Once Upon a Forest - Nostalgia Critic

[@jinx1987]

13:28 that's kinda sick, throwing a funeral for your dying child who isn't officially dead yet in front of him

[@magicmaria5632]

Jay Villanueva ikr

[@ironmaster6496]

Jay Villanueva i know WTF!!!??

[@ironmaster6496]

Jay Villanueva also he COULD HAVE WALKED AWAY he even raised his foot

[@TeruteruBozusama]

Jay Villanueva Just watching him starve to death, screaming and scared....

[@jinx1987]

Hey my comment got highlighted, cool.......MOM LOOK AT THIS!!!!! Mom:"Did you finally get a job you deadbeat?" No Mom:"Then I don't give a shit!" 😢

[@nickcopeland6915]

Fun fact: Michael Crawford struggled not to cry during his song.

[@Senjuina77]

Nick Copeland That's what it sounded like, too. The clips I've seen here came across as really emotional.

[@wiibrockster]

Nick Copeland Seriously??

[@hoobadooba2000]

Nick Copeland probably because of how bad the song was

[@JoeRossProductions]

@@hoobadooba2000 no

[@BioGoji-zm5ph]

@@hoobadooba2000 It was the context of the song, being about a LITTLE GIRL DYING in her bed.

[@123Yellowberry123]

The truck only tipped over because of the bottle on the road; the forest being in danger was a complete accident. The real moral of the story is, "Don't drink and ride."

[@YMangaka]

Yeaaa? And the asshole MAN who was drinking and driving threw his bottle out instead of in a trash becauuuuse.. ?? a_á

[@vincenthawthorne9360]

Are you sure that Dale Gribble didn’t set it up just for a huge payday?

[@robreich6881]

Don’t throw bottles out of the car window, lol

[@jojomayard7233]

@@robreich6881 I hate it when environmental movies portray us humans as bad guys

[@SweetRoseWanderer]

I wish I could roll my "R"s as good as he can.

[@YMangaka]

You only could if you had *RRRRheumatism* Xp

[@mattjoyce389]

All I hear is the dancing in the rain

[@SailorMaxie]

Same.

[@NashmanNash]

As a german,i have a natural talent to roll the R...you know,...

[@Lupinemancer87]

I don't know why some people are struggling with that, it's pretty easy.

[@FlamesOfTheRuined]

"You are no longer Furlings, you are now furnitures"Cut to Cornelius sipping tea next to a fireplace while sitting on a chair made of the skin of the mole and hedgehog, an ottoman made from the mouse, and a skin rug made of the badger. Seriously, was I the only one who imagined it? Could have made the ending so much better.

[@GoatPopsicle]

Maniacally Sinister I thought of Mr.Burns’ dog song on the Simpson’s. “See my loafers, former gophers” “see my hat, twas my cat” Then you can add “Badger hair, underwear”

[@raijyn2452]

I don't know which is sicker, the parents who were throwing a funeral for their not-dead-yet child or *YOU*

[@moviemaniac9034]

Or maybe Cornelius has their butts above his fireplace like what Mr. Krabs could've done to Spongebob and Patrick.

[@blankblank1284]

I think of Umineko. God that got so messed up...

[@kyleshiflet9952]

Makes Sense Badgers will eat Mice Hedgehogs and moles

[@pixelman6193]

can we all agree that ferngully had one of the best voiced villains ever

[@Angelicwings1]

Ummm yeah

[@NachoCheeseDorito-Kun]

Sliiiiime beneath me. Sliiiiiiiiiiiime up aboooove Dayum that songs fuckin' great

[@charlottecorday8494]

No, no we can't.

[@superstarultra28]

TO... TO... TOXIC LOVE!!!!!

[@opalyasu7159]

It was Tim Curry. Anything he says makes all women in a 5-mile radius turn straight and start orgasming. It sounds like a really weird stand ability: 『TOXIC LOVE』

[@whitediamond000]

Damn, the parental deaths are quite heavy in this film...You know...For kids!

[@KentuckyWallChicken]

A FAMILY Picture!

[@hexaciousjinx6923]

That's why I love it. Kid films now don't have grief or death, 90's really didn't give a rats ass .

[@brendis16851]

Even parents from non-Disney movies can die

[@GlassesnMouthplates]

*For Ferlings

[@aaronsuever2532]

@@hexaciousjinx6923 Yes, Hello, Frozen called, they said they have two dead parents for you.

[@elizabethashley42]

Doug's Michael Crawford impression is shockingly spot-on.

[@MelancoliaI]

He's the only one to come close to matching Crawford's...secret...hot sauce

[@JTPMalavet]

This cracked me up!

[@knightmarewolf3856]

I could not breath after the Tim curry part

[@YMangaka]

well of course ! Cause of the gas ! >;3

[@imurvenus2605]

Because of the toxic gas?

