Once Upon a Forest - Nostalgia Critic 

13:28 that's kinda sick, throwing a funeral for your dying child who isn't officially dead yet in front of him

Fun fact: Michael Crawford struggled not to cry during his song.

The truck only tipped over because of the bottle on the road; the forest being in danger was a complete accident. The real moral of the story is, "Don't drink and ride."

I wish I could roll my "R"s as good as he can.

Doug's Michael Crawford impression is shockingly spot-on.

can we all agree that ferngully had one of the best voiced villains ever

"You are no longer Furlings, you are now furnitures"Cut to Cornelius sipping tea next to a fireplace while sitting on a chair made of the skin of the mole and hedgehog, an ottoman made from the mouse, and a skin rug made of the badger. Seriously, was I the only one who imagined it? Could have made the ending so much better.

This movie was one of my favorites as a kid. And I think, especially for kids, the message that not ALL humans are evil was an important one to include in there - while our technology can have devastating effects, we can still do better than just be mindless instruments of destruction, we can work to mitigate the damage we cause through our technology. Keeping Michelle's parents dead, too, gives the movie a more grounded feeling - sometimes bad things will happen, and there's no undoing that, and all we can do is work to make better what we still have a chance to change. It honestly has a lot of really good messages that I think may have helped shape me into the person I am, and I will definitely be showing it to my kids if/when I ever have any. I'm not sure if I ever saw Fern Gully, and if I did, I don't remember it at all, but I have ALWAYS remembered this movie, because it shows the full spectrum of the good and the bad in our world and encourages us to be better without telling us we're inherently the worst things ever. I still think fondly of this movie and love it to this day.

I remember when I was a Shia Labeouf many years ago.

I could not breath after the Tim curry part

Damn, the parental deaths are quite heavy in this film...You know...For kids!

Lol that machine thing was destroyed by a book about gravity XD

I think I would like to see an entire video of him doing just the "1920's announcer" voice.

A hedgehog name Russell...so this is where he lived before the Littlest Pet Shop.

Actually the first definition for "Ramble" is "walk for pleasure in the countryside."

i used to love this movie hahahaha

A ramble is a British term for a walk in the woods.

I remember this movie...it traumatized me for years after watching it. I was afraid that anything I did would accidentally kill hundreds of animals

Who the fuck ordered a truckload of poisonous gas?

*Aggressively rolls Rs*

Hey, this is the first NC video I ever saw! Aw, the Nostalgia for the Nostalgia Critic.

Michael Crawford’s singing kept shaking and switching between a high and low pitch because he was struggling not to cry the entire time. He couldn’t get past the fact that he was singing that song to a dying child

I have to give credit to the movie for the design of Abigail, she's female but there aren't any obvious "girl in a cartoon" tropes applied to her. It's kinda refreshing.

I think this review might be the pinnacle of the Old Nostalgia Critic style. I wish he'd still do some reviews like this along side his new style. The old style feels less like Doug is trying to show off his writing and acting abilities, and more like he's actually applying them.. I'm always impressed by Doug's abilities, whether he's trying his best or just goofing around, but personally I enjoy him a little more when he's just not giving too much of a fuck and is making a video to be silly and not to store in his professional resumé, so to say.

3:44 I freakin lost it right there with the Phantom's tirade from I Remember/Stranger Than You Dreamt It 😂😂😂

Great Honk! Great Honk? Great Hulk! Great Hulk?! Great Hawk! Great HAWK?! Great Hog! GREAT HOG?! "You're a Furling Harry."

OH THE IRONY A BOOK ON GRAVITY FELL AND CRUSHED IT!

Fun fact: ramble is actually another word for walk, i think that's what he meant

OH! so THAT WASN'T a Big Lipped Alligator Moment!?!?

Pom Poko, Princess Mononoke and Nausicaâ of the Valley of the Wind are still the best envoirmental films ever made.

"It's okay! It turns out she just needs some aspirin! How are you?" Well there goes my drink. Turned me into a human lemonade sprinkler with that joke. XD

18:16 Props to Doug for fooling everyone who watched this review into thinking that this was an actual line in the movie.

Want an environmental film that's actually good? Watch some Ghibli films

My Grandma has this on VHS at her house and used to play it every time we drove to visit her during the holidays. She seemed so disappointed one year when I'd started to get a bit older that I didn't want to watch it, so we all sat down together to give it another watch.

