jake-stone79 Part 1: Hello. I'm Christopher and this is Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. As we watch this program, we learn about the story of Michael, who goes through the first part summarizing his drug addiction. Corey, his younger sister, is starting to be concerned about him. Your favorite characters like Winnie the Pooh, Garfield, Smurfs, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Smiler, ALF and Baby Kermit, will teach him the disadvantages of taking drugs.Part 2: This next part features Michael, with his friends, doing drugs. However, this creates a manipulating villain named Smoke, who tempts him to keep his drug business. Later, Bugs Bunny, also helps Michael refresh his memory by going two years back in time when he started drugs. Meanwhile, Corey gets help from Winnie the Pooh to convince her to talk to Michael.Part 3: Getting advice from her dad, Corey tries to find a way to convince Michael into quitting. In other words, we see Michael continuing to do drugs with his friends. When his wallet was stolen, Michael fails to retrieve it when Michaelangelo and the Muppet Babies takes him and Smoke on a journey through the course of his body.Part 4: Huey, Duey and Louie, who meet Michael, ask why is he taking drugs. In result, all of the cartoon characters sing to Michael about not one, but millions of ways to say no before Michael wakes up. When Corey comes in to ask, he threatens to hurt her, if she tells their parents about this. Changing his mind, too late, ALF then shows him his future after this and reveals the man in charge of his life.Part 5: (I hate that smoke cloud.) Anyway, the fifth and final part of this program researches about Corey, being manipulated by Smoke who tempts her to use Michael 's drugs. While Michael is stranded in his imagination, he gets advice from Daffy Duck that his future will be much worse if he uses too much. Finally, Michael has done the most glorious thing he'd ever done with help: Quit.Review: Loved every minute except Smoke's scenes and Michael's horrible future near the end.

rorymacveigh This short was a few years before my time but I did have the misfortune to see it only once, and that was in about 1998 on CITV. Basically, it's a Cartoon Drug Prevention Scheme starring the most famous Cartoon Stars of the day including ALF, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Muppet Babies, Garfield, TMNT, etc. For a kid growing up at this time it would have seemed like a Miracle, all these stars coming together in one place seemed almost biblical. So with pretty much every kid with a TV set waiting for this amazing spectacle to appear, first thing we get is George Bush Senior and the First Lady, and by no means in Cartoon form either. I'm sure for a kid they'd either consider it a damning blow to their confidence or a preceding advert featuring George Bush giving a lecture on the American home. It's not the best way to start a cartoon special featuring all your favourite cartoon characters and after the first 5 seconds, most children would have switched off completely to all he had to say, so basically it was a waste of the Presidents time.But after he's done with his speech, the cartoon starts and everyone is on the edge of their seats waiting to see what adventures were in store for them and their Cartoon Characters. Marijuana...Yes, for a child uninitiated in the indecencies of the adult world, this seems pretty unbelievable, their favourite Cartoon characters who'd they'd be expecting to be flying off on some mystical adventure over the rainbow are going to spend the next 25 minutes lecturing them on drug abuse, and that's what this whole Cartoon is all about, each individual Cartoon Star coming up to this kid with drug problems and telling him that he's going to be a walking corpse soon enough. They even have an Alan Menken song just to rub it in. At this point, most kids would probably be searching their house for their father's draw of Nostalgic firearms so they can either shoot the TV or shoot themselves. But thankfully I didn't get to that part because I lost all interest after about 10 minutes.Basically, this Cartoon is flawed to begin with. It is trying to give a life lesson in such a way that no child would be interested. A more subtle lesson would be much better, like the one given in Ozzy and Drix about smoking and other abuse to your body. You could say that its like an Animated Xanadu, all your favourite things coming together in one place but for a pointless reason. Also, the whole lesson is flawed from the start as it basically says that if you smoke marijuana all your cartoon characters will appear. I think I'll test this theory by going out, getting a joint from my local dealer, smoking it, coming back and I expect Alvin and the Chipmunks to be sitting on my bed so I can shake their hand and break out a musical guitar number with them. If they're not there when I get back, I'll be demanding a refund pronto...

emasterslake This is one of the few best half hour animated TV specials you'd find.Approved by Bush Sr. himself and NBC,CBS, and ABC.It's about a teen named Micheal who's addicted to drugs and he eventually steals money from his sister Corey to buy more.Corey finds out what he did to her piggy bank, but she was told not to tell their parents that Micheal is on Drugs.Things seem bad till some unlikely heroes show up to help Micheal's problem. And they are highly copyrighted cartoon characters! Every famous cartoon character you'd find from the old school Saturday Morning line ups are on a mission to talk some sense into Micheal that drugs are bad for him.Those who were around during the late 80s-early 90s won't have trouble in knowing who's who in this TV special.It has a great moral to it. And a fun way of telling kids to say no to drugs. And highly appropriate for all ages. Course for those who are parents just be sure to explain some parts to your kids when you watch this program.What's cool is they actually got permission to use more than 10 copyrighted characters. And they're even voiced by the actual voice actors that put life into them.It's really cool to see, don't know if it'll have a chance in a decent DVD release.But I highly recommend it to those who grew up watching the cartoons from 16 years ago.

zmaturin I remember seeing this when I was 9-years-old and it blowing my mind- the fact that Alf AND the Muppet Babies AND Slimer would all be hanging out together was a truly amazing event in my life- perhaps THE most important moment of my developmental years. However, I just recently realized that the show had an anti-drug message! It's subtle, I know, but it's there. My theory now is that all the "Cartoon All Stars" involved were just fulfilling their community service. Remember that time Theodore from "Alvin & The Chipmunks" got loaded and drove that school bus into a sidewalk full of people? Or when Brainy Smurf was indicted for his part in the magic mushrooms ring? Or when Tigger was caught BUI (Bouncing Under the Influence)? This was the result of their collective animated illegalities.Anyway, my main question is: "How come I liked this so much as a kid but became a marijuana addict in college?"