FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue is the sequel to FernGully: The Last Rainforest. It was released in 1998 Direct to Video.
Crysta is still learning to manage her new role as the protector of the rainforest when a group of human poachers arrive in FernGully, who set fire to the forest and escape back to the human world after capturing numerous animals. Pips and the Beetle Boys pursue the poachers to rescue the animals from their enslavement.
Examples:
- Ascended Extra:
- Pip goes from a supporting character in the first film to the protagonist in this one, replacing Crysta. His friends in the Beetle Boys also get a much larger role as they accompany him on his rescue mission.
- The goanna goes from singing a two-minute song about eating Zak to being a reoccurring character in the sequel.
- The Cameo: Ralph, one of Zak's co-workers, appears as a carny in the sequel. Though he's mistakenly given an Australian accent instead of the New York accent he had before.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: The antagonists in the sequel are fully human poachers, not an all-powerful and disembodied nature spirit like Hexxus.
- Demoted to Extra: Crysta has a very diminished role in the sequel, despite being the central character in the first film.
- Large Ham: "MAI BAYYYYYYYYBEEEEEEEEEE!"
- Skyward Scream: The mother kangaroo in the sequel, after her baby is stolen."MY BAAAAABBBYYYYYY!"
- Soundtrack Dissonance: Or soundtrack flip-floppery, anyway. In the sequel, Batty flips from singing about how they'll most certainly get home if they don't give up hope, to hopelessly informing the other animals that they're all bound for the same fate he suffered before the first movie, and then some.
- Space Whale Aesop: In the sequel, the moral is still to save the rainforest, even though we see several times the fairies can do to one their own. The moral of the story to him is "Don't save the rainforest, the fairies have it under control."
- Too Dumb to Live: The poachers could have easily stopped the truck they were driving and kicked the heroine off of it, but instead elected to murder her by decoupling their trailer with her on it.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Batty's antenna is mysteriously missing. What makes this one really jarring are the facts that 1. the antenna was a major part of his character and 2. It was implied to be permanently affixed to his head.
- Your Size May Vary: Batty's size is rather inconsistent. The sequel is even worse - he goes from a few inches taller than the fairies, to about the size of a baby wombat, to big enough to carry a human child. And back again.
