The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue

Plot synopsis:
The film begins with a prophecy, telling how one of Jonathan and Mrs. Brisby's sons would save Thorn Valley from "the secret of NIMH". Timothy is chosen to go but his older brother Martin believes he should have been the one chosen. Martin decides to prove his quality, and goes off to find his own adventure.
One day Timmy comes across a female field mouse named Jenny McBride, whose parents were two of the lost eight mice who tried to escape NIMH but were thought to have died. The Thorn Valley council decides it would be too dangerous to save the eight mice, so Jenny and Timmy go alone. They take a hot air balloon, but it is attacked by a hawk and crashes in the forest.
Seeking help, they visit the Great Owl but instead find Jeremy the crow, posing as the Great Owl. There they learn that a caterpillar named Cecil has teamed up with Jeremy to trick the forest animals into paying them money. Jeremy and Cecil take the two mice to NIMH where they find two of the rats from Thorn Valley, Justin and Brutus. They also learn that Dr. Joseph Valentine, the head scientist, has made Martin insane. After being made insane, Martin took over the lab and brainwashed Dr. Valentine with a device similar to the one Valentine used on him and made him think he was a dog. Martin plans to use an army of lab rats riding a flock of ravens to take over Thorn Valley. He even turns two cats, Muriel and Floyd, crazy, who then proceed to catch the others.
He asks Timmy to join him, but he refuses and is locked in a cage as Martin drags Jenny away to make her his queen. Timmy escapes with the help of Cecil and they go to free Jenny. Together, they knock out Martin, and Timmy tricks Martin's army of ravens and rats to fly in the wrong direction. Timmy and Jenny then leave to find the others, only to find once everyone is free that NIMH is on fire. The survivors flee. Timmy goes back to save Martin. Before he leaves, Jenny tells him she loves him and he tells her the same. After being attacked by the crazy Muriel and Floyd once again, Timmy sends them down an elevator shaft and finally finds Martin.
Timmy and Martin are able to escape through the lab's skylight, with some help from Jeremy. Jeremy takes the survivors to safety. The mice return to Thorn Valley, Martin returns to normal and Timmy arrives to a hero's welcome by the citizens of Thorn Valley, including Justin, Brutus, Mr. Ages, and Auntie Shrew, along with Mrs. Brisby and Martin's and Timmy's sisters, Teresa and Cynthia.

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Review:
This movie is a serious contender for the 'worst sequel ever' awards nomination category.Let me elaborate on that...I'll assume that when you read this review you are already familiar with Don Bluth's "The Secret of NIMH", which was a fine, dark and unusual animated movie that not at all conformed to the patented Disney cartoon mold which was lightweight, wholesome, pastel-colored nonsense with the characters spontaneously erupting in songs or other pace-annihilating planted plot permutations.Instead, Bluth had the guts to try out his own formula, which was delightfully dark and mystic and devoid of pesky singing characters.
The late Elizabeth Hartmann most excellently provided the voice for the humble and brave female protagonist rodent, Mrs. Brisby, and made the timid little mouse bigger than any animated character on the screen I had seen yet.
(the fact that the movie got trashed in the box office by E.T. was partly responsible for the advent of Bluth's most excellent animated laserdisc video arcade games coming into being.) Bluth never quite made another good dark movie after NIMH...
The Disney Bug ate his brain, or something, because most of his subsequent films had pukey-cute designs and pesky critters singing (and even pesky marketable comic sidekicks.)Now, NIMH 2 ...1) Starts with a lame recap of the first movie; notably, Peter  Strauss' voice for Justin has been dubbed over...2) ...
This character looks like a left-over from a budget PC adventure game.9) Is just stupid (pardon the regression)10) Is a complete and utter waste of money, an insult to all thinking viewers, kids and grown-ups alike, an iron-studded MGM boot in the face to the artists who made the first movie possible, and the fans who liked it.In closing, all I want to remark is that I hope MGM will release "The Secret of NIMH" in widescreen on DVD as they promised..
Those reasons are adequately rehearsed in the other reviews to be seen herein.I merely want to issue a warning to other potential viewers who loved the first film as I did, and thus might be thinking, as I did, "It CAN'T be that bad..." Trust me.
