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Available For The FIRST TIME On Disney DVD

Disney’s
THE RESCUERS

From Disney’s Classic Team of Master Animators

All The Fun & Adventure Arrives On Disney DVD and Video

BURBANK, Calif., May 1, 2003 – Two tiny heroes add up to one big adventure as Walt Disney Home
Entertainment presents THE RESCUERS, available on Disney DVD for the first time on May 20. From the
legendary Disney master animators that brought you “The Jungle Book,” THE RESCUERS is a thrilling
adventure and timeless tale overflowing with action, suspense, and extraordinary little heroes that you can’t
help but love. With Oscar-nominated music*, new remastering, and all-new bonus features with a multitude
of surprises, THE RESCUERS is high-flying fun that the whole family can share in. THE RESCUERS is
priced to own for $29.99 (S.R.P.) in its exciting premiere to Disney DVD and $22.99 (S.R.P.) on Video.

On Disney DVD, THE RESCUERS includes the features:

♦ “The Ultimate Case” Set-Top Detective Game
Use your sleuthing skills and solve a mystery for Penny.
♦ “Water Birds” Disney True-Life Adventure
Academy Award ™ winning short film (Best Short Subject, 1952)
♦ The Rescuers Scrapbook
Never-before-revealed and rare animation art, music and behind-the-scenes secrets.
♦ “Under The Hat Villains”
All those Disney villains we love to hate.
♦ “Three Blind Mouseketeers
Classic Silly Symphony animated short
♦ “Someone’s Waiting For You” Sing Along Song
Sing along to this inspiring song as the words appear right on the screen

In THE RESCUERS, join the shy but brave mouse Bernard (Bob Newhart) and his glamorous partner
Miss Bianca (Eva Gabor) – two tiny heroes on a great big mission to save Penny, a young girl who has
sent an urgent call for help. Taking off on the wings of the albatross Orville, together they soar to the
marshy swamp of Devil’s Bayou. There, they find themselves on the riverboat hideout of the hilariously
evil Madame Medusa, who wants to use Penny to steal the world’s largest diamond!

Street Date: May 20, 2003
Suggested Retail Price: $29.99 DVD, $22.99 VHS
Running Time: Approximately 76 minutes
Rated: “G”
DVD bonus features unrated
DVD Aspect Ratio: Family friendly 1.66:1, enhanced for 16x9 screens
DVD Sound: Dolby™ Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
THX™ Certified
French language track on DVD
Spanish language track on DVD

Walt Disney Entertainment is distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc., a recognized
industry leader. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. is the marketing, sales and distribution company
for Walt Disney, Touchstone, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax, Dimension and Buena Vista videocassettes
and DVDs.

It´s strange this DVD has not yet been released on region 1, when on region 2 it has been released for some time now.......always thought that they were released first on US.

I hope the Picture quatity will be better than the european DVDs... I love the film and the quatity of the european DVDs is a shame.

THX sounds good but I am a little bit sceptical abuot that...

Greetings
Philipp

i wish they coiuld of changed the cover, the cover is good but i wouldve likd another one this one is boring now cuz its old

Sorry to take this thread into the gutter, but I can't help wondering if the DVD release will be the naughty version or the nice one. You remember the recalled VHS release, don't you? The one that featured (?) the centerfold during the flight scene....

Sorry to mention this,
Lon

I don't think there's ANY way it would be the naughty version. It's not like this was some kind of intentional animation gag (the way I understand the Baby Herman stuff from WFRR), but rather a prank from some person or persons in the post-production department.

And think about it, if Disney goes and cleans up subtle things that can be explained but aren't (such as the Lion King clouds of dust for the IMAX release), and they've actually *acknowledged* this gag and recalled copies of the movies, I don't think there's any way THAT version will resurface.

For people who don't know about this, check out Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/rescuers.htm

It's like the only real 'naughty Disney' rumor that's actually an acknowledged fact.

They won't release the "naughty" version.

For the UK release they actually when to the trouble of replacing that sequence of the PAL transfer on the DVD with a poor NTSC -> PAL segment. You can see this in the screenshot below with the poor 3:2 pulldown artifacts (the "double lines"). This is the only section of the DVD which exhibits these artifacts when the film is paused.



Normally you won't see 3:2 pulldown on DVDs at all when paused as the DVD player itself does the pulldown. I suspect this section was taken from an old VHS master Disney UK had lying around (for VHS releases, the 3:2 pulldown would be performed on the actual transfer, as VHS players cannot do pulldown themselves).

2099net wrote:They won't release the "naughty" version.

For the UK release they actually when to the trouble of replacing that sequence of the PAL transfer on the DVD with a poor NTSC -> PAL segment. You can see this in the screenshot below with the poor 3:2 pulldown artifacts (the "double lines"). This is the only section of the DVD which exhibits these artifacts when the film is paused.



