The Rescuers Down Under | | Cast : | Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, John Candy | | Director : | Mike Gabriel, Hendel Butoy | | Studio : | Walt Disney Home Video | | Format : | Color, Animated | | Released Date : | November 16, 1990 | | DVD Released Date : | August 01, 2000 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | G (General Audience) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 07, 2005 | | Summary | Absurd! | Content
 | The mice don't even act like mice on this one, it shows how much time was put into the making of it. A few flat looking flight scenes can't make up for poor story telling. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 25, 2005 | | Summary | Disgraceful! The beginning of Disney's sinking! | Content
| This sequel to the 1977 classic was the first of Disney's scary outburst of sequels to the classics. Many say this movie is better than the first because "it's funnier." I don't think the first The Rescuers was meant to be a comedy of any sort, and Disney has too many comedies nowadays. The Rescuers is the best choice, naturally. Don't waste your money on this.
0/5 |
| Rating | | | Date | June 17, 2005 | | Summary | The first of Disney's trashy movie remakes. | Content
| This was the first in Disney's line of trashy and inferiour sequels that seem to be surrounding the Disney empire today. The movie was a complete failure which discouraged Disney from ever paing enough attention to another sequel and it's thanks to this that we now get stuff like Cinderella 2 or 101 Dalmatians 2 with a few rare highlights like Return to Neverland or Lady and the Tramp 2. The Rescuers Down Under is no where near as good as the first one, there is no heart to it. Neither the story nor the characters held up and just the whole idea isn't very convincing. It is too much like the original (Which makes this unoriginal) but not in the way it should be. It features no songs and there's no emotion to it.
The only thing the movie has that makes it good is the title, the "2"s make the films like this look like total trash even though that's what they are basically. Total trash. Don't buy.
0/5 |
| Rating | | | Date | June 07, 2005 | | Summary | Ok | Content
| It wasn't too bad, it's nowhere as near as good as the first one but it isn't completely terrible. Good for rainy day watching, kids will like it, the first one holds up better for adults. Only real complaint is that the characters are sort of dull. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 17, 2005 | | Summary | Not even close to the first one! | Content
| Boy, The Rescuers Down Under was the most boring and stupid movie I have ever seen in my life. I prefer "The Rescuers" a thousand times over this trash! Disney has made different and very pathetic sequels, I'd like to point out 101 Dalmatians II - Patch's London Adventure, so yes, that film was as pathetic as this one (Although I prefer that one!) but at least I liked the fact that the creators had bothered to keep the "look" of the original "101 Dalmatians" by addind unfinished and fancy-free backgrounds. We got none of that in The Rescuers Down Under, the most disappointing thing was the fact that the film didn't have the warm feeling of the first one. Second of all, no songs. A Disney animated film won't get much respect if it doesn't feature pretty songs, I don't know why people criticize the four beautiful songs in the original film, I really missed that here, a new version of Rescue Aid Society would have fit into the sequel perfectly. The storyline is very, very boring. It doesn't have classical Disney gags that they previously used to keep the viewers entertained and smiling wanting for more, a good example of this in the first The Rescuers was the scene in which the aligators were trying to get the mice out of an organ, I loved that scene. Nah, it's hard to believe that The Rescuers Down Under uses pretty much the same exact story-line of the original movie, and yet it doesn't capture my attention like the first one did.
One of the biggest, largest problems with this sequel are the characters! Yuck! What a bunch of boring characters, Bernard and Bianca have probably turned into the most boring characters in the film and the new ones are either pathetic copies of previous ones or are just there to add a little, unfunny and uneeded comic relief. The boy that Bernard and Bianca are rescuing is soo bland, no personality and no character. The villain is weak and sort of dumb and Wilbur is a pathetic spin-off of Orville, the fun-loving Albatross friend in The Rescuers. All in all, The Rescuers Down Under is an addition to the list of bad, dumb sequels that are just there to break and ruin the happy endings of the originals. Don't waste your time or money. The thing that bothered me the most is how they had Bernard and Bianca marry! That should have never happened, the story ended when the first one said THE END. |
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