The original Secret of Nimh is an absolute masterpiece,(I do confess I saw this and the original fairly recently) with gorgeous animation, great characters and phenomenal music by the late Jerry Goldsmith, and is regarded by a vast majority including myself as Bluth's masterpiece.
Also it completely lacked the mystery and suspense of the first film.(sorry I'm comparing the whole time, and this is what I honestly feel) The plot was also unoriginal and unevenly paced, and inappropriately bright, compared to the darkness and sentiment of the original.It was also a shame that the characters that made the original so memorable didn't have a bigger part to play.
Timmy came across as rather whiny and annoying, a far cry from Elizabeth Hartmann's sorrowful and poignant portrayal of Mrs Brisby who you hardly see in the sequel, and Dom DeLuise was nowhere near as funny as he was in the original.
In the original, Jenner while not the best and most complex villain ever, was very convincing, a complete juxtaposition of the villain here.In conclusion, an awful sequel to a beautiful film.
I am truly sorry I am sounding like a broken record, and comparing the sequel to the original, but as honesty is the best policy, I'll be perfectly frank, and say I didn't like this movie at all.
I totally agree..I LOVED the original one when I was a kid..and still do..its one of my favourite movies..and I really hate when they make sequels to classic movies..especially animated ones..it's so disappointing..and they keep on doing it and I wish they wouldn't..its so sad..another movie they did that with that was so stupid, was Cinderella..they made a sequel?
like how dumb..that movie is a CLASSIC..and they basically ruined it...i mean if they make a sequel they could at least make it good..and make the animation like it used to be..and not so cheap looking..they do it with soo many movies and I'm tired of it.
My heart falls when I think that an entire generation is likely to remember THIS travesty as the only NIHM movie.This is little more than a piece of Direct-to-Video drivel, moulded right from the formula that Disney has, as of late, ironed out and pushed down our throats.
Maybe I'm jaded, but I still cannot accept this as a NIHM movie.I was a child when Bluth unveiled the original Secret Of NIHM, over a decade ago now; re-releases, video versions, and all the rest have never dulled the fantasy and wonder of it.
The plot is weak, formulamatic; the voice acting is merely marginal; music is used where unnecessary, simply because it can be (The Great Disney Fallacy, in action again); the story of the original is scattered like so much debris...but that's not the worst.The worst is that there is no wonder here.
The story is dumb, the animation is horrid, the music is revolting, and the acting, if you can call it that, is possibly the worst part of this movie.
I do not know how, seeing as the orignal ended with the main characters finding the valley, and an endless supply of food.Anyway this film sickens me, cause to me, it's like they took the original and dropped a ray of sunshine in it, and made this putrid, thing, I cannot even stand to look at.
It disturbed and frightened me as a kid in the way a good fairy tale does (or the way adult movies disturb and frighten adults in on a different scale), because it makes you think about big issues, but in a way that kids can still learn from and love to watch.
Compared to the average Disney movie, just as pure entertainment for kids who've never seen the original, I would rate it a 5 instead of the 3 I gave it.
If anyone is curious and finds themselves wondering about watching the sequel that was made of The Secret of NIMH, quickly drink a lot and forget the idea ever came to you.The Secret of NIMH 2 is possibly the WORST movie I have ever seen.
It's an absolute affront to the original - shoddy animation, HORRID and ridiculous plot, shallow, stereotypical, unrealistic characters, mind-numbing storyline, you name it.It's one of the very few films I've seen where I can find nothing positive to say about it whatsoever.
The Secret of Nimh 2: Timmy to the Rescue had the potential to be a good movie.
If Don Bluth had been involved in the plot we may have gotten a movie that would've been just as good if not better then the original Secret of Nimh.
What we got instead of that is a disgustingly bad film with terrible animation, voice acting, and plot that has absolutely no redeeming factors.
Given the choice between diving naked into a tub of ravenous piranhas and watching this movie again, I'd take the piranhas.When my younger brother (12) fell in love with the book "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH," as well as the Don Bluth movie based off it, he rented this film too.
And like all Disney sequels being filmed lately, they use a new animation look.
It plays like bad fanfiction and Timmy is the Stu. Since when did Nicodemus 'make a prophecy' and the Rats of NIMH worship Jonathan?
