FernGully - The Last Rainforest VHS

we love it

I purchased this for myself. My kids are grown and have kids of their own. We watched this movie so many times while they were growing up. Now I watch it for me and remember when we were all together and much younger. Batty was always our favorite!

We love this movie. It’s great for family time. Definitely brings back memories

*FILM*Avatar/James Cameron, what the heck do you think your doing. There are an alarming number of similarities between the 2009 movie Avatar (you may have heard of it) and this modest little hand drawn movie. This was first (1992). They include:Male protagonist is from a big city and a fish out of water.*A strange race of people and their 'home' tree is threatened by the destructive machines of man, in search for resources.*Male protagonist is modified so that he can integrate into their society.*Male protagonist falls in love with the female protagonist from the strange race.*She shows him around the forest and all the strange glowing stuff and creatures there.*Male protagonist is found out to have been working for the bad guys and has to explain himself to the strange race culminating in a scene in Ferngully that is really similar to the one in Avater, its weird, its exactly like it.*The male protagonist works with the strange race to try and stop the machines but the woman ultimately destroys the central 'bad guy'.*and many many more.James Cameron must have though, 'this is a good story, I'm gonna steal it and make it into a CGI/live action film and make it a money making action flick'. He ultimately destroyed the story for his movie however, and cheapened Ferngully. What a monster.Anyway, enough about that. Lets start again. FernGully is probably one of the last real and completely hand drawn films to have been made like this. The story is original and engaging, making its point with grace and style without seeming pushing and in your face. I could go on for hours but you should just watch all the special features on the disc. This movie is brilliant and really quite epic in its own small way.*PRODUCT*I'm afraid the cover art takes the cake with this one. I'll get the special features out the way first, they're great, dvd transferred special features, however, badly organised.OKKKKKK, the cover art. Firstly........its S***. ..........ok. So, its the worst cover art I've ever seen for a film, right, but its also the worst image of this particular film that I've ever seen. Fan art is better. Every individual frame of the MOVIE maintains a better standard of proportion and appeal than this image does. Who the heck drew it? It doesn't say, does it? They probably don't want their name with it. People would find them and never stop asking questions like, have you even seen the film? Do you know what the feel and atmosphere the film maintains. An original art piece should have been used. This is messy, overly colourful and bright and the characters don't resemble themselves, except for batty, who has been freaking cut and pasted on there from an older cover art. It gives the wrong appeal and does not justly advertise the art worth of film that it is represents. This was bad move. The studio pretty much lost their adult market for this product, which is probably a majority because they all remember what a great film it is from their childhood. I was horrified when this image also displayed in full HD on my TV as the main menu, accompanied with a vomit enducing, tinckley little tune that isn't even in the original soundtrack. Horrible job for the studio bringing this to Blu Ray with this newly designed theme and feel to a beautiful and classic film. I want to give it 1 star just for this hideous cover but the movies just to bloody great to do that. So its 5.On a lighter note, this is one of the best transitions of an old cartoon movie onto Blu Ray.

Just like this movie has some good sound tracks and over all a nice movie to watch .

Always loved this movie when I was young, being older with a 15month old I now have a greater appreciation for its message to the young!

I remember when I first saw this movie when I was nine years old and in third grade in the classroom at school, and I TOTALLY LOVED IT! I even remember nearly every line from it, and I also remember laughing at the hysterical hilarity of the late talented and super hilarious Robin Williams as one of my fave characters, the lovable and comically insane fruit bat Batty Koda. I'm 14 years old now, and as a teen, I still think that this is such an underrated and wonderful, highly entertaining and beautifully animated classic that is a definite rare treasure for the whole family, adults and kids alike! Alongside its colorful and unique characters, funny comedic entertainment mostly delivered by Robin Williams, beautiful and amazing animation, a plot line uncharacteristically solid yet simple for a children's film, and wildly catchy songs, (especially my favorites, Robin Williams' laugh-out-loud funny "Batty Rap" and "Toxic Love", performed by the movie's evil main antagonist and villain Hexxus voiced by the tantalizing and sexy Tim Curry), "FernGully: The Last Rainforest" also holds such a strong and important message that teaches young children about the importance of protecting our planet Earth and environmental conservation. It upholds the concepts of love, respect, and awareness of the environmental escape of the world in which we live in, and how the world's inhabitants are all connected to each in other in a balance of life. When I first watched this film, I only loved it for how hilarious and entertaining it was, until now that I understand what this awesome film's message was towards everyone. Honestly, I still think about how much this movie had taught me about helping our environment and I still think about that and also believing in myself..."We all have the power, and it grows when it is shared!"..."All of the magic of creation exists within a single tiny seed.." Despite what other adults have said about this movie in the reviews that I've read and how they say that "it's okay", I stand corrected, I don't agree with that at all. This movie is directed towards all people to teach them its environmental message, something that most children's movies now completely lack. This is also a teen, speaking, people, a teen speaking about what may seem to be a movie only for kids, but should be shared with the whole family. It's practically a crime to not ever see this movie; it's truly an environmental and enchanting masterpiece. I plan on getting the soundtrack for this movie pretty soon in the meantime, with the songs featured in the movie performed by artists Sheena Easton, Tone-Loc, Raffi, and more. ;-)

