- Featuring lovable characters, brilliant animation, and heartwarming messages, THE FOX AND THE HOUND is “Vintage Disney,” raves The Washington Post. And now, Disney’sic tale about an unlikely friendship is a new transfer for a special 25th Anniversary Edition. When a feisty little fox named Tod is adopted into a farm family, he quickly becomes friends with a fun and adorable hound puppy named C
FOX & THE HOUND-25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (DVD)The Fox and the Hound marked the last collaboration between Disney’s older artists, including three of the “Nine Old Men” (Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, and Woolie Reitherman), and the young animators who would make the record-breaking films of the ’90s. Based on a book by Daniel P. Mannix, the film tells the story of a bloodhound puppy and a fox kit who begin as friends but are forced to become enemies. Tod and Copper barely establish their friendship before Copper begins his training as hunting dog. Unfortunately, neither character develops much of a personality, which makes it difficult to care about them. The screen comes alive near end of the film, when Tod and Copper have to join forces to fight off an enormous bear. It had been years since Disney produced a sequence with this kind of feral power–and years would pass before they surpassed it. The Fox and the Hound ranks as one of the studio’s lesser efforts, but it suggests that better films were soon to follow. (Ages 5 and older) –Charles Solomon
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March 17, 2008
#1
When this movie came out, I saw it immediately. I hoped it would be like the Disney films that they rereleased every 7 (or so) years when I was a kid – the older Disney films that everyone talks about.
Boy, was I wrong.
The film tries to be a “message” film: friendship is good, people aren’t born being enemies, and so on. Unfortunately, they forgot to have the important things – plot and good animation. (In one scene with a waterfall, you wonder if they decided to do it “on the cheap”.)
I stopped seeing Disney films for a decade. It took “Beauty and the Beast” to get me back to the theater for one, and after that I went back and saw “The Little Mermaid” also.
I would see this other two films (“Beauty/Beast” and “Little Mermaid”) any opportunity I could. However, this “Fox and the Hound” is a dog.
March 17, 2008
#2
I purchased this move because it seemed to have that sweet, gentle story of yesteryear. Boy was I suprised.
It has some of that but overall there are two strong, distinct messages. One, is that it is a harsh and violent world out there. From start to finish there are guns blasting away. The movie starts by blowing away the mother fox then moves to shooting at a moving car carrying grandma and so on and on. The movie ends with an ugly, violent scene between a bear and the man. At this my toddler jumped up and began hitting the table and TV screen.
The second message is blatant mysogeny. Every woman is referred to as a meddling female or empty headed female.
Neither is a message I want my daughters to have. I put the movie in its rightful place – the garbage.
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March 17, 2008
#3
I have this as a vhs. I would like to have this as a dvd.
March 17, 2008
#4
First of all I love Disney movies, as and adult, and can understand the hidden moral stories in them. This movie is about friendship for the adults who watch this. However, I watched this with my two young sons. After watching this movie, my sons turned every toy they touched into a shotgun. In this movie the human characters point guns at other humans, mistreat the animals, and use degrading language. My husband is a hunter and we have always taught our children that a gun is not a toy and that you NEVER point it at a person. This movie just destroyed all that teaching. I also am disappointed with some of the language used in this movie. There is no swearing in the movie, but there is a lot of language you don’t want your young children using.
As a mother of two young boys, I will not be showing anymore Disney movies for a long time.
March 17, 2008
#5
The more I watched the more I was outraged! All I was hearing was how the kind and caring old woman next door to this angry old man was made out to be a “muddle headed female” said through out the movie and how it’s okay to break the law and any cost. One example is how this old man is firing his shot gun at this kind old woman in hope to hit her fox for something he never did, after that he goes to a wildlife game preserve and sets traps for this poor fox and sets fires and tries to kill whatever gets in his way. When he finally is injured and tired of fighting and has to admit this fox actually saved his life (he should have been eaten by the bear!) He then goes home and the kind old woman has to nurse his wounds wail taking verbal abuse from him. “Remember only you can prevent forest fires”!