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The Secret Of NIMH 2 - Timmy To The Rescue [VHS]

5 star:		(14)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(42)

 

 

Robert C. O'Brien would be deeply offended at such a disgusting piece of garbage. He's probably turning in his grave right now. As for Don Bluth, he probably cried when he saw it, as it trashed his legacy for the next generation. As a serious Secret of NIMH enthusiast, I find the film to be a gross manifestation of the phrase "You killed it." I watch the fisrt movie on DVD at home, praying that children who are at the age I was when i was first touched by the film aren't watching this cheap trash. How can an animated film be this bad, you ask? Read the books, Watch the first movie, and you will be as appalled as I am. What was MGM thinking? Is this how they repay the greatest feat of animation their sorry corporation has ever witnessed? By trashing it? Uh uh. I think MGM owes the NIMH community, the children whose ideas of film they just warped, and most of all, Don Bluth, a BIG apology... Nevermind the Amazon rating, I give it negative 5 stars, if that.

Noticed all those other reviews that say, "I wish I could give this movie a negative amount of stars?" There are a million horrible reasons for this. What a freaking joke. Somebody find me the exact coordinates of Thorn Valley while I build a nuke?

Ignore shills and five-year-olds who give this movie the highest possible rating. It will cause internal bleeding with its sheer stupidity. There are no elements of the book in this movie. There are no elements of the original movie in this movie. I suspect the whole thing was a fevered dream swirling in the brain of gravely ill Timothy. If that's the case, Timmy, DIE ALREADY!

Ok, the first movie had excellent animation, a great story, and NO SINGING. This sequel, not only was it completely off the story of the first movie, but Timmy was just the sick little mouse in the first one. It completely goes in a different direction from the first movie. I just wish I could give this movie a negative amount of stars

There are so many flaws that I can't rank on them all. Buy the original SECRET OF NIMH because it's everything this film isn't, besides being well written, animated, and most important of all, entertaining!!!!!!

Why am I awed? Because this movie was so... incredibly bad that it makes my stomach turn. I mean, you have to go out of your way to make such a bad film! I do believe they must've been TRYING to make a bad movie! This movie was literally ten levels of garbage. Timmy would've been better off if he died.

A True must see as far as wanting to see bad sequils go...it's only a shame that I can't rate a movie with less than a star. This was the bottom as far as I'm concerned. I read the origional book...and the first movie wasn't that acurate, but it was still a good movie. But what MGM did (or what it seems) took the worst parts of the first movie and made a sequil out of them. There was too much emphasis on Jonathan Brisby...first, it wasn't just Jonathan who saved the rats....it was he and Mr Ages. (read the book) Nicodemus was not a profit...at most he was an alchemist...and he didn't die in the book (read for yourself) The Rats of NIMH were larger than normal rats, let alone mice...so why was Timothy close in size to the rats? There was too much singing. Why were the rats still stealing from man? Wasn't this why they went to thorn valley? NIMH isn't an evil place...It's an institute for science....and they experemented with drugs...not electricity. What ever happened to Don Bluth anyways?? Was the idea of this movie to TAKE AWAY from the first....because if it was, it surely accomplished this. The only refining quality was that it did something with the lost six mice. I didn't say that I liked the direction they took, but they did do something.

And I will once again say it, If you haven't yet read the book, do so. If you have kids you want to entertain, try reading it to them instead of turning on the television...your kids will like it more if you read to them.

It's basically expected you'll be given a bad movie when a sequel is made. There haven't been any decent sequels in the animation department save for "Toy Story 2" (my opinion of course), but I never knew that there would be a poster child for bad movies. And we have this rotgut junk, "Timmy to the Rescue." The animation is like a TV series based off of a Disney Movie that has been chopped about to fit your DVD. The mice are huge compared to the mice in the first movie, and there is no real plot to this that I found fun at all. The so-called twist in the end where Martin exposes himself to be the evil creature behind NIHM was poorly done at best, with songs that are so irritating, I immediately scrambled for the mute button.

There was one thing that annoyed me in watching this. Besides stupid characters, sub-par voice acting, and lame dialogue, is that the voices sometimes don't sync well with the lip movements. For instance, when Martin is talking to Timmy, his lips sometimes move after he is finished talking, and sometimes the lips stop before the sentence ends. Was the movie done in a different language first, then dubbed to suit the English-speaking audience, or was that another finger pointed at the producers for bad animation? So and so, I recommend that you don't see this movie. Don't even get it for your kids. This movie pales in comparison to the original in so many ways.