It seems like they were trying to re-make An American Tail: Fievel Goes West with the NIMH characters, and I'm not saying that because Dom DeLuise is in both movies.
Some sequels can be just as good or even better than the original (like "Shrek 2" and "101 Dalmatians 2"), or be good but feel unnecessary (like "Pokemon 2000" or "Airplane 2"), but mostly, it could be bad altogether (I'm sure nobody liked "The Land Before Time 2" or "Scary Movie 2").With that said, I'm sure that making a sequel to what is undeniably one of the best animated movies ever would be hard to do.
Yes, I suppose that it would entertain your kid for a while (though it also might ruin any semblance of intelligence they might have), but it just reeks of utter FAIL as a sequel to one of the most complex and beautifully-animated films of all time.
For fans of the original 'Secret of NIMH', however, this movie is absolute drivel.
While still not as good as the original story (and it's meant to follow the first book, not the movie), Conly's effort is way better than this..
It has none of the originality and grandeur of the first film, in addition to having poor animation which looks like Saturday morning cartoons.
The Secret of NIMH was (Without the Disney bashing) one of the greatest animated features of the early 80's(despite what they said about animation in the 80's, we manage to see some great flicks during that time like Transformers the movie & others), but why MGM would take a classic cartoon film & destory it by making a sloppy, out of place sequel is beyond me.Most of the cast from the original NIMH look like a bunch of weaklings in NIMH2 (poor Justin & Brutus), the plot tries but fails to follow the original NIMH story, most of the new characters are stereotypical & sometimes annoying (whats the idea with that damn caterpillar) & songs, why songs, NIMH never had music numbers every few minutes but NIMH2 is loaded with annoying songs.
(that song where the cute animals are daning in the forestat night are what nightmares are made of)All in all, watch the Secret Of NIMH & imagine this joke of a sequel never existed, NIMH2 isn't entertaining even for the dumest of children, but if your constipated & need to go, just watch NIMH2, it won't take you long..
"The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue" is one of the worst, if not THE worst animated sequel of all time.
The film begins with a prophecy telling how one of Jonathan and Mrs. Brisby's sons would save Thorn Valley from NIMH.
One day Timmy (now voiced by Ralph Macchio) comes across a field mouse named Jenny McBribe (Hynden Walch), whose parents were two of the lost 8 mice who try to escape NIMH but were thought to have died.
How could they take an amazing movie like the secret of Nimh and turn it into....garbage???
When I first watched the original movie (The Secret of NIMH) it was fantastic.
Eric Idle's performance and musical number is a high point (only marginally), but SECRET OF NIMH 2 is obviously no match for its predecessor, which features disappointingly choppy animation and a story that is better suited to an average Saturday morning kids' cartoon.
...as a lesson in stupidity.The recent announcement of the new Secret of NIMH remake has everyone abuzz with concerns that it could either be as good as the original, or as bad as the sequel.
Obviously the fan rage is at an all-time high and quite frankly, you can't blame them for being nothing short than ticked off.Secret of NIMH 1 was a daring experiment that no other animated film wanted to do.
I make family films for a living, and I think this film should be required viewing for everyone in the industry as a cautionary tale of how not to make a film.Almost everything that can be wrong with a sequel is wrong with this one.I'm convinced that the people who made this film hate animation as a medium, hate charm and beauty, hate Don Bluth personally and want to dance on the man's grave when he passes, and most of all hate audiences intensely and wish them to suffer.But while it would be illustrative to emerging tradespeople in the industry to study specific points about individual failings of this film, it is pointless in a capsule review -- it'd be like writing a culinary review with details as to why Twinkies are not very good pastries..
A segual to the secret of nimh ,a good book and mediocre film, this movie was unstable.
At the end of the first film, Mrs. Brisby saved her family with the help of some intelligent rats who escaped from a laboratory at N.I.M.H. The rats then went to a haven we never saw, called Thorn Valley.
But as it is, "The Secret of N.I.M.H. 2: Timmy to the Rescue" is a nice little kids movie, best suited for those under the age of ten.
