The Rescuers is a 1977 American animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on June 22, 1977 by Buena Vista Distribution. The 23rd film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film is about the Rescue Aid Society, an international mouse organization headquartered in New York and shadowing the United Nations, dedicated to helping abduction victims around the world at large. Two of these mice, jittery janitor Bernard (Bob Newhart) and his co-agent, the elegant Miss Bianca (Eva Gabor), set out to rescue Penny (Michelle Stacy), an orphan girl being held prisoner in the Devil’s Bayou by treasure huntress Madame Medusa (Geraldine Page).
The film is based on a series of books by Margery Sharp, most notably The Rescuers and Miss Bianca. Due to the film’s success, a sequel entitled The Rescuers Down Under was released in 1990, which made this film the first Disney animated film to have a sequel.
While Disney was not putting out its’ greatest work at this time, many people not only said that this was Disney’s greatest movie since Mary Poppins BUT that it would also usher a new golden age of Disney animation…unfortunately, that didn’t happen, at least not with this movie, we’ll get to what happened 12 years later very soon.
Regardless, I love this movie, I loved it as a kid and it still holds up to this very day. Bob Newhart & Eva Gabor work really well together as Bernard & Bianca, the animation is very good, the rest of the cast is very well put together, the story works, the music is really good, it’s a good fun Disney animated adventure where you go in and you just have a good time and you definitely get that here.
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