FernGully - The Last Rainforest

Media:	DVD
Directed by:	Bill Kroyer
Starring:	Tim Curry, Samantha Mathis, Christian Slater, Robin Williams
Release date:	22 February, 2005
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FernGully - The Last Rainforest

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Great Environmental Message!

This is another Fox classic. This is the story of a fairy named Crysta, who is learning how to restore the forest. She meets Zak, a logger who she shrunk to save from a falling tree. She shows him a whole different view and teaches him about the rainforest. But soon Hexxus, a toxic monster, is released by some other loggers. Now it's up to Crysta, Zak, Batty, and the other fairies to save Ferngully, the very last rainforest. Some scenes may be too violent and loud for small children. But that is made up for with great songs and my personal favorite end song "Some Other World" by Elton John. This movie really gives a powerful message about conserving our rainforest and wildlife. Buy this video and learn something valuable and important about our world. You'll be glad you did.

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My favorite childhood movie - and it has a message!

I first saw this movie in theaters when it came out, which would make me nine or ten at the time. I loved the movie then. The environmental message made sense to me, and it really got its point across even to a young kid, though I didn't understand consciously that Batty had be a subject of animal experimentation (now I'm an 18 year old animal rights activist, so maybe it registered on some level though).

But a great message alone isn't enough to make a movie. It's got all the classic elements necessary for a kids movie. A great villian - Hexx is scary, unique, and voiced to perfection by Tim Curry, two strong protagonists for guys and girls in Zak and Crysta, a mythical past and setting, fun comic relief - Robin Willians is terrific as Batty, and plenty of great songs.

It's different enough from your typical Disney movie to be great, but similar enough that kids will love it. Plus, it will be something they've never seen before and it will send many important messages (about taking care of the environment, believing in yourself, and how you can make a difference) that every kid should hear. I definatly believe this is the best children's movie ever made.

- FernGully - The Last Rainforest

How did this touch me?

Fern Gully was the first film my parents ever took me to see at the movie theater. Freud said that childhood affects a person's character, and this movie really did a lot for me (living in a tropical island wich is full of rainforests, it did get me fairy searching). I have this movie when it came out on tape and I still watch it, last time being today. The characters are amazing, Crysta is so much like me and thank God, not a blonde as every animated movie heroine. Zak is totally cool cause he's not destroying the forest because he's evil, he's doing it because he doesn't care, mainly because of ignorance. Robin Williams is amazing as Batty Koda, as he is in any other role. His lines make me laugh and at the same time dig into your brain. The thing is, that when I saw this movie, I didn't know english, and yet I understood it. It really did shape my mind and character and it's made me the tree-loving, pollution-fighting, rainforest-saving, nature-nut I am proud to be today. So this movie, wether I have to buy on DVD when I have kids (I'm only 15 so that'll be a minimum of 10 years in the future) I want them to see that "all the magic of creation exists within a single, tiny seed".

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