Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Tim Curry | ... | Hexxus (voice) | |
Samantha Mathis | ... | Crysta (voice) | |
Christian Slater | ... | Pips (voice) | |
Jonathan Ward | ... | Zak (voice) | |
Robin Williams | ... | Batty Koda (voice) | |
Grace Zabriskie | ... | Magi Lune (voice) | |
Geoffrey Blake | ... | Ralph (voice) | |
Robert Pastorelli | ... | Tony (voice) | |
Cheech Marin | ... | Stump (voice) | |
Tommy Chong | ... | Root (voice) | |
Tone Loc | ... | Goanna (voice) (as Tone-Loc) | |
Townsend Coleman | ... | Knotty (voice) | |
Brian Cummings | ... | Ock (voice) | |
Kathleen Freeman | ... | Elder #1 (voice) | |
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Janet Gilmore | ... | Fairy #1 (voice) |
The fairies live in a peaceful place in the forest called FernGully, which has been protected for many years by Magi Lune (Grace Zabriskie), a wise fairy with strong powers. Her granddaughter Crysta (Samantha Mathis) is a charming, beautiful fairy that is very intrigued about the world outside of FernGully. She, along with the other fairies in the forest, does not believe humans exist, and are only in stories, until a crazy bat by the name of Batty Koda (Robin Williams), comes and tells them all of these crazy stories about how he was captured by humans and experimented on. At first, no one believes him except Crysta, and she is determined to find out if humans are real. She goes to a place called Mount Warning, where the evil shadow of destruction, Hexxus (Tim Curry), is known to be trapped, and finds a human named Zak (Jonathan Ward). When he is almost crushed by a tree, Crysta accidentally shrinks him to fairy-size and he falls on a tree that is about to be devoured by "The ... Written by Danisha Williams
I hate getting a film you loved as a child and watching it as an adult only to find it's completely lost it's magic over time. Having pushed all my videos to the back of a dark cupboard, I hadn't actually watched the film in years until I bought it last week on DVD.
Ferngully has it's problems, some of the songs were written with the days music heavily in the forefront so they haven't really stood the test of time. The overall message of taking care of the environment will seem heavy handed to an adult, although I remember feeling inspired by it as a child.
That aside I cannot vault the voice acting, Tim Curry, Robin Williams, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, they all deliver great performances. The animation is terrific and looks very much like Disney movies of the time. The stories hero's are compelling to watch, you really do care about what happens to them as it progresses to the climax, all this is woven together with touching little moments in the animation and a clever and funny set of supporting characters.
Will children today enjoy it? I'd say let them watch it, everyone has their own tastes and preferences and it's no different with children. They'll either like it or they won't.
I'm not sure if an adult who missed it as a child will enjoy it, again I think it depends on the person, but if this was a part of your childhood, it might be worth seeing it again I think it still definitely has a place in my heart.