I admit of all those 90s environmental animated films I have a soft spot for this one. The designs for the protagonists are decently cute, and I'll give it some credit for how relatively grounded it is. There's no evil cloud singing about pollution, it's just an accident that spreads the gas through the forest, and the ending shows humans making an effort to clean up the mess and a random guy saving the hedgehog from a cage. Also not dancing around death gets a bit of my respect.

Once Upon a Forest? More like Once Upon a Forrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrest.

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrheumatism!!!!

If it took them a day to get to the owl, free the bird stuck in the mud at around dawn, reach the second meadow around noon, build the flying machine in 2-3 hours, get the cliff-plant-thing less than an hour after building the flying machine, and get back to the dying badger kid at night. How exactly did they fly a day's and a half worth of walking in 3-4 hours?

This movie was a guilty pleasure for me and I love it even when it has is flaws.

Rheumatisam!

"I won the lottery!" "Yes, but COVID-19 still happened."

3:23 in the words of Sheldon Cooper "Oh gravity thou art a heartless bitch"

It makes me uncomforatable how good Doug's impression of Tim Curry is in this.

Although I love this film (for reasons I can't really explain- I think it's because it's one of the movies my Grandparents used to play for me and my sisters when we were really young) this review is great and makes me laugh every time! I know deep down this movie is mediocre at best, but I can't bring myself not to like it. I even bought myself the DVD years later (after finally remembering the name of it!) and still watch it often as a guilty pleasure!

Did anyone realise that the old badger was wearing the exact same clothes as Stanford Pines in Gravity Falls? Just me? Ok...

Honestly all this did was made me want to watch this movie a lot. It's still one of my favs.

3:44 This synced perfectly with Cornelius’ reaction! Like he’d really call Abigail “little demon” like Christine!

The Phantom of the Opera reference made my day! It was the London version too. Noiceee

I noticed that this movie's plot didn't even need that poison gas. They could have just said that little badger is ill and have her friends go and find cure for her. Simply said, all "save the environment" stuff in this movie were kinda pointless, movie would have worked just as fine without it.

Once Upon a Forest: The Legend of the Rolling "R"'s (Seriously though, I think that joke gets a bit old...)

Now despite what he said, I love this film. And to give credit, you really can't blame Hanna-Barbera for this. At least they were trying!

Am I the only one wondering if the guy who crashed that truck is okay? I mean, he was alone when he went off the road and was driving a truck full of hazardous material. He could be dead!

For some reason I hear the Tim curry song as "Green women be, crawling out my ass". I wish that was the actual line.

once upon a forest is a very nice movie for me to be honest what surprises me is how well the animation,story, and voice acting is, and i believe i saw this along with pagemaster when they were both on vhs

18:54 The moment you realize you splashed alcohol on your wall

When I was a kid, I loved watching shows like Sonic SatAM and I actually enjoyed Ferngully. This movie was right up my alley as a kid. As an adult, I think I would have watched this movie and been like, "Okay... what the fuck?" I was one of those kids who hated the silly, obnoxiously loud stuff that was clearly catered to children; I wanted to watch movies and shows where the good guys had legitimately evil bad guys. Hexus from Ferngully, Robotnik from Sonic, and in this movie? Well it was shown more that the pollution, littering and general carelessness of Humans was the enemy - not Humans themselves. And I loved that they included that dark twist, showing the two dead parents and making the littlest of the 'furlings' become ill with the risk of death. The three kids totally reminded me of the Freedom Fighters (I mean seriously, they have a hedgehog with them), so I was really able to invest myself in this movie back then. This movie certainly wasn't top notch or quality stuff, but as a kid who was looking for something that wasn't all just silly, loud nonsense, I loved this movie. It could have been better, sure, but I think it was fine as it is. I still stand by my belief that some older movies can be great for what they do to appeal to the children looking for something different. One of my favorite movie lines of all time, in a kid's movie no less, is from Rock-a-'Doodle, where the Owl Duke (Uncle Dukey) says: "If I kill my nephew, would that be murder or charity?" I mean come on! You don't hear things like that in kid's movies these days! So yeah, this movie wasn't perfect, but the dark twists and the risks taken made it something I loved as a kid.

Man I lowkey want to hear a collab between Michael Crawford and Desiigner. Imagine the amount of R's that will be rolled.

Pandas aren't endangered any more. Environmental movies have ruined your joke about environmental movies.

I love the "Toxic Gas" song 7:17

At 06:20 the woman has got to be doing some sort of interpretation dance. The whole sequence is may favorite part of the episode.

