A Ratinha Valente 2: O Segredo do Ratinho

Oh, what an idiot I am. I read the reviews, and I rented this disc-shaped fragment of decaying bovine excrement anyway.... and believe me, I want those 79 minutes of my life back, desperately. I won't rehash the obvious and pervasive reasons why this just might be the worst animated flick ever committed to film (of course I haven't actually SEEN every animated film in existence, so it's possible that there's a worse one out there somewhere, but I doubt it). Those reasons are adequately rehearsed in the other reviews to be seen herein.

I merely want to issue a warning to other potential viewers who loved the first film as I did, and thus might be thinking, as I did, "It CAN'T be that bad..."

Trust me. It can.

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.

The original secret of NIMH, was a dark depressing tale, about society, told through animals. It was a very deep film, with morals, and inner conflicts. I loved it, and would watch it everyday, relating to all the diffrent charicters.

But this....... poor excuse for a film, was nothing like the orignal.

MGM is making cheap DTV clones of disny films, which sickens me. I remember the original land before time as a kid. It was a great film. Suddenly there are 9 sequels. I do not know how, seeing as the orignal ended with the main characters finding the valley, and an endless supply of food.

Anyway this film sickens me, cause to me, it's like they took the original and dropped a ray of sunshine in it, and made this putrid, thing, I cannot even stand to look at. The acting it horrable, even for a cartoon. The animation is second rate compared to the orignal. The plot is thin, and the charicters are so empty. It cements my belief that these animation studios can take the darkest more demented story ever and turn it into a musical. Disny could take the story of Hitler and turn it into a happy sunshine musical. And the sad thing is, it will sell.

I'm sorry, I was just so p***ed when I saw this film. Cause I love the original

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.

As other reviews have noticed, this flick is a slap in the face of those of us who loved the original movie as kids. The animation is truly Saturday-morning level, and I was cringing every time a familiar character popped in -- they had been stripped of whatever edginess they had previously possessed and given voices that grate harshly on the ears of long-time fans. The songs were painful and completely inappropriate every single time, and the story was just plain dumb. I am a camp counselor for kids aged 6 to 10, and even they hated the movie. Parents, please don't subject your kids to this drivel, and fans of the original, don't even think of even picking up the box to this shameful waste of time.