The Rescuers Down Under

The Rescuers Down Under
Original theatrical release poster
Directed by	Hendel Butoy Mike Gabriel
Produced by	Thomas Schumacher
Screenplay by	Jim Cox Karey Kirkpatrick Byron Simpson Joe Ranft
Starring	Bob Newhart Eva Gabor John Candy Tristan Rogers Adam Ryen George C. Scott Wayne Robson Douglas Seale Frank Welker Bernard Fox Peter Firth Billy Barty Ed Gilbert Carla Meyer Russi Taylor
Music by	Bruce Broughton
Edited by	Michael Kelly
Production company	Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Feature Animation
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
Release date	November 16, 1990 (1990-11-16)
Running time	77 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$47.4 million

The Rescuers Down Under is a 1990 American animated adventure comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 16, 1990. The 29th Disney animated feature film, the film is the sequel to the 1977 animated film The Rescuers, which was based on the novels of Margery Sharp. Set in the Australian Outback, the film centers on Bernard and Bianca traveling to Australia to save a boy named Cody from a villainous poacher in pursuit of an endangered bird of prey.

Featuring the voices of Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor (in her final film role), John Candy, and George C. Scott, The Rescuers Down Under was the first animated theatrical film sequel produced by Disney. The film was the second released during the Disney Renaissance (1989–1999) era, which had begun the year prior with The Little Mermaid, but was a major under-performer at the box-office compared to Mermaid and the other films of the Disney Renaissance era.

In the Australian Outback, a young boy named Cody rescues and befriends a rare golden eagle called Marahuté, who shows him her nest and eggs. Later on, the boy falls in an animal trap set by Percival C. McLeach, a local poacher wanted by the Australian Rangers. When McLeach finds one of the eagle's feathers on the boy's backpack, he is instantly overcome with excitement, for he knows that catching an eagle that size would make him rich because he had caught one before, which was Marahuté's mate. McLeach throws Cody's backpack to a pack of crocodiles in order to trick the Rangers into thinking that Cody was eaten, and kidnaps him in an attempt to force him to reveal the whereabouts of Marahute.