Dangerous Squirrel 2: Squirrel's Injury

Dangerous Squirrel 2: Squirrel's Injury is the 1991 spoof (and fake) animated movie, which is 1st sequel and the 2nd installment of the "Dangerous Squirrel" movie series. The movie was produced by Cannon Films, and is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film was directed by Nicholas Meyer and screenplay by Robert Watts.

Plot
The prologue from the previous film begins as Oswald rushes to Sophie in her stepmom's bedroom. She was happy to see Oswald was brave but Dragongirl furiously takes them both down, but they dodged by the window, but Dragongirl grabbed Sophie's left leg. As Oswald tries to attack Dragongirl, she grabs him and crushes him, though he quickly bites Dragongirl's thumb, causes her to scream and Oswald gets to Sophie, catching him and kicking her stepmom off from her... and Dragongirl fall off and gets a fallen accident. Now Sophie and Oswald climbed back inside of her stepmom's palace. Sophie was worried Oswald had an injury due to recently accident, so she takes Oswald back to his parents and Corey. Although Oswald had a terrible accident, his parents and Corey are so proud of him getting rid of Dontail and rescue Sophie. Corey noticed Oswald was injured, so they decided to take Oswald to the hospital..all because of Princess Dragongirl. Now, at the Vitaphone Animal Hospital, they meet a veterinarian nurse named Annabelle Ashley. They introduced each other... and show Nurse Ashley a diagnosis from Oswald. And so, Nurse Ashley puts Oswald in the hospital bed, and puts some cast and wrapped bandages on him. And he'll be stay in bed until he'll be fully recovered.

Meanwhile, Dragongirl woke up and survived the accident, though she's in critical pain, so she has to get back inside of her own palace to get some rest for few hours until she is fully recovered. Now, Corey and Sophie set up their own picnic and enjoy their meal, especially the hot dog-hamburger sandwiches (made with cooked hamburger patties, sliced cooked hot dogs and bread slices, wrapped in packages) and Coo-Coo Cola pop bottles. Each sandwich and each bottle is enough for both of those two. Although they enjoyed picnic meals together, Sophie worries that Oswald might die and Sophie started to cry, so Corey hugs Sophie in comfort.

At the Vitaphone Animal Hospital, Oswald has a terrible nightmare about Dragongirl's new mechanical monster... but he woke up frighteningly. His parents came to visit Oswald for a minute. They told Oswald not to go out due to his injuries from the previous accident. And Nurse Ashley wants his parents to leave because the time's already up. No matter, they bring a napkin to Sophie to dry her tears. They also to told Sophie to stop crying and informs her that Oswald will be okay.

Now, back at Dragongirl's palace, although Dragongirl is fully recovered, she was upset that Dontail was destroyed. And now she can't rebuild him. The reason? It's because Vic Tayback died in 1990. And so, therefore, Dragongirl has no choice but to build another her mechanical monster, called "Heli-Crane". Anyways, as Dragongirl builded Heli-Crane, the thunderstorms already came, though they went looking for Sophie. Speaking of that, Oswald, who was injured and got out of a hospital, got on Sophie. His parents were very disappointed of him and terrified. Sophie tries to take Oswald back to the hospital, when suddenly, Dragongirl and Heli-Crane capture Sophie (and Oswald with her) and they took her back home where she belongs, while Sophie screams for help, but it's completely useless.

At the Vitaphone town hall, there are four people, which are Tristan, Deputy Tom, Sheriff Mike and Mayor Davis. They know Dragongirl can't quit. Mayor Davis runs this town, but Tristan informs him that election in November. Now, back at the Vitaphone Animal Hospital by the Wolper forest. Nurse Ashley was shocked that Oswald got out. And Sophie was captured again. Corey has no choice but to go to Dragongirl's palace to save Sophie and Oswald, while Oswald's parents help Nurse Ashley to do some test of diagnosis. Meanwhile, Dragongirl is still undefeatable, and punishes Sophie, her stepdaughter, for disobeying the rules. Sophie is grounded for three weeks. Dragongirl shows her stepdaughter, Sophie, to her new mechanical monster, Heli-Crane, when suddenly, the intruder alarm sets off, so Dragongirl orders Sophie to stay in her room, so Dragongirl answers the door to see Corey, but she refuses to let Corey in, thinking he might save her and Oswald, but Sophie screamed out so loud, Corey heard. Dragongirl tries to catch Corey but missed... and Corey runs upstairs to see Sophie and Oswald.