This movie was used to teach students about environmental interaction. Students were well informed and even engaged in conversation regarding the subject matter. Many student resources available online for this movie.

FERNGULLY: THE LAST RAINFOREST [1992 / 2011] [Blu-ray] [USA Release] When Magic Needs A Miracle!There's magic in the rainforest and it's called FernGully! Deep in the heart of the forest awaits a paradise filled with tiny sprites, winged fairies and tree spirits who all live in joyful harmony. But when their home is threatened by humans, one courageous sprite gives her all to save it! Featuring the voice talents of an all-star cast including Robin Williams, Tim Curry, Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong. ‘FernGully’ is a fantastical adventure into a world you'll want to visit again and again!Voice Cast: Tim Curry, Samantha Mathis, Christian Slater, Jonathan Ward, Robin Williams, Grace Zabriskie, Geoffrey Blake, Robert Pastorelli, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Tone Lôc, Townsend Coleman, Brian Cummings, Kathleen Freeman, Janet Gilmore, Naomi Lewis, Danny Mann, Neil Ross, Pamela Adlon, Anderson Wong, Lauri Hendler, Rosanna Huffman, Harvey Jason, Dave Mallow, Paige Pollack, Holly Dorff and Gary SchwartzDirector: Bill KroyerProducers: Brian Rosen, Jeff Dowd, Jim Cox, Peter Faiman, Richard Harper, Robert W. Cort, Ted Field, Tom Klein, Wayne Young and William F. WillettScreenplay: Jim Cox and Diana Young (original stories)Composer: Alan SilvestriImage Resolution: 1080pAspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audio: English: 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, Spanish: 5.1 Dolby Digital, French: 5.1 DTS and Dutch: 5.1 Dolby DigitalSubtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish, Japanese, German, Italian, Czech, Dutch, Thai and TurkishRunning Time: 76 minutesRegion: All RegionsNumber of discs: 1Studio: 20th Century Home EntertainmentAndrew's Blu-ray Review: ‘FERNGULLY: THE LAST RAINFOREST’ routinely gets mistaken for being a Don Bluth film. This animation film was actually directed by Bill Kroyer, who actually helped with visual effects on the original 'TRON.' However, this mistaken identity is easy to understand because the look and feel of ‘FERNGULLY: THE LAST RAINFOREST’ seems in line with the animation and themes that Don Bluth took on during his illustrious animation reign. Even without the influence of Don Bluth and Bill Kroyer guides a film that holds up relatively well 20 years later.Needless to say, I love this animation film. Like many cartoons from when I first got interested in animation films, 'FernGully' is lodged directly into my nostalgia cortex of my brain. I always remember it fondly. I remember not only loving the animation film ages ago, but loving the joy it inspired in me and my friends. And we are now entering a sort of emotional territory, I know, but I feel that you should know of my undying love for this animation film before we move on.If it's been a little too long, here's a refresher on the plot. Crysta [Samantha Mathis] is a fairy who is learning the ways of her elder, Magi [Grace Zabriskie]. Magi recounts a story to Crysta during the opening credits about an evil entity named Hexxus [Tim Curry] who terrorises the forest, laying waste to everything in his path. The humans fled the forest and are feared extinct by the fairies. Whereas Magi was able to trap Hexxus in a giant magical tree where he remains today.The story also involves a human named Zak [Jonathan Ward], a young boy who is out in the forest working a summer job cutting down trees. After a chance meeting with Crysta, Zak gets shrunk by Crysta's misguided fairy magic. Now, the size of Crysta, he's able to see the adverse effects of his logging on the rainforest.If this animation film came out nowadays, imagine the uproar. The animation film makes no bones about being an environmental public service announcement aimed at younger audiences. Wrapped up in its fun and fancy animation is a message that says, "See kids! See what happens when we methodically destroy our rainforests?" Today ‘FERNGULLY: THE LAST RAINFOREST’ would be decried as a blatant attempt to brainwash our children into becoming nature-loving hippies. I tried to find any sort of controversy surrounding the release of ‘FERNGULLY: THE LAST RAINFOREST’ in 1992, but came up empty. Perhaps the world was simpler in 1992 or maybe we were all a little less cynical. Whatever the case may be, I'm glad ‘FERNGULLY: THE LAST RAINFOREST’ came out when it did, because it wouldn't have survived the