Bernard and Bianca in kangaroo land

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Movie
German title Bernard and Bianca in kangaroo land
Original title The Rescuers Down Under
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1990
length 74 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Hendel Butoy
Mike Gabriel
script Jim Cox
production Thomas Schumacher
music Bruce Broughton
camera various
cut Mark A. Hester ,
Michael Kelly
synchronization
chronology

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Bernard and Bianca - The Mouse Police

Bernard and Bianca in Kangaroo Land (original title: The Rescuers Down Under ) is the 29th full-length animated film from Walt Disney Studios and was released in 1990. It is based on the characters of the children's book series of the same name by the English writer Margery Sharp . At the same time, the film is the continuation of the first Sharp film adaptation Bernard and Bianca - The Mouse Police from 1977.

action

Young Cody lives with his mother in the Australian outback and has a special friendship with animals: if one of them is in danger, he frees it. When the golden-feathered giant eagle Marahute gets caught in a trap, Cody manages to save the animal. The nervous bird flaps its wings so hard that it throws it off the rock, but catches it in thanks for its rescue and even shows its clutch. Cody learns that the father of the unhatched chicks was killed. As a farewell, Marahute gives him one of her golden feathers. On the way back home, Cody discovers a trapped mouse and wants to free it, but it was only the lure of a pitfall in which Cody now ends up. Before the mouse can free him, the trapper and poacher Percival C. McLeach appears with his "helper" Joanna, a lizard. At first, on Cody's allegations, he denies being a poacher and frees him, where he discovers the golden feather. When Cody doesn't want to talk about it, McLeach reveals to him that he already has the Eagle Father on his conscience. After trying to escape Cody succeeds in kidnapping the boy in his remote hiding place in order to squeeze information out of him. In order to set the wrong track, the poacher throws the child's backpack into a lake.

Cody's friends from the animal world then call the Rescue Association in New York City for help, which immediately sends its agents Bernard and Bianca to Australia . After the albatross Wilbur (Orville's brother from the first part), whom they can only get after some persuasion to fly in the middle of winter in snow and storms, drops them off with a bad crash landing, they are welcomed by the jerboa Jake. He makes no secret of his interest in Bianca, which Bernard pissed off; he actually wanted to ask for her hand shortly before departure. Wilbur is involuntarily taken to a mouse-run hospital. In the meantime, the rangers start looking for the missing child, but only find his backpack, which leads them to believe that an attack by the crocodiles is to blame for his disappearance. This message is also communicated over the radio.

Despite massive pressurization, Cody did not reveal anything, but was locked in a room with already captured animals to stew over night. By chance, McLeach discovers Cody's weakness: In addition to Marahute's life, he also cares about her eggs. After catching him trying to escape again, he apparently releases him, claiming that Marahute was killed. As expected, Cody rushes to her clutch to at least save her eggs. Bernard, Bianca and Jake are too late to warn him it's just a feint. The approaching Marahute is caught, as are Cody, Bianca and Jake, who try to save her. Only Bernard fails to jump open, but he has the opportunity to exchange the real eggs for stones. Joanna, who is supposed to ensure that Marahute remains the only specimen by eating the eggs and thus increases the price, first grits her teeth before throwing them into the abyss. Shortly afterwards Wilbur, who has since recovered, appears and Bernard orders him to take care of the eggs and to hatch them. He himself manages to use one of Jake's bush tricks and take up the chase.

McLeach thinks he is at the destination of his dreams when Cody begins threatening him. The poacher then decides to feed the boy as live bait for the hunt for crocodiles, in order, inspired by the radio report, to divert any suspicion. Before that happens, Bernard shows up and manages to cause enough confusion by turning off the electricity that McLeach himself falls into the river and shortly afterwards falls down a huge waterfall . Unfortunately, he had previously managed to shoot the rope that Cody is holding, so that he too drifts towards the danger.

Shortly before Bernard and Cody also fall victim to the raging water, Bianca and Jake can escape on Marahute and catch them. Bernard finally finds the courage to hold Bianca for her hand - which she enthusiastically affirms. In the credits you can hear how Wilbur actually wants to disappear when the chicks start to hatch.

synchronization

The German synchronization of the film took over the Berliner Synchron . Klaus-Peter Bauer wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.