Finally, Dragongirl has had enough, so she gets on Heli-Crane. Anyways, as Sophie, Corey and Oswald at the balcony, Dragongirl uses Heli-Crane to capture Corey and Sophie. Poor Oswald, he hurts so bad, he was too weak to stop Dragongirl and Heli-Crane to save Sophie and Corey. Finally, Oswald's had enough. He uses rage to build strong bones and regenerates health... and makes the cast and bandages disappear. And now, Oswald got on Heli-Crane. He orders Dragongirl and Heli-Crane to put Sophie and Corey back on the balcony, so Oswald can fight... and they agreed. Oswald wants Sophie and Corey to run for their lives, but they can't leave without Oswald, though Corey doesn't have time, so he and Sophie have to evacuate immediately... and Oswald overcomes his fears and has to fight back against Dragongirl and Heli-Crane. Now, Oswald taunts Dragongirl. She's had enough, so she orders Heli-Crane uses his crane claw to attack Oswald, but missed and attack Dragongirl instead. Now, Oswald malfunctions Heli-Crane and presses the self-destruct button, making Heli-Crane will explode in five seconds, enough time for Oswald to evacuate from Heli-Crane and back on the balcony and run downstairs. And Heli-Crane has blown to smithereens... and Dragongirl blasts off... on the ground with Heli-Crane's destroyed pieces.

Unfortunately for them, Sophie and Corey are crying, thinking Oswald died from the explosion. They hugged each other, but Oswald yelled at Sophie and Corey, who are both happy to see him. They giggled. Oswald is A-OK... and Corey & Sophie are happy. As they leave Dragongirl's palace, Oswald's parents and Nurse Ashley came to see them. Oswald apologized about the hospital and Dragongirl... though his parents know Oswald didn't mean it and they forgive Oswald for saving Sophie.,, and Corey. They and Nurse Ashley noticed Oswald's bandages and casts are gone, though they're happy about Oswald feels stronger. Now, at the balcony, Sophie wanted to thank Corey for rescuing her and Oswald. As a gift, Sophie and Corey made their very first kiss... and they liked it. Nurse Ashley wants Corey and Sophie to come downstairs to go to the Vitaphone Animal Hospital for dinner, along with Corey and his parents. Meanwhile, Dragongirl tries to rise up from the accident Oswald caused.

Cast
Me (imitating so many voices as dubbed version for my unreleased homemade animated movies).
 * Jena Malone as Sophie (Sophie McCole; Malone's first film)
 * Jonathan Taylor Thomas as Corey (Corey Morrison; Thomas' first film)
 * Frank Welker as Oswald (a squirrel faces dangerous perils based on his own nightmares; Welker reprises his voice role)
 * Charlotte Rae as Princess Dragongirl (Dolores Drachma; Rae reprises her voice role)
 * John Kassir as Tristan (Tristan Thomas; Kassir reprises his voice role)
 * Samantha Newark as Oswald's Mom
 * Jeff Bergman as Oswald's Dad (since Mel Blanc died in 1989)
 * Tom Courtenay as Deputy Tom (Zachary Tom)
 * Richard Griffiths as Sheriff Mike (Peter Mike)
 * Haviland Morris as Nurse Annabelle Ashley (Vitaphone Veterinarian)
 * Dan Castellaneta as Mayor Davis (Edward Davis; Castellaneta reprises his voice role)
 * Denholm Elliott as Heli-Crane (Elliott's final film before his death in 1992).
 * Kelsey Grammer as the Narrator (reprising his narrative voice throughout 11 of the other Dangerous Squirrel movies)

