Ferngully boasts a fairly notable cast and an interesting premise. The film is predictable and the plot is somewhat terse, but the film is not horrid. (Robin Williams as Batty was the most quotable person in the second grade.) The film invokes fond memories of childhood, yet, looking back, it seems rather disturbing. One scene in particular strikes me as vaguely oedipal. Hexxis, a cloud of filth, rises from the smoke stacks of the factory and as he sucks on the smoke stack he grows exponentially and says somewhat sexually, "Mommy's milk." He clearly derives pleasure from his "mother," but he is past the stage where breast feeding is natural. The overt representation of satiation from one's mother, strikes me as shocking. In fact, it is downright unpleasant. Other than that disturbing image, the film is acceptable, and definitely pleasurable, for young children, bothersome for teenagers, and mildly annoying for adults.
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