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To "Once Upon A Forest" With Love

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Ah, the 1990s had some environmental messages such as Captain Planet and the Planeteers . There was Fern Gully which I first saw when I was seven years old. I think I was eight or nine when I saw Once Upon a Forest . It was just on television when I saw it. It had given animals human intelligence like in most cartoons. So how do the animals speak anyway? The whole plot explores the destructive potential of humanity in this 1 hour and 11 minutes film. It was a rather curious film that I watched as a child.   The movie takes place called Dapplewood. The film begins with the furlings. They're Abigail the wood mouse, Edgar a mole, Russell a hedgehog, and Michelle a badger. Cornelius is Michelle's uncle and the teacher of the furlings. There are some human plots such as a person who throws a glass bottle and a truck full of toxic gas. The threat is no sentient person like Hexus in Fern Gully . Instead, it's a toxic gas that kills a lot of animals. Michelle's parents died and...