role Original speaker German speaker
Bernard Bob Newhart Wolfgang number
Bianca Eva Gabor Monica Bielenstein
Wilbur John Candy Joachim Kemmer
Jake Tristan Rogers Joachim Kaps
Percival C. McLeach George C. Scott Helmut Krauss
Cody Adam Ryen André Schmidtsdorf
Frank Wayne Robson Santiago Ziesmer
Cancer Douglas Seale Harry Wüstenhagen
Red Peter Firth Manfred Petersen
Doc Bernard Fox Peter Matic
president Bernard Fox Gerd Holtenau
Francois Ed Gilbert Karl-Ulrich Meves

background

The film is one of six sequels of a Disney masterpiece, which are also referred to as masterpieces. The remaining five are Three Caballeros , Fantasia 2000 , Winnie the Pooh , Chaos on the Net, and Frozen II . Other sequels of Disney masterpieces were produced by DisneyToon Studios (including The Jungle Book 2 ) or appeared directly on video / DVD (including Aladdin and the King of Thieves ). Bernard and Bianca in Kangaroo Land is also the first sequel to a masterpiece with a continuous storyline ( Drei Caballeros is a package movie and only continues individual sequences of Saludos Amigos , the same applies to Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 ).

The original German title was Bernard and Bianca im Kangaroo Land , but the h has retroactively disappeared since the spelling reform .

Awards

  • 1990: Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film
  • 1991: Genesis Award for the best family film
  • 1991: Young Artist Award for the most entertaining family animated film
  • 1991: Golden Reel Award for the best sound editing of an animated film
  • 1992: golden canvas

reception

Although it was one of the most technically complex Disney productions at the time of its release, Bernard and Bianca remained at the box office in Kangaroo Land with a worldwide grossing of 47.4 million US dollars, well below Disney's expectations.

Reviews

“The return of Bernard and Bianca […] shows the Disney studio at a turning point: the classic character animation (as in the first part) is no longer dominating, but a breathtaking, computer-aided effect animation. As regrettable as the neglect of the lovable main characters is (the Albatross Orville is also neglected), the action scenes are as inventive and innovative, with an unprecedented pace. A rousing film that offers surprises even when viewed repeatedly. "

- Lexicon of international film : (CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997

media

DVD / Blu-ray
  • Bernard and Bianca in Kangaroo Land , VHS , September 1992
  • Bernard and Bianca in Kangaroo Land , VHS, February 1997
  • Bernard and Bianca in kangaroo land. Special Collection , DVD, Walt Disney Home Video 2001
  • Bernard and Bianca in Kangaroo Land , DVD, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2012
  • Bernard and Bianca in Kangaroo Land , Blu-ray, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2012
  • Disney Classics: Bernard and Bianca in Kangaroo Land , Blu-ray / DVD, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2018

Super 8

  • Bernard and Bianca in Kangaroo Land, Super-8-Film, DERANN 460m, Ratio Aspect: 4: 3
Soundtrack
  • The Rescuers Down Under . Walt Disney Records , Burbank 2002, No. 60759-7 - contains three bonus tracks from The Rescuers

literature

  • Elmar Biebl, Dirk Manthey, Jörg Altendorf: The films of Walt Disney. The magical world of animation. 2nd edition, 177 pages, Milchstraße, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-89324-117-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Bernard and Bianca in kangaroo land. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .
  2. ^ The Rescuers Down Under (1990) , the-numbers.com.
Films from Walt Disney Animation Studios
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs  (1937)  • Pinocchio  (1940)  • Fantasia  (1940)  • Dumbo  (1941)  • Bambi  (1942)  • Saludos Amigos  (1943)  • Three Caballeros  (1944)  • Make Mine Music  (1946)  • Happy, Free, fun while doing it  (1947)  • Music, dance and rhythm  (1948)  • The adventures of Ichabod and Taddäus Toad  (1949)

1950-1999

Cinderella  (1950)  • Alice in Wonderland  (1951)  • Peter Pan  (1953)  • Lady and the Tramp  (1955)  • Sleeping Beauty  (1959)  • 101 Dalmatians  (1961)  • The Witch and the Wizard  (1963)  • The Jungle Book  (1967)  • Aristocats  (1970)  • Robin Hood  (1973)  • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh  (1977)  • Bernard and Bianca - The Mouse Police  (1977)  • Cap and Capper  (1981)  • Taran and the Cauldron  (1985)  • Basil, the Great Mouse Detective  (1986)  • Oliver & Co.  (1988)  • Arielle, the Mermaid  (1989)  • Bernard and Bianca in Kangaroo Land  (1990)  • Beauty and the Beast  (1991)  • Aladdin  (1992)  • The Lion King  ( 1994)  • Pocahontas  (1995)  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame  (1996)  • Hercules  (1997)  • Mulan  (1998)  • Tarzan  (1999)  • Fantasia 2000  (1999)

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Future

Raya and the Last Dragon  (2021)