Strong and Moving!

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

The first must-see film of the year.

FernGully is a beautiful movie with colourful animation that pleases the eye. Along with its environmental message, it makes an enjoyable ride through the home of magical fairies and their fight against the force of destruction of their rainforest. Those were the peaks of the movie. Now for the rest of it, which was good and memorable, but at times felt either oddly placed or underdeveloped. Hexxus, the magical force of destruction, was a great idea. Let me pinpoint that. But I felt he had too little screen time and could have been so much better developed, but perhaps his role as a "force" rather than an exact living being makes up for that. Tim Curry did a good job voicing him, though. Most of the songs performed by the characters are not very memorable and seem a little out of place. Tim Curry's "Toxic Love" was a decent exception. Robin Williams' role as Batty Koda was okay. It was mildly annoying at times, but also made me smile once in a while. FernGully is underrated and deserves more attention. Many of the animated features from the 90's get lost in Disney's domination of the industry. Many of them obviously tried too much to be Disney and ended up as bland imitations, but FernGully has enough original ideas and weight to them to make it a wonderful movie overall.

Children will watch just about anything if it's animated. Stop them from watching this one. It is full of so much bad science and outright falsehoods that you owe it to your progeny to protect their little minds.Not since "Captain Planet" has there been such a blatant effort to use cartoons to brainwash your little ones. The little bit of information that has any truth behind it is exaggerated so far that anyone who paid attention in 6th grade Science class knows it to be wrong.It's a rather cute story, and that is the problem. It is NOT okay to be wrong as long as you're cute. And it is NOT okay to lie to your children for a good cause.

This eco-friendly animated feature is a children's environmental fantasy about a tropical paradise protected by guardian fairies, one of whom (a cute Tinkerbell look-alike) develops a crush on the first human she ever sees, after helping him mend his ignorant, woodcutting ways. Of course she first has shrink him down to fairy size, in much the same way that the script likewise reduces its message to a basic cartoon conflict between good and evil, with plenty of post-George Lucas mysticism. Some of the animation is fine, if only the film paused show it off; the pace is set to match a TV-ruined attention span, which at least has one advantage: none of the songs is more than 40 seconds long. Parents may feel obligated to drag their kids to see it, but don't be fooled: Ferngully cheats on its ecology lesson by suggesting that the rainforest has magical powers of restoration, which it certainly doesn't, and if we teach our kids to start relying on fairies to save the Earth we're all in big trouble. The best voices are provided by toxic sludge monster Tim Curry and dingbat Robin Williams.

Here is another childhood favorite of mine, and still I love it now I am 24 years old. I love it's important message of protecting the rainforest and our environment, without being too 'in your face' obvious; I'm all for green too.The film starts somewhere in the Australian rainforest, lays a fairy world known as Ferngully. One day, a fairy named Crysta while flying up on the canopy, spies a smoke cloud by "Mount Warning." And hearing from a brain-fried bat named Batty, that there are humans over there, the curious Crysta flew over see the humans. Well Batty was right, there are humans at Mount Warning, and they are logging in the forest! And we get to see the film's protagonist Zak, an ordinary teen working as a lumberjack's apprentice for a summer job. While trying to spray a fly that was buzzing around him with the spray paint to paint an 'X' on the trees, Zak had accidentally painted an X mark on an enchanted baobab tree that trapped Hexxus, the spirit of destruction and the film's main villain.Upon being discovered, Crysta flees from Zak, who spotted her blue glow. And seeing the monstrous lumber machine cutting a tree shocked Crysta that she forgot about fleeing from Zak, who caught her. Unaware that a tree is about to fall on Zak, Crysta accidentally shrinks him down to her size; because instead of saying "fairy sight" in her spell she said "fairy size!" Then after being thrown from the massive blow from the tree's impact to the ground, Zak gets stuck on a spiderweb on the tree that's just about to go through the machine's tree shredder. Crysta tries to get him off but she can't, until Batty swoops in, grabs them both off of the spiderweb.And now the adventure really for those two (Crysta & Zak), because once Zak sees the beauty and magic of Ferngully, he vows to save it. But it may be too late, because the logging machine had cut the enchanted tree and Hexxus is free! That's all I could tell you folks, you will have to see the film for yourself how it ends.So anyway I really love this film, and I love the film's musical soundtrack; truly one of the best animated movies ever made with plenty of fantasy, adventure and humor.