vicious onslaught that it would've received today.Adding to the unconcealed message of conservation is the depiction of Hexxus as a large, monstrous entity made of smoke and sludge who feeds on pollution. Yes, it's completely obvious what Bill Kroyer and company are trying to accomplish with this animation film. I always enjoyed Hexxus, who is another reason why this animation film is as often confused as being Don Bluth work. Hexxus is scary, which is something of a taboo when we're talking about villains in children's films. Don Bluth routinely put villains in his films that felt scary and real, providing little to no intentional comedy associated with them in order to lighten the mood. Here Hexxus sometimes appears as a smoke monster, but other times as a creepy skeletal figure made of oozing sludge. It could be frightening for younger children but it drives home the purpose of this animation film even further, giving a chilling face to pollution so kids can understand its destructive nature.'FernGully' also has a cute little love story attached to it where Zak and Crysta become enamoured with each other, but that isn't the real reason for its existence. When we come to the end and find that the animation film has been dedicated to, "Our children and our children's children," we know for sure that this was mainly a propaganda film. It had an agenda that would've created serious waves had it been released today. Agree with its message or not, ‘FERNGULLY: THE LAST RAINFOREST’ is fearless in its convictions, you have to give it that.‘FERNGULLY: THE LAST RAINFOREST’ has one strong and unexpected asset, it'd have to lie in the voice cast. As the strangely alluring Crysta, Samantha Mathis does some very lovely voice work here, and Christian Slater plays semi-jilted man-fairy "Pips" with some rascally charm. And as is often the case in any sort of animated feature, the supporting cast is a truly eclectic group of performers: Robin Williams (in his first animated gig) who sadly is no longer with us, Tim Curry (as the enjoyably evil slimebeast known as Nexxus), Grace Zabriskie, Robert Pastorelli, Tone Loc, and Cheech & Chong. Even if you only spend 70 some minutes playing "name that voice," you will have a pretty good time exploring this.Blu-ray Image Quality – This is a 20th Century Home Entertainment release, which comes in a standard eco-friendly Blu-ray keep case, which I replaced, as it was sent in those horrible Blu-ray case that has all that horrible space bits, if you get my drift and it makes the Blu-ray case very flimsy. This Blu-ray Disc has been provided with a brilliant 1080p encoded transfer complete with a 1.85:1 frame. First, let me say that this presentation is much better than the look of the previous inferior DVD release. It's cleaner, brighter, and the colours are much more vivid this time around. The detail in the animation is clearly seen rather than hidden away in the murky DVD picture; I never knew what I was missing. The real winner here is the amazing colour. The inferior DVD always looked too washed out, too bland. But here the colour has a much darker, much more natural feel to it. The greens of the Australian rainforest are lush while the blackness of Hexxus' oozing sludge persona is deep and foreboding. However, the animation does routinely run into problems. Colour does flicker from time to time. Lines, spots, specks and dirt can be seen throughout the runtime. It isn't nearly as dirty or unwatchable as, say, 'All Dogs Go to Heaven,' but it is rather noticeable. With that said, I thought that this transfer, overall, looked much cleaner than the inferior DVD image. Yes, it has a way to go in order to meet the high bar set by Disney's flawless restorations of its older animated titles, but there does seem to be some care put into this transfer and it doesn't seem simply slapped together.Blu-ray Audio Quality – 20th Century Home Entertainment has produced a wonderful 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio surround track which really adds a much needed kick to the animation film's presentation. Besides the dialogue being mixed a little too low, I was really impressed at the way this lossless mix integrated the animation film's ambient sound, producing a very well-balanced and aggressive surround sound mix. Let me tell you, you've never heard ‘FERNGULLY: THE LAST RAINFOREST’’ with this much low-end bass. As the humans move through the forest demolishing everything in their path, the sub-woofer rumbles every time a large tree topples to the forest floor. Musical numbers, like Batty's rap, are