[@chrisnicolet8910]

Neither could the badgers

[@AB-bg7os]

Lol that machine thing was destroyed by a book about gravity XD

[@tannerprice2018]

So...Gravity Falls? ....oh god, I hope the show's not connected to this movie.

[@outathisworld2130]

Lol yes

[@Mr_Original]

Even as a kid, I laughed my ass off at the irony. XD

[@zoltanz288]

Synth Curie its not funny.

[@Enter_the_Toshiverse_1996]

I put on the closed captions to see what he said, but even it doesn't know what he's saying

[@bigbuddhaiswatching...101]

A ramble is a British term for a walk in the woods.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I wouldn't doubt given where this story originated from (despite the casting of the kids being American).

[@sweetbunnybun]

if you won't listen to my... walk in the woods?

[@maxbites23]

"Ramble on"

[@justarandomclonetrooperwit8119]

Wot,dis movie was made by bri-ish?!?!?

[@mollymoonfan5939]

@@sweetbunnybun won't take this walk in the woods seriously

[@Shoe0nHead]

i used to love this movie hahahaha

[@TheDerpyderpyderp]

Shoe you do other things🙊

[@queensectonia8984]

Hey, Shoe0neHead watches the Nostalgia Critic

[@albertschoise8091]

Shoe0nHead me to- AHH! ITS THE SHOE *bows* worship the shoe

[@intergalactichumanempire9759]

Legend has it you respond to those who reply to your old comments.

[@Tachyon836]

Me too!

[@Kugawattan]

I have to give credit to the movie for the design of Abigail, she's female but there aren't any obvious "girl in a cartoon" tropes applied to her. It's kinda refreshing.

[@supermariof0521]

Also in the trailers, they kept saying "From the creator of "An American Tail", even though neither Stephen Spielberg nor Don Bluth had ANYTHING to do with this movie. Though it does make me imagine what would happen if Abigail and her Dad (Does she also have a Mom?) traveled to New York and did a crossover with Fievel?

[@vestonbruno2795]

@@supermariof0521 Actually the trailers were referring to David Kirschner who produced An American Tail, this film, and Child's Play.

[@supermariof0521]

@@vestonbruno2795 Wow. That dude went from a mouse version of "Finding Nemo" to a doll with a blood lust........impressive range.

[@vestonbruno2795]

@@supermariof0521 It was. And another thing, An American Tail was WAY before Finding Nemo was a thing.

[@supermariof0521]

@@vestonbruno2795 I know it came out before "Finding Nemo", and it to me was "Finding Nemo" BEFORE "Finding Nemo" in terms of its plot. The difference is that whereas "FN" was told primarily from the father's perspective, "AAT" was told from the child's perspective. Also "FN's" sequel "Finding Dory", while not quote as good as the first film, still had the same heart and soul as the first film.................too bad I can't say the same for the insanely overrated "Fievel Goes West".

[@TheElcorSpectre]

I remember when I was a Shia Labeouf many years ago.

[@RileyA.]

XD

[@accidentalalicorn5323]

Good times huh?

[@michaelb9537]

Me too

[@schattentaenzerin]

It feels so long ago, I guess Rrrrrrheumatism will come soon

[@HunterSlayer2727]

Great Honk! Great Honk? Great Hulk! Great Hulk?! Great Hawk! Great HAWK?! Great Hog! GREAT HOG?! "You're a Furling Harry."

[@albertschoise8091]

Elle Calladine i think hawk

[@JoeRossProductions]

Great Scott

[@JoeRossProductions]

Great Scott!

[@hansvonschreiber3902]

GREAT POGS

[@alexjewett7455]

Great hjonk

[@megamarsonic]

"It's okay! It turns out she just needs some aspirin! How are you?" Well there goes my drink. Turned me into a human lemonade sprinkler with that joke. XD

[@katysikkema]

Oh my gosh! 😂

[@Necron00b]

Actually the first definition for "Ramble" is "walk for pleasure in the countryside."

[@DRKLCNS1]

Necron00b but that's not nearly funny enough

[@SangTheCryptek]

The Critic doesn't listen to Led Zeppelin, apparently. (Ramble On)

[@CaptainSpycrab]

A rrrrrrrramble with rrrrrrrrrrrheumatism.

[@Wandergirl108]

This movie was one of my favorites as a kid. And I think, especially for kids, the message that not ALL humans are evil was an important one to include in there - while our technology can have devastating effects, we can still do better than just be mindless instruments of destruction, we can work to mitigate the damage we cause through our technology. Keeping Michelle's parents dead, too, gives the movie a more grounded feeling - sometimes bad things will happen, and there's no undoing that, and all we can do is work to make better what we still have a chance to change. It honestly has a lot of really good messages that I think may have helped shape me into the person I am, and I will definitely be showing it to my kids if/when I ever have any. I'm not sure if I ever saw Fern Gully, and if I did, I don't remember it at all, but I have ALWAYS remembered this movie, because it shows the full spectrum of the good and the bad in our world and encourages us to be better without telling us we're inherently the worst things ever. I still think fondly of this movie and love it to this day.

