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Originally Posted by Zeitgheist
I will still always favor those that had messages and myseries such as An American Tail, Ferngully, All Dogs Go to Heaven and ESPECIALLY my favorite Don Bluth movie The Secret of NIMH
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I liked Ferngully, but I felt it was a bit too one sided in its perspective. Obviously, the theme is protecting the environment and cutting down trees is bad and all. However I felt the movie seriously went a bit too far totally degrading the human race and everything involved or connected to them.
Now I'm not condoning the fact deforestation is a terrible thing but everything in this movie just basically said: HUMANS SUCK! Every human character in here is associated with negative aspirations and personality traits, everything that is related to them makes things noisy, ugly, and just makes the world a crappier place.
The fairies world of course is beautiful and godforbid they can't have ANY evil existing in their world, it has to come from man. Mankind has done some lousy things to Mother Nature but frankly, I'm getting tired of seeing humanity be the center of all that is evil and blaming us for everything we do.
Hexxus was a tremendously cool villain and I thought Batty was a riot but I felt this movie's music seriously lacked anything specials (sans the dream song by Sheena Easton) and the whole "humans bad, fairies good" angle was apparent in almost every scene. Zack got treated like crap and it became a running joke no matter what part of the movie it reached.
Sorry if this sounds like I hate the movie, I don't, I just can't stand it when a movie goes out of its way to paint an ugly message about something or something and doesn't bother presenting the other side of the argument. Michael Moore's documentaries are a prime example of this, and I kinda feel Ferngully did it too.
Their message was a very positive one, but I felt it could have still been effective without human stomping 101. Btw since were still on Bluth films, I want to say I prefer Charlie Sheen to Charlie's voice in Dogs/heaven 2 rather then Burt Renolyds in the original. I just think it fit better.