Agreed. She is a busy body type, but I'm glad they fortified that with an actual backbone and genuine will to act if needed. Good characters should be written in those terms, not all bad and not all great but with real character. Justin is another good example he's a really good hero type but he's a little immature which gives him a good arc because he must be a true leader now that Nicodemus is gone

Very well put. Glad to see her character recognized. This animated shrew is written with more depth and dimension than many characters in live-action movies. She's the MVP of the field, with an abrasive exterior, a spine of steel, and a heart of gold.

She was a real OG

Frisby.

yes. Auntie Shrew helped stop the plow. How gnarly is that?

That's a very interesting point. This movie depicts Farmer Fitzgibbons not as a bad man or villain but as someone who's just doing his job, without really considering the harm it does to the wildlife that lives on his field.

@@countessD84 yeah the only real antagonists in the film are Dragon and Jenner, although Dragon would be less of an antagonist because he's just doing what all farm cats do.

If that fuel spraying from that fuel bowel was to hit that coil with it fireing and by the lookes of it and the sound of that starter on it had to be a 1982 antique tricycle type john deer model a with a 6 volt coil and starter and the handle bars i have the same one fully restored with the same starter on it my grand kids love watching that movie they always say papaw can we go in the fields and ride your john deer but my wife wont let me ride them for fear they would fall between the wheels mine was owned by the local dairy and i had it completely restored my wife didnt like the secret of nimh movie because her mother worked in a medicine factory back in the 90s where they manufactured medicines and it was like nimh it reminded her of the horrible storys her mom told her when she came home from school her mom was not the one doing the tests though she was a bottle sterilizer they put the medicines in my wife says she will only watch the movie to the tractor scene and no further my wife has disibillity and gets upset when she hears that starter go off on that tractor and she thinks about the horrible storys her mother told her about what went on in that factorys labratory and what they did she said her mother would often come home and wake up at night shaking my wife told me all the storys that used to make me often wonder if i should sell that old tractor but then again how am i going to plant my corn come spring if i cant disk my land it definitly would have cought on fire if that shrew hit that starter it still has current going thru it i saw in the movie how that gasoline hit that starter and splashed off and hit that manifold if it did that in real life it would have started that tractor on fire or if that coil was sparking and had charge going thru it it most definitly would have started on fire 6 volt circuit going to those spark plugs would have definitly started that thing on fire back in the day those fuel lines was just held on with bale wire or a piece of tie wire i dont think they was smart enough to clamp the fuel lines or zip tie them until the late 50s when john deer went from 6 volt to 12 volt and went from glass bowels to strait gravity fed metal fuel bowels with fuel valves and started putting chokes on them with 12 volt ac delco starters and making the compression on the valves tighter to make it harder to turn they also went from karoscene to gasoline back when gas was 60 cents a gallon you could run a tractor for days on just 60 cents but my wifes mother was a glass bottle sterilizer person where they made medicine for hospitals she said the place they called nimh national instatute of mental health was just like the place her mother worked but often still to this day tells me there would be times her mother would come home at night and tell my wife about a new medicine that was coming out for mental health and how they was fixing to test it and how they recycled glass milk bottles for iv bottles and it caused the sickness and that was their way of testing the medicine to see if it cured it or made it worse her mother finelly quit and went to bigger and better jobs at the laundry plant which she later purchased and then had my wife at the age of 18 when she graduated high school me and my wifes first washing machine came from her as our wedding gift but back in the day they tested medicines in the most cruel ways possible back in the 40s and 1982 it was easy to belive her mother worked until her hands bled at night sorry to say she is no longer with us she was a good woman

You know, the kid who did Bambi's voice also grew up to be a Marine. He once said the toughest people he served with could also be the most gentle.

@@roberterwin2284 Please edit your post and put in full stops, capital letters, and paragraph boundaries. As is, it's intolerable.

