Ferngully: The Last Rainforest

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Overview

A man finds himself living among the animals and enchanted spirits of the rainforest, and learns of the true consequences of human destruction in this animated adventure. Crysta voice of Samantha Mathis is a young fairy who is being tutored in the powers of magic by the older and wiser Magi voice of Grace Zabriskie in an Amazon rain forest. While their home was once on the verge of destruction thanks to the evil spirit Hexxus voice of Tim Curry, the demon has been trapped inside a tree, and Crysta is free to play...
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Overview

A man finds himself living among the animals and enchanted spirits of the rainforest, and learns of the true consequences of human destruction in this animated adventure. Crysta voice of Samantha Mathis is a young fairy who is being tutored in the powers of magic by the older and wiser Magi voice of Grace Zabriskie in an Amazon rain forest. While their home was once on the verge of destruction thanks to the evil spirit Hexxus voice of Tim Curry, the demon has been trapped inside a tree, and Crysta is free to play with her friends Batty Koda voice of Robin Williams, a bat who escaped from an animal testing facility, and Pips voice of Christian Slater, who has obvious romantic intentions toward the attractive young sprite. However, a clear-cutting crew destroys the tranquil peace of the rainforest, and when Crysta sees a runaway logging machine about to run over lumberjack Zak voice of Jonathan Ward, she saves his life by shrinking him to her own size. However, Crysta isn't able to bring Zak back to his normal size, so he's forced to live among the forest creatures and learn first-hand the devastation the humans have brought to this world -- especially when the loggers accidentally free Hexxus from captivity.
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Special Features

Commentary with director Bill Kroyer, art director Ralph Eggleston and coordinating art director Susan Kroyer; Seed of the story: script-to-screen comparison with optional commentary by screenwriter Jim Cox; From paper to tree: making-of featurette; Behind the voice: Toxic Love - multi-angle scene study; Original featurette (1992); Music video: "If I'm Gonna Eat Somebody (It Might as Well Be You); Theatrical trailers and TV spots
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Editorial Reviews

Barnes & Noble - Donald Liebenson
Nature calls in Ferngully: the Last Rainforest, one of the best of the non-Disney animated features of the 1990s. Based on the Ferngully stories by Australian writer Dian Young, and directed by Disney-trained animator Bill Kryor, Ferngully is set in a magical world within the rainforest, where dwells a race of winged tree fairies who are responsible for nurturing “the harmony of all living things.” Crysta, the most fetching fairy since Tinkerbell, defies orders to not fly above the treetops. Much to her amazement, she discovers that humans are far from extinct, as she had been led to believe. They are, in fact, poised to strip-mine Ferngully and obliterate any vegetation standing in the path of a massive tree-clearing machine called the Leveler. Crysta is compelled to save one of the humans, Zak Jonathan Ward, from a falling tree by shrinking him down to fairy size. From this new perspective, he gets a change of attitude about the forest he was thoughtlessly destroying. The stellar voice cast includes a pre-Aladdin Robin Williams as the aptly named Batty, a scramble-brained fugitive from a science testing lab giving Williams wide license to riff. Tim Curry gets down with his bad self as Hexxus, a demon spirit of pollution unwittingly liberated by the humans his song, “Toxic Love,” is a stylized animated tour de force. The Jimmy Buffet-penned food chain anthem, “If I’m Gonna Eat Somebody It Might as Well Be You”, is sung by a striped lizard voiced by Tone Loc. Christian Slater is the voice of Pips, Crysta’s fairy boyfriend, who gets unexpected competition from Zak for Crysta’s affections. The Family Fun Edition is a two-disc set geared both to children and to animation buffs, with games and music videos as well as “making of” segments, audio commentary, and script-to-screen comparisons. Ferngully is an ever-timely ecological fable. It’s ironic, though, that the traditional cel-animating process used to produce it is now as endangered as the rainforest.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 3/6/2012
  • UPC: 024543760382
  • Original Release: 1992

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  • Source: 20th Century Fox
  • Region Code: A
  • Presentation: Wide Screen
  • Sound: DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound, Dolby AC-3 Surround Sound
  • Language: English
  • Time: 1:16:00
  • Format: Blu-ray
  • Sales rank: 8,936

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Tim Curry Voice Only
Robin Williams Voice Only
Samantha Mathis Voice Only
Christian Slater Voice Only
Jonathan Ward Voice Only
Grace Zabriskie Voice Only
Geoffrey Blake Voice Only
Robert Pastorelli Voice Only
Cheech Marin Voice Only
Tommy Chong Voice Only
Tone-Loc Voice Only
Townsend Coleman Voice Only
Brian Cummings Ock
Kathleen Freeman Voice Only
Janet Gilmore Voice Only
Lauri Hendler Voice Only
Rosanna Huffman Voice Only
Harvey Jason Voice Only
Naomi Lewis Elder #2
Dave Mallow Voice Only
Danny Mann Voice Only
Paige Pollack Voice Only
Neil Ross Voice Only
Holly Ryan Voice Only
Gary Schwartz Voice Only
Pamela Segall Voice Only
Anderson Wong Rock
Technical Credits
Bill Kroyer Director
Bibo Bergeron Animator
Charles Bonifacio Animator
David Bowers Animator
John Laurence Collins Animator
Robert W. Cort Executive Producer
Jesse Cosio Animator
Jim Cox Co-producer, Screenwriter
Brian Cox Producer
Ralph Eggleston Art Director
Peter Faiman Producer
Ted Field Executive Producer
Richard Harper Co-producer
Victoria Jenson Production Designer
Marci Liroff Casting
Becky Mancuso Musical Direction/Supervision
Matthew Perry Consultant/advisor
Brian Rosen Co-producer
Timothy R. Sexton Musical Direction/Supervision
Alan Silvestri Score Composer
Wayne Young Producer
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Customer Reviews

Average Rating 4.5
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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Ahead of it's Time

    It's amazing how the writers of this movie were ahead of its time. It talks about so many world issues right now such as pollution, depletion of the ozone and rainforest and the destruction of children's imaginations (fairies and everything magical). A wonderful movie that I'd recomend to everyone!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    I haven't watched this show in ages...

    But I think this show rox! This show blows! No show is like this!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Great

    An awesome movie. It's great for kids of any age. I watched this when I was little and will still watch it. A great story line, simple enough for younger children, but still complex enough to appeal to older audiences.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Great Family Movie

    If you are looking for a fun, clean family movie to watch, this is it. I highly recomend it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    The best movie ever!!

    This movie is AMAZING. It really makes you appreciate the beauty of nature. And it's screamingly funny at lots of parts. If I could I'd give it 500,000,000,000,000,000 stars!!!! A must-see for nature and animal lovers!

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