack was quite good (a few of the songs got stuck in my head for a long time after watching it ^_^), Batty was hilarious, and, being a Pip's fan myself, i loved that his character was more pronounced and featured in this one.also, i would just like to point out that Pips didn't sing that song about the roller coaster.
and don't forget; animated movies rock!
I Liked It. It mite be different from the 1st but isn't that the point of movie series, i am a fan of movies, i liked the story line where Pips & his gang go into town 2 rescue the babies stolen from the forest, it gives u some new elements, it has all the characters from the 1st just different voice actors, the only thing i didn't like was Robin Williams didn't voice batty in this movie, that's something i want 2 c Robin Williams, the town fair always makes me laugh when they land in the cow pies, it's a good movie the only thing it lacks is the original voice cast, but otherwise great movie, great story line, if you like the 1st movie give this 1 a chance i know that it's not movies likes Hangover 2, or Taken 2, or Transformers 3 dark of the moon, but you can't get everything you want in life Laura Erlich as Crysta Digory Oaks as Pips Erik Bergmann as Stump and Captain Connie Champagne as Budgie Holly Conner as Nugget, Bandy, Mrs. K, and additional voices Harry Joseph as Boss Gary Martin as Mac Matt K.
I'm a FernGully fan and found FernGully II to be as, if not more, entertaining and held some deeper character involvement and exposure that i'm certain children "got" but think few "adults" did  there are many feelings adults take for granted and "skip over" that remain unanswered, curious and loved by children - they are always hungry for explanation and that's why I am a big animated movie fan  I also think it's fun and enjoy knowing the why of every little thing - Pips and Chrysta's relationship skirted perfectly, Chrysta matured just enough, and Pips became her and FernGully's hero (with a little help from his friends of course)  I liked the fact that Pips got more attention to date  I found the story delightful, frightening but in a "be aware" sort of way  and even the ecology of the replanting and re-growth of everything was just enough to introduce children to this topic and make them curious  and even the "babies" being taken was an awareness that held a lot of emotion and intrigue for the little ones  Kudos to the writers for better scripting and a general "well done" to all involved  Lots of magic here if you are really listening  OK so we missed Robin - but don't we always and this is about FernGully not him (sorry Robin) -.
The first Ferngully movie was pathetic environmental anti-pollution propaganda, designed to make children hate pollution without knowing both sides to the issue.
Still, at least the first one had voice talents like Robin Williams (Batty) and Tim Curry (Hexxus).
Not only does it still succeed in cramming all that "go green" cr@p in it, but the soundtrack was awful, the characters were horribly drawn and animated, the plot wasn't even complex enough to entertain a four year old and let's face it, how many children really care about animal poaching?
I hated the first one, but at least it had decent voice acting, (and Tim Curry's performance of "Toxic Love").
After having watched it, it didn't look as bad as I thought it would be, despite Pips having his wings missing during the flight to the human world and the wings of the other fairies barely moving at one point, which were flaws the Nostalgia Critic pointed out himself.
By the time I'd finished watching it, I was satisfied with it since I found it on par with the original that I saw as a kid but I found the climax overlong.The animation is decent for the most part with good uses of cel-shading and lip-sync but it is choppy and wobbly in places and has its flaws as I mentioned already.
I was also pleased to see additional human characters such as the poachers (the tall one being the most oddly designed with his super-long chin), Budgie (an unusual name for a girl) and her grandfather while the baby animals are adorable.
The musical score is whimsical and the two most memorable songs are the opening number and the one performed by Batty and the baby animals while they are trapped in their crates inside the poachers' warehouse.
I was happy that the iguana/lizard-type character didn't sing in this film because his song in the original was tuneless and pointless.
As for Batty, he's not quite as funny as he was in the original while Christa and Pips have barely changed since then.
The story is just as decent as the animation with a different environmental message from the original but I felt the first scene of the poachers sitting around the campfire didn't go anywhere and the pace was fairly even until the climax, which made this part of the film drag on.