Production
I'm (JamesTherHAMPMaster) ready to tell you a story about the Dangerous Squirrel movie level 2, I made, which is called "Dangerous Squirrel 2: Squirrel's Injury" (1991). I made an original movie on June 26, 2016. I use so many voices... just like the late, great man of 1,000 voices named Mel Blanc (1908-1989). I drew and colorized some characters on sketch pads and cut out them with scissors to make characteristic paper figures on my room on June 20, 2016. Also, I've drew some 4-way background sequences on sketch pads on June 20 - 21, 2016. I also made a book on May 2 - 4, 2010. Now, I use a DVD camcorder, with a tripod, to face my laptop. At the beginning of the movie, first of all, the 1984 Warner Bros. Pictures logo appeared with a byline "A TIME WARNER COMPANY" (1990-92). Followed by the Cannon Films logo (1985). Although Cannon Films is owned and distributed by MGM, those Dangerous Squirrel movies are from Warner Bros. After two logos (Warner Bros. & Cannon) have shown, there's the prologue from "Dangerous Squirrel" (1988). That song was one of the Chordettes' songs, "Mr. Sandman"... and a first part of musical theme from "Halloween II" (1981). You think "Dangerous Squirrel" means a squirrel is dangerous? Actually, a squirrel named Oswald is in grave danger. He has nightmares about mechanical monsters that soon turn out to be a reality. Also, the name of the title is a parody of Danger Dog, which cartoon created in the early 2000s. If you think the title "Dangerous Squirrel 2: Squirrel's Injury" will be in UK, perhaps this title will be "Dragongirl 2" (1991; UK) and therefore "Dangerous Squirrel 2" will only be in USA. I made some of the fake movies, though. That Dangerous Squirrel Level 2 Book I made makes me follow the paragraph as I snapshot the sequence. I took a lot of photos of the drawings I made on a DVD camcorder with an SD card in my room. First of all, I use my DVD Camcorder to face those cut-out characters & objects and background drawings I made. Anyway, I insert the SD card to the laptop. I put these photos I took onto "Photo/Video Timeline" in Windows Live Movie Maker. Now I edited these photo clips and and added photos to it from each folder. Anyway, I recorded a lot of voices from the homemade book I made, removed it from narration timeline, and reimport it to the music timeline, trimmed off some mixed-up words and some goofs. I put some clips of musics onto "Music timeline". Now, I use Video Transitions and Video Effects onto some clips. It's a good thing I've got Windows 10 on my laptop, though I worked very hard to put good stuff on Windows Live Movie Maker. I saved some parts of the whole thing... until I finished. That's the hard part on June 24 - 25, 2016. I put my mini-DVD camcorder to face the laptop, plug up the audio/video wire from the mini-DVD camcorder to the DVD recorder. I put the TV set on mute so it doesn't have feedback screeches. I can only imitating sound effects... and not allowed to do some commentary talking. I saved the movie, and two special features into videos. Anyway, I started recording on DVD by June 26, 2016.

Soundtrack

 * "Halloween II Theme" (1981) - John Carpenter & Alan Howarth (used for "Dangerous Squirrel" by Alexander Courage)
 * "My Skull/The Gurney" - Jerry Goldsmith (from "The 'Burbs" 1989 soundtrack)
 * "Beethoven's 5th Symphony" - Ludwig Von Beethoven
 * "Mr. Sandman" - The Chordettes

Opening Credits
WARNER BROS. Presents

In Association With: LE STUDIO CANAL+ REGENCY ENTERPRISES and ALCOR FILMS

A CANNON PICTURES/GOLAN-GLOBUS Production

A SAM PILLSBURY Film

Dangerous Squirrel 2 Squirrel’s Injury

Starring: FRANK WELKER

CHARLOTTE RAE

JOHN KASSIR

SAMANTHA NEWARK JEFF BERGMAN

TOM COURTENAY RICHARD GRIFFTHS HAVILAND MORRIS

And Introducing: JENA MALONE and JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS

Casting By: JANET HIRSHENSON, CSA JANE JENKINS, CSA ERIC JENKINS, CSA MICHAEL HIRSHENSON, CSA

Music By: JERRY GOLDSMITH

"DANGEROUS SQUIRREL THEME" By: ALEXANDER COURAGE

Associate Producer: CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Costume Designer: ROSANNA NORTON

