Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #108624 in VHS
• Released on: 1998-12-22
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Formats: Animated, Color, Dubbed, NTSC
• Dubbed in: Spanish
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 79 minutes

Amazon.com
A huge letdown after the grandeur of Don Bluth's 1982 adaptation of Robert C. O'Brien's book (this was the first feature Bluth made after leaving Disney to protest the studio's allegedly lowered animation standards), this straight-to-video sequel offers far poorer art and thinner characterizations. The story finds Timmy (voiced by Ralph Macchio), son of the Jonathan Brisby character from The Secret of NIMH, leaving the family farm and heading to Thorn Valley, where the rats of NIMH live. There, Timmy seeks a path in his father's footprints to become a hero and meets a girl mouse who tells him her parents are among some NIMH mice wrongly presumed dead for years. A rescue ensues, of course, in which Timmy and the refugee rats risk getting caught themselves. The film is about an hour in length, and genuine entertainment is at a premium in this production, making it even harder to ignore point-by-point comparisons between NIMH 2 and its predecessor--especially when those comparisons, time and again, find the sequel wanting. The very best element here is the vocal and singing performance by Eric Idle as the villain, Martin, who resorts to electric shock to "improve" his intelligence and whose song, "Just Say Yes," is a real highlight. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

An absolute disgrace of the highest degree
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.

Catastrophe
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

Pain, paaaaaain...
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!