Once Upon a Forest
Master Badger and his friends is an American animated film from 1993., The children's film is loosely based on the characters of the two stories A Furling 's Story and Furlings by Rae Lambert.
Action
The dynamic little mouse Abigail, the young hedgehog Russell and the shy Mole Edgar for the first time lessons with the old roof Cornelius. DC on their first day he has prepared a surprise for her. After he has his latest invention, shown them a flying machine, he goes with them for a walk through the forest. They stop near a road the people. He talks to the young that they never have worked or transgress this limit. It was best to forget everything very quickly. While the little ones with Cornelius the creek Paddling along, but a truck on the road has an accident while a charge of poison gas flows into the forest and kill all life. The notice the friends but only when they return to Cornelius. Quick tries Cornelius niece Michelle visit her parents and runs into her lair. Abigail follows her and they can just before the Giftgastod save.
But because Michelle was breathing too much poison gas, they will die. The friends remain only just under 48 hours to get some rare herbs for Cornelius, so that he can mix a major potion. He tells them how he once his entire family because of the people lost, which is why that should take little on their journey to Daglewood before men beware and always work together. That may still prove during the trip, the friends, because Abigail is on the way captured by an owl and deported to their nest. You can free himself with a trick again and escape successfully with the help of Russell and Edgar. They have, however, get lost and not know what to do, which is why they stay for the time being in the wilderness. At night, they are saved by a funeral birds that wants to say goodbye with a Mass of the small Bosworth, who is trapped in a mud pool and threatens to die. After Edgar saves him, know the friends that they come to the yellow dragon over to her desired destination.
The yellow dragon turn out to be heavy construction vehicles, in which the friends flee into a sewage system and eventually reach their destination where they needed, however, the herb can not reach because it grows on a cliff. So they build Cornelius Flugapparrat and get it on the air and finally fly back to their forest. By a sudden thunderstorm they rush after a clash from a power poles and run the rest home. They come dangerously close to humans. Only they are not this time in the forest to hunt animals, but to save him from the poison gas. Cornelius is that they even save Edgar from an animal trap and then destroy them by surprise. Once the people are gone, Cornelius finally can save Michelle with his drink. The other animals, including the parents of Abigail, Russell and Edgar, coming back from the forests in which they were hiding. Only Michelle's parents died. But Cornelius wants to give his best to look as good as possible for them.
Instrumentation and synchronization
Publication
In Germany he started on 30 June 1993 in the cinemas and was seen by 308,039 viewers.
Soundtrack
Criticism
"The story is painfully thin ," criticized the film critic James Berardinelli, " even for the limited claims of an average five year old ." The " lackluster and very politically - correct" action was far too boring and show an apparent lack of innovation and creativity. The film did, however, also a good thing. "Fortunately, the duration is short, so that the parents do not get bored in the company of their children to death " would.
"The movie is cute and soft, but not very convincing ," said the renowned film critic Roger Ebert. He also wondered " why so many Kinderzeichetrickfilme begin with the death of their parents. " Although the film was " a good heart " is " but somehow stupid. " After all, " children intelligent and curious " are what the film but " do not recognize " may.
Stephen Holden of The New York Times praised the " likable fable about growing up, learning cooperation and development of courage ." With its " overly cute cartoon pictures" knows the film, " how to tell a story ."
The lexicon of the International film said: " A carefully-designed animated film, which, however, some options may be unused by its long-standing narrative and unoriginal typing. Sympathetic, particularly young children appealing entertainment. "