[@cyborgninja5489]

We have to de-populate the earth otherwise climate change will kill everyone, the aliens said so

[@lapzidorus1786]

A hedgehog name Russell...so this is where he lived before the Littlest Pet Shop.

[@Nephalem2002]

Lapzidorus No this is the future

[@supermariof0521]

And apparently went through a radioactive transformation that turned him into a tiny orange naked ball?

[@tearoses9940]

I forgot Littlest Pet Shop had a show, and at first I thought you meant that you had a LPS hedgehog that you named Russell as a kid

[@nomadmalachi]

I think I would like to see an entire video of him doing just the "1920's announcer" voice.

[@crimsondynamo615]

nomadmalachi make one of those over the top propaganda psas and just have him doing the voice

[@danielnewman9680]

3:23 in the words of Sheldon Cooper "Oh gravity thou art a heartless bitch"

[@juhaniaho6698]

Just A random Fox In A Hat Ba. Zin. Ga.

[@tannerprice2018]

Bazinga

[@snapclub8751]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@epicrapfan73]

"I won the lottery!" "Yes, but COVID-19 still happened."

[@mousetrap773]

I remember this movie...it traumatized me for years after watching it. I was afraid that anything I did would accidentally kill hundreds of animals

[@randomdude1361]

Wow, your comment just killed thousands of animals...

[@dallymoo7816]

Lol now I am vegan 😧😅

[@robreich6881]

So you’re saying the movie had its intended effect.

[@soldout7275]

me too man. i loved this movie but haven't watched it in a minute so i don't remember how good it is now. it always made me cry when i watched it but i loved it.

[@caesar7734]

@@dallymoo7816 Vegans still litter

[@emma_thedj]

Fun fact: ramble is actually another word for walk, i think that's what he meant

[@MrElectricmayhem88]

OH! so THAT WASN'T a Big Lipped Alligator Moment!?!?

[@Seryeth]

well, the birds actually give them directions for savings the little bird, granted, it comes out of nowhere, like the lion, but, as pointless as it was, the characters did interact with them, and they help the plot to move on, after wasting time of course

[@whatdoyousuppose]

3:44 I freakin lost it right there with the Phantom's tirade from I Remember/Stranger Than You Dreamt It 😂😂😂

[@moviemaniac2159]

I wanted to know what that song was called. Thanks!

[@spookylad1367]

I laughter my bum off during that

[@Netizpossible]

Once Upon a Forest? More like Once Upon a Forrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrest.

[@i40329]

That's trrrrrrrrrrrrue

[@maxbites23]

His rolls are so on point, he should be an honorary Spaniard

[@monicaaboites5053]

Like phantom of the operrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrra

[@GP-rc3pt]

Want an environmental film that's actually good? Watch some Ghibli films

[@Listener11111]

"Respect nature, or giant insects will demolish your houses and spread toxic plants"

[@langfordjeremy100]

Hey this is a good one, don't hate! And yes I'm a huge Ghibli fan

[@JakNekon]

"Respect nature or giant talking animals will wage war on you and turn into worm covered demons when you kill them."

[@Poever]

Hanna-Barbera of all studios helped produced this, they ain’t got shit on Ghibli.

[@ChildOfChaos07]

Nah. He'd complain about the environmental messages in those too.

[@Mask0fFate]

Hey, this is the first NC video I ever saw! Aw, the Nostalgia for the Nostalgia Critic.

[@RDSk0]

Hellooooo, Im the Nostalgia Nostalgia Critic, I reupload it so you don't have to!

[@AirQuotes]

Samuel Johnson I don't remember my 1st video sadly

[@thedontworrybehappychannel1761]

KinRedysko How the Fuck did i Even found this Channel?

[@thedontworrybehappychannel1761]

mriee actually,How the Fuck did i Even found this Channel?

[@cherylolsen7619]

my first NC video was his sonic the hedgehog review

[@TennantJunkie1993]

OH THE IRONY A BOOK ON GRAVITY FELL AND CRUSHED IT!

[@YMangaka]

You do NOT realise the gravity of the situation

[@randalgraves6979]

😐 gravity falls.

[@snapclub8751]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@viewtifulmorannp6185]

Pom Poko, Princess Mononoke and Nausicaâ of the Valley of the Wind are still the best envoirmental films ever made.

[@brendis16851]

Bambi and Wall-E are awesome, too

[@gageperuti5519]

The reasons being the environmental messages in those movies aren't forced down your throats, unlike this, Ferngully, or Avatar (the James Cameron film).