(which I've noticed, sadly, happens all too often.) I'd like to offer up a little piece of advice for all of you who feel the need to put down anything and everything that doesn't follow the original: It's really quite stupid to be offended because a CHILDREN'S CARTOON didn't live up to adult expectations for a good movie..
In the sequel, Nicodemus states a prophecy that only the son of Jonathan Brisby can stop the evil coming to threaten Thorn Valley, so anybody who has read the book might think, "Of course, this explains everything.
I think this is an awesome movie and to be honest i even liked it a little more than the original.
The original Secret of NIMH was by far, one of the greatest animated movies of all time.
I loved it so much, that I wanted to find a career in animation because of that movie, as well as other films I watched in my childhood.But this...This, on the other hand, is the opposite.
The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue, is by far, one of the WORST films I've ever seen in my entire life.
No offense guys, but if you plan to sugarcoat the premise just to appeal to kids too young to realize that this movie is pure garbage, consider yourselves incompetent morons who think selling bad sequels to films many consider to be nostalgic masterpieces is a great idea, 'cause guess what?
Not the story itself.Fans of the original Secret of NIMH should stay the hell away from this god awful monstrosity, and if you saw this whole movie, you have my greatest sympathies.
You just ruined a piece of my childhood, and you should be ashamed, even though it has been 11 (now 12) years since you made this garbage.You know, Timmy was the sick mouse Mrs. Brisby was trying to save in the original, because he was dying of pneumonia.
If you watch the sequel to one of the greatest animated films of all time, you would wish Timmy had died of pneumonia or squashed to death by the farmer's tractor.
In 1998, they released the atrocious "The Secret Of Nimh 2: Timmy To The Rescue." I have to admit, I did like this film when I was young, now I can't stand it.
While fans of the original film were treated to a dark, well-animated, mystical movie; this is nothing but cartoony, lazy, and what's worse: A MUSICAL!
Instead, MGM decides to go ahead and make the unworthy sequel that is: "The Secret Of Nimh 2: Timmy To Rescue." P.S-Some things I have mentioned about TSON2 were thoughts echoed on other fan-sites for the original film.
A sequel is supposed to CONTINUE the story, you idiots!!!NOT pull a false prophecy out of its arse (saying one of Johnathan Brisby's sons would someday save everyone from NIMH again when Nicodemus NEVER made such a prediction!)NOT toss the original hero aside like trash - Mrs. Brisby is BARELY in this movie, and she's not even on the front cover, instead it's all about her little son Timmy that had only one line in the original movie.NOT turn away from the style of the original - the original was dark and riveting, with an inexplicable charm (especially with the characters) that drew you into the story.
You know what, IT'S GETTING OLD!Last but not least, a sequel should NOT make the main characters and settings look like crap - the original was dark and very detailed in its backgrounds, and so were the characters.
It tells the story about Timmy, Mrs. Brisby's son (who had just said one line at the end of the original film) who is sent to Thorn Valley to work with Justin and Mr. Ages.
It's worse.The story had no connection to the book sequel to Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH in which the original film was based on since it suffered from too many plot holes.
I know that's not saying much, but at least he's entertaining than the rest of the forgettable characters including Timmy and Jenny.The Secret of NIMH 2, Timmy to the Rescue is one of the worst sequels I have ever seen, if not one of the "WORST" movies I have ever seen.
Honestly I'd like Bluth to return to this kind of production.Sloppy story, unnecessary songs, plot holes, totally unfaithful to original tenets of the first film, poor animation.
I liked the original NIMH film, I did.
Yeah, good stuff.Either way, without going into too much detail, after seeing your favorite characters from the original film make horrid re-appearances the protagonist Timmy and his stacked girlfriend along with yourself are thrust into a land where the headquarters of NIMH is Castle Frankenstein and Timmy's brother becomes a British insane genius voiced by Eric Idle possibly singing the most cheery "I'm gonna take over the world" song ever.
If you have fond memories of The Secret of NIMH, one of the best movies out there, stay away from this horrid sequel.
I didn't really like the original, but the sequel is great!.
The animation in "Timmy to the Rescue" is great and I love the songs.
Let me correct that: It is totally hilarious garbage.The movie takes place a few years after the classic original and features Timothy(a minor character from the first film) going to Thorn Valley to learn how to be a hero from Justin and mr.