FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue
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| FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue | |
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| Directed by | Phil Robinson Co-Director: Dave Marshall |
| Produced by | Jeff Fino Holly Harold |
| Written by | Chris Fink Richard Tulloch |
| Starring | Laura Erlich Harry Joseph Gary Martin Matt K. Miller Digory Oaks Westin Peace |
| Music by | Nerdia Tyson-Chew |
| Editing by | Michael Cavanaugh |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment CBS/Fox Video Buena Vista Pictures (some countries) |
| Release date(s) | March 17, 1998 |
| Running time | 72 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue is a 1998 animated film, a direct-to-video sequel to FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992). It was directed by Phil Robinson & Dave Marshall and written by Chris Fink and Richard Tulloch.
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Plot
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The beginning of the movie shows Crysta 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, meanwhile revealing that Pips wishes to see more of the outside world.
Shortly after, Batty Koda arrives in a panic, announcing that two human poachers are right behind him. These poachers show up with their dogs and promptly capture the three baby animals. The first rescue attempt while still in Ferngully fails, and sadly results in a huge forest fire, destroying a huge part of the forest and injuring the mother of the captured baby kangaroo Nugget. Pips and the Beetle Boys volunteer to follow the humans to town and rescue the babies, convincing the extremely reluctant Batty to be their guide.
When they arrive at town, they meet a small girl named Budgie who is practicing for the clown act, but it is apparent she has not been succeeding. Pips flies over to her and asks if she was hurt by what the man next to her said. She tells him it was only her grandpa. Soon, the Beetle Boys fly over and while Budgie tries to fling them away, she accidentally hits Pips. When she sees that he is dazed, she puts him in her trailer home so he can rest.
Afterwards, they all party inside the trailer. Batty tries to convince them that he found the babies, but everyone is so mesmerized by the inventions in the trailer, that they ignore him. Bark offers to go with him. Soon, they find the place where the poachers are keeping the babies. When Batty tries to make a rescue attempt, he is also captured. Bark flies off to go find the rest of the guys. Meanwhile, Budgie confesses to 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 convince them that if they stick together, they will be able to do anything, to keep them calm. 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 was supposed to be saving. He confesses to Budgie that he hasn't been doing his job, and that this whole place has just been distracting him. When Budgie hears this, she offers to help him out.
They all find the old warehouse, and observe from a high window by the entrance. The poachers drive off, and at the last second, Budgie jumps off of the window and lands on the truck. They drive past Budgie's grandpa, and he sees that Budgie is hanging on the tarp that's covering the truck, and he drives after them. Budgie manages to get inside the car and frees all the birds that were in the cages. The poachers see Budgie trying to get in the car and are enraged to see 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 hurling backwards on the road. She ends up with one side of the car dangling off a cliff. Batty sees her dangling and decides to help her, since she let him out of his cage. Budgie's grandpa arrives and sees that Batty is struggling carrying Budgie so he quickly swoops them both in his net.
The group then head to the ship where the animals are being loaded.
Voice cast
- 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. Miller as Batty
- Westin Peace as Mr. Chuckles
- David Rasner as Boof and Slasher
- Phil Robinson as Father
- J.F. Rockstar as Twig
- K.T. Vogt as Bark and Wal
Production
While the original FernGully was animated at a number of studios, FernGully 2 only used Wang Film Productions (one of the studios from the original) and Stardust Pictures.[1]
