| 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
A little known movie with a super start cast, how has this movie always flown under the radar? As an environmentally focused 80s kid this movie spoke to me in so many ways and as an adult I have realised it really was a trailblazer in environmental advocacy movies!! Totally pop it on for the kids, it doesn't feel like a dated movie and you gotta love the message behind the story!