Film · Prime Video · 1992
FernGully: The Last Rainforest
Stewardship with a cartoon sermon. The sermon is not wrong. The humans are thin.
Hexxus is pollution with a voice, and the film is honest that a machine with no master will eat until the green is gone. Crysta is brave. Zak learns that a job can be a harm even when the men doing it are ordinary. That is a fair lesson.
It is also a sermon that flattens the loggers into the spell. Stewardship in a real county has to count the paycheck and the watershed in the same sentence. Watch it for the creature and the smoke. Then take the child outside, where the question is harder and the trees are not voiced by a fairy.
The eight
Industry
5/10
Logging is shown as a job. The machine is the villain, the men are almost props.
Household
4/10
No household. A friendship across kinds.
Piety
6/10
The forest is treated as a created thing with a claim on the people in it.
Courage
7/10
She goes toward the smoke.
Republic
5/10
A common good, argued by magic rather than by neighbors.
Temperance
6/10
Consumption is the demon, named as one.
Truth
6/10
The harm is not pretended away.
Stewardship
8/10
The whole plot is what we leave standing.
Live historicallyWalk a child through one real place you mean to keep, and say what would ruin it.