Here is another childhood favorite of mine, and I still love it now that I am 24 years old. I love its important message of protecting the rain forest and our environment without being too "in your face" obvious; I'm all for green, too.
The film starts somewhere in the Australian rainforest, in a fairy world known as Ferngully. One day, a fairy named Crysta, while flying up on the canopy, spies a smoke cloud by "Mount Warning." And after hearing from a brain-fried bat named Batty that there are humans over there, the curious Crysta flew over to see the humans. Well, Batty was right-there are humans at Mount Warning, and they are logging in the forest! And we get to see the film's protagonist, Zak, an ordinary teen working as a lumberjack's apprentice for a summer job. While trying to spray a fly that was buzzing around him with the spray paint to paint an "X" on the trees, Zak accidentally painted an "X" mark on an enchanted baobab tree that trapped Hexxus, the spirit of destruction and the film's main villain.
Upon being discovered, Crysta fled from Zak, who spotted her blue glow. And seeing the monstrous lumber machine cutting a tree shocked Crysta so much that she forgot about fleeing from Zak, who caught her. Unaware that a tree is about to fall on Zak, Crysta accidentally shrinks him down to her size because instead of saying "fairy sight" in her spell, she said "fairy size!" Then, after being thrown from the massive blow of the tree's impact to the ground, Zak gets stuck on a spiderweb on the tree that's just about to go through the machine's tree shredder. Crysta tries to get him off, but she can't until Batty swoops in and grabs them both off the spiderweb.
And now here's where the adventure really begins for those two (Crysta and Zak), because once Zak sees the beauty and magic of Ferngully, he vows to save it. But it may be too late because the logging machine has cut down the enchanted tree and Hexxus is free! That's all I could tell you, folks. You will have to see the film for yourself to see how it ends.
So anyway, I really love this film, and I love the film's musical soundtrack; it's truly one of the best animated movies ever made, with plenty of fantasy, adventure, and humor.
The film starts somewhere in the Australian rainforest, in a fairy world known as Ferngully. One day, a fairy named Crysta, while flying up on the canopy, spies a smoke cloud by "Mount Warning." And after hearing from a brain-fried bat named Batty that there are humans over there, the curious Crysta flew over to see the humans. Well, Batty was right-there are humans at Mount Warning, and they are logging in the forest! And we get to see the film's protagonist, Zak, an ordinary teen working as a lumberjack's apprentice for a summer job. While trying to spray a fly that was buzzing around him with the spray paint to paint an "X" on the trees, Zak accidentally painted an "X" mark on an enchanted baobab tree that trapped Hexxus, the spirit of destruction and the film's main villain.
Upon being discovered, Crysta fled from Zak, who spotted her blue glow. And seeing the monstrous lumber machine cutting a tree shocked Crysta so much that she forgot about fleeing from Zak, who caught her. Unaware that a tree is about to fall on Zak, Crysta accidentally shrinks him down to her size because instead of saying "fairy sight" in her spell, she said "fairy size!" Then, after being thrown from the massive blow of the tree's impact to the ground, Zak gets stuck on a spiderweb on the tree that's just about to go through the machine's tree shredder. Crysta tries to get him off, but she can't until Batty swoops in and grabs them both off the spiderweb.
And now here's where the adventure really begins for those two (Crysta and Zak), because once Zak sees the beauty and magic of Ferngully, he vows to save it. But it may be too late because the logging machine has cut down the enchanted tree and Hexxus is free! That's all I could tell you, folks. You will have to see the film for yourself to see how it ends.
So anyway, I really love this film, and I love the film's musical soundtrack; it's truly one of the best animated movies ever made, with plenty of fantasy, adventure, and humor.