[@summerjonz]

They don't verbally tell you@@gageperuti5519

[@heyobeo]

*Aggressively rolls Rs*

[@binkyboy448]

18:16 Props to Doug for fooling everyone who watched this review into thinking that this was an actual line in the movie.

[@katysikkema]

For the longest time I actually thought that was a line 😂 Doug did a great job.

[@TheGreatDrAsian]

I think this review might be the pinnacle of the Old Nostalgia Critic style. I wish he'd still do some reviews like this along side his new style. The old style feels less like Doug is trying to show off his writing and acting abilities, and more like he's actually applying them.. I'm always impressed by Doug's abilities, whether he's trying his best or just goofing around, but personally I enjoy him a little more when he's just not giving too much of a fuck and is making a video to be silly and not to store in his professional resumé, so to say.

[@albertschoise8091]

TheGreatDrAsian yes but the thing is that while i agree he is quite funny i find the new ones to be much better. More of a reason to watch, more laughs, looks better and while the old ones where good i simply enjoy the new ones more. Sorry for voicing my opinion

[@awall1439]

May not be forget rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrheumatism!

[@TheSmolBrit]

My Grandma has this on VHS at her house and used to play it every time we drove to visit her during the holidays. She seemed so disappointed one year when I'd started to get a bit older that I didn't want to watch it, so we all sat down together to give it another watch.

[@charlottecorday8494]

Awww, that broke my heart reading. I hate how insensitive we are as we leave childhood.

[@soberossack6610]

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrheumatism!!!!

[@randalgraves6979]

Sober Сossack Bat Crrrrrrrredit Carrrrrrd.

[@inky5574]

R to the H to the E to the U-M-A-tism. Rrrrheumatism!

[@inky5574]

R to the H to the E to the U-M-A-tism. Rrrrheumatism!

[@RileyA.]

Yee. :D

[@Max-iq8hi]

IKR He really is a dickhole, who uses this word as an excuse! He's so selfish!

[@rhettdilley]

Michael Crawford’s singing kept shaking and switching between a high and low pitch because he was struggling not to cry the entire time. He couldn’t get past the fact that he was singing that song to a dying child

[@blacksun3884]

This movie was a guilty pleasure for me and I love it even when it has is flaws.

[@supermariof0521]

I actually had all the plushies of the characters from this movie. I think their in storage.

[@awall1439]

Yeah it sure was actually doing my favourite movies part of my childhood actually!

[@carryondrawing]

Did anyone realise that the old badger was wearing the exact same clothes as Stanford Pines in Gravity Falls? Just me? Ok...

[@tannerprice2018]

ElasticKitten13 OMIGOSH! It does look like it!

[@GoatPopsicle]

A turtleneck skirt and overcoat? I must have missed that episode.

[@Angelicwings1]

And yet… it came first

[@bengilhooly3616]

@@GoatPopsicle I think he means the real Stanford. The one voiced by jk Simmons

[@Rosey0928]

YOUR RIGHT OMYWORD😱

[@whyareyoureadingmynickname8158]

I noticed that this movie's plot didn't even need that poison gas. They could have just said that little badger is ill and have her friends go and find cure for her. Simply said, all "save the environment" stuff in this movie were kinda pointless, movie would have worked just as fine without it.

[@albertschoise8091]

Why are you reading my nickname? Yes and yes but how did she get sick? Why dont her parents help? Etc etc

[@GoatPopsicle]

Alberts Choise that’s exactly the problem. We don’t have enough an emotional investment in her, to justify risking 3 other kids lives; without the tragic backstory.

[@proclarushtaonasat]

Why did they wedge sauron and the orcs in Lord of the rings? The book could just have been About them trying to throw the ring in the only recyclebin for magical artefacts. Or why did the Matrix Focus so much on the Evil agents? The movies could just have been About online addiction, without any Evil machines and Programms.

[@crimsondynamo615]

It’s almost like at the last minute they decided to make the movie have an environmental message

[@maverickdarkrath4780]

Actually it has a sub plot where the humans are actually trying to fix the problem and help nature, effectively fixing there mistake in other words, an environmental film where humans aren't the main antagonist

[@JillLulamoon]

I admit of all those 90s environmental animated films I have a soft spot for this one. The designs for the protagonists are decently cute, and I'll give it some credit for how relatively grounded it is. There's no evil cloud singing about pollution, it's just an accident that spreads the gas through the forest, and the ending shows humans making an effort to clean up the mess and a random guy saving the hedgehog from a cage. Also not dancing around death gets a bit of my respect.

[@meavor]

For some reason I hear the Tim curry song as "Green women be, crawling out my ass". I wish that was the actual line.

