The Mystic Woods (film)

The Mystic Woods is an American animated action-adventure-fantasy-supernatural-comedy television film, being directed by TBD. It was produced by Warner Bros. Television Animation and it aired on Cartoon Network on April 16th, 1999.

Summary
Miranda Phillips is a teenager who finds a cowardly imp known as Implo as soon both of them learn they are the only ones capable of stopping an ancient demonic entity known as Nightmare.

Full plot
Under construction...

Voice cast

 * Kath Soucie as Miranda Phillips, a rather spunky and rowdy teenage girl who heads on a quest to hunt after Nightmare and defeat him.
 * Jim Meskimen as Implo, a friendly yet cowardly imp who guides Miranda on her journey to find and defeat Nightmare.
 * Frank Welker (vocal effects, uncredited) as:
 * Coco, Miranda's pet cat who joins her in her quest to defeat Nightmare.
 * The Fear Dogs, three demented hounds that are loyal to Nightmare and are capable of causing fear and terror in the hearts of even the bravest souls.
 * Brent Spiner as Nightmare, a dangerous corruptive entity who wants to conquer all of the Mystic Woods as he wants to engulf it into fear and submission, creating Michael to help him.
 * Elizabeth Daily as Chelsea Blake, Miranda's friendly and girly best friend who soon learns about her destiny and tries to help her.
 * Jason Marsden as Michael Strange, a mild-mannered and athletic teenager who Miranda has a crush on as he is revealed to be an aspect of Nightmare, created to infiltrate humanity, eventually gaining a conscience of his own and betraying his creator.
 * as the Hermit, a wise old hermit who Miranda finds as he has trained her in order to defend the Woods and defeat Nightmare.
 * Daran Norris as Hank Phillips, Miranda's caring and supportive father who wants to make sure that his daughter is safe.
 * April Winchell as Katherine Phillips, Miranda's stern and cautious mother who is overly strict and only wants her daughter to be perfect.

Home media
The film had a VHS and DVD release on TBD 1999.

[availability for streaming]

Critical reception
The film has received generally positive reviews by critics and audiences alike, being praised for its animation, its plot and characters. It had a ??% on Rotten Tomatoes, a ?? out of 100 on Metacritic, and a ??/10 on IMDB.

Both critics and audiences enjoyed the movie for its mix of TBD.

[because it's the 90s, Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel's opinion]

Television adaption
See Tales from the Mystic Woods.

Following the success of the film, Warner Bros. Television Animation produced an animated adaption serving as a sequel to the events of the film, airing on Cartoon Network from July 4th, 2001 until March 15th, 2006.

Logo variations

 * Warner Bros. Family Entertainment: the logo plays normally with its theme being reorchestrated by David Newman.

Transcript
See The Mystic Woods (film)/Transcript.

Trivia

 * The film was originally intended to be made with a celebrity voice cast with intentions to be theatrically released, but considering the the box office losses achieved with the release of Cats Don't Dance and the experimental approach of it, it was eventually retooled into a television film and a pilot for the series.
 * Mystic Woods is located in Michigan.