Normally you won't see 3:2 pulldown on DVDs at all when paused as the DVD player itself does the pulldown. I suspect this section was taken from an old VHS master Disney UK had lying around (for VHS releases, the 3:2 pulldown would be performed on the actual transfer, as VHS players cannot do pulldown themselves).

I just got my copy of the US release today and it suffers from the same problems. It does not appear that they put any cleanup work into this release. There are a ton of glitches and artifacts. It appears to be the very same master they used for the European release. So infortunately, the video quality is not great. It is, however, much better than video.

how did you get a copy of the us version, when it hasn't been released yet? Isn't the release dat may 20th?

yes but store get the shipment a week before, there's a few option how get got it early

1) bought it at a store that broke street date

2) work for a store that carries dvds and stole one

3) works for a video rental place

4) has a friend in BVHE

5) get sample discs to review

Prince Phillip wrote:how did you get a copy of the us version, when it hasn't been released yet? Isn't the release dat may 20th?

I have a friend at BVHE.

I actually saw Atlantis II VHS in my local Suncoast but when I asked themn about the DVD they said that it wont come out until next week. And also a weird thing I noticed is that Disney didnt release the VHS of Atlantis II in their usual big white box (dont know what it is called) but just a regular vhs box. And I have a question, why did they stop relesing the DVDs in the white box and now they use a black dvd box (like Lilo and Stitch and Treasure Planet) ?

you mean the clamshell, i noticed that too, im glad they are treating they cheapquels like they deserve!

wicked valmont wrote:I actually saw Atlantis II VHS in my local Suncoast but when I asked themn about the DVD they said that it wont come out until next week. And also a weird thing I noticed is that Disney didnt release the VHS of Atlantis II in their usual big white box (dont know what it is called) but just a regular vhs box. And I have a question, why did they stop relesing the DVDs in the white box and now they use a black dvd box (like Lilo and Stitch and Treasure Planet) ?

They're still using the white keepcases for most of the DVDs, for instance the Pan & Scan catalogue titles, next week's 2-disc Special Editions, and The Rescuers. Seems like maybe only new theatrical releases get the black cases, but there are exceptions.

Trying to figure out Disney's methods can give you a headache.

This release stunk!!!!

Tangela wrote:This release stunk!!!!

......if this film had taken in 600 million worldwide, they might have given it a nice SE-treatment, plus a hip 'someone's waiting for you-remix' but lets face it, the movie simply came in a dark time for animation and failed.....not that it's a bad film though

PatrickvD wrote:

Tangela wrote:This release stunk!!!!

......if this film had taken in 600 million worldwide, they might have given it a nice SE-treatment, plus a hip 'someone's waiting for you-remix' but lets face it, the movie simply came in a dark time for animation and failed.....not that it's a bad film though

As much as I hate discussing The Rescuers yet again, for some reason there is this popular misconception that the Rescuers flopped. It didn't. According to Maltin's book, The Disney Films, when the Rescuers was released it became the highest grossing animated film ever, at that time making $48,775,599 in the United States alone.

Maerj wrote:

PatrickvD wrote: ......if this film had taken in 600 million worldwide, they might have given it a nice SE-treatment, plus a hip 'someone's waiting for you-remix' but lets face it, the movie simply came in a dark time for animation and failed.....not that it's a bad film though

As much as I hate discussing The Rescuers yet again, for some reason there is this popular misconception that the Rescuers flopped. It didn't. According to Maltin's book, The Disney Films, when the Rescuers was released it became the highest grossing animated film ever, at that time making $48,775,599 in the United States alone.

wow, i really didnt know this, stupid me . Thanks for the information. I guess time didnt do this film justice. I do know it was a big hit in europe, epecially in rental. Than i guess it really IS unfair the way disney treated this film. But i dont get disney at all... why screw up a movie like Lion king while the films from the eighties need some rework animationwise. It really doesnt make any sense to me

I hope they don't tamper with this film and remove the frame with the naked woman. If they do, we wouldn't be getting the "original" release.....


For the record, taking that out is 100% acceptable, being that it's a family movie.

ok, i looked it up:

The Rescuers was Disney's most commercially successful animated feature at the time of its initial release, generating over $40 million in worldwide rentals and out-grossing such strong competition as Star Wars in many countries including France and Germany.

It also proved to be a hit with many film critics. The Washington Post called it, "certainly the best Disney feature since 'Mary Poppins"' while Variety hailed it as a "special event...a film which blends visual sophistication and emotional simplicity, along with the upbeat humor that marks the best of Disney product;" Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times called it "the funniest, the most inventive, the least self-conscious, the most coherent and fast moving... and probably most important of all, it is also the most touching (feature length animated film from Disney) in a decade or more

The song "Someone's Waiting For You" was nominated for an Oscar in 1978.

ok, enough rescuers talk for now lol