given plenty of accompanying bass. The rear speakers are full of forest life and Alan Silvestri's memorable score. As the trees begin to fall we hear birds and animals fleeing the scene as the rear speakers capture their movements. The rear channels are also alive with activity as Crysta outruns a swooping hawk and when Hexxus bellows and growls while destroying the forest. Fans of this animation film will be very pleased with this newly updated surround audio mix.Blu-ray Special Features and Extras:Audio Commentary Director Bill Kroyer is joined by art director Ralph Eggleston and coordination art director Susan Kroyer: Right off the bat Kroyer and his fellow filmmakers begin explaining, in depth, about the animation of the opening sequence and how it was done in 3 or 4 days and how it involved a 40-foot camera pan. From there the commentary moves on to cover various technical aspects. You hear the words "exposure" and "cell’s" a lot as they talk candidly about how hard some of the scenes were to animated. Bill Kroyer points out pretty much every time CGI is used in a scene. If you are an animation buff you will definitely want to listen to this commentary.Special Feature: Seed of the Story: Script-to-Screen Comparisons [1992] [480i] [1.37:1] [8:00] Here we get five different scenes and we get to see how the script compared to the original storyboards of the animated film. There is optional commentary provided by screenwriter Jim Cox if you're interested. His commentary is pretty droll, but covers the basic underpinnings of the characters and the plot. There are five separate scenes to look at: "Original Opening," "Crysta Meets Batty," "First Encounter," "Hexxus' Instructions," and "Zak's Confession."Special Feature: From Paper to Tree: Making-Of Documentary [1992] [480i] [1.37:1] [30:00] The most interesting aspect of the film covered here is the evolution of the animation. Other than that you're looking at interviews from a few of the filmmakers along with voice-actor Samantha Mathis. Behind-the-scenes footage of voice recording sessions is also fun to see.Special Feature: Behind the Voice: Toxic Love [1992] [480i] [1.37:1] [3:00] It's touted as a "multi-angle" documentary, but it doesn't really show multiple angles of the same scene. What it does show is multiple stages of how the Hexxus musical scene was put together. Here you're allowed to toggle through four options by using the Angle button on your remote to view the particular film scene, Tim Curry's recording booth footage and storyboards. Or you can simply squish all three together on the same screen to see them side-by-side.Music Video: If I'm Gonna Eat Somebody (It Might As Well Be You) [1992] [480i] [1.37:1] [4:17] This music video is from Tone Loc, mixing animation, film clips, and performance footage together.Trailers and TV Spots [1992] [480i] [1.37:1] [7:00] Here we get the Theatrical Trailers [5:00] and a few TV spots [2:00] are included.Finally, ‘FERNGULLY: THE LAST RAINFOREST’ remains one of my fondest environmental animation film, especially this one, even after revisiting it. Many times I revisit animation films I used to watch as a child and they simply don't hold up, 'FernGully' does. Sure, it has a thinly-veiled environmental message, but that's the point of the animation film in the first place. It is an animation film that I've been waiting for to come onto a Blu-ray disc and now we finally have it. I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys wonderful animation and also has a serious message in telling us that our planet Earth is a very precious special place to live and the only ONE for us to live on and should be more respected, especially in the 21st Century. Despite my gloomy message, it will not stop you enjoying this jewel in the crown Blu-ray disc and so happy and proud to add this to my Blu-ray Collection and will give you endless hours of viewing pleasure. Highly Recommended!Andrew C. Miller – Your Ultimate No.1 Film AficionadoLe Cinema ParadisoUnited Kingdom

Bought on dvd as amazon prime through the TV was twice as expensive! I wish they wouldn't do that!

It was brand new as stated in thr description and worked perfectly

I was introduced to this great kids' film at the age of 18 but absolutely loved it. In terms of its political stance, it is very ahead of its time. It clearly inspired James Cameron when making Avatar. Robin Williams' appearance is brilliant, particularly his rap.

Arrived on time as described, all very happy!!Absolutely love this film, was delighted when it arrived in great condition, everyone was so happy!!