The Rescuers Down Under
The Rescuers Down Under (1990) is a Disney animated film. This film, which takes place in the Australian Outback, is the sequel of the 1977 previous film The Rescuers.
The Rescuers Down Under had the familiar characters from the first Rescuers movie, the mice Bernard (Bob Newhart) and Bianca (Eva Gabor). New characters included the albatross Wilbur (John Candy), brother of the albatross played by the late Jim Jordan in the original; Jake the kangaroo mouse (Tristan Rogers); and the movie's villain, an animal smuggler (George C. Scott).
The Rescuers Down Under is notable for its firsts for Disney: it was the first Disney animated movie to use computers to assist production (the animation cels were colorized using computers instead of by hand and many visual effects and the final print were done digitally), and it was the first sequel made by Disney to one of its animated films.
On its first release, The Rescuers Down Under was preceded by a short film starring starring Mickey Mouse in an adaption of The Prince and the Pauper. (This was only the second new Mickey Mouse short made since the 1950s, the first being Mickey's Christmas Carol, which was made to accompany the re-release of The Rescuers.)
Unfortunately, due to stiff competition from the hit film, Home Alone, the film did poorly in the box office and later sequels were largely confined to direct to video releases.