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The final shot of Jake in The Rescuers Down Under is a reverse image.
Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather are the good guys, right? Without their help, there would be no happy ending to Sleeping Beauty. Maybe so, but they certainly manage to screw up a lot. After 16 years of carefully concealing themselves from Maleficent, they allow their silly feud about colors to reveal their hiding place to the raven. Then, a few minutes before the sunset deadline, they inexplicably leave poor Aurora alone and vulnerable. Some guardians! After all these blunders, the princess falls victim to the dreaded sleep spell. So, what do the three fairies do? They waste precious time putting the entire castle to sleep when they should be racing back to their cottage to find Aurora's sweetheart so he can wake her. True, they think he's just a peasant, but what does that matter? Love's first kiss is all that's needed to break the spell. Merryweather should know this; after all, it was her idea. By the time Flora gets the idea to go look for the boy in question, Maleficent has already captured Prince Phillip. With friends like this trio, who needs a villain?
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