Return to Kingsdom

Return to Kingsdom is the 1993 American animated musical comedy fantasy film, and a sequel to 1988 animated film Kingsdom. Produced by MGM/UA Family Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation, it is co-directed by Paul Sabella and Larry Leker. Richard Kind (being the only original voice actor) reprises his role from the first film, while Burt Reynolds, Vic Tayback, and Melba Moore are replaced by Charlie Sheen, Ernest Borgnine, and Bebe Neuwirth, respectively. Tayback was replaced by Borgnine due to his death from a myocardial infarction in 1990. New characters are voiced by Sheena Easton, Adam Wylie, George Hearn, and Wallace Shawn.

The film was released on November 17, 1993.

Plot
Lance (Richard Kind) and his older brothers are still builds up the casino after the fire when they find themselves on the verge of losing what is left of the family park, when neighboring Mr. Bibb files a lawsuit claiming that the twister released some of the bears who then plundered his camp. He takes the forest animals away unless their parents can get jobs to get the money to keep their forest animals in twenty-four hours. Dorothy wants to help, but to her dismay, they tell her that she's too young. While her family is out looking for jobs, Lance, and his brothers stay at the woods to take a break. However, they find themselves with a second problem: to their horror, one of the flying monkeys has come to attack. During the attack, Green Dragon, Pepperminter, Fish Out of Water and Lion show up at the park. They tell Lance that Ruggedo the Nome King has taken over the kingdom of Kingsdom, captured Fairy and taken her wand, and now he wants to destroy Lance and steals the king of Kingsdom's crown. Since his great fear of the Wizard has kept him underground, Lance and his friends journey to amusement park to get the Wizard to return to Kingsdom and set everything straight.

After using some of Fairy's magic potion to bring the car to life to take them to the amusement park, they are able to gain entry when they present the carnie at the gate with emeralds from Kingsdom to cover their entrance fee. Once they find the Wizard, he's grown tired of his magic shows and agrees to take them back to Kingsdom in his hot air balloon, but needs the aid of another portal to do so. Luckily, he keeps a bottle of magic portal with him, and with the aid of a device one of the brothers built to counter portals in the future, they use it to travel back to Kingsdom, but not without causing some damage to the amusement park in the process.

Once in Kingsdom, they are attacked by the flying monkeys again, but Lance and the others have to separate from the Wizard when his balloon ends up getting several flying monkeys glued to it with one of his inventions and leave him to fend for himself. As they try to make it to Kingsdom on their own, they are attacked by the Jitterbug, whom Ruggedo released to slow them down, then are separated further when attacked by Ruggedo's gnomes, who capture Pepperminter while the Tin Man is thrown into the river, and Lance, Doog, and the Lion nearly fall into a chasm. Fish Out of Water soon ends up at the sea, where it seems he's been replaced as the leader of the forest by a very hungry male seagull, while the Lion takes Lance and Doog into the woods on the long route to Kingsdom since they were separated from the Fish Out of Water. Meanwhile, the Scarecrow and Dorothy are able to escape Ruggedo's gnomes, reach Kingsdom, and attempt to see if there's anything in the Wizard's old chambers that can help them, but are captured by Ruggedo.

As for Lance, Doog, and the Lion, they soon end up at the Lion's old castle, where it seems he's been replaced as the leader of the forest by a very hungry female tiger. Though in the end, Toto seems to get the Lion and Tiger to cooperate and use their troops to aid Pepperminter.

Back with Pepperminter, Dorothy willingly surrenders the ruby slippers to Ruggedo, who transforms them into boots that enable him to plunge the Emerald City into the gnomes' underground home before considering putting Dorothy and the Scarecrow into a bottomless pit. Before he can, he is surprised by Jerry, the Tin Man, Tuffy, whom Ruggedo kicked out earlier, the Mouse Queen and her troops, and soon after, the Lion, Tom, Toto, the Tiger and her forces. Though he is disarmed of Glinda's wand, he overpowers all of them via the ruby slippers, and nearly sends Dorothy, Tom, Jerry, Toto, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion to their doom, before the Jitterbug, whom Dorothy convinced to ally with them earlier, is able to trap Ruggedo in his dance spell, along with animating a statue of Dorothy that rescues everyone.

Tuffy, the Mouse Queen, and her troops use Glinda's wand to free her from her imprisonment, while the Green Dragon eats Ruggedo. Once Lance puts them back on, he returns Kingsdom to the surface, and the Wizard arrives shortly thereafter, having managed to tame the flying monkeys that got glued to his balloon with one of his magic potions that made giant bananas for them.

With Kingsdom safe once more, the Wizard returns to a formal position in Kingsdom while still leaving the Green Dragon, Pepperminter, Fish Out of Water and Lion in charge, and after he and Glinda offer some final words of wisdom to Lance and how she is always welcome in Kingsdom again whenever she wants to return, Lance takes Doog and his brothers back to England. Once home, they use the potion the Wizard gave them to help pay off Mr. Bibb and have him cancel his lawsuit against the park. When his parents return with little success in town, Lance reveals her success in saving their park, impressing them enough to realize she is old enough to handle things on her own. Lance is happy to know that no matter what happens, there's no place like home. His parents told him that the place is real because of the portal, after they wanting to welcomes Lance back to Kingsdom soon.