Production Designer: BO WELCH

Edited By: JACKIE SUTTON

Art Director: APRIL PARADISE

Director of Photography: THOMAS E. ACKERMAN

Executive Producers: MENAHEM GOLAN and YORAM GLOBUS

Based on Characters Created By: ROBERT WATTS and NICHOLAS MEYER

Written By: JEAN MacCURDY and SIMON WINCER

Produced By: JENNIE LEW TUGEND and ARNON MILCHAN

Directed By: SAM PILLSBURY

Closing Credits
Dangerous Squirrel 2 Squirrel’s Injury

A GOLAN-GLOBUS Production

CAST

Sophie: JENA MALONE

Corey: JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS

Oswald: FRANK WELKER

Princess Dragongirl: CHARLOTTE RAE

Tristan: JOHN KASSIR

Oswald's Mom: SAMANTHA NEWARK

Oswald's Dad: JEFF BERGMAN

Deputy Tom: TOM COURTENAY

Sheriff Mike: RICHARD GRIFFITHS

Nurse Ashley: HAVILAND MORRIS

Mayor Davis: DAN CASTELLANETA

Heli-Crane: DENHOLM ELLIOTT

Narrator: KELSEY GRAMMER

Unit Production Manager: PHIL RAWLINS

1st Assistant Director: ANDREW STANTON

2nd Assistant Director: KRISTOFFER LARSON

3rd Assistant Director: SCOTT JOHNSON

Project Lead: SHIRAZ AKMAI

Lead Programmers: TIM DOYLE JASON HOERNER NEIL KA'APUNI DAN KOLLMORGER RYAN A. MAPES CHRISTOPHER MASTERTON

Artists: CHUCK CRIST ANDREW JONES RYAN POWELL LUIZ RAMIREZ ALEJANDRO ROURA LeROY STRAUSS

Animators: DEREK BONIKOWSKI DON HOGAN GENE KOHLER ELIZABETH PUGH DANNY RICHARDSON ELBEN SCHAFERS

Level Designer: GARY SPROUL

Operation Manager: COLIN WALTER

General Managers: LYLE HALL MARCEL SAMEK

Additional Designers: JUSTIN NORT RYAN KIRK JOHN WHITMORE KRIS JACKSON

Concept Artists: THOMAS SCHILLINGER DONALD YATOMI

Additional Artists: MORIBA DUNCAN ABDREW HOLDUN

Layouts: EDDY BENJAMIN DORRIS BERGSTROM ED CERULLO BOB CHIARITO LOU DELLAROSA

Backgrounds: EDWARD FAIGON HELEN KOMAR ALISSA MYERSON SONSA RUTA RICHARD WILLIAMS

Music Performed By: THE NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Music Editors: KEN HALL SHIRLEY WALKER

Orchestrations: ART MORTON ALEXANDER COURAGE

Technology Directors: SHIRAZ AKMAI CHRISTOPHER SANDERS

Testers: MARIA ANOMI SHIRLEY C. ALOVERA TYLER HOLMES

QA Technician: JASON ROBERTS

QA Database Administrator: MONICA VALLEJO

Script & Dialogue: DAN SLOTT

Voice-Over Recorded at: TURNER ENTERTAINMENT CO.

Voice-Over Director: GORDON HUNT

Clean-Up Animators: LIN LARSEN FRANCESCA FREEMAN

Final Checkers: LAURA CRAIG MAXINE MARKOTA

Titles and Optical: WARNER BROS. STUDIO FACILITIES

Special Thanks to: JOE DANTE MICHAEL "MIKE" FINNELL WARNER BROS. ANIMATION SUNSOFT RICHARD DONNER LAUREN SHULER-DONNER REPUBLIC PICTURES CORPORATION 21st CENTURY FILM CORPORATION

"MR. SANDMAN" Performed By: THE CHORDETTES Courtesy of: BARNABY RECORDS

Memorable Quotes from "FOOL COVERAGE" with Daffy Duck & Porky Pig Courtesey of: WARNER BROS., INC.

