The Rescuers Down Under

The Rescuers Down Under
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Hendel Butoy Mike Gabriel
Screenplay by	Jim Cox Karey Kirkpatrick Byron Simpson Joe Ranft
Based on	Characters by Margery Sharp
Produced by	Thomas Schumacher
Starring	Bob Newhart Eva Gabor John Candy Adam Ryen George C. Scott Tristan Rogers
Edited by	Michael Kelly
Music by	Bruce Broughton
Production company	Walt Disney Feature Animation
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc.[a]
Release date	November 16, 1990 (1990-11-16)
Running time	77 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$47.4 million[1]

The Rescuers Down Under is a 1990 American animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the sequel to Disney's 1977 animated feature film The Rescuers, which was based on the novels by Margery Sharp. In The Rescuers Down Under, Bernard and Bianca travel to the Australian Outback to save a young boy named Cody from a villainous poacher who wants to capture an endangered golden eagle for money. Directed by Hendel Butoy and Mike Gabriel (in their feature directorial debuts) from a screenplay by Jim Cox, Karey Kirkpatrick, Byron Simpson, and Joe Ranft, the film features the voices of Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor (in her final film role), John Candy, and George C. Scott.

By the mid-1980s, The Rescuers had become one of Disney's most successful animated releases. Under the new management of Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, a feature-length sequel was approved, making it the first animated film sequel theatrically released by the studio.^[2] Following their duties on Oliver & Company (1988), animators Butoy and Gabriel were recruited to direct the sequel.^[3] Research trips to Australia provided inspiration for the background designs. The film would also mark the full use of the Computer Animation Production System (CAPS), becoming the first feature film to be completely created digitally.^[4] The software allowed for artists to digitally ink-and-paint the animators' drawings, and then composite the digital cels over the scanned background art.

The Rescuers Down Under was released to theaters on November 16, 1990, to positive reviews from critics, but it went on to become a box-office bomb and garnered $47.4 million worldwide as it opened on the same day as Home Alone (which also features John Candy) and Rocky V.

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