The Rescuers Down Under

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Bernard and the Beast ( original title: The Rescuers Down Under) is the 29th full-length animated film the Walt Disney Studios and was released in 1990 is based on the characters of the children's book series of the English writer Margery Sharp.. Simultaneously, the film is the sequel to the first film adaptation Sharp Rescuers - The Rescuers from the year 1977.

Action

The poachers McLeach makes in the Australian Outback hunt for all kinds of large and small wild animals; many of them can save the young Cody. As McLeach captures the goldgefiederten Giant Eagle Marahute, Cody manages to save the animal, but he is captured by the crook shortly thereafter. McLeach kidnapped the child to his lair, there to squeeze out information about the eagle from him.

Cody's friends from the animal kingdom then ring the rescue Relief Society in New York City for help that sent their agents Bernard and Bianca immediately to Australia. After the albatross Wilbur ( the nephew of Orville from part 1 ) it delivers a nasty crash landing there, they are received by the jerboa Jake. This makes no secret of his interest in Bianca, what Bernard regurgitates acid; he wanted to ask for her hand briefly before departure.

Now do the three mice in search of Cody and Marahute, with them soon McLeach in its path. With a ruse to lure the hunter actually the boy to Aufenthaltort of Marahutes nest to reach and capture the giant bird there. After that he wants to eliminate Cody and feed him to crocodiles. But Bernard and Bianca manage to thwart this and to save Cody. McLeach comes to an end when he falls himself into the river, and shortly thereafter tumbles down a huge waterfall.

Bernard finally finds on the flight back the courage to ask Bianca to marry him - what it affirms thrilled.

Background

  • The film was the first animated film ever made, which was completely colored on the computer.
  • The names of the albatrosses, Wilbur and Orville, refer to the aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright.
  • The film is just one of four sequels of a Disney masterpiece, which are also referred to as masterpieces. The other three are The Three Caballeros, Fantasia 2000 and Winnie the Pooh ( 2011). Other sequels of Disney masterpieces were produced by DisneyToon Studios (including The Jungle Book 2 ) or published directly to video / DVD (including Aladdin and the King of Thieves ). Bernhard and the Beast is the first sequel to a masterpiece with continuous action (3 Caballeros is a package Movie and continues only individual sequences of Saludos Amigos, the same applies for Fantasia and Fantasia 2000).

Awards

Reception

Although he belonged to the time of its release to the most technically refined Disney productions, Bernard and Bianca was in kangaroo country at the box office is failure ( ~ $ 28 million ).

More already in planning Bernard and Bianca films were then placed by the producers on ice. A third film was finally scheduled for 1996; Eva Gabor, who had Bianca lent her distinctive voice, but he died in mid-1995, after which all further continuation plans were finally abandoned.

Reviews

" The return of Bernard and Bianca [ ... ] shows the Disney Studio at a turning point: no longer the classic character animation ( as in the first part ) dominates, but a stunning, computer-assisted animation effect. As regrettable as the neglect of the lovable main characters (even the albatross Orville comes a little too short ), so imaginative and innovative are the action scenes, which are of unprecedented pace. A rousing film that offers surprises even the repeated vision. "

Media

  • Bernard and Bianca in kangaroo country, VHS, September 1992
  • Bernard and Bianca in kangaroo country, VHS, February 1997
  • Bernard and Bianca in kangaroo country. Special Collection, DVD, Walt Disney Home Video 2001
  • Bernard and Bianca in Kangaroo Country, DVD, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment in 2012
  • Bernard and Bianca in kangaroo country, Blu -ray, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, 2012
  • The Rescuers Down Under. Walt Disney Records, Burbank 2002, No. 60759-7 - also contains three bonus tracks from The Rescuers
1990 in film Screenplay Film score Bruce Broughton Wolfgang Ziffer Bernard Fox (actor) Goldene Leinwand
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