The Secret of NIMH 2 - Timmy to the Rescue | 
 enlarge | Director: Dick Sebast
Actors: Darleen Carr, Jamie Cronin, Dom Deluise, Andrew Ducote, Phillip Glasser
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  53 reviews
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Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 79
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MGMD1001608
ISBN: 0792849108
UPC: 027616859181
EAN: 9780792849100
ASIN: B000056H2C
Theatrical Release Date: December 22, 1998
Release Date: March 6, 2001
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Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 06/19/2007 Starring: Dom Deluise(voice) Ralph Macchio(voice) Run time: 68 minutes Rating: G Director: Dick Sebast
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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
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 What is wrong with you people September 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't know what you guys are thinking, but if it is what you think about Secret of NIMH 2, then your confused. This is by far one of the best cartoons I have ever seen. I couldn't get the thing out of my head. I will admit the fist one was a little better, but not by much. I think you guys think that way because the second one is more kid friendly and short. There is no where near as much violence as the first one. anyway, I loved this movie! I give it a five star easy, if not a freaking 10!
 SUXX November 1, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This wretched little abomination should have been aborted on the cutting room floor, best as I can figure it. It is little coincidence, methinks, that the money-grubbin' honchos at MGM would come out with a "sequel" to a trully great and generally over-looked piece of anime, the same year as they bring the original out on dvd. Way to exploit, and ultimately denegrate, fine art for a buck, you soulless swine! There is only one "Secret of NIMH"!
 Not As Bad As IThought I'd Be... October 10, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Not nearly as good as it's original Secret of NIMH. It's like watching saturday morning cartoons, really. I suppose everything seems a bit logically in place, but I don't know. This isn't a good sequel; not that I expected it to be what with the reviews. I was still curious and had to give it a watch. If you have a vhs player, it might not hurt to spend but a few cents. If not, don't bother I can't imagine they'd waste dvd printing on -this-
What is this?! June 24, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's basically expected you'll be given a bad movie when a sequel is made. There haven't been any decent sequels in the animation department save for "Toy Story 2" (my opinion of course), but I never knew that there would be a poster child for bad movies. And we have this rotgut junk, "Timmy to the Rescue." The animation is like a TV series based off of a Disney Movie that has been chopped about to fit your DVD. The mice are huge compared to the mice in the first movie, and there is no real plot to this that I found fun at all. The so-called twist in the end where Martin exposes himself to be the evil creature behind NIHM was poorly done at best, with songs that are so irritating, I immediately scrambled for the mute button.
There was one thing that annoyed me in watching this. Besides stupid characters, sub-par voice acting, and lame dialogue, is that the voices sometimes don't sync well with the lip movements. For instance, when Martin is talking to Timmy, his lips sometimes move after he is finished talking, and sometimes the lips stop before the sentence ends. Was the movie done in a different language first, then dubbed to suit the English-speaking audience, or was that another finger pointed at the producers for bad animation? So and so, I recommend that you don't see this movie. Don't even get it for your kids. This movie pales in comparison to the original in so many ways.
Timmy the mouse March 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
An excellent story with many valuable moral lessons. It holds the childrens attention from start to finish. They have watched it over and over. A must see for children from 3 up.
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