I thought the Robin Hood character was really cute and whoever illustrated it was really good. It's been one of my favorite movies since childhood. I loved the part where the snake sounds like Pooh bear and I really love the king how he is so greedy of money and then Robin Hood finds a way to stop him. I forget how because I haven't watched the movie in a long time.
signed Ian
dared to hope but hopes for cd soundtrack of this film dashed
When I saw that they were rereleasing this film I preordered right away
for the dvd. Than I looked for the cd soundtrack and was amazed that they
didn't bother to make a cd for release at the same time. What's the deal
with that. Disney has some wonderfull old films like this one with the
only way to listen to the music is records. Who has a record player now a
days? Hardly anybody. And where can you find records? Only a few places
on the internet. Stop redoing versions of current films adding one song
here or there to sell the cd and start preserving the magic that was
never released on cd, or indiviual cd.
I would love a cd with all these songs and only these songs. I'm sure
I'm not alone in that. Now and than I still search hoping for the cd of
these songs, please make it available so one day I can enjoy the thrill of
victory in finding it after a long search with no results.
Decent presentation of a sub-par film
First of all, let's straighten out the misconceptions of the widescreen version "missing" information.
The film was originally animated "full-frame" 1.37:1, but that is not how it was theatrically presented - the film was shown with a 1.85:1 projector matte, and this is how the animation needed to be composed.
Second, as an animation fan, I've been put off by this film. It was done with little budget, several characters are simply re-used designs from films like "The Jungle Book" (including Little John being a re-draw of Baloo, including the re-use of Phil Harris in the role), and the film re-uses animated sequences from films like "Snow White" (in the dance sequence) and "Wind In The Willows". It is such a cheat.
Thirdly, in spite of the Roger Miller musical numbers, which are the only memorable parts of this film, the ending is short changed. Prince John is not really defeated (as in the live action versions) and Robin Hood simply shakes his fist and runs away. The return of King Richard was cut from the film, even though it was substantially inked and painted (portions of this footage turned up on the Disney channel in the 80's). Here, Prince John watches Robin get away and he gets mad and he chases the snake and the castle burns. The film is wrapped up by the Roger Miller rooster walking out and telling us how the story ends. "You know, I thought we'd never get rid of (Prince John and the Sheriff and Sir Hiss), but lucky for us, King Richard returned, and - well - he just straightened everything out."
With apologies to Ernest Ristler at the HTF, if this was applied to other films like Star Wars ('C-3PO stepping out from behind a tree at the Rebel Base and saying: "You know, I thought we'd never get rid of that Death Star. But lucky for us, Luke, Han, and the Rebels took off and - well - they just straightened everything out." ') or Jaws (' "You know, I thought we'd never get rid of that ol' shark, but lucky for us, Sherrif Brody went to sea and - well, he just straightened everything out." '), people would be up in arms.
Musically, there's a lack of originality here, too - a recycled music cue by George Bruns returns here: the music during the sequence when Little John and Skippy think Robin Hood has been killed? The sad music? That cue was used in 4 other Disney features:
1) Sleeping Beauty - the Three Fairies look on at Sleeping Beauty in her bed, asleep, victim of Maleficent's curse.
2) 101 Dalmations - when Pongo and Perdy wait sadly for news of their stolen puppies.
3) The Sword In The Stone - when Wart sits alone in the kitchen after "popping off" to Sir Ector.
4) The Jungle Book - when Baloo appears dead.
Disney's Robin Hood is an alright film for kids who don't know any better, but for Disney animation buffs, this is poor storytelling with budgetary animation cop-outs. The quality is on par with so much of the mid '70's to early '80's Disney animation, before the renaissance that began with The Little Mermaid and ended with The Lion King.
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