The Wildlife Land V: The Mysterious Island is a 2001 direct-to-video animated adventure musical film produced and directed by ???. This is the first film in the series to be directed by ???, as well as the first film in which Katie Griffin voices Chelsie, Sandy Fox voices Betty, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus voices Grandma Elephant. It is also the only film in which Justin Cooper plays Stampy; it is the first in which Amy Birnbaum provides the singing voice for Stampy. Three songs for the film were written by Michele Brourman and Amanda McBroom, with music composed by Michael Tavera.
Plot:[]
One day, a swarm of "leaf-gobblers" descends upon the Great Valley, devouring all plants and reducing it to a barren wasteland. The inhabitants of the Great Valley have no choice but to find another place where they can survive until the plants have grown back. However, the leaf-gobblers have left a path of devastation behind them, leaving no food for the animals to find. After searching for many days, tension enters the group as Chelsie's father and Stampy's grandfather argue over changing their course, beginning a fight between Stampy and Chelsie. The fight immediately breaks up when Cera's father announces that every herd should go its own way the next morning. Not wanting to be separated, Stampy leads his friends off in the night, in the hope they can find food before they are caught. They leave a trail for the grownups to follow, and eventually reach the "Big Water". Disheartened by the undrinkable water, the children spy a verdant island connected to the mainland by a thin land bridge. On their way, an earthshake occurs, which creates a tsunami from which they narrowly escape. They quickly tuck in to the plentiful bounty of the island, but are then horrified to discover the tsunami has destroyed the land bridge.
Isolated on the island, they try out Chelsie's idea to return by using a log as a boat. The plan initially works well, but Chelsie is suffering seasickness and Cody is too terrified of the Big Water to act as lookout. However, a Great White Shark attacks, and in the confusion and fright which follows, they end up on the island again. That night, they remember their families, while the herd, having followed the trail, sleep on the shores of the beach on the mainland, worrying for them while Chelsie's father blames their leave on Stampy.
The next morning, the children wake up to the shadow of a Predator, only to find that it is Calvin, the young Predator who hatched in their care before returning to his parents in the second film. Since then, Calvin has learned how to speak. Calvin takes them to a safe refuge to hide from his parents. Unaware of Calvin and the others, an African Leopard has been living on the island and begins hunting down the children. Afterwards, Betty is captured by a Turkey Vulture, but manages to escape before she can come to any harm. Calvin hides the children in foul-smelling plants (possibly garlic), and provides them with leafy food upon their request. However, an overcautious Chelsie openly displays distrust to Calvin because he is a Predator, leaving him heartbroken as he departs in tears. Stampy follows him and apologizes, but he is interrupted by Calvin's mother. She nuzzles him, then leaves. Stampy is intrigued by her display of love to Calvin.
As Stampy went back to the hideout, the African Leopard from earlier finds and chases the children towards a cliff above the big water. Calvin tries to help, but is overcome by the Predator. His parents come to the rescue on Calvin (and the same thing for the kids) and battle the Predator near the edge of the island, during which he falls into the Big Water and takes Calvin with him, much to his parents' shock. Stampy plunges in to save Calvin while the Predator is swept away by the current. Another swimming Carnivore appears, but this time they discovered a whale (a Humpback Whale) named Vera who then saves them both from drowning. She returns them to the island, where Calvin's grateful family promises never to harm the children; Calvin's father grudgingly admits that, after sniffing Matt (who had eaten some of the foul-smelling hideout) anything that smelt that bad wouldn't taste very good anyway. Calvin's mother also nuzzles Stampy, in gratitude for his actions to save Calvin from drowning. Chelsie realizes and accepts that not all Predators are so bad and monstrous as she thought. Vera offers to take them across the sea, so Calvin and his parents happily bid them farewell, promising that they will see each other again. When they get back on the mainland, they find that the herd found a lush, green, little sanctuary on the shore where they can stay until the Great Valley has become fertile again. As the credits roll the film shows the Great Valley becoming fertile again and the herd returning there.
Cast:[]
- Justin Cooper as Stampy (speaking voice)
- Amy Birnbaum as Stampy (singing voice)
- Katie Griffin as Chelsie
- Sandy Fox as Betty
- Elizabeth Daily as Cody
- Frank Welker as Matt/Spotted Predator
- Thomas Dekker as Calvin
- Miguel Ferrer as Grandpa Elephant
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Grandma Elephant
- Bonnie Hunt as Cody's Mother/Betty's Mother
- Gene Wilder as Narrator/Chelsie's father
- Tony Pope as Mr. Warthog
- Kelly Preston as Vera
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