The Rescuers Down Under

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The Rescuers Down Under
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Directed by	Hendel Butoy Mike Gabriel
Produced by	Thomas Schumacher
Written by	Margery Sharp (books) Jim Cox
Starring	Bob Newhart Eva Gabor John Candy Tristan Rogers Adam Ryen George C. Scott
Music by	Bruce Broughton
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s)	November 16 1990 November 20, 1998 (re-release)
Running time	74 minutes
Language	English
Budget	N/A
Preceded by	The Little Mermaid (1989)
Followed by	Beauty and the Beast (1991)
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The Rescuers Down Under is the twenty-ninth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and was 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 1977 film The Rescuers, based upon the novels of Margery Sharp.

Contents 1 About the film 1.1 Characters 1.2 Disney firsts 1.3 Box office popularity 2 Animals featured 3 External links

[edit] About the film

[edit] 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 poacher, who was called Percival C. McLeach (George C. Scott).

[edit] 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 process. CAPS allowed more efficient and sophisticated post-production of the Disney animated films, and made obsolete the traditional practice 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 for one of its animated films. It is Disney's second animated feature that does not include any musical numbers, the first being Disney's The Black Cauldron.

On its first release, The Rescuers Down Under was preceded by a short subject 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 1983 re-release of The Rescuers.)

[edit] Box office popularity

The film was unsuccessful at the box office, grossing only $27 million. The Disney Studios considered Rescuers Down Under such a failure that they were later discouraged to release any following Disney sequels theatrically. Only when they were fully convinced that the film would be a success would they release it theatrically, such as The Jungle Book 2 and Return to Never Land. It is considered to be the only "failure" of the Disney Renaissance era (1989-1999), ironic given the immense success of the original The Rescuers. Despite its failure, a third movie was planned for 1996,but Eva Gabor died that same year from complications of food poisoning. Therefore,this movie and all future Rescuers sequels were thrown away.

[edit] Animals featured

• kangaroo mouse
• house mouse
• albatross
• kangaroo
• sea eagle
• monitor
• crocodile
• frilled lizard
• koala
• platypus
• snake

[edit] External links

• The Rescuers Down Under at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB)

v • d • e Disney theatrical animated features
Official canon (Walt Disney Animated Classics)	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) • Pinocchio (1940) • Fantasia (1940) • Dumbo (1941) • Bambi (1942) • Saludos Amigos (1942) • The Three Caballeros (1944) • Make Mine Music (1946) • Fun and Fancy Free (1947) • Melody Time (1948) • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) • Cinderella (1950) • Alice in Wonderland (1951) • Peter Pan (1953) • Lady and the Tramp (1955) • Sleeping Beauty (1959) • One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) • The Sword in the Stone (1963) • The Jungle Book (1967) • The Aristocats (1970) • Robin Hood (1973) • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) • The Rescuers (1977) • The Fox and the Hound (1981) • The Black Cauldron (1985) • The Great Mouse Detective (1986) • Oliver & Company (1988) • The Little Mermaid (1989) • The Rescuers Down Under (1990) • Beauty and the Beast (1991) • Aladdin (1992) • The Lion King (1994) • Pocahontas (1995) • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) • Hercules (1997) • Mulan (1998) • Tarzan (1999) • Fantasia 2000 (1999) • The Emperor's New Groove (2000) • Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) • Lilo & Stitch (2002) • Treasure Planet (2002) • Brother Bear (2003) • Home on the Range (2004) • Chicken Little (2005) • Meet the Robinsons (2007) • Bolt (2008) • Rapunzel (2009) • The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Live-action films with animation	The Reluctant Dragon (1941) • Victory Through Air Power (1943) • Song of the South (1946) • So Dear to My Heart (1949) • Mary Poppins (1964) • Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) • Pete's Dragon (1977) • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) • The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) • Enchanted (2007)
DisneyToon features	DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) • A Goofy Movie (1995) • Doug's 1st Movie (1999) • The Tigger Movie (2000) • Recess: School's Out (2001) • Return to Never Land (2002) • The Jungle Book 2 (2003) • Piglet's Big Movie (2003) • Teacher's Pet (2004) • Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)
Other	The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) • James and the Giant Peach (1996) • Dinosaur (2000)
See also	Pixar • Walt Disney Animation Studios

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