Metrograph

Voiced by an impressive cast that includes Tim Curry, Tone Loc, Christian Slater, Cheech Marin, and Robin Williams as a blabbermouthed chiropteran named “Batty Koda,” Kroyer’s feature directorial debut introduces viewers to the secret world of fairies found in the undergrowth of an Australian rainforest—a world hidden from human eyes, but threatened with destruction by the incursion of man-made machines. By turns charming, enchanting, and sweetly comic, unstinting in its environmentalist messaging though never sanctimonious or finger-wagging, and altogether one of the most endearing of the animated features to appear following the enormous success of Disney’s 1989 The Little Mermaid, which helped revive the magic of animation for a new generation.

Distributor: AGFA