The Rescuers
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Movie Reviews of The Rescuers
Movie Review: Not Margery Sharp's novel, but delightful!
Summary: 5 Stars
Disney's version of Margery Sharp's timeless tale of little mice, The Rescuers, is really delightful, even if it doesn't contain the same plot or all of the characters from the original. Disney did a wonderful job of bringing Sharp's world to the screen, there's something really appealing about the way Disney handled the film, a bunch of little mice using small human objects in order to create their little society meeting building, inside a lost luggage bag and using cadles for lighting and other small objects. The opening is very nice, the film opens with a beautiful ballad with breathtaking paintings that capture a dramatic ocean view and slowly tells the journey of the little girl's bottle. The animation is wonderful! A little sketchy sometimes but the characters are very believable and realistic and everything is smooth. It's easy to tell that the film is pretty old, there are a lot of artifacts present through the movie, but those don't really lower the value and fun the film offers.
The storyline is very appealing, also. There's something so warm about the story of a sweet and lonely orphaned girl with only her Teddy as companion, being taken away by an evil and black-hearted treasure hunted into a dark bayou where she must do slave work in order to retrieve the diamond the evil woman has so long been wanting. Another villains make you feel for the little girl, a mean warden, Mr. Snoops and a due of alligators, Brutus and Nero who play babysitter to the little girl. However, the girl isn't alone, a bunch of small critters like Ellie Mae and Luke are there to make sure she is alright while real rescuers come and save the girl. Sharp's beloved mice, Bernard and Bianca fly on wings to save the girl and with the help of Ellie Mae, Luke and others, they will achieve this.
This movie is wonderful for adults and children alike. Margery Sharp's fans will be pleased with this beautiful film based on the timeless classic stories. A sequel to this gem was done years later, "The Rescuers Down Under" which is a disgrace to both the original film and Sharp's work, taking her characters into a modern world and ruining the appeal of her stories.
Movie Review: Awesome classic!
Summary: 5 Stars
The rescuers was the last of the great Disney films before the studio fell in an area of financial troubles that kept them from shining with great animated films, not to say that the films that followed weren't good, but they didn't have the luster that films like The Jungle Book, The Rescuers and others from the '70s and before had.
Telling the story would be pretty much copy and paste, two little mice named Bernard and Miss Bianca must race to save a little orphan girl who's been kidnapped by Madame Medusa and Mr. Snoops, a pair of villains who need a little body to squeeze down a dark and scary hole into an underground cave where the marvelous Devil's Eye, the world's largest diamond; But what are two little mice to do when faced alone against Medusa's powerful shot-gun and a pair of hungry aligators Brutus and Nero?
The film's villain has often been critisized in two ways, one that she was a copy of Cruella DeVil, yeah, so now anyone who drives recklessly is a copy of Cruella? And two, because her motive was a diamond. Hello! It's the World's Largest Diamond! Who would not obsess over that?!
Anyways, the film is wonderful and filled with beautiful colors, loving characters, heartwarming scenes (Mainly the ones featuring the orphan girl Penny), gorgeous songs "Someone's Waiting for You", "The Journey" and "Tomorrow is Another Day" being downright delightfully beautifully. The film also features one of the happiest endings in Disney history. Unfortunately Disney, of course, couldn't leave the happy ending be, for they had to ruin it with a wretched and horrible sequel made somewhere in the late '80s/early '90s.
The DVD itself is quite horrendous, mainly in picture quality. The fact that the cover is reused from the previous VHS version tells the consumer that very little time was put into the DVD. It seems The Rescuers is going out of print, which may be good news for those wanting a newer edition.
I'd recommend this film to anyone who loves the greatest of Disney classics.
Movie Review: The presentation is pale.
Summary: 5 Stars
As much as I love this Disney classic, I'm disappointed with the DVD for many reasons:
PACKAGING:
Being a single disc edition, I didn't expect a fancy cover but I was extremely disappointed with the fact that they were re-using the cover from the previously released VHS version.
No insert. No big deal, but it shows lack of attention put into this DVD.
No Satisfaction Guarranteed seal which I can see why is absent.
Film feels outcasted as if it weren't part of the animated canon, being one of their best, I should expect more pride in the DVD cover layout and presentation.
The text in the back is reused mostly from the previous VHS version, a few lines are altered and a "snappy new remastering" is stated, indeed snappy and poor.
