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[pokemonsues1]

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Thank you toartemis_j_halk for suggesting today's sue.

TITLE: Secret of NIMH 3

PERPETRATOR: AruaPearl44
SUE-O-METER:  (Awful)

FULL NAME: Ash Ketchem
SPECIES: Human
HAIR: Black I guess.

EYES:  Brown. I think.

MARKINGS:

POSSESSIONS: a journal.

ORIGIN:

Comments

[madamchaos]

I'm kinda shocked by the people who don't recognize it; I thought at the least that the book (Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH) was required elementary school reading. Maybe it was just my school. The movie based on it -- The Secret of NIMH -- was one of Don Bluth's earlier works when he disconnected from Disney, and is considered a classic; the storyline is a little meandering and the plot kind of loses itself sometimes, but Bluth re-introduced a lot of animation techniques that were rapidly becoming lost, and it's really a gorgeous film, well worth watching.

What this fanfic is based on, from a glance, however, is the SEQUEL movie, which is drek. No input from Don Bluth, a brighter color palette, unnecessary and grating songs-- basically the only upside of the entire affair was Martin, who was the completely insane brother of Timmy (the sickly mouse from the first movie, and the inexplicable hero of the second), being voiced by Eric Idle. This movie is NOT worth watching.

The storyline for the second movie involved Martin being captured by NIMH and being subjected to horrible intelligence-enhancing experiments, which make him and honestly pretty creepy villain, completely sociopathic and berserk. He managed to outsmart the humans and, as the fic says, mentally turns them into canines. Timmy and a couple of others from the rat village of Thorn Valley wind up having to defeat Martin before he... does... something. The climax involves burning the building down. Also there may or may not have been cyborg cats.

The More You Know

It's after these events that this fic picks up. So it's a fan-written sequel to a crappy 'official' sequel of a pretty good movie. That alone warrants this fic being bad. This decision comes even before I've read the stupid thing, and having given it a look I can say that my previous assessment was kind.