Master Badger and his friends

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Movie
German title Master Badger and his friends
Original title Once Upon a Forest
Country of production United States , Wales
original language English
Publishing year 1993
length 71 minutes
Age rating FSK o. A.
Rod
Director Charles Grosvenor
script Mark Young
Kelly Ward
production David Kirschner
Jerry Mills
music James Horner
cut Pat A. Foley
occupation
synchronization

Master Badger and Friends is an American cartoon from 1993 . The children's film is loosely based on the characters from the two stories A Furling's Story and Furlings by Rae Lambert .

action

The lively little mouse Abigail, the young hedgehog Russell and the shy mole Edgar have lessons with the old badger Cornelius for the first time. He has a surprise in store for you on your first day of school. After showing them his latest invention, a model of a flying machine, he takes them and his niece Michelle for a walk through the woods. In doing so, people come to a street. He explains to the little ones that they should never cross or cross this border. It would be best to forget everything very quickly. While the little ones are paddling along the stream with Cornelius, a truck has an accident on the road, with a load of poison gas pouring into the forest and killing all life. The friends only notice this when they return with Cornelius. To save her parents, Michelle runs into her already gassed den. Abigail follows her and can just save her from poisonous gas death, but any help comes too late for Michelle's parents.

Because Michelle inhaled too much poison gas, she is dying. Cornelius needed the herbs lungwort and eyebright to rescue Michelle within two days. Since the medicinal plants of the local forest have died due to the poison gas, Cornelius asks Abigail, Russel and Edgar to get them in the Danglewood . He also tells them how he once lost his whole family because of the people, which is why the little ones should be careful of people on their journey and always work together. The friends can prove this during the trip, because Abigail is caught by an owl on the way and carried off to her nest. She can free herself again with a trick and successfully escape with the help of Russell and Edgar. However, they got lost and don't know why they are spending the night in the wild for the time being. At night they are woken up by a funeral procession of birds who want to say goodbye to little Bosworth with a mass, who is trapped in a mud pool and threatens to die. After Edgar's idea can free him, the friends find out that they can get to their desired destination past the yellow dragon.

The yellow dragons turn out to be heavy construction vehicles, from which the friends flee into a sewer and finally arrive at their destination. There they have to find out, however, that eyebright grows everywhere, but lungwort only grows on a cliff. To achieve it, they replicate Cornelius' flying machine, which allows them to collect the herb and finally fly back to their forest. Due to a sudden thunderstorm, they crash after hitting a power pole and walk the rest of the way home. In doing so, they come dangerously close to people. Only this time they are not in the forest to hunt animals, but to cleanse it of the poison gas. Cornelius is surprised that they even rescue Edgar from an animal trap and then destroy it. After the humans leave, Cornelius can finally use the herbs to heal Michelle. The other animals, including Abigail's parents, Russell and Edgar, also come back from the woods where they were hiding. Cornelius explains to Michelle that while he cannot replace her parents, he will take care of them as best he can.

Cast and dubbing

role Original speaker German speaker
Cornelius Michael Crawford Claus Wilcke
Phineas Ben Vereen Hanno Bruhn
Abigail Ellen Blain Anna Riedel
Edgar Benji Gregory Nicolás Artajo
Russell Paige Gosney Moritz Mattern
Michelle Elisabeth Moss Magdalena Turba
Abigail's father Paul Eiding Wolfgang number
Edgar's mother Janet Waldo Hannelore student
Russell's mother Susan Silo Sigrid Lagemann
Willy Will Estes Tobias child
Waggs Charlie Adler Santiago Ziesmer
Bosworth Rickey D'Shon Collins Jan Steilen
Bosworth's mother Angel Harper Elisabeth Volkmann
Marsh Wren Don Reed Frank Turba
Truck driver Robert David Hall Theo branding
Russell's brothers Benjamin Kimball Smith David Turba

publication

In Germany, it opened in cinemas on June 30, 1993 and was seen by 308,039 viewers.

Soundtrack

  1. "Once Upon a Time with Me" (5:56)
  2. "The Forest" (9:11)
  3. "Cornelius's Nature Lesson" (3:41)
  4. "The Accident" (4:24)
  5. "Bedside Vigil" (2:15)
  6. "Please Wake Up" (2:36)
  7. "The Journey Begins" (8:08)
  8. "He's Back" (2:00)
  9. "Flying" (4:49)
  10. "Escaping from the Yellow Dragons / The Meadow" (6:36)
  11. "Flying Home to Michelle" (6:32)
  12. "The Children / Maybe One Day ..., Maybe One Day" (4:41)
  13. "Once Upon a Time With Me / End Credits" (5:56)

criticism

"The story is pathetically thin," criticized the film critic James Berardinelli , "even for the limited demands of the average five-year-old". The "lackluster and very politically correct" plot is far too boring and shows an obvious lack of innovation and creativity. The film also has something good. "Fortunately, the running time is short, so that the parents with their children would not be bored to death".

"The film is cute and gentle, but not very convincing," said renowned film critic Roger Ebert . He also wondered “why so many children's cartoons start with the death of their parents.” Although the film has “a good heart”, it was “somehow stupid.” After all, “children are intelligent and curious”, which the film “does not recognize " wool.

Stephen Holden of the New York Times praised this "sympathetic fable about growing up, learning to work together and developing courage". With its "overly cute comic pictures", the film knows "how to tell a story".

The lexicon of international films said: “A carefully designed cartoon that, due to its traditional narrative and unoriginal typing, leaves some possibilities unused. Pleasant entertainment, especially appealing to smaller children. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TOP 100 DEUTSCHLAND 1993 on insidekino.de , accessed on October 24, 2013
  2. ↑ James Berardinelli: Once Upon a Forest on reelviews.net of June 18, 1993 (English), accessed October 24, 2013
  3. ↑ Roger Ebert: Once Upon A Forest on rogerebert.com from June 18, 1993 (English), accessed October 24, 2013
  4. ↑ Stephen Holden: Once Upon a Forest (1993) on nytimes.com, June 18, 1993, accessed October 24, 2013
  5. ↑ Master Dachs and his friends. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used