A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
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A webbed and gnarled translucent watercolor sword and sorcery pastoral, furious with movement and activated Newtonian Alchemies. One of the jewels of the Annus Mirabilis 1982, The Secret of NIMH plays out like a crazed post-Disney, post-Rankin/Bass brew of Altered States and the Planet of the Apes TV shows. In the shadow of human civilization, the United States Government has given rats the capacity to use magickal and non-magickal technologies apparently not extant in un-DARPA'ed rat theories of global operations. This is the birth of the end of humankind's assumed hegemonic grasp on this world. Also, John Carradine as the most hypnotically terrifying animated owl ever.
I rewatched this film to see if it would be suitable to show to my 4 year old daughter. And while the answer is a resounding 'no' I did rediscover this rare, beautiful and surprisingly moving animated marvel.
Don Bluth is a genius. He is one of the best animators ever and I'm glad he had enough of Disney, left there fighting and made this. There's a good chance this film would not have existed otherwise.
With Bluth's characteristic animation style, we are given the story of a mouse seeking help from a group of intelligent rats as her son is sick and she has to leave her house. Throw in a wise owl and a host of other talking…
The legendary Don Bluth, who, as you can see from today's schedule, will be our star of the day, makes his directorial debut with this fantastic story centered on the world of mice, animals that will become as synonymous with the animator, probably a little less or as much as Walt Disney (whose studio turned down the adaptation of this book).
And, as was and still is the case, the most remarkable aspect of the entire film is its incredible animation. The care used in crafting a world where unusual components coexist alongside more commonplace items that have been subtly given new uses, such as a lamp that serves as an elevator. The character designs, particularly Nicodemos, are both…
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My first time witnessing the spectacular climax of The Secret of NIMH set my imagination on fire as a kid and is a movie moment that I will never forget.
"Courage of the heart is very rare. The stone has a power when it's there."
I have always admired the unique animated style of Don Bluth, and his amazing early work after leaving Disney were some of the first movies I remember seeing. In rewatching The Secret of NIMH, I noticed how simple this story is of a widowed mother mouse named Mrs. Brisby, who goes on an amazing adventure to save her home in order to protect her children including her sick son Timothy. What…
We know there is more to the world than what we see.
For so much of human history, we have told stories of worlds just out of sight. Fairies in mounds, trolls stalking just out of sight, the wonders and terrors of the yokai, the nunnehi, spirits in every culture you can name, all the way into the present day rumors of cryptids. What is beyond our vision is something fantastic, we tell ourselves. Something terrifying. Something that brings us woe and wonder.
The truth is, there is a world beyond our vision, full of terrors and wonders, but it is not the world our ancestors devised. It's not quite what Robert C. O'Brien envisioned, either, but somehow, his strange…
"Oh, fiddlesticks"
Don Bluth helped write the soundtrack to my childhood and Robert C. O'Brien's novel, "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH", was one of my favorite books growing up, so it really is a wonder that it has taken me almost thirty years to finally watch how those two came together.
Directing his first feature length film, coming shortly after his leaving Disney, Bluth crafts a picture that is full of wonder and magic, adventure and heart and far better than just about anything Disney itself put out in the 1980's simply in its rapturous design alone. Though most of Bluth's films that followed this are musicals, he used the sacred text of O'Brien's Newberry Award-winning novel and…
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1982 Marathon - Film #73
”They must move your house to the lee of the stone”
With it’s darker than average themes and gorgeous old school animation, this is easily my favorite Don Bluth film.
I’m also grateful to this one for expanding my vocabulary. And for the last 40 years I’ve keep it’s lessons tucked away in the lee of my brain as I patiently await the perfect opportunity to use it!
”You can unlock any door if you only have a key”
The Secret of NIMH is a beautiful, sometimes terrifying, animated feature. It deserves credit for its exploration of mature themes (particularly animal experimentation) and refreshing for the time protagonist - a mother who gets sucked into the adventure but is primarily concerned with trying to save her child. The way that light is utilized in particular is mesmerizing and gorgeous. Solid stuff.
