Directed by: Bill Kroyer
Written by: Jim Cox
Music by: Alan Silvestri (Who
Framed Roger Rabbit) & Thomas Dolby (We're
Back: A Dinosaur's Story)
Released
on: April 10, 1992
Running Time: 76 minutes
Budget: $
Box-Office: $25 million in the U.S., $
million worldwide
Zak... Jonathan Ward (Steel Magnolias)
Crysta... Samantha Mathis (Pump Up the Volume)
Hexxus... Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
Pips... Christian Slater (Pump Up the Volume)
Batty Koda... Robin Williams (Aladdin)
Magi Lune... Grace Zabriskie (Sarah Palmer in Twin Peaks)
Ralph... Geoffrey Blake (Forrest Gump)
Tony...
Robert Pastorelli
Stump... Cheech Marin
Root... Tommy Chong
Goanna... Tone Loc
Knotty... Townsend Coleman
Ock... Brian Cummings
Edler... Kathleen Freeman
Fairy... Janet Gilmore
A rainforest is an area of land covered by layers of lush green
plants and trees. More species of animals and more kind of plants can be
found in a rainforest than anywhere else in the world -and some can only
be found there, and could not survive out of a rainforest. All the
plants help to control the world's climate by absorbing the carbon dioxide
in the air. The trees in the rainforest can grow as high as a 17-story
building. It takes 40 gallons of water to grow one pound of leaves in a
rainforest -that is why it rains at least 80 inches of rain a year in the
forest! Even when it's not raining, trees drip water. There are about 2,100
plants known in the rainforest that have cancer fighting properties.
This delightful movie, rich from an impressive voice cast, great
songs, a flawless animation and strong plot, only received a handful low-profile
awards and flopped at the box-office -go figure!
A sequel was released directly to video in March 1998, and surprisingly
garnered 4 nominations at the Annie Awards (designed to honor lifetime
achievements in the field of animation). In this animated musical,
Batty, Crysta, Pips and the Beetle Boys return on a rescue mission to battle
human poachers who have stolen baby animals from the forest.
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