[@danieltreshner4955]

If it took them a day to get to the owl, free the bird stuck in the mud at around dawn, reach the second meadow around noon, build the flying machine in 2-3 hours, get the cliff-plant-thing less than an hour after building the flying machine, and get back to the dying badger kid at night. How exactly did they fly a day's and a half worth of walking in 3-4 hours?

[@lookbehindyou1419]

Daniel Treshner Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrheumatism

[@morgangobin6550]

Daniel Treshner Lord of the Rings logic. Or rather, the logic Lord of the Rings SHOULD have used (they could have saved so much time by flying on those golden eagles!)

[@azadalamiq]

flying is faster then walking. It took me 12 hrs to fly from MA to LA. try to walk that. :)

[@eowynbates9376]

+Morgan Gobin Except the fact that the eagles are easy to spot and easy to shoot down. Sauron would have seen them coming long before they were even close to Mordor, and would've gotten picked off like they were mallards in Duck Hunt. On the ground they could at least hide and dodge effectively.

[@Senjuina77]

Starting from 17:55, I'm crying. Legitimately crying. Not because the girl is safe, but because that joke was comedic GOLD. Every time I open my eyes from an outburst of laughter, there's something new and even more ridiculous on screen. Fuck, I need a new set of lungs 😂😂😂

[@XxFluffyxX]

The Phantom of the Opera reference made my day! It was the London version too. Noiceee

[@katysikkema]

Phantom just closed recently after 35 years of Broadway 🥲💙

[@raethomas108]

Honestly all this did was made me want to watch this movie a lot. It's still one of my favs.

[@Ospyro3em]

Although I love this film (for reasons I can't really explain- I think it's because it's one of the movies my Grandparents used to play for me and my sisters when we were really young) this review is great and makes me laugh every time! I know deep down this movie is mediocre at best, but I can't bring myself not to like it. I even bought myself the DVD years later (after finally remembering the name of it!) and still watch it often as a guilty pleasure!

[@madnessguy010101]

Ospyro3em As Adam from YMS once wisely said, it's ok to like a flawed movie so long as you don't call it flawless

[@damnbastard8794]

Furfag! Furfag over here!

[@PandaJohn71]

I grew up with this movie as well. I still enjoy it too. Though everyone else I know irl goes "What movie?" when I mention it.

[@twizsilver]

Ospyro3em yes the daycare I was at played this movie almost daily for us, and at one point, I knew almost every part and word of this movie. So yea I'll always have love for this movie regardless lol

[@ExhumedFromBed]

Same for me.

[@JTPMalavet]

3:44 This synced perfectly with Cornelius’ reaction! Like he’d really call Abigail “little demon” like Christine!

[@Kirkklan]

Once Upon a Forest: The Legend of the Rolling "R"'s (Seriously though, I think that joke gets a bit old...)

[@supermariof0521]

Would be a great running gag for the sequel, "Once Upon A City". XD

[@joyfulleader5075]

I thought it was funny

[@vestonbruno2795]

Now despite what he said, I love this film. And to give credit, you really can't blame Hanna-Barbera for this. At least they were trying!

[@jay-white]

Hanna Barbera had something to do with this?

[@briansivley2001]

​@@jay-whitethey were the main studio who animated this movie.

[@Nick-ty9us]

Hanna Barbera produced the movie The animation looks way too good to be Hanna-Barbera because if you know about them, you know that used limited animation for years.

[@ragemutt5372]

It makes me uncomforatable how good Doug's impression of Tim Curry is in this.

[@LuckyLeverVIEJO]

Fun fact: this is the animation debut of Sergio Pablos, working as a key animator at Lápiz Azul Animación

[@jozefkeresturi2139]

Rheumatisam!

[@shadowbunny7892]

Jozef Keresturi I think you mean Rrrrrrrrrrheumatisam.

[@phousefilms]

Rheumatism, yes.

[@BirdRaiserE]

Jozef Keresturi 3:24 Grrrravity is a bitch!

[@nightmareeclipse8383]

No no, u must say it like this. Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreumatism

[@VR-gs9hd]

At 06:20 the woman has got to be doing some sort of interpretation dance. The whole sequence is may favorite part of the episode.

[@Lady_Ginnie]

Am I the only one wondering if the guy who crashed that truck is okay? I mean, he was alone when he went off the road and was driving a truck full of hazardous material. He could be dead!

[@sodapopred417]

MegaShinyObject more importantly, who the he'll ordered a truckload of poison gas

[@rinaldomoon9068]

Well as far as this movie cares, he probably died from 12 heart attacks and a seizure because screw the human race.

[@XxSilverTheHedgehog1]

MegaShinyObject he did make it out okay. He was he one who got help to clean up the forest

[@Ospyro3em]

He was fine- in the actual film it shows him getting out the truck and exclaiming that he needed to get help after realising that gas was escaping.

[@zoltanz288]

MegaShinyObject he died on the spot and the animals ate him.