As a sequel to Don Bluth's brilliant animated film, The Secret of Nimh, this direct-to-video release is a miserable flop. As an animated film on its own, it has a few good ideas, but they are weighted down by the pitiful execution. This film was not produced by Don Bluth or anyone who had anything to do with the original film, and it shows both storywise and animation-wise. The plot and animation aren't much better than 80's Saturday morning cartoons, and there are numerous inconsistencies with the original film (too many for me to list here). Also, Nimh can do without being turned into a musical; the songs are, for the most part, good, but they're in the wrong movie; almost NONE of them fit in with the universe of the first movie. For that matter, most of the new characters (Cecil the caterpillar, Dr. Valentine, the henchcats Muriel and Floyd) don't fit in with the universe of the first movie, either. As a sequel, it's embarrasing. As a film on its own, it's just a below average animated film.

OMG, what happened to the story?! Okay, if it would have followed the example of the FIRST movie, it may have been acceptable, but this was just...sucky.

For one, why did it need a bunch of crappy songs? Why does everything animated have to be a stupid sing-a-long now? Why can't we just have movies without the characters breaking out into song?

I'm sorry, though there were interesting parts in the movie, overall, it was just crappy. It is probably fine for little kids, but for someone who actually grew up enjoying the first movie, this is a pretty big yuck.

I saw this on Youtube before watching the genius that was the first Secret of NIHM and holly s***! This is far, far from being anything like the first. For one this isn't made by Don Bluth, but a different company called Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation who are known for All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 (I loved this movie) and some movies I never heard of which is probably a good thing. This movie took the name of the first movie and raped it. Shoot it shouldn't even bare the name Secret of NIHM.

You know somethings wrong as soon as you see the title. It gives a brief summary of the first film as told by Nicodemus prophesizing that one of the Brisby children is to save thorn Valley from NIHM. then the epic Secret of NIHM title is shown, but that epicness is quickly blown out the window as TIMMY TO THE RESCUE appears at the bottomXD So out of place. Instead of making a gritty, but artistic styled movie like the first, they went with stupid, cute, and just plain ridiculus. It just destroys what the first movie was all about. The editing is complete crap. Theres actually a person on Youtube (ThePS2God) who counted how many times they crossfade throughout the entire movie. Thier just so damn annoying. The characters from the previous movie don't even look the same. The design for the Brisby children are hideous. they even recycle characters. In the first musical number there are some characters in the scene that we're not even supposed to know about until later on! Thier not even supposed to be in the same area! Jeremy isn't enough to save this movie. The Great OWl is mentioned, but nowhere in the movie. If you do watch you'll see what replaces the Great OwlXD

You want to know what else? Mrs. Brisby is barely seen in the f-ing movie! Instead our main protagonist now is Timmy. You remember Timmy? He was the little mouse who was sick in the last movie. They came up with some BS story about how hes destined to be a hero like his father who saved the Rats in the previous movie from NIHM. If the cliche plot isn't enough they turned it into a f***ing musical!! AHHHHH!!! Prepare to be earraped everybody. The songs with the exception of maybe the one sung by timmy are horrible. Also notice in Timmys song how the first kids singing sound aweful than in the next scene the voice actor change. That tells me they knew the kids singing sucked big time. Theres also a Big Lipped Aligator Moment later on when this pointless Caterpillar thing sings this terrible musical number. It had no other purpose than to make this shi-ite longer than it has to be.

The dialogue is also horrendous. At the beginning when Timmys scolded by a certain old Mouse who shouldn't even be alive at this point in time quates "That its ok for guys to wear the same underwear 3 days in a row". WTF did that come from. Theres alot of jokes in this movie that just fall flat on thier a**. Don't even get me started on the rest of the horrible dialogue. Timmy says alot of stupid things in this movie and do as many stupid things.

To put the icing on cake in one musical scene near the end of the movie where Timmy and the pointless female mouse do a duet together, it rips off a certain Don bluth film about a another young mouse who duets with female mouse (coughAmericanTalecough). They don't even hide the fact that its a rip off. It even does the split screen bit that this particular movie does. They try to be depressing with this painfully 3 minute scene, but fail completely>.<

There are many more problems I have with this movie, but if i named them all this review will be a novel. After watching this i see why fans of the original pretend this doesn't exist. ITs almost up there with the 3 infamous animated Titanic movies. Hell I didn't even know it existed until the internet. If you don't want to be traumatized, Innorance is bliss. If you're curious enough to watch this save your money and just go watch it on Youtube for free.