Read the Book from GOLDEN BOOKS

Film on Locations in BURBANK, CA (USA) and LONDON, ENGLAND (UK)

Play the NES game from SUNSOFT

Re-Recorded at LORIMAR STUDIOS

Soundtrack Album on WB Records, Cassettes & CDs

Color By: WARNERCOLOR®

Spectral Recording DOLBY STEREO SR In Selected Theatres

I.A.T.S.E.

MPAA No. 31050

AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION Animals are monitored and animated by American Humane Association. No animals were harmed in the making of this film.

This Motion Picture ©1991 Warner Bros., Inc. and Cannon Pictures, Inc.

Story and Screenplay ©1991 Warner Bros., Inc. and Cannon Pictures, Inc.

All Original Music Compositions ©1991 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.

All material is protected by copyright laws of the United States and all countries throughout the world. All Rights Reserved. Country of First Publication: United States of America. Warner Bros., Inc. and Cannon Pictures, Inc. are the authors of this motion picture for purposes of copyright laws. Any unauthorized exhibition, distribution, or copying of this film or any part thereof (including soundtrack) is an infringement of the relevant copyright and will subject the infringer to severe civil and criminal penalties.

The story, all names, characters and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons, places, buildings and products are intended or should be inferred.

In Loving Memory of: VIC TAYBACK (1930-1990)

Dangerous Squirrel 2 Squirrel’s Injury A CANNON PICTURE

DISTRIBUTED BY WARNER BROS

A TIME WARNER COMPANY

Trivia

 * The name of the fictional city in Vermont, "Vitaphone" was named after the now defunct sound film system.
 * Princess Dragongirl made a costume and a mask that looks similar to Cruella De Ville (from 101 Dalmatians) and Harley Quinn (from Batman franchise).
 * The name of the fictional soda pop brand, "Coo-Coo Cola", is a parody of Coca-Cola.
 * Jerry Goldsmith decided to score the "Dangerous Squirrel 2" theme for Alexander Courage (who orchestrates the film). And Goldsmith reprises the musical theme "My Skull/The Gurney" (from "The 'Burbs"), which is also used for Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990; also Jerry Goldsmith), Son of Lord Darkar (1991; Danny Elfman), Shadow of Lord Darkar (2000; Michael Tavera), The Secret of N.I.M.H. -- 20 Years Later (2002; Jerry Goldsmith), Lord Darkar's Beginning (2006; Michael Tavera), Beetlejuice at the 'Burbs (2008; Michael Tavera), Dangerous Squirrel (2018; Brian Tyler) and Lord Darkar Part 4 (2019; Brian Tyler).
 * Joe Dante wasn't able to direct Dangerous Squirrel 2, so Sam Pillsbury directs this movie. Also Michael Finnell wasn't able to produce the movie, so Jennie Lew Tugend (friend of Richard Donner and Lauren Shuler Donner) and Arnon Milchan (founder of Regency) have decided to produce it. And so, Tugend, Milchan & Pillsbury owe special thanks to Joe Dante and Michael Finnell.
 * Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus reunited to be executive producers of the 2nd Dangerous Squirrel movie.
 * Both Anndi McAfee and Phillip Glasser weren't able to reprise their voice roles for their second movie, so Jena Malone and Jonathan Taylor Thomas decide to play the voices of Sophie (Malone) and Corey (Thomas)
 * Dontail has destroyed and is unable to be repaired for the second film, because Vic Tayback died in 1990, so Denholm Elliott will play the voice of Heli-Crane.
 * On April 26, 1991 (the same day Dangerous Squirrel 2 released in theaters in USA),  a large tornado outbreak struck the central United States. The outbreak produced a F5 tornado that heavily damaged the town of Andover, Kansas, as well as numerous less destructive tornadoes throughout the region. The outbreak killed 21 people, 17 of which were from the Andover tornado.

Release
Dangerous Squirrel 2: Squirrel's Injury has released in theaters in USA on April 26, 1991 by Warner Bros. Pictures.