YMMV / FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Pips. Supposed to save young animals from poachers? Go off and screw around human culture while the smallest of your gang and an on-and-off insane (but oddly Only Sane Man) bat go and try do it themselves. This is seen as extremely selfish of Pips but we also see that he simply can't focus on the mission and is distracted by a world he's never seen or thought of before, and when he finally remembers what his mission is, he's deeply ashamed for losing his focus. Admit it, imagine if a human was thrown into a different culture or lifestyle that interested them. That or he has ADD.
• Broken Aesop: The poachers cause a forest fire that burns down a large part of the rain forest. The fairies set to work fixing it, and by the time the heroes return triumphant, things are almost back to normal. There's also the fact that forest fires are a completely natural part of a forest's life cycle. It consumes the dead twigs, branches and other detritus on the forest floor, not to mention there are a number of plants whose seeds depend on the heat from a fire to cause them to split open and begin their life cycle, taking advantage of the fire removing much of their competition.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The forest fire is harder to watch come 2019-20, when Australia was plagued with bush fires across the country.
• Narm:
  • The kangaroo mother's Skyward Scream, where she drops to her knees while surrounded by flames and shouts "MY BAAAAAAABYYYYYYYY!!" The overly dramatic moment comes out of nowhere, and just looks silly with a cartoon kangaroo.
    • And when she's finally reunited with her child near the end? They have an awkwardly rushed exchange. Not helped by this happening right after an equally awkward scene where Bungie and Pips say their goodbyes... before Pips quickly flies away from her without another word, as if he wanted to get away from her ASAP.
  • Bungie falling off the cliff after rescuing the animals from the poacher is meant to be a tense, dramatic scene of her falling to her death... made hilarious by her voice actress sounding more like she's doing a vocal warmup.
• Narm Charm: For some, the kangaroo mother's Skyward Scream still manages to be pretty sad.
• Ron the Death Eater: Pips gets a lot of flak (as seen above) for forgetting all about his mission to rescue baby animals from poachers in favor of hanging out with a human girl he befriended. Those same critics tend to forget that (1) Pips had never seen the human world before and was left in awe of it; (2) once he finally remembered his mission, he was deeply ashamed of his own forgetfulness and kept his focus on the mission for the rest of the movie; (3) the human girl he befriended—and, later, her grandfather as well—played a significant role in sabotaging the poachers (Bungie even managed to rescue a portion of the captured animals on her own); and (4) he helped Crysta capture the poachers and rescue the remaining animals during the climax. So, while Pips did screw up early on (for which viewers are right to criticize him), he did make up for it later.
• Sequelitis: Take a baseline of FernGully, then add a significantly lower budget and cheap, sub-TV-level animation, then remove the two best-received things about the first movie (a.k.a the voicework of Tim Curry and Robin Williams), add some horrendously cheesy musical numbers, and sideline the heroine of the first movie for borderline cameo appearances; and for the new main character, you take a fan favorite — albeit one with little screentime or influence on the plot — and remove the character traits that endeared them to the fanbase in the first place, and you have a case of sequelitis with only one sequel.

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