Starting from 17:55, I'm crying. Legitimately crying. Not because the girl is safe, but because that joke was comedic GOLD. Every time I open my eyes from an outburst of laughter, there's something new and even more ridiculous on screen. Fuck, I need a new set of lungs 😂😂😂

Damn you! You little flying pandora. You little demon! Now you can't not ever be free! Damn you! CURSE YOOOOUUU! Ah Michael Crawford. But not as good as rrrrrRHEUMATISM!

17:07 You fools! you messed with the natural OOOORRRRDDDDEEEERRRRR!!!!!!!!!

Furlings? I miss Stargate SG-1.

3:02 - I think the term "Furling" is what they call a young woodland creature. "Fur" means, they have fur, and "-ling" is a suffix meaning “young” or “small”; e.g. "gosling". Can't say it's weird.

The best thing of this film is the music of James Horner RIP😭

I always wondered what happened to Cornelius' sister, from his flashback

best joke ever toxic gas Tim Curry

A ramble is a British expression that means a walk in the wilderness.

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreumatism

8:00 one of the few moments in a nostalgia critic video that legit made me laugh out loud

Remember! RRRhhhhhhheuuuuuuumatism!!!!!

Omg you have no idea how happy I am I found this video! Apart from me and my mam, I genuinely don't know anyone else in my life who knew this film. And for a while I didn't think it existed and was a dream. My mum then found the dvd from when I was a kid. Watched this for the first time a few years ago as an adult. Cried my eyes out! Such an emotional story❤️

Yeah this film is saved by my childhood, it's my guilty pleasure, I loved this movie lol.

04:46 Ramble: verb - Walk for pleasurrrre in the countrrrryside :P

Why does he post these old episodes? I have nothing against that, just wondering

I actually found a youtube video six years ago of a guy singing "Please Wake Up" in a high school talent show, and when I sent the link to Doug's facebook page, he actually said that that guy was a much better singer than Michael Crawford.

3:23 Do you believe in gravity?

Woah woah woah, NC thinks the animation in this movie isn't film worthy? Of all the things to criticize in this movie, I'd say the characters and the environments look nice. They have a very similar style to Don Bluth's films, and this movie was actually made by the same person who was an executive producer for An American Tail, David Kirschner. They had a low budget, but they really made it work - kind of like how Sausage Party had a very low budget but they managed to make it look great, which is very difficult to do in CGI.

12:40 Meanwhile, we see Don Bluth's version of 'Roots' taking place

Am I the only one that laughed when the plane/boat thing got destroyed by a book about gravity?

i cant roll my R's

18:46 that joke could go like this Guy 1: Woohoo Marvel studios created a new do it right spiderman film. Guy 2: Yes but Sony the same company who created the Ghostbuster remake and the Emoji movie is planning a Venom movie. Guy 1: *awakward silence*

Personally, this is one of my Top 5 favorite NC episodes

@2:45, Michael Crawford during quarantine.

I don’t know why, but this is probably one of my favorite NC episodes. I’ve rewatched it more times than I’m willing to admit.

Nostalgia Critic: This one has Michael Crawford! Me: The PHAAAANtom of the opera IS HERE! Insiiiide my miiiiiiiiind!

i like the fact that the urbs teleported into his hands at 17:29

A ramble is a synonym of walk or a stroll.

I have such fond memories of this movie from being a kid but had no clue what it was even about. How did I never realize it's like practically a horror film?!

What’s sad is once upon a forest could have been a great movie with character development, music, and could have showed humans and nature need eachother and can live in harmony.

I watched it with subtitles to find out what he is saying when he picks up the flying machine. Believe it or not, he is actually saying "Great Hulk".

When I hear Tim Curry I think "Sweet Transvestite" and The original Pennywise.

Is it just me, or are the badgers in this moving frickin' small as badgers go?

7:17 and 7:49 are still the best parts of this review and I've seen it several times.

"I lived far away, in a place called Willowbrook" My God, he lived in New Jersey? I guess that does explain where the poison gas came from.

My god, the nostalgia from watching this makes me feel so old that I could have rrrrrrrheumatism.

Ramble can mean to move aimlessly from place to place. That's what that badger guy was referring to, not his own speech..

The movie looks like a fucking anti-human propaganda piece

I think my parents still have this stored with all the other VHS tapes from back then. When I first watched this as a kid, I didn't realize that Michelle's parents died. I knew Cornelius' parents didn't make it, but I thought her parents were just asleep.