FernGully - Christa and Zak's adventure in the rainforest

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Movie
German title FernGully - Christa and Zak's adventure in the rainforest
Original title FernGully: The Last Rainforest
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 76 minutes
Age rating FSK o. A.
Rod
Director Bill Kroyer
script Jim Cox
production Peter Faiman ,
Wayne Young
music Alan Silvestri
cut Gillian L. Hutshing
occupation
synchronization

FernGully - Christa and Zak's adventures in the rainforest (Original title: FernGully: The Last Rainforest ) is an American animated film from 1992 .

action

Once the world was bigger. But the balance in nature tipped. Man left the forest and forgot the friendship with the fairies. Suddenly the acid rain came and the fairies had to use their natural magical powers to protect the forest. They still do that today. That's why the two young elves Pips and Christa can fly carefree through the forest and cause all sorts of mischief, until one day Christa dares to fly over the top of the treetops to see what the world could offer her. And she sees dark clouds of smoke in the far distance. Believing that it could be the villain Hexxor, she speaks to Magi Lune. She tries to calm her down, later gets an overview on her own and recognizes the impending danger from Hexxor.

Meanwhile, the bat Batty Koda, who fled from the people, tries to prevent Christa from approaching the clouds of smoke, because there are the people who are destroying the forest. But her curiosity cannot be stopped, and so the closer she gets to the cloud of smoke, she discovers dying or already dead trees. She reaches people and thinks a huge machine that saws trees is a tree-eating monster, which is why she wants to save the forest worker Zak and accidentally lets it shrink to her size with a spell. While she escapes with him, the machine saws a mysterious tree in which Hexxor was. This absorbs all environmental toxins in order to become even stronger, which is why it approaches the machine, uses all exhaust gases and vapors to become more powerful, and then takes control of it. He wants to go to Ferngully, which is why the machine is now taking course and sawing its way there.

Meanwhile, Zak has to digest the shock of having been shrunk and is immediately in danger of being eaten by the monitor lizard Lou. But Christa saves him and shows him the magic of the forest. He doesn't understand much about the tree pain and Christa's words that trees are important for life. Rather, he just follows her to Ferngully, where he is taken in amazement. Christa's friend Pips, however, is rather jealous of the newcomer, because Christa spends so much time with Zak that Zak wants to kiss her, which Christa refuses and flies away. This gives Zak enough time to discover that oil has spilled into the river and the trees are now in pain. Magi Lune calls an emergency meeting to bundle all magic and protect Ferngully. Since they use up all their strength, she disappears into nothing, and what remains is a sad Christa, who now has to face the fight against Hexxor and the machine. Thanks to Pip's help, Zak manages to turn the ignition key on the machine so that it stops. Christa, on the other hand, takes all her magic and a seed, with which she flies straight to Hexxor and lets herself be swallowed. Everyone thinks she is dead now, but from within she grows a huge tree that destroys Hexxor. She herself awakens from a blossom in the tree, and because she has enough magical power, she can finally transform Zak back. This goes back to the people so that they can never attack Ferngully again.

criticism

Janet Maslin of the New York Times saw a striking resemblance to Ariel, the mermaid , as both main characters cross a line and are guided by curiosity. The film with its "uncertain mixture of sanctimonious principles and Saturday morning cartoon aesthetics" does not come close to Arielle. The "main characters are disappointingly ordinary" and only the "lush, dramatically drawn rainforest that is the most attractive feature of the film," and Robin Williams as voice actor for Batty Koda would halfway detract from the fact that this "narrow plot" was fluffed up.

"Although the film is not a masterpiece, it is nice to see it because of the humor and grace of its characters," said Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times , because he has "friendly pictures" and "tells a useful lesson." However, the film feels more "with the flora and fauna than with the people" and "Christa, who looks like a Barbie and Pips, who looks like GI Joe " were a bit strange to him.

The lexicon of international films said that the film was a "trick-technically convincing eco-fairy tale that can win over even the youngest viewers for its cause," which, however, "suffers" "considerably" from the synchronization.

Cast and dubbing

Role (original) speaker German speaker
Hexxor Tim Curry Hanno Bruhn
Crysta Samantha Mathis Iris Berben
Batty Koda Robin Williams Peer Augustinski
Magi Lune Grace Zabriskie Dagmar Altrichter
Pips Christian Slater Michael Deffert
Ralph Geoffrey Blake Wolfgang number
Dull Cheech Marin Klaus Sunshine
Tony Robert Pastorelli Jürgen Kluckert
Zak Jonathan Ward Torsten Sense

Soundtrack

  1. "Life Is a Magic Thing", Johnny Clegg (written by Thomas Dolby )
  2. "Batty Rap", Robin Williams (written by Thomas Dolby)
  3. "If I'm Gonna Eat Somebody (It Might as Well Be You)," Tone Lōc
  4. "Toxic Love", Tim Curry (written by Thomas Dolby )
  5. "Raining Like Magic," Raffi
  6. "Land of a Thousand Dances," Guy
  7. "Dream Worth Keeping," Sheena Easton
  8. "Some Other World", Elton John (written by Elton John and Bruce Roberts)

background

The film had its world premiere with a special screening at the Berlinale 1992 . After its US theatrical release on April 10, 1992, the film grossed about $ 24.6 million in the US and $ 8 million overseas. In Germany it was seen by 139,927 viewers after its cinema release on April 1, 1993. After his VHS -Publishing, his TV jams radiation on 1 January 1995 premiere , the film November 21, 2002 is DVD available.

The sequel FernGully 2 was released in 1998 as direct-to-video . However, all voice actors, filmmakers and animations were exchanged.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janet Maslin : Ferngully: the Last Rainforest (1992) at nytimes.com, April 10, 1992, accessed April 25, 2012
  2. ↑ Roger Ebert : Ferngully: The Last Rainforest on suntimes.com of April 10, 1992 (English), accessed on April 25, 2012
  3. ↑ FernGully - Christa and Zak's Adventures in the Rainforest in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed on April 24, 2012
  4. ↑ a b c Los Angeles Daily News : Animated kiddie film beams ecology message , Spartanburg Herald-Journal . April 13, 1992, p. B5. Retrieved April 15, 2010. 
  5. ↑ Competition (special screening) on berlinale.de , accessed on April 25, 2012
  6. ↑ Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (1992) on boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed April 25, 2012
  7. ↑ Top 100 Germany 1993 on insidekino.de , accessed on April 25, 2012