The Rescuers (Disney film)/YMMV

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The films contain examples of:

  • Adaptation Displacement: You can imagine how many people have even heard of the original books. In fact, there are a good 12 within the series. The final book, Bernard Into Battle, was made not too long after the first movie.
  • Awesome Music:
    • The Overture from Rescuers Down Under.
    • The awesome opening theme of Down Under.
    • The song that seems to be Medusa's theme; you know the one. Also, the song that plays during the escape sequence at the end of the film.
    • The Shelby Flint songs from the first film, along with the instrumental theme, "Faith is a Bluebird", and, of course, the "Rescue Aid Society Theme".
    • Evenrude's theme in the first film.
  • Base Breaker: Penny has some people that love her, example is her parents! That always has an urge to secure their daughter in such a flighty kind of way. People have been scattering looking for belongings to corrupt, at least some people in the town like her, but a mass variety of people hate her.
  • Complete Monster: Percival Mcleach from the sequel, although he's considered a very entertaining monster.
  • Contested Sequel: Opinions are split on which of the two movies is superior. Although the first is the most well-known, Down Under seems to have rapidly gathered a lot of fans after Doug Walker put it on a list of Underrated Nostalgic Classics with movies such as The Rocketeer, The Iron Giant, The Secret of NIMH and The Prince of Egypt.
  • Crosses the Line Twice: McLeach is a rival to The Joker in this despite being a character in a children's movie.

McLeach: Home, home on the range! Where the critters are tied up in chains! I'll cut through their sides, and I'll rip off their hides, and the next day I'll do it again!

  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Madame Medusa and Percival McLeach, the villains, are probably the most remembered characters.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: The gap between the two movies? 13 years.
  • Ink Suit Actor: Michelle Stacy does seem to bear at least some resemblance to Penny.
  • Memetic Mutation: "These are NOT Joanna eggs!"
  • Moral Event Horizon: McLeach and Medusa each have various moments per character that are potential candidates for this, although you'll hear different answers from different people on which moment whichever character actually crossed it.
    • Medusa goes from kidnapping an orphan girl named Penny so as to use her to find a diamond in a cave beneath a well to encouraging Snoops to be harsher when Penny doesn't find it to personally making Penny look for the diamond in the cave even though this actually puts Penny's life in danger. Then when Penny gets the diamond and Medusa takes it, Medusa holds Snoops AND Penny at gunpoint to deter them from taking it.
    • McLeach goes from kidnapping Cody (the young boy who confronted McLeach's poaching) to tricking the authorities into thinking Cody is dead by throwing his backpack to the crocodiles to trying to coerce an eagle's whereabouts out of Cody by throwing sharp knives close to his head to locking Cody up in the same cages he uses for captured animals...but the most likely moment for Moral Event Horizon comes in the form of having Cody hanging from a rope tied to a crane, then lowering Cody into crocodile-infested waters and raised back out again, only to try and lower him in again, this time permanently. McLeach's intent was to "tie up" the last "loose end" by eliminating the only human witness to his preceding crimes in a way that would look like an accident -- he even laughs about how the rangers will now find Cody's body at Croc Falls, exactly where they thought he was killed. But he just wanted to torture Cody first for the fun of it, apparently.
    • Ironically, Medusa is probably more hateable than McLeach even though her villainy is arguably less extreme because Medusa is cruel in a more realistic way, IE, we've all occasionally had moments where we've felt worthless, and watching Medusa exploit that was too much for many. McLeach was worse as far as his actual actions go, but it was easier to dismiss him since, due to George C. Scott obviously having a ton of fun voicing him, he came off as being "cooler." Plus, he's got a friggin halftrack. That's Badass no matter who you are.
  • Needs More Love: Down Under does, according to the Nostalgia Critic
  • Nightmare Fuel: In Down Under, McLeach's psychologically torturing a boy... actually torturing a little boy...
  • Tear Jerker: Penny is a Tear Jerker in the flesh bordering on being a plaything of Deus Angst Machina.
    • The opening song of the first film.
  • The Woobie: Penny, and to a lesser extent Cody, who is more of an Iron Woobie.
  • Writer Cop Out: Penny gets mugged.
  • Yoko Oh No: Penny has been supervising her pranks and now she's in a giant destruction!

The books contain examples of:

  • Complete Monster: One or two villains, at least by the standards of children's books.
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