“FernGully: The Last Rainforest” is a disappointing movie from Disney as it fails to capture the greatness of tons of their other titles. “FernGully” is very preachy movie that sadly forgets about acting, dialog and character development along the way and it also manages to churn out some mediocre at best songs.

In “FernGully”, Crysta (Samantha Mathis “American Psycho”) is a fairy who lives in FernGully, a magical rainforest. A logging company isn’t far away though. One of the logging company’s men Pips (Christian Slater “True Romance”) is shrunk by Crysta’s magic and the duo set out on a mission to stop the logging company once Pips discovers the magical aspects of the forest. Sadly, though the logging company have accidentally released a smoky villain named Hexxus (Tim Curry “Home Alone 2: Lost In New York”).

It’s sad to see how bad the acting is in this movie. Crysta and Pips are both voiced horribly and their dialog is truly awful. Tim Curry is a great actor in my opinion but he’s treated badly in this movie and unfortunately doesn’t get to shine. The biggest disappointment though is seeing Robin Williams (“Flubber”) get taken down too though.

“FernGully” is not a horrible movie and I like its magical setting and the animation is decent but the film feels very preachy and that’s not what you want to see in a Disney movie. The acting as I’ve said is poor, the dialog is even worse and the characters are bland. This is a major misfire by Disney that I hope they use a reference on how not to make a Disney movie. If you have very small children they may enjoy this movie but why not treat them to one of Disney’s better movies such as “Toy Story”, “Pinocchio”, “Fantasia” and “The Lion King” as I’m sure they’d enjoy those movies much more.