Return to Kingsdom

Return to Kingsdom is the 1991 American animated musical comedy fantasy film, and a sequel to 1988 animated film Kingsdom. It is directed by Brian Levant (live action) and William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (animation), and produced by David Kirschner and Paul Gertz. Matthew Broderick (being the only original voice actor) reprises his role from the first film, while Hermione Baddeley are replaced by Angela Lansbury respectively. Baddeley was replaced by Lansbury due to his death from a series of strokes in 1986. New characters are voiced by Sheena Easton, Adam Wylie, George Hearn, and Wallace Shawn.
The film was released on November 1, 1991 by Warner Bros. Pictures.
==Plot==
Lance (Matthew Broderick) and his older brothers are still builds up the casino after the fire when they find themselves on the verge of losing what is left of the family park, when neighboring Mr. Bibb files a lawsuit claiming that the portal released some of the bears who then plundered his camp. He takes the forest animals away unless their parents can get jobs to get the money to keep their forest animals in twenty-four hours. Lance wants to help, but to his dismay, they tell him that he's too young. While her family is out looking for jobs, Lance, and his brothers stay at the woods to take a break. However, they find themselves with a second problem: to their horror, one of the flying monkeys has come to attack. During the attack, Green Dragon (Dom DeLuise), Pepperminter (Angela Lansbury), Fish Out of Water (Jon Lovitz) and Lion (Phil Harris) show up at the park. They tell Lance that Ruggedo the Nome King has taken over the kingdom of Kingsdom, captured Fairy and taken her wand, and now he wants to destroy Lance and steals the king of Kingsdom's crown. Since his great fear of the Wizard has kept him underground, Lance and his friends journey to amusement park to get the Wizard to return to Kingsdom and set everything straight.
After using some of Fairy's magic potion to bring the car to life to take them to the amusement park, they are able to gain entry when they present the carnie at the gate with emeralds from Kingsdom to cover their entrance fee. Once they find the Wizard, he's grown tired of his magic shows and agrees to take them back to Kingsdom in his magical hole, but needs the aid of another portal to do so. Luckily, he keeps a bottle of magic portal with him, and with the aid of a device one of the brothers built to counter portals in the tree, they use it to travel back to Kingsdom.
Once in Kingsdom, they are attacked by the evil trolls again, but Lance and the others have to separate from the Wizard when his balloon ends up getting several evil trolls glued to it with one of his inventions and leave him to fend for himself. As they try to make it to Kingsdom on their own, they are attacked by the Jitterbug, whom Ruggedo released to slow them down, then are separated further when attacked by Ruggedo's gnomes, who capture Pepperminter while the Fish Out of Water is banished out of the sea, and Lance, Doog, and the Lion nearly fall into a chasm. Fish Out of Water soon ends up at the sea, where it seems he's been replaced as the leader of the forest by a very hungry male seagull, while the Lion takes Lance and Doog into the woods on the long route to Kingsdom since they were separated from the Fish Out of Water. Meanwhile, Pepperminter and Green Dragon are able to escape Ruggedo's gnomes, reach Kingsdom, and attempt to see if there's anything in the Wizard's old chambers that can help them, but are captured by Ruggedo.
As for Lance, Doog, and the Lion, they soon end up at the Lion's old castle, where it seems he's been replaced as the leader of the forest by a very hungry female tiger. Though in the end, Doog seems to get the Lion and Tiger to cooperate and use their troops to aid Pepperminter.
Back with Pepperminter, she willingly surrenders the ruby slippers to Ruggedo, who transforms them into boots that enable him to plunge the Magical City into the gnomes' underground home before considering putting Dorothy and the Scarecrow into a bottomless pit. Before he can, he is surprised by Jerry, the Tin Man, Tuffy, whom Ruggedo kicked out earlier, the Mouse Queen and her troops, and soon after, the Lion, Tom, Toto, the Tiger and her forces. Though he is disarmed of Glinda's wand, he overpowers all of them via the ruby slippers, and nearly sends Lance, Doog, his brothers, Green Dragon, Pepperminter, Fish Out of Water, and Lion to their doom, before the Jitterbug, whom Lance convinced to ally with them earlier, is able to trap Ruggedo in his dance spell, along with animating a statue of Lance that rescues everyone.
Tuffy, the Mouse Queen, and her troops use Glinda's wand to free her from her imprisonment, while Ruggedo is stripped of the ruby boots when Doog try to save him from falling into the fiery pit and fail, leaving him to plunge to his doom. Once Lance puts them back on, he returns Kingsdom to the surface, and the Wizard arrives shortly thereafter, having managed to tame the trolls that got glued to his balloon with one of his magic potions that made giant candies for them.
With Kingsdom safe once more, the Wizard returns to a formal position in Kingsdom while still leaving the Green Dragon, Pepperminter, Fish Out of Water and Lion in charge, and after he and Glinda offer some final words of wisdom to Lance and how she is always welcome in Kingsdom again whenever she wants to return, Lance takes Doog and his brothers back to England. Once home, they use the potion the Wizard gave them to help pay off Mr. Bibb and have him cancel his lawsuit against the park. When his parents return with little success in town, Lance reveals her success in saving their park, impressing them enough to realize she is old enough to handle things on her own. Lance is happy to know that no matter what happens, there's no place like home.
==Cast==
==Production==
==Musical numbers==
==Release==
==Home media==
==Trivia==
==Gallery==
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