The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
Now for the red-headed stepchild of the Disney Renaissance, The Rescuers Down Under. The Movie: The Rescuers Down Under is the 29th movie in the Disney Animated Canon and the 2nd movie during the Disney Renaissance. Despite mostly positive reviews, it is also the only box-office bomb of the Disney Renaissance. (This movie opened the same weekend as Home Alone, the highest grossing film of 1990. And to make matters worse, studio head Jeffery Katzenberg pulled all advertising after the opening weekend due to that poor performance.) Modern audiences, if they are even familiar with both films, are split on which Rescuers film is the better movie. Also, it should be noted that this is the first sequel in the Disney Animated Canon. Out of all the movies to get a sequel, The Rescuers seems like an unlikely choice, but when this film was being developed on the heels of The Black Cauldron, The Rescuers was Disney's most success film of the preceding two and...