That’s very true. She didn’t have to try to help

@@PIXELSURPRISE true, I rhink for her harsh nature, she does care about Brisby deep down

This leaves me wondering: where did Auntie Shrew leave the children when she went to help Mrs. Brisby?

@@brainbomb. probably left them witha neighbor, or told the oldest (teresa) to look after the other two

She was reckless and hopeless. Shes like fievel because she also doesnt listens and ignores them. She acts brave but gets hurt in the process.

Not a young kid, but this looks intruiging...

Amen, friend ❤️

Funny back in my middle school years I shall this clip on cartoon network

Her switching back and forth is plot significant.

It was beautifully animated for that time!

He did found a studio. Don Bluth is his name. He also directed American Tail, Land Before Time and All Dogs Go To Heaven and a lot more.

I know right! XD

Tbf, Auntie Shrew was the one who disabled the Tractor. Mrs. Brisby clearly didn't have a plan on how to stop it, but she's brave enough to do it anyway she could to save Timmy.

@phillipwalling7470 u right u right i used to be annoyed by her when i was a kid, but looking back, the old shrew may have been grouchy as hell but she was a absolute rock when it mattered

I’m pretty sure she could miss her dead husband regardless. It seems kinda messed up to respond to someone’s lament over a dead love one by saying “Why? It’s it like you need them or anything.”

Bro aunt shrew was the clutch mvp homie

It’s basically cosmic horror if you think about it. A thing that the animals can barely comprehend but only know that it will kill them, even if not intentionally. And the farmer isn’t doing it out of malice; he’s just doing work. But he wouldn’t care if he ran over a mouse family either.

@@animeotaku307 I would and that’s why I’m not a farmer

I loved this movie as a kid (even though it scared the shit out of me, lol!)and still love it today. The animation is top-notch and the story and stunts are actually believable, I only wish they would have left more of the book intact (they changed a lot to enable Mrs Brisby to save her own house vs the rats doing it)

@@twoeightythreezOne thing I also liked about this movie is that they knew when to play the Jerry goldsmith score and when to have it shut the hell up. For example, in the scene where Mrs. Brisby met Jeremy the crow, they had it silent. There’s an uncertainty of whether there’s a scary scene coming up or a funny moment, and have goofy background music playing would completely ruin that.

It is for the animals in the field.

Technically it is

@@KuramasSilverstar16 Yeah, as far as the animals are concerned it might as well be lol.

From the standpoint of the mice, it might as well have been.

SAME.

That’s no cane. That’s her pimp stick.

As a cane user myself, you can definitely bolt and run depending on the severity of the issues, but its rather painful and exhausting no matter what. I'm sure she was sore and exhausted once the adrenaline wore down. [though its probably why she sounded so weary in her aftertalk with Brisby, a very good touch] In the scenes with her after, shes definately sore and hobbling way more.

Also An American Tail

I mean, Auntie Shrew does feel for Brisby but at the same time she’s gotta get it together when she has four young children, including one who’s sick, depending on her.

Auntie Shrew is not actually being mean or cruel, merely sharp, but not harsh. She is reminding Mrs. Brisbane that she has responsibilities to her children and can not spend time grieving her departed husband at the moment. There is a time for grief, but the middle of an emergency is not it.

She really means well. That’s what really matters.

Well he was really sick

If the air was chilling, however, he wouldn't be.

@@ellenorwiseman2745 and at the end he was feeling a bit better

🎵 Deep in the hundred acre woods.....🎵

Well, Don Bluth used to be involved with Walt Disney Studios.

I remember seeing this when I was a child too

the farmer outright says the fuel line was cut. Auntie Shrew also pulls out a cable. It took a few days for the farmer to fix

I know it’s late but-Nicodemus wasn’t the absolute ruler of the rats of Nimh. They had a contentious council running things. They had a lot of respect for Jonathan but they were very isolationist and may not have interfered just to help his family with a labor-intensive endeavor when they were already caught up in debates of whether or not to move. Her visiting the Owl gave Mrs Brisby some worthiness in their eyes aside from just being Jonathan’s widow.

