Ferngully: The Last Rainforest

Name: Ferngully: The Last Rainforest
Released: 1992-4-10
Cast: Samantha Mathis, Christian Slater, Robin Williams

G
1h 15m
1992

67%

In this magical, musical adventure, Crysta, a tree fairy, discovers Zak, a human who’s helping demolish the rainforest. But once Zak sees the beauty and magic of FernGully, Crysta’s rainforest home, he vows to join her, along with a bat named Batty, whose radar is haywire, and some other friends, to save their world from Hexxus, the evildoer who’s heading up the plan to destroy FernGully.

Director:

Bill Kroyer

Producer:

Wayne Young, Peter Faiman

Writer:

Jim Cox, Diana Young

Cast:

Samantha Mathis, Christian Slater, Robin Williams

EXTRAS

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COMMENTARY WITH DIRECTOR BILL KROYER, ART DIRECTOR RALPH EGGLESTON AND COORDINATING ART DIRECTOR SUSAN KROYER

SEED OF THE STORY: SCRIPT TO SCREEN COMPARISON

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FROM PAPER TO TREE

BEHIND THE VOICE: TOXIC LOVE (MULTI-ANGLE)

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

67%

Reviews

Film Frenzy

Matt Brunson

Robin Williams appears as a manic, motormouthed bat named Batty Koda, and the role is basically a test run for his manic, motormouthed Genie in Aladdin, released eight months later.

FernGully: The Last Rainforest never gets too preachy in getting its environmental message across.

Yet praising the punctual effort to do something different, the movie falls on all the topics associated with Disney cinema and it doesn't try to hide it.

With production, writing, acting and animation contributions from the United States, Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, Korea and Thailand, this cautionary fable sets an admirable example for the governments of said nations.

Children would learn more about natural processes from five minutes of any David Attenborough film than they could from all of FernGully.

November 15, 2017

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