[@aaronjohnson4681]

once upon a forest is a very nice movie for me to be honest what surprises me is how well the animation,story, and voice acting is, and i believe i saw this along with pagemaster when they were both on vhs

[@Dragonslayer-eo2hs]

Dragonslayer1239 I saw those two movies on VHS as well and still have them right beside the DVDs.

[@nottherealpaulsmith]

Who the fuck ordered a truckload of poisonous gas?

[@damnbastard8794]

Well you can find anything on Amazon.

[@AdmiralBlackstar]

Pest control?

[@coletrainhetrick]

they tend to not label exposition on trucks all the time but it in the real world needs to get shipped. it's for weed killig, bugs, etc

[@lurksnitchtongue3958]

ChakatBlackstar well it seems it did it's job

[@edselo9264]

Screw You something a feminazi would say

[@sunflwrchyld]

Man I lowkey want to hear a collab between Michael Crawford and Desiigner. Imagine the amount of R's that will be rolled.

[@BETRvids]

When I was a kid, I loved watching shows like Sonic SatAM and I actually enjoyed Ferngully. This movie was right up my alley as a kid. As an adult, I think I would have watched this movie and been like, "Okay... what the fuck?" I was one of those kids who hated the silly, obnoxiously loud stuff that was clearly catered to children; I wanted to watch movies and shows where the good guys had legitimately evil bad guys. Hexus from Ferngully, Robotnik from Sonic, and in this movie? Well it was shown more that the pollution, littering and general carelessness of Humans was the enemy - not Humans themselves. And I loved that they included that dark twist, showing the two dead parents and making the littlest of the 'furlings' become ill with the risk of death. The three kids totally reminded me of the Freedom Fighters (I mean seriously, they have a hedgehog with them), so I was really able to invest myself in this movie back then. This movie certainly wasn't top notch or quality stuff, but as a kid who was looking for something that wasn't all just silly, loud nonsense, I loved this movie. It could have been better, sure, but I think it was fine as it is. I still stand by my belief that some older movies can be great for what they do to appeal to the children looking for something different. One of my favorite movie lines of all time, in a kid's movie no less, is from Rock-a-'Doodle, where the Owl Duke (Uncle Dukey) says: "If I kill my nephew, would that be murder or charity?" I mean come on! You don't hear things like that in kid's movies these days! So yeah, this movie wasn't perfect, but the dark twists and the risks taken made it something I loved as a kid.

[@raluca4774]

BETRvids BETRvids I don't think you know what a "dark TWIST" actually means. There was no twist to this thing. A dark twist would be if Cornelius would suddenly attack the little brats, kill them, and offer them as a sacrifice to the humans.

[@lapzidorus1786]

+Raluca Serediuc I believe they meant that this film took risks, which the Critic himself pointed out in his summary.

[@wakenow1]

@@BETRvids the fox and the hound was awesome too.

[@thesonofsuns2154]

I always fucking die laughing at 3:24 - 3:43 for some reason.

[@mabob1913]

I always die at 6:20 that woman tho XD

[@KangaKucha]

The Son of Suns I prefer the following joke...

[@JTPMalavet]

Me too! It synced perfectly!

[@georgiawin97]

Omg you have no idea how happy I am I found this video! Apart from me and my mam, I genuinely don't know anyone else in my life who knew this film. And for a while I didn't think it existed and was a dream. My mum then found the dvd from when I was a kid. Watched this for the first time a few years ago as an adult. Cried my eyes out! Such an emotional story❤️

[@n.d.engleson6499]

3:02 - I think the term "Furling" is what they call a young woodland creature. "Fur" means, they have fur, and "-ling" is a suffix meaning “young” or “small”; e.g. "gosling". Can't say it's weird.

[@lauriduncan8682]

Yeah, Youngling is a much weirder one, because it's basically a redundant phrase.

[@JTPMalavet]

And it’s present in the original book I think !

[@shotgunatthedisco6909]

​@@JTPMalavetWait, this was a book?

[@mrbanks456]

18:54 The moment you realize you splashed alcohol on your wall

[@KroutonCing]

17:07 You fools! you messed with the natural OOOORRRRDDDDEEEERRRRR!!!!!!!!!

[@kittyscratchpaw9160]

Yeah this film is saved by my childhood, it's my guilty pleasure, I loved this movie lol.

[@kyleraccoon6195]

Me too :3

[@ZackRToler]

Ditto

[@augustwest5356]

Kitty ScratchPaw it saved your childhood? exaggerate much?

[@kittyscratchpaw9160]

Read much? I said the film was saved BY my childhood, the reason why I let it's little faults slip through and I still find it enjoyable.

