The Rescuers

The Rescuers (1977) is a Disney animated film about a society of mice, headquartered in New York and shadowing the United Nations, who go about doing good deeds in the world at large. Two of these mice, a somewhat sloppy and very New York sounding Bernard (Bob Newhart) and the elegant, Hungarian sounding Bianca (Eva Gabor), set about rescuing a kidnapped girl -- with the help of a comical albatross, they set out despite stormy weather.

The film was inspired by a series of children's novels by Margery Sharp.

The chemistry between the bumbling, nervous Bernard and the calm, assured Bianca works very well, and it is a little surprising that the film is not considered to be in the major league of Disney's animated features.

There was a sequel, The Rescuers Down Under (1990), set in the Australian outback. Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor reprised their roles from the first film, John Candy took the late Jim Jordan's place in the comical albatross role, playing the original albatross's brother, and George C. Scott played the villain, an animal smuggler. The Rescuers Down Under is notable for two landmarks in the history of Disney animated feature films: It was the first to use a computer-assisted production process, and it was the first sequel.

See also: List of fictional mice

Links

• AnimatedMovies.net description
• The Rescuers official homepage