Part 1: Hello. I'm Christopher and this is Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. As we watch this program, we learn about the story of Michael, who goes through the first part summarizing his drug addiction. Corey, his younger sister, is starting to be concerned about him. Your favorite characters like Winnie the Pooh, Garfield, Smurfs, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Smiler, ALF and Baby Kermit, will teach him the disadvantages of taking drugs.Part 2: This next part features Michael, with his friends, doing drugs. However, this creates a manipulating villain named Smoke, who tempts him to keep his drug business. Later, Bugs Bunny, also helps Michael refresh his memory by going two years back in time when he started drugs. Meanwhile, Corey gets help from Winnie the Pooh to convince her to talk to Michael.Part 3: Getting advice from her dad, Corey tries to find a way to convince Michael into quitting. In other words, we see Michael continuing to do drugs with his friends. When his wallet was stolen, Michael fails to retrieve it when Michaelangelo and the Muppet Babies takes him and Smoke on a journey through the course of his body.Part 4: Huey, Duey and Louie, who meet Michael, ask why is he taking drugs. In result, all of the cartoon characters sing to Michael about not one, but millions of ways to say no before Michael wakes up. When Corey comes in to ask, he threatens to hurt her, if she tells their parents about this. Changing his mind, too late, ALF then shows him his future after this and reveals the man in charge of his life.Part 5: (I hate that smoke cloud.) Anyway, the fifth and final part of this program researches about Corey, being manipulated by Smoke who tempts her to use Michael 's drugs. While Michael is stranded in his imagination, he gets advice from Daffy Duck that his future will be much worse if he uses too much. Finally, Michael has done the most glorious thing he'd ever done with help: Quit.Review: Loved every minute except Smoke's scenes and Michael's horrible future near the end.

The US spent the entire 1980s freaking out about the possibility of children using drugs, and Nancy Reagan's solution was JUST SAY NO. Therefore it's no accident that a cartoon got made telling the tykes to avoid controlled substances.Well, aside from the fact that "Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue" features characters that people in the 2010s likely will have forgotten ever existed, its message is all wrong. While we should focus on keeping children from using narcotics, moralistic grandstanding is a guaranteed failure. The so-called War on Drugs has devastated entire communities in the US and overfilled our prisons, all the while turning Mexico into a near failed state. The right choice is what Portugal has done: it decriminalized drugs and treats drug usage as a health issue, not a crime. In fact, drug usage has DROPPED in Portugal ever since they decriminalized drugs. Many states in the US have allowed medical marijuana for years. Washington and Colorado both voted in legalized recreational marijuana use - soon to become law in Oregon - and their economies have benefited from it (my conclusion is that opposition legalized recreational marijuana use is, well, anti-capitalism). In fact, I heard a speech from Rick Steves (host of a travel show on PBS) stumping for Oregon's recently passed measure, and he noted that many European countries provide people with needles during their treatment to ensure that they don't buy the drugs from dealers. Pragmatism has proved to be the right way, while criminalization is the modern equivalent of prohibition (which only succeeded in strengthening the mafia).What I'd like to see is a short in which a boy is in a religious fundamentalist family shoving their ideology down his throat...but then the characters from cult movies and TV shows or anything liked by nerds/geeks - Elvira, Ash (of the "Evil Dead" movies), Spock, etc - explain science to him until he has the courage to tell his parents that he doesn't accept the religious dogma. Maybe some of them smoke a joint at the end and remind the audience that marijuana is NOT an addictive drug.

All of these characters will be familiar to people of my generation that grew up on these TV shows. I vaguely remember watching this in my elementary school. This video is very strange because of its blending of name-recognition commercialism and realism in dealing with a serious topic, an "Alice and Wonderland" style, a realistic ending that doesn't quite solve the problem, and the fact that so many different characters from each with different copyright holders appear together. Its easy to laugh at this film, but its also kind of astonishing that it was ever produced in the first place.Did this show have an impact on its intended audience? Of course, its impossible to say for sure, but I'd like to think that it did. Seeing it now that I'm older and working in television animation was quite an interesting experience for me. Very few films, animated or otherwise, capture a moment in history so completely as this one captures the United States circa 1990.

This is one of the few best half hour animated TV specials you'd find.Approved by Bush Sr. himself and NBC,CBS, and ABC.It's about a teen named Micheal who's addicted to drugs and he eventually steals money from his sister Corey to buy more.Corey finds out what he did to her piggy bank, but she was told not to tell their parents that Micheal is on Drugs.Things seem bad till some unlikely heroes show up to help Micheal's problem. And they are highly copyrighted cartoon characters! Every famous cartoon character you'd find from the old school Saturday Morning line ups are on a mission to talk some sense into Micheal that drugs are bad for him.Those who were around during the late 80s-early 90s won't have trouble in knowing who's who in this TV special.It has a great moral to it. And a fun way of telling kids to say no to drugs. And highly appropriate for all ages. Course for those who are parents just be sure to explain some parts to your kids when you watch this program.What's cool is they actually got permission to use more than 10 copyrighted characters. And they're even voiced by the actual voice actors that put life into them.It's really cool to see, don't know if it'll have a chance in a decent DVD release.But I highly recommend it to those who grew up watching the cartoons from 16 years ago.