Saban Entertainment, the company behind TV's "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" and other downmarket kiddie diversions, crafted this cloying talking-critter comedy.
A combination animal-shelter/farm run by kindly Boyd and Edna Callahan (Hal Holbrook, Rue McClanahan) is visited by their younger clodhopper "cousins" Bart and Bertha Bimini (Charles Fleischer, Laraine Newman). The duo demand custody of the Callahan's grandchildren, Tess and Jory (Danielle Wiener,
Blake Foster), and with them control of the rich trust fund set up for the children by their parents who died. Vowing to get the kids, the pair slink off, and later spy wealthy Karl Winthorpe (Ken Kercheval) sh...
Released:
1998
Rated:
G
Length:
92 mins