I didn't watch this movie that much as a kid, but I remember that whenever I watched it I would really enjoy it. But now, re-visiting it after so many years, I don't feel the same, this movie feels extremely rushed and underdeveloped.
Bernard and Bianca are barely in it, and they barely interact with Cody, the complete opposite of what happens in the original.
The sub plot of the albatros is one of the most pointless plot elements I have ever seen, it's filler at its best. Cody is extremely one dimensional, well, like all of the other characters.
They also present us with a bunch of animals the bad guy has captured, they each have quite a few lines, and then, they never appear again, when you see them, you think, maybe at the end they'll be released but they are forgotten.
And the ending is so unfulfilling, I could have sworn that the movie ended with Bernard proposing to Bianca, I was so sure I saw that as a kid, but no. They just fly in the air, and it ends. Not even a scene of Cody reuniting with his mother, what???
I think it would have been a lot better to have a sub plot about the mom instead of the albatros, it would have worked much better for the character of Cody and for the movie. It also lacked emotional moments like the one in the original where Penny cries and there's a song playing. I remembered this being a lot better.
Bernard and Bianca are barely in it, and they barely interact with Cody, the complete opposite of what happens in the original.
The sub plot of the albatros is one of the most pointless plot elements I have ever seen, it's filler at its best. Cody is extremely one dimensional, well, like all of the other characters.
They also present us with a bunch of animals the bad guy has captured, they each have quite a few lines, and then, they never appear again, when you see them, you think, maybe at the end they'll be released but they are forgotten.
And the ending is so unfulfilling, I could have sworn that the movie ended with Bernard proposing to Bianca, I was so sure I saw that as a kid, but no. They just fly in the air, and it ends. Not even a scene of Cody reuniting with his mother, what???
I think it would have been a lot better to have a sub plot about the mom instead of the albatros, it would have worked much better for the character of Cody and for the movie. It also lacked emotional moments like the one in the original where Penny cries and there's a song playing. I remembered this being a lot better.