102 Dalmatians (2000), starring Glenn Close, Eric Idle, Ioan Gruffudd, Alice Evans, Tim McInnerny, Gerard Depardieu Editorial review of 102 Dalmatians, courtesy of Amazon.com Don’t be fooled by the title. Rather than… Read More »102 Dalmatians
The Secret of NIMH 2 — Timmy to the Rescue (1998) starring Ralph Macchio, Dom De Luise, Harvey Korman, Eric Idle
The Secret of NIMH 2 – Timmy to the Rescue: A huge letdown after the grandeur of Don Bluth’s 1982 adaptation of Robert C. O’Brien’s book (this was the first feature Bluth made after leaving Disney to protest the studio’s allegedly lowered animation standards), this straight-to-video sequel offers far poorer art and thinner characterizations. The story finds Timmy (voiced by Ralph Macchio), son of the Jonathan Brisby character from The Secret of NIMH, leaving the family farm and heading to Thorn Valley, where the rats of NIMH live. There, Timmy seeks a path in his father’s footprints to become a hero and meets a girl mouse who tells him her parents are among some NIMH mice wrongly presumed dead for years. A rescue ensues, of course, in which Timmy and the refugee rats risk getting caught themselves.Read More »The Secret of NIMH 2 – Timmy to the Rescue