The second film of the so called Disney Renaissance and the only one of them not to be a musical. And because of that, often a very overlooked and forgotten film. Which, I suppose, makes sense. All of the other Renaissance films are certainly more memorable than this one, and are such an integral part of the childhood of anyone who grew up in the 90s.But this film certainly has a lot of good things going for it. The animation, for one, is absolutely gorgeous. The first scene alone, with a long, zooming shot over the outback, is worth the price of admission alone. The flying scenes and the variety of gravity-defying camera angles are also stunning in multitude of ways, the character designs are both creative and flawless, the colours are vibrant and the whole film has a really good feel to it.It's also both nice and very odd to see a sequel in the actual Disney canon. Not that I approve of Disney sequels in general, for obvious reasons, but if you had to make one for any film in the Disney legacy, The Rescuers is one of the stronger candidates. I mean, the original film ends in a cliffhanger of all things.Unfortunately the film suffers from almost the same problems the original film did. The story, while perfectly passable, is not very exciting, especially when compared to the other Disney films of the time. A kid is in danger and somehow it falls to two mice to do the rescuing. The plot is mostly an excuse for some action scenes, a lot of character-based oddness and for the nice animation to shine. Which is fine, don't get me wrong, but it's simply not all that ambitious.The characters are also once again equally bland. The eponymous rescuers, Bernard and Miss Bianca, are both fine, but nothing overly special. The villain is a nice deviation from the norm, but fails to be very memorable. The supporting characters are probably the best thing about this film, aside from the animation, but even they can't hold a candle to other Disney side characters that debuted in the 90s.And that's The Rescuers sequel. It's good, but not great. A fun little adventure for the children, but lacking that spark that would make you watch it again and again even as an adult.

I am judging movies on what they suppose to be. I know, this is a film designed to appeal to children. But I have some issues with The Rescuers Down Under.It particularly disturbed me as a child, so I would not recommend it as a children movie. Mainly because the plot itself is not very suitable for a children's movie. A mentaly unstable guy hunts animals, he is looking for rare animals to imprison them and sell them for money. And one day he finds a little boy entrapped in one of his animal traps. The boy is now a witness of his criminal activity, so he decides to kidnap him... Thats good material for a thriller or action movie The boy gets imprisoned in an animal cage like all the animals. Silence of the Lambs 2, isn't it? He is far away from home and his family. Are you entertained yet? After all the boy manages to escape with the help of the famous two mice. In the grand finale the villain tries to feed off the little boy to wild crocodiles. Whats the lesson here for children? Be aware of psychopathic kidnappers? Fortunatly the bad guy drowns "by accident". He drowns and it is over. What have we learned children? Australia is not a safe place? Be aware of kidnappers? Don't go outside. If you are lucky and a kidnapper catches you, he will have an "accident". If not, you may never see your family again.

Most of the animated Disney sequels stink: Fox and the Hound 2, Hunchback of Notre Dame 2, Return to Neverland, Return to the Sea, and so on. So far this is the only animated Disney sequel that is a combo of thrilling and awesome, and has a decent story!I grew up watching this movie and didn't realize at first that this was a sequel to another movie. When I finally did see the first movie I liked it, but rescuing a girl from a diamond mine and riding a swamp mobile didn't feel as exciting as riding on a giant eagle, being kidnapped and threatened by a poacher with a giant lizard, getting chased a lot, exploring the outback, and almost being fed to crocodiles! Not to say that the previous adventure was dull, it wasn't - it was very dark - but this sequel had more excitement, adventure, and exploring. Plus the two mice are entering a whole new environment. The music always gets me excited, the backgrounds are awesome, and the entire story made me wish I was there! I wanted to fly on the eagle, I wanted to escape with mice, I wanted to be with talking animals, and I wanted to face all the intense adventures! It honestly surprises me that people overlook this movie. Sure it's not a musical/no princess/no cute animals (or not as cute as others), but it's not suppose to have any of those. It's just a fun adventure to watch and experience. Rent it out on DVD and give it at least one viewing; it is worth it!

Not just one of my all time favorite Disney movies, but as stated in the summary, it is one of my favorites in terms of animated movies in general (and well-worthy of being one of the best out there).I need to get the whole box office ridiculousness out of the way first though. Basically, this movie was released at exactly the same time as Home Alone (which I don't really care for) causing Disney to pull the plug on all advertising and marketing within the first week of the movie's release, causing it to suffer in the box office, but still managed to go "well" over its budget.Which is unfortunate because at the start of the movie, it begins with one of the greatest animated openings of all time by having a fast moving ground-flight simulation through a field of computer animated flowers which SOUNDS simple but when you actually see it and hear the music along with it (the composer is freaking brilliant in this movie), it gets you really excited for the whole movie and that's what the whole movie is: excitement and it never does it too often, it knows how to slow down for the viewers and the entire tone of the movie is never too childish (which is also great considering it's a G-rated movie). It's seemingly for everyone.The voice acting is fantastic (one of John Candy's best roles in his final years), whoever hired these people (minus the two mice, the main characters, that's a given that they'd be in this sequel) seemed to really care and pay attention to how well they'd fit in with this movie. Everything works, everything clicks together, the music, the voices, the characters... It's such a great film and after you've seen it once, you'll want to see it again and again and again.My only gripe with this movie is that (and it's not even really a big one) is that you have to "assume" that the animals that were captured by the villain were saved at the end which I suppose is fair considering we don't see the child's return to his mother which is another thing we must assume as well. But in a way, this could be considered a good thing, had it taken the same route by having a similar ending to the first by showing the after math of the rescue, it wouldn't have left the viewers with that sort of hyper-ventilating sensation after watching such an exciting movie (seriously, the ending is great too).I'd give it a 9 out of 10. Even after 24 years, it still holds up. One of the greats in terms of animation.