R-A-D 3

This is a quick look at R.A.D 3-the final chapter in the R-A-D trilogy, and the prequel to Chick-e Little, the Don Bluth movie based on Chicken Little

RAD 3 summary After convincing grand duke and the owls to turn over a new leaf [in Grand Duke's return/ owl oath], this story begins when chad makes a speech. Osvaldo is a 12-year-old boy owl, who lives in Hoots-Ville, a forested city that, aside from the animal citizens, is almost completely artificial; almost everything is made of plastic, metal, or synthetics with few kinds of living plants. Osvaldo has a crush on local environmentalist Audrey Van Owl, who wants to see a different kind of "real tree" more than anything in the world, so he decides to find one in order to impress her. His energetic Grammy Norma-hoots secretly tells Ted the legend of the Grand duke of owls, a villain-turned-hero who will tell anyone about trees if they bring him eighteen cents, an old nail, and a shell of a great-great-great grandfather snail. When Osvaldo leaves Hoot-Ville in search of the Grand-Duke(Ed Helms), he discovers that the outside world is a nearly-contaminated, empty, barren wasteland with few trees, cawing ravens, logs galore and scary animals. Once the boy owl finds him, the Grand-Duke agrees to tell Osvaldo about the trees on the condition that he listens to the story over multiple visits.

Towards the end, O'Haldo the nasty kestrel and his two henchmen pursue the dissidents until they manage to elude him and reach the town center. When Ted finally attempts to plant the seed, he is interrupted by O'Hare, who rallies the population to stop them by telling the people that trees are extremely dangerous and filthy. To convince them otherwise, Ted takes an earthmover and rams down a section of the city wall to reveal the environmental destruction outside, thereby showing them what happened to the trees and what O'Haldo is encouraging. Horrified at the sight and inspired by Ted's conviction (as though a part of the Lorax is within him), the crowd turns against O'Hare when they discover his true nature, with his own Kestrel henchmen expelling him to a zoo with his jet pack-like helmet and the kestrel gets used to zoo life, and the seed is finally planted. Time passes and the land starts to recover; new trees sprout, the forest critters and farm animals begin to return, the farm brightens up, the owls blow dark clouds away from the sun, the hens and turkeys cluck and gobble again, Foghorn Leghorn [guest star from Warner Bros Wabbit] says "whoa, I just say whoa boy!" and the redeemed, now-wig-wearing Grand-Duke sees a limo driven by a farm turkey. the Limo honks the theme from E.T.] then, the turkey smiles as he welcomes an elderly-rooster named chandelier in a monk outfit, then, Chad happily becomes friends with the Grand-duke, hunch and even Wellington who says "indubitably!"

Before the film fades out, a blue jay twitters in a Elvis outfit, a quote is shown: “In loving memory of Dom de Loise, that someone who gave a cat named Tiger his kindness and a dog named Itchy his smile, who we will be forever grateful!"

Notes: in the end credits roll, you'll see cameos of Chomper and his pals [from The land Before time], Hubie and Rocco [from the Pebble and the Penguin], tiger [from an American tail], Coos-a-la-goo-a-goop [from Dexter's lab], Jacqueline [from Thumbelina] and Jeremy the crow [bird] [from Secret of NIMH]