The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue

Never in my entire existence have I been so entirely disappointed in one single streak. Honestly. My heart falls when I think that an entire generation is likely to remember THIS travesty as the only NIHM movie.

This is little more than a piece of Direct-to-Video drivel, moulded right from the formula that Disney has, as of late, ironed out and pushed down our throats. Maybe I'm jaded, but I still cannot accept this as a NIHM movie.

I was a child when Bluth unveiled the original Secret Of NIHM, over a decade ago now; re-releases, video versions, and all the rest have never dulled the fantasy and wonder of it. This 'sequel', as it sees fit to call itself, has none of that life. The plot is weak, formulamatic; the voice acting is merely marginal; music is used where unnecessary, simply because it can be (The Great Disney Fallacy, in action again); the story of the original is scattered like so much debris...but that's not the worst.

The worst is that there is no wonder here. No grand adventure, no superheroes and magic and characters that make you want to dream with them. None whatsoever.

If this is the new trend of children's movies, my kids are going to watch an awful lot of ratty, worn-out, videos.

Avoid this movie - especially if you liked its predecessor. It's just simply terrible. The two movies have so little in common that it's just sickening. In fact, I don't even want to write any more about it. Suffice it to say that you should not watch this movie. It's not worth the depression it brings when you think about how much you'd expect from a sequel to such a great movie.

I totally agree..I LOVED the original one when I was a kid..and still do..its one of my favourite movies..and I really hate when they make sequels to classic movies..especially animated ones..it's so disappointing..and they keep on doing it and I wish they wouldn't..its so sad..another movie they did that with that was so stupid, was Cinderella..they made a sequel? like how dumb..that movie is a CLASSIC..and they basically ruined it...i mean if they make a sequel they could at least make it good..and make the animation like it used to be..and not so cheap looking..they do it with soo many movies and I'm tired of it

Secret of Nimh 2: Timmy to the Rescue is a horrible let down from the first. I caught it on the Disney channel a few years back, and it's horrible! The ending is so stupid it's insane, and it's truly a cinematic insult to the first. And like all Disney sequels being filmed lately, they use a new animation look. I loved the old look of Secret of Nimh. The animation is what made it great. This, like many sequels however, have a very cartoony look to them, instead of an "animation" look. So take my advice. Don't even see this film because it will ruin all the respect you have for the original. 1/5 stars (only because it's not the worst movie I've ever seen!)

JOHN ULMER

The Secret of NIMH was one of the best kid's movies ever. It disturbed and frightened me as a kid in the way a good fairy tale does (or the way adult movies disturb and frighten adults in on a different scale), because it makes you think about big issues, but in a way that kids can still learn from and love to watch. The sequel, wow, it was pretty bad. The animation quality was okay, not as good as the original but not horrible, but the story went the way of a mediocre afternoon TV cartoon. They added a few cartoony characters for comic effect, including a caterpillar and two cats, who could talk although it was never explained how since they had never been experimented on by NIMH. They turned it into a Disneyesque musical, with a song every 10 or 20 minutes. One character switches from an American to a British accent in the middle of the film for no reason. It's not scary in the least, not like the original, even atmospherically like the original scene where Mrs. Brisby confronts the Great Owl. Despite a fairly impressive valley where the mice now live, you don't have any feel for their world like in the original, cobbled together by enhanced intelligence into makeshift versions of the human world, complete with electricity and moving parts. There are strange slang phrases present like, "You know what I'm sayin'?" and "team-player." It is linked to the original, though, and if your kids have not seen it, they will be confused.

I will give it credit for one amazing plot twist in the middle which took me by surprise, and they resisted the urge to cutesy it up like Lucas did with his Star Wars prequels. The voice acting was decent. Some of the jokes were funny. Really though, The Secret of NIMH, the original, had a vision and a lot of hard work put into it. The second felt more like a moderate effort for a calculated return on a direct-to-video sequel they knew most people would ignore outright. Compared to the average Disney movie, just as pure entertainment for kids who've never seen the original, I would rate it a 5 instead of the 3 I gave it. Worth renting, not buying.