Old School Lane Casual Chats: Once Upon a Forest

In this special themed month of looking back on nostalgic animated films that aren't as good as Arun and Patricia remember. Patricia starts up with a movie she grew up with which is the 1993 animated film Once Upon a Forest based on the Welsh story "A Furling's Story" by Rae Lambert. Three furlings named Russell, Abigail, and Edgar are tasked of rescuing their friend Michelle after she inhales deadly gas caused by a truck that crashed outside their home, a forest called Dapperwood. They only have two days to journey to another meadow to find the plants to cure Michelle or else she would succumb to the gas. When the film premiered in theaters, it was a box office bomb making $6 million dollars out of a $13 million dollar budget receiving mixed to negative reviews. It was the last animated theatrical film that was produced by the animation studio Hanna-Barbera. Since then, it has garnered a small fanbase from the people who grew up with it in the 90s. How well does it hold up over 30 years later?