Plus it took Jenner -who was anti Nicodemus- to rally them as well, if only so he could kill Nicodemus

For farmers whose livelihood depends on plowing their fields for corn, soybeans, and other crops, yes they would (and even those of us who don't live near farming communities, we forget how much we depend on the produce farms offer). However, as you saw, a majority of wildlife would run/fly away as soon as the noise of the machine started. As for the cinderblock damaging the plow, I suppose it would depend on how deep it was buried in the ground, as well as how old the plow blades are. Of course, at the end of the day, this is all being done for dramatic effect to make the story/movie that much more thrilling because of the "impending doom"

Well, considering the cinder block is hollow from the inside and doesn’t have any metal to support it and the tractor and plow weighing about multiple tons, I think that would have been enough to break it.

​@@alexfilmstudio465 Well, according to Mrs. Brisby, Timmy is sick due to pneumonia. Any chill in the air like a cold breeze outside would be enough to kill him, so the plow could most likely dent a hole into the block, letting that air in, killing him. That's why she's trying to stop it.

@@phillipwalling7470 And, while Mrs. Brisby *did* earlier mention to Mr. Ages, a loner, that moving day was coming, he took it as ungrateful because she had asked for his advice on what to do about his illness, and his verbal prescription was for him to stay indoors, in bed, for three weeks.

I see what you mean. Don Bluth had previously been involved with Disney.

@@KBAFourthtimeyeah! It really shows.

they changed the name for legal reasons,

@@MissChibiGodd really? I'd thought the book would've gave them their blessing in order to boost its own sales, although it shows how much of it was missed and glossed over in the film.

@@dubiouscaesar3709 It's because the word "Frisbee" is trademarked by the Wham-O toy company, even though it's spelled differently the studio decided it was too close and changed it to Brisby for the movie

In the the response of the Wham-O's Frisbee trademark lawsuit

Yes, but in the movie it's Brisby.

If it's nowadays, Disney would do it, but not in the way we'd like.

I try not to think about that ridiculous sequel. A great movie like this one deserved a much better sequel with equally good animation and a better story.

​@@bms3928 I got nothing against Ralph Macchio (Karate Kid & Cobra-Kai actor and voice of Timmy) and Debbie Mae West (Metal Gear Solid actress and voice actress of Elizabeth Brisby succeeding late Elizabeth Hartman). The problem is someone just wanted to make a quick cash grab off the name. And while the original children's novel made sequels, it was nothing like the animated sequel had portrayed. It's like no one bothered to read the books at all.

so u know shes a girl

Nyhm!

Nimh

John Deere Model B

@@HONEmusicINT 🤙

Model b tricycle with handle bar equipment raiser and 6 volt electric starter with battery spark plugs back then they dident have hydraulic lift kits werent invented back then and was more then likely running karoscene and it had a 3/4 inch deep disc plow on it used for breaking ground back then they didnt have rotory cultivaters until the 1950s

Much more sadder than this. What's more sad to me is the the voice actor of Teresa is gone. Just like Prue that angered Piper in which I'm devastated by Holly's best friend's death. The actress died. So as Prue due to a grey demon guy that this wasn't supposed to happen like as end up like.

Sad news. The actress of Teresa finally died form her breast cancer.

Actually, she's a shrew not a mouse, but yes.

The farmer’s doing his job and doesn’t realize there’s a whole world underfoot.

Humans and nature "coexisting." That's just how it goes.

No, NIMH are the only human villains in the movie. They knowingly subjected animals to torture for scientific research, and then they tried to exterminate the NIMH rat colony as a coverup. The farmer's just a normal, hardworking man who has a job to do and provide for his own family. He doesn't know about the animal world underneath him, and besides the rats of NIMH were causing problems for him.