FILM PRESENTATION:
Poor picture quality. Lots of grain and washed out scenes. Colors are pale and not vivid as they are supposed to be. Outlines appear thick and violet due to age which is rather disturbing sometimes. A few scenes flash and need deep cleaning, especially the darker scenes.
Audio is good, but could be improved much.
DVD LAYOUT:
Way too many previous, 8 in total before the film starts, most of them uninteresting ones.
Uninteresting menus. Fancy free, blurry and lacking.
Borus features could be improved. Water Birds and Someone's Waiting for You sing along should be cleaned for clearer presentation. Other features are dull and could use improvement.
MISCELANEOUS:
Lack of publicity, I didn't know this film had been released on DVD until I ran into original copies on eBay.
Overall, the film is indeed great, but the DVD is hard to recommend due to many faults. Buy the VHS if you really want the film or wait till it is re-released into a better edition. Rumor has it that the film will be re-released on a Masterpiece Edition DVD in 2007, commemorating its 30th anniversary. Wait till then.
Movie Review: This is no way to treat such a charming Disney masterpiece...
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, it seems now I have to have purchased an item in order to write a signed review, well unfortunately I haven't done that but I still would like to review this item; I am 43 and I am female.
The bottomline is simply this; this DVD edition of the classic Disney masterpiece "The Rescuers" is a disgrace to both the film and its fans and I can't believe Disney has even dared to release the movie in such poor condition and laughable are the reviews that say "the print is fresh if not totally clean" or "the way it was meant to be seen" cause both statements are ridiculous. No, the print is not fresh, light years away from totally clean and definitely not the way it was meant to be seen. The pathetic high level of saturation reminds me of the new Disney kiddie-magnet DVD covers for some of their cheap movies (especially sequels of all kinds, save Toy Story and Fantasia 2000), this movie was not meant to be seen so dark and especially with all those bright, mismatched colors that make a very yucky picture indeed; not to mention all the grain and artifacts all over the place.
The only way to see this movie closer to its original glory would be to download a restored pirate version that exists (with the Spanish language track) out of eMule, but that's something I would not like to have to do although it's true that Disney sometimes leaves no alternative. The Wikipedia gives information on a new Masterpiece Edition release for June of 2007 and if that's the case, Disney had better not mess that release up like they did with The Fox and the Hound and (ugh! Which deserved no better) Robin Hood...
Well, that's all I have to say. Disney, NO I will not buy Snow White, Beauty and the Beast or The Lion King again, I don't care how many times you suck them into the stupid non-existant vault, not until you first give this movie at least one proper release, thank you very much.
Movie Review: The Journey
Summary: 5 Stars
How much fun it was to gather the family together to see the last of the true Disney films, the last one done by Walt Disney's original team of animators and it is a true jewel. Definately not 'the only jewel' made in the '70s, since we also had The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, and the fun The Aristocats.
The Story in The Rescuers is simple, a young girl named Penelope (Penny) has been kidnapped by the horrendous Madame Medusa, who needs the girl to retrieve the Devil's Eye, hidden in a cave in the coasts of the Devil's Bayou. Two agent mice, Bernard and Miss Bianca, helped by Orville the albatross, Evinrude the dragonfly, Ellie Mae and the rest of the Swamp Folks take off to rescue the young girl from Madame Medusa, Mr. Snoops and the two feracious crocodiles Brutus and Nero.
One of the most visually impressive scenes in the film is the opening credits, "The Journey". Critiziced for supposedly having no animation and for looking "cheap", is one of the most beatiful opening sequences in Disney history. I mean, look at the openings in Snow White, Pinocchio or Alice in Wonderland, just a bunch of sketches and simple drawings and no animation, still they are beautiful but they don't capture nor tell a simple story like 'The Journey'.
Then there was a sequel, The Rescuers Down Under, made at the beginning of the '90s after The Little Mermaid, which in my opinion is a true disappointment and didn't have quite the charm of the original. Funny was, though people comparing "The Journey" to whatever the Rescuers Down Under's openings were called. So, the sequel had animation in the opening, but they added nothing to the story. Also, if you read the 'Ouch!' review for The Rescuers Down Under you'll see that the person who wrote it had a very good point about the film being a remake of the original.
Anyways, in my book, The Rescuers gets 100%, 5 out of 5 stars.