FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) on Netflix
G19921h 16mAdventureAnimationFamily
A curious fairy named Crysta shrinks a teenage logger, Zak, down to her own size. He agrees to help save her rainforest home from the logging crews and the spirit Hexxus.
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Plot summary
Crysta is a curious young fairy in FernGully, a rainforest east of Mount Warning, and Magi Lune, the tribe's leader, is her teacher. Long ago Hexxus, a spirit of destruction, drove the humans away, and the fairies believe people are extinct; Magi ended his rule and confined him within a boab tree. Crysta meets Batty Koda, a bat whose mind was left scrambled by human experiments, and goes with him to see whether people have truly returned. She finds Zak, a teenage logger, and pulls him out of the path of a falling tree, which leaves him shrunk to fairy size. After she rescues him from Lou, a hungry goanna, Zak promises to travel with her to FernGully so that Magi can restore him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Robin Williams recorded fourteen hours of improvised dialogue for the character Batty Koda, a role originally written as just eight minutes long, so director Bill Kroyer tripled its screen time.
- Jeffrey Katzenberg, then-chairman of Walt Disney Studios, tried to force Williams to withdraw from FernGully on the grounds that he did not want him voicing two animated characters around the same time, but Williams refused.
- According to producer Wayne Young, Disney repeatedly interfered with FernGully's production, twice outbidding the filmmakers for rented spaces, then attempting to buy their studio in a former San Fernando Valley brewery outright.
- Some critics have accused James Cameron's 2009 science-fiction epic Avatar of borrowing its central environmental themes and story beats from this earlier animated film.
- Cheech & Chong, the two comedians voicing beetle brothers Stump and Root, worked together on the project after not having done so in six years.
- Co-executive producer Jaime Willett, who worked on the film's marketing, said its box-office revenue would have at least doubled simply by carrying the headline "Walt Disney presents".
