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Based on | Characters created by Margery Sharp |
Produced by | Thomas Schumacher |
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Edited by | Michael Kelly |
Music by | Bruce Broughton |
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Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $47.4 million[1] |
The Rescuers Down Under (also known as The Rescuers 2 and The Rescuers 2: Down Under) is a 1990 American animated adventure movie. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. It was released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on November 16, 1990. The movie is the sequel to the 1977 movie The Rescuers. The original movie was based on the novels of Margery Sharp, while this one is based on the characters created by Sharp (as credited in the ending credits).
This movie, Fantasia 2000, Winnie the Pooh, Ralph Breaks the Internet, and Frozen II, are the only Disney sequels that are part of the Disney canon. This is because all three were produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Set in the Australian Outback, The Rescuers Down Under was Eva Gabor's final movie role before her retirement from acting in 1994 and death in 1995.
The Rescuers Down Under has three characters from the first movie: Bernard, Bianca, and the Chairmouse. All of them are played by the same actors as in the first movie.
Additional voices were provided by Charlie Adler, Jack Angel, Vanna Bonta, Jess Harnell, Marii Mak, Danny Mann, Jan Rabson and Will Ryan. Non-speaking characters include Polly, a platypus captured by McLeach and Nelson, an echidna.
The Rescuers Down Under was released in the Walt Disney Classics video series on September 20, 1991 with a home video trailer for The Jungle Book, while The Rescuers was released on VHS a year later in September 1992. However, unlike The Rescuers, The Rescuers Down Under did not make it to the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection. It was re-released on VHS and DVD on August 1, 2000 as part of the Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection. This released on 25th Anniversary Epilogue VHS and 2-Disc Collector's Edition DVD for first time on THX Print on May 20, 2003 in the North America.
The Rescuers Down Under was released alongside The Rescuers on Blu-ray in a "2-Movie Collection" on August 21, 2012 to commemorate the first movie's 35th anniversary.[2] This released on June 14, 2022 on the Disney Movie Club Exclusive.
Country | Release date |
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Chile | December 13, 1991 |
Turkey | January 18, 1993 |
Russia | May 16, 1993 |
Mexico | March 4, 2003 |
United States | March 7, 2003 |
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Kazakhstan | July 8, 2003 |