- Actors: Lacey Chabert, Jodi Carlisle, Tim Curry, Danielle Harris, Tom Kane
- Writers: Arlene Klasky, David Rosenberg, David Silverman, Gabor Csupo, Stephen Sustarsic
- Producers: Mark Risley
- Classification: U
- Studio: Paramount
- VHS Release Date: 7 April 2003
- Run Time: 30 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00008MIZ9
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 11,199 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The characters in The Wild Thornberrys Movie are well-defined and delightful; the well-written script zips along and the animation is visually dynamic. This charming movie version of the Nickelodeon cartoon centres on Eliza, the youngest daughter of the Thornberry family. Her parents, Nigel and Marianne, travel the world to create nature programmes for television. But Eliza, thanks to a mystical encounter, has the power to talk to animals--a power that leads her on the hunt for poachers in Africa who have captured a baby cheetah. Eliza's best friend, a chimpanzee named Darwin, is along for the ride, while her resentful teenage sister Debbie is trying to bring her back to their parents. All in all, this is an excellent animated feature featuring the voices of Tim Curry, Lacey Chabert, Rupert Everett, Marisa Tomei, Alfred Woodard and Lynn Redgrave. --Bret Fetzer
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Contains 2 episodes:
Gift of Gab
Eliza learns that some gifts come with strings attached, like the one attached to her gift of gab: she must never tell anyone of her unique powers. Not even her parents or Debbie!
Dances with Dingoes
Will Debbie expose Eliza’s secret gift after seeing her ‘speak’ to a pack of dingoes? That is, if that’s what Debbie really saw!
Running time: 47 mins approx.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
A great film for parents and kids to watch together, if you have watched the series you will not be disappointed by this film. It has all the great content of the series in bigger handfuls. Eliza is up to her usual tricks and poor Darwin the chimp has to put up with the consequences as well. As I missed out on the earlier episodes of the tv shows it also explained some things I was not sure about.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The family (mum, dad, daughter 10, son 8) saw this at the cinema and really enjoyed it. Its works well on the small screen as well and has quite a serious storyline, although to be honest the kids have only watched it a few times, so perhaps try renting as well - they prefered to watch their many hours of TV Wild Thornberry episodes on video instead, as there is far more variety (and even I enjoy watching them). However this is a very successful movie translation with a strong conservationist story. It's not unlike Tarzan really with it's England public school sequences. Your children would probably appreciate the film more if they are familiar with the TV series (but then they will have probably seen it already). Unfortunately the TV series isn't being screened at the moment. I think the film will still make perfect sense if you aren't familiar with The Wild Thornberrys - it's just the exact reason why Eliza can talk to animals that is glossed over, although to be honest that only took up a few seconds of the original 90 episode TV series anyway. Eliza's constant kindness to animals was rewarded by a powerful African witch-doctor/shaman spirit who granted her the ability to talk to animals (not that she can change their inate behaviour much though) - however it's on condition that she must keep this gift completely secret to prevent it being misused by other humans.
I far preferred this movie to the later 'Rugrat's go wild'. It's particularly of interest to a UK audience as Nigel Thornberry is very English, and a cross between David Attenborough and George Sanders (Sheer Khan in The Jungle Book). Plus any film with Brit Tim Curry involved is always fun (the voice of Nigel). There's also Lynn Redgrave as Cordelia Thornberry - Nigel's mum. The film particularly suites girls as both main leads are girls, although the animal action sequences and wild-boys Donny and Darwin keep the young men happy. Highly recommended for a 5 to 11 audience (and their parents), particularly as now it's an old title, it's quite cheap. It's also actually available to buy cheaply in the UK, unlike sadly most of the classy TV series - although a few single PAL Wild Thornberry DVDs, e.g. 'Heroes of the animal kingdom', 'Call of the wild' [6 episodes], and 'The origins of Donnie' [4 episodes], are available to rent and buy on Amazon at the moment. The Wild Thornberrys TV show hasn't actually been cancelled either, it's technically been put on 'hold' for a few years as there were so many episodes already made.
I far preferred this movie to the later 'Rugrat's go wild'. It's particularly of interest to a UK audience as Nigel Thornberry is very English, and a cross between David Attenborough and George Sanders (Sheer Khan in The Jungle Book). Plus any film with Brit Tim Curry involved is always fun (the voice of Nigel). There's also Lynn Redgrave as Cordelia Thornberry - Nigel's mum. The film particularly suites girls as both main leads are girls, although the animal action sequences and wild-boys Donny and Darwin keep the young men happy. Highly recommended for a 5 to 11 audience (and their parents), particularly as now it's an old title, it's quite cheap. It's also actually available to buy cheaply in the UK, unlike sadly most of the classy TV series - although a few single PAL Wild Thornberry DVDs, e.g. 'Heroes of the animal kingdom', 'Call of the wild' [6 episodes], and 'The origins of Donnie' [4 episodes], are available to rent and buy on Amazon at the moment. The Wild Thornberrys TV show hasn't actually been cancelled either, it's technically been put on 'hold' for a few years as there were so many episodes already made.
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Bringing my childhood back to me
first watched when i was 8 and remember really loving this so i decided to buy it to watch with my partner and the nostalgia rolled back good little film funny and exciting enjoyed... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Dan Everton
genious
beautiful to look at and a fabulous film with side splitting lines for adults. genious animation. this is not your "average" kids movie, so much more to it, so much depth and a... Read more
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brilliant
what a great film, multi level humour, multi level storyline, multi level underlying morals. plus all the usual great characters including eliza's sister who is just, like, so... Read more
Published on 30 Jun 2009 by Jonny Fantastic
wow
to completely understand it you would of have to of seen the series. Iy is fukll of imotion laughter and suspence all in one. Read more
Published on 3 July 2003 by "mariongriffiths"
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