The Fox and the Hound [G]

When a baby fox’s mother is killed, he is adopted by a lonely farmwoman and given the name Todd. As a cub, Todd is adventuresome and feisty and he soon makes friends with a hunter’s pup named Copper. The two become best friends, but then Copper goes away and, as times goes by, the two grow up and their friendship is not what is was when they were younger. 

Easily the worst animated film to come out of the Walt Disney studio, The