Movie Crush Monday: CT & FernGully: The Last Rainforest
Hello loyal readers!
That's right, it's another Movie Crush Monday, and this time Little C and I have decided to add a little challenge to the game. My Movie Crush has to link to hers somehow- an actor, a director, the composer, one of these has to have been in her post.
So last time Little C talked about the classic, Pump Up The Volume. I've lucked out a little bit here, because both of the stars of Pump Up The Volume, Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis, were voice talent in (drum roll please!)...
That's right, FernGully: The Last Rainforest!
Now if you're a regular around these parts, you know Cait and I's parents are pretty much hippies, so this movie was a regular part of our childhood. Upon rewatching, the "Save The Rainforests" (literally) message of FernGully is a little, well, heavy handed. But even so, I feel like this is one of those movies that holds up well.
Just in case your childhood was empty and sad without this movie, the story here is that Krysta is a fairy (stick with me here) who can help plants grow. She lives in FernGully, a rainforest filled with all kinds of magical folk. At the same time, Hexxus, a destructive and polluting force tied to a logging company, is threatening the forest.
A human named Zach, who has the best taste in animated movie music possible, is shrunk down to fairy-sized and teams up with Krysta to protect the forest.
So yeah, it's a lot about the magic of nature and how bad logging and polluting are. But also, it's freaking hysterical. Along with all of the fairy folk, Zach and Krysta meet Batty Koda, a fruit bat voiced by the great Robin Williams. Batty is, well, batty and probably one of the funniest characters in my childhood. He had these amazing one-liners that Little C and I repeated until our parents were probably ready to smother us both.
Beyond the humor, I can probably credit this movie with a lot of my belief as a child in the magic of the natural world. In FernGully, trees and flowers have a life force inside of them that Krysta is able to tap into. That concept of natural magic is honestly still often a part of Cait and I's writing.
So if you haven't seen FernGully, bless, and you should watch it asap. And if you have, give it a re-watch because it's a heck of a good time.
Happy Watching!
CT
That's right, it's another Movie Crush Monday, and this time Little C and I have decided to add a little challenge to the game. My Movie Crush has to link to hers somehow- an actor, a director, the composer, one of these has to have been in her post.
So last time Little C talked about the classic, Pump Up The Volume. I've lucked out a little bit here, because both of the stars of Pump Up The Volume, Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis, were voice talent in (drum roll please!)...
That's right, FernGully: The Last Rainforest!
Now if you're a regular around these parts, you know Cait and I's parents are pretty much hippies, so this movie was a regular part of our childhood. Upon rewatching, the "Save The Rainforests" (literally) message of FernGully is a little, well, heavy handed. But even so, I feel like this is one of those movies that holds up well.
Just in case your childhood was empty and sad without this movie, the story here is that Krysta is a fairy (stick with me here) who can help plants grow. She lives in FernGully, a rainforest filled with all kinds of magical folk. At the same time, Hexxus, a destructive and polluting force tied to a logging company, is threatening the forest.
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| Yeah this was the source of many of my childhood nightmares. |
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| He was a babe. The end. |
So yeah, it's a lot about the magic of nature and how bad logging and polluting are. But also, it's freaking hysterical. Along with all of the fairy folk, Zach and Krysta meet Batty Koda, a fruit bat voiced by the great Robin Williams. Batty is, well, batty and probably one of the funniest characters in my childhood. He had these amazing one-liners that Little C and I repeated until our parents were probably ready to smother us both.
Beyond the humor, I can probably credit this movie with a lot of my belief as a child in the magic of the natural world. In FernGully, trees and flowers have a life force inside of them that Krysta is able to tap into. That concept of natural magic is honestly still often a part of Cait and I's writing.
So if you haven't seen FernGully, bless, and you should watch it asap. And if you have, give it a re-watch because it's a heck of a good time.
Happy Watching!
CT
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