[@milaalt1141]

Kitty ScratchPaw I don't know why this movie has to be a guilty pleasure because I love the nostalgic critic for funny comments but it is a kid movie after all and at least it taught another message about working together like the land before time

[@ShyGuy83]

I actually found a youtube video six years ago of a guy singing "Please Wake Up" in a high school talent show, and when I sent the link to Doug's facebook page, he actually said that that guy was a much better singer than Michael Crawford.

[@anthemward2877]

best joke ever toxic gas Tim Curry

[@Onsvaltti]

god I wish it was acted by Tim Curry.

[@lilybond1124]

Ferngully's toxic love by Tim Curry is one the best villians' song!

[@marksalmoneussorcerersupreme]

I love the "Toxic Gas" song 7:17

[@thecinematicmind]

Damn you! You little flying pandora. You little demon! Now you can't not ever be free! Damn you! CURSE YOOOOUUU! Ah Michael Crawford. But not as good as rrrrrRHEUMATISM!

[@cyborgninja5489]

Ramble can mean to move aimlessly from place to place. That's what that badger guy was referring to, not his own speech..

[@scholl1943]

The best thing of this film is the music of James Horner RIP😭

[@RoflEpicFail]

I always wondered what happened to Cornelius' sister, from his flashback

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I thought that too. The fact he says or thinks nothing of it is rather telling how they kinda brush that aside given the circumstances of Michelle's life, though you would think it would've been nice to have had some sign of grief for Cornelius realizing his is now the sole survivor of his family line and the guardian of his niece. That is a lot to take in I'm sure, but I guess for a film aimed at families, they had no time to dabble into that. Given the way Michael Crawford voices the guy, I would've thought he'd be much older anyway, though if that were true, Michelle would've called him "Great Uncle Cornelius" instead. Of course that would've put things in a different perspective I suppose.

[@BigHead2615]

I really doubt she was Cornelius' sister. He's this old, grandpa-type character, and the one glimpse of her parents, they did NOT appear that old.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

BigHead2615 That is some idea, perhaps Cornelius is a "Great Uncle" in this case, or else "uncle" is just a cute term of endearment Michelle uses for him simply for not having a real uncle of her own.

[@fruitbythefoote]

If he's Michelle's uncle,wouldn't that mean that Michelle's mother would have been his sister? It's the only possible explanation.

[@PLCTheCd]

I always assumed that his sister was Michelle's mother

[@Bogwedgle]

Pandas aren't endangered any more. Environmental movies have ruined your joke about environmental movies.

[@IsThereAnEkkoInHere]

Bogwedgle This is an old review

[@Bogwedgle]

Yes...I know...

[@chinococoa6743]

We have more pandas now? Yippee.

[@wjzav1971]

Wait! They aren't endangered anymore? For real?

[@steely3506]

Well, as far as actual numbers go. But as far as being a functioning species filling a niche in an actual ecosystem? Yeah, pandas aren't really in that position.

[@klimmr]

I remember 4-5 years ago when I use to stay up to 2 am working on my final projects for my architecture classes, I always use to watch old episodes of Nostalgia Critic just like this one on my phone.

[@Pauzix]

Furlings? I miss Stargate SG-1.

[@captain5104]

Michał Bukowiecki I use to watch that show annually...when did they ever say furlings?

[@YukiTenshi94]

They were one of the Four Great Races. You never see them or learn much about them apart from their name. Which is a shame.

[@captain5104]

YukiTenshi94 Ah that's why I don't remember them...they were basically a footnote in the series. Still loved that show.

[@YukiTenshi94]

Pretty much, yeah. I'm currently on my third rerun of the show. It really shaped a lot of my childhood.

[@chinococoa6743]

Stargate had furlings, too? I dunno, I didn't watch the show, so I'm asking.

[@obiwankenobi9141]

Nostalgia Critic: This one has Michael Crawford! Me: The PHAAAANtom of the opera IS HERE! Insiiiide my miiiiiiiiind!

[@mr.classified6167]

12:40 Meanwhile, we see Don Bluth's version of 'Roots' taking place

[@the_absurd_hero]

I don’t know why, but this is probably one of my favorite NC episodes. I’ve rewatched it more times than I’m willing to admit.

[@robyn5467]

7:17 and 7:49 are still the best parts of this review and I've seen it several times.

[@Backinblackbunny009]

A ramble is a British expression that means a walk in the wilderness.

[@TrevsMovieReviews263]

Personally, this is one of my Top 5 favorite NC episodes

[@mariacortez9754]

Am I the only one that laughed when the plane/boat thing got destroyed by a book about gravity?

[@obstipuit]

8:00 one of the few moments in a nostalgia critic video that legit made me laugh out loud

[@moonlightwite]

Woah woah woah, NC thinks the animation in this movie isn't film worthy? Of all the things to criticize in this movie, I'd say the characters and the environments look nice. They have a very similar style to Don Bluth's films, and this movie was actually made by the same person who was an executive producer for An American Tail, David Kirschner. They had a low budget, but they really made it work - kind of like how Sausage Party had a very low budget but they managed to make it look great, which is very difficult to do in CGI.

[@whynotbrosay]

ShadowMaskTheCat sausage party abused it's workers though.

[@knottyorchid1212]

ShadowMaskTheCat Funny thing is that I'm currently working on a animated remake on this film.

[@Poever]

‘Twas animated by Hanna-Barbera

[@mollymoonfan5939]

@@whynotbrosay so does pretty much the entire animation industry

[@Onerom4728]

18:46 that joke could go like this Guy 1: Woohoo Marvel studios created a new do it right spiderman film. Guy 2: Yes but Sony the same company who created the Ghostbuster remake and the Emoji movie is planning a Venom movie. Guy 1: *awakward silence*

[@alanzapreservationtheythem2861]

Darn it! And Venon is actually an interesting character! Thank you for letting me know Onerom4728

[@jake06750]

I have no faith in this Venom film and have zero interest in seeing it. The teaser didn't make me feel excited or interested at all. Venom is a great comic character indeed, why does Sony feel the need to make their own spinoff Spider-Man franchise? It's completely pointless. Let Marvel utilize Venom and the other symbiotes in their own films! They created those characters, and they actually clearly know how to make films, comics, and TV series/cartoons about their own characters. Clearly Sony didn't learn their lessons with the not so Amazing Spider-Man films. They should look at Homecoming, that was a great movie, that's a good way to formally reintroduce Spider-Man! After the shit Sony's pumped out like you mentioned, they should just stay away from movies for a while. I'm not going to take the company who thought the Emoji Movie was a good idea seriously.

[@DrakoDragonis]

04:46 Ramble: verb - Walk for pleasurrrre in the countrrrryside :P

[@swisskun]

A ramble is a synonym of walk or a stroll.

[@hardygal2]

Is it just me, or are the badgers in this moving frickin' small as badgers go?

[@TnT_F0X]

Hey, it's that movie that scarred me as a child and I suppressed the name of to protect my mental well being. Thank you Nostalgia Critic! You opened a horrifying and damaging moment of my youth!

[@amorfm4071]

When I was in second grade we’d watch a movie every Friday. We watched once upon a forest but we didn’t have time to finish it. No one liked it so we watched half of all dogs go to heaven the next week. Because we never finished them I took the liberty of going to the library and renting them 😂

[@ГеоргийТусин]

An ultimate human choice that is

[@crimsondynamo615]

“I just won the lottery!” ‘Yes but 9/11 still happened…’ I feel as if he didn’t mean to fling the water like that with how he quickly turned his head at it. If anything it makes it funnier if it turned out that wasn’t supposed to happen.

[@octodaddy877]

"I lived far away, in a place called Willowbrook" My God, he lived in New Jersey? I guess that does explain where the poison gas came from.

[@Jarod-te2bi]

What’s sad is once upon a forest could have been a great movie with character development, music, and could have showed humans and nature need eachother and can live in harmony.

[@lukef2098]

Devleomeng

[@hung9839]

"Oh no! That is so sad!" The way he said it, was fucking hilarious I love it.

[@99lodewijk]

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreumatism

[@edmundthefox3656]

Remember! RRRhhhhhhheuuuuuuumatism!!!!!

[@Kordian93]

Why does he post these old episodes? I have nothing against that, just wondering

[@maniakb416]

They werent om the channel anymore so he reuploads them so that people that havent seen them can see them now.

[@unkorodin]

Konrad Filipiak He re-uploads them because: 1) It's now easier to find the videos and 2) There are other channels that have videos on them that he took down so he's trying to get them back on his channel.

[@ELEcomments]

its because the originals got copy right striked, so he posts them all again when they are cleared

[@shadow3675]

damn the KZbin copy rights system.

[@GideonGleeful95]

It's a rrrrrrrrreupload

[@enigma1326]

Loved this movie for the longest time! It was only 5 years ago that I realized that my lovely Michael Crawford voiced Uncle Cornelius. And yes, I'm a fan of Michael Crawford.

[@FiauraTheTankGirlGamer]

I saw this as a kid and wow looking back, why did I watch this?

[@jostockton.]

Because it's a cute, entertaining movie, why else? You don't have to jump on the bandwagon and pretend it's terrible just because Doug thinks so.

[@nightmareeclipse8383]

U must hav been high as fuck

[@richardconaway1687]

if you watched any of the secret of nihm films this would be a very valid question. especially the second one.

[@GoatPopsicle]

We were kids, so taste in movies wasn’t a thing. Anything that had a semi-coherent story, kids showing bravery, or acting like adults; was something all kids liked.

[@jacksongibbs8998]

RHEUMATISM!

[@isthisnamegood]

I still like it. Great animation, pretty good voice work. A whimsical story with a good message.