Product Description

Join a mighty little mouse as he discovers he has the strength to face his foesand end up the Big Cheesein this rousing musical adventure your family will treasure. Featuring the voices of Ralph Macchio, Dom De Luise and Harvey Korman, this charming adventure is a wonderfully heroic tale thatwill make your family want to stand up and cheer! Welcome to beautiful Thorn Valley, wherethe mice-folk have everything they could possibly need...except a hero. that's why they call upon Timmy Brisby, the youngest son of Jonathan Brisby who once saved them from an evil place called NIMH.There's only one problemTimmy's a novice, so it's necessary for him to go through hero training 101, but before he even has a chance to graduate, Timmy must put his new skills to the test. Taking on NIMH is a big job for a little guy, but Timmy is up to the challenge and before he's through, he's going to prove that no matter one's size, anyone can be a hero.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28673 in DVD
• Released on: 2001-03-06
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 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

A True Must See
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.