The Rescuers Down Under
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The Rescuers Down Under is an animated film prduced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on November 16, 1990. This film, which takes place in the Australian Outback, is the sequel of the earlier film The Rescuers (1977).
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Characters
The Rescuers Down Under had the familiar characters from the first Rescuers movie, the mice Bernard (Bob Newhart) and Bianca (Eva Gabor). New characters included the albatross Wilbur (John Candy), brother of the albatross played by the late Jim Jordan in the original; Jake the kangaroo mouse (Tristan Rogers); and the movie's villain, an animal smuggler, who was called Percival C. McLeach (George C. Scott).
Disney firsts
The Rescuers Down Under is notable for its firsts for Disney. It was the first Disney traditionally-animated movie to completely use the new computerized CAPS (Computer Animation Production System) process. CAPS allowed more efficient and sophisticated post-production of the Disney animated films, and made obsolete the traditional pactice of hand-painting cels. As a result, The Rescuers Down Under was the first feature film for which all original film elements were completely made within a digital environment. The film was also the first sequel made by Disney to one of its animated films.
On its first release, The Rescuers Down Under was preceded by a short film starring Mickey Mouse in an adaptation of The Prince and the Pauper. (This was only the second new Mickey Mouse short made since the 1950s, the first being Mickey's Christmas Carol, which was made to accompany the re-release of The Rescuers.)
Box office popularity
The film did poorly in the box office (making only $27 million), at least partly due to stiff competition from the hit film Home Alone. Consequently, there were no further sequels.
Home Video
The film debuted on videocassette on September 21st 1991 part of the Walt Disney Classics. 1st version had the vertical sticker, 2nd version had a horizontal silk-screening, 3rd version had added a Robin Hood trailer and an updated Feature Presentation bumber and 4th version had no trailers. In 2000, it was issued in the Gold 'Classic' Collection DVD and Video.
Platinum Edition
Platinum Edition coming to BD and DVD in Fall 2008
Disc 1: .Movie (Widescreen 1:66:1 with remastered picture and sound) .Movie Commentary .Multi-Angle Easter Egg .Disney Fact Track .Sneak Peeks (including So Dear To My Heart trailer) .Bonus Music-Only 6.1 audio track for Movie .Original Remastered Theatrical 4.0 Audio .DVD-ROM: WMV HD version of Movie and weblinks .Dolby Headphone and Dolby Virtual Speaker tracks for Movie .Spanish and French 2.0 audio tracks .English, Spanish, French subtitles with bonus English, Spanish and French commentary tracks and bilingual commentary speaker indicators
Disc 2: .Bonus Short: The Prince and the Pauper (Widescreen 1:66:1) .An Unappreciated Classic: The Making of The Rescuers Down Under 35-part featurete .Publicity: Trailers, TV Spots, Posters and video release galleries
Rumors
In 2003, people on Amazon.com and the IMDB forums were saying that Disney was announcing a sequel to The Rescuers Down Under called "The Rescuers: Journey to the Black Castle", based on the original book by Margery Sharp. There was another topless woman rumor that had the topless woman during the beginning flight scene in Australia. The rumor has been proven false, due to Disney looking at the frames of the film, due to it being animated on a computer.
External links
- The Rescuers Down Under (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100477/) at the Internet Movie Databasezh:救难小英雄澳洲历险记
