The Rescuers Down Under (G)
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This came out in 1990, but I'm fairly sure I didn't see it until 2021. It's a sequel to the 1977 movie The Rescuers, but I didn't like it nearly as much as that movie (which itself I found sort of middling). It takes place during the Disney Renaissance, but unlike most movies of that era, it wasn't really successful, at least financially. But most critics seemed to like it, some of them even more than the original. I should also say it's the first movie to be made using computer animation, but it's a system I don't think of as either CGI or Flash, so I'm listing my review under cel animation, anyway. It certainly doesn't look computer animated, to me. And I think it was only the coloring that was done digitally. I think it was still hand-drawn. Whatever.

So, a boy named Cody, who lives in the Australian Outback (but doesn't have an Australian accent) goes out one day and frees a giant eagle from a poacher's trap. They fly around together having fun, but later Cody frees a mouse that turns out to be bait for another trap, and Cody falls into a pit. The poacher, Percival McLeach (George C. Scott), releases Cody from the trap, but finds a golden feather on him, making him realize Cody knows where the eagle he's been hunting is. So he kidnaps Cody, and tries unsuccessfully to make him tell McLeach where to find the eagle. Meanwhile, the mouse Cody had rescued alerts a communications mouse to the situation, and he relays a message about the kidnapping to the Rescue Aid Society in New York. Bianca and Bernard are chosen to go to Australia to rescue the boy. They go to get a ride with Orville the albatross, whom they worked with in the first film, but find he's no longer around, and his business is now being run by his brother, Wilbur (John Candy). Wilbur flies them to a plane to catch a ride to Australia, where Bianca and Bernard meet a mouse named Jake, who becomes their guide (and who is pretty much the only one in the movie with an Australian accent). Throughout the movie, Bernard tries to propose to Bianca, but something always prevents that. And Jake takes an interest in Bianca, himself. Oh, and McLeach has a pet goanna named Joanna, who intimidates the mice and other creatures, but I don't really understand her loyalty to McLeach, considering he doesn't treat her well.

And lots of other stuff happens, blah blah blah, eventually the mice rescue Cody. But I couldn't manage to care about any of it, all that much. I dunno, maybe I was just in a bad mood when I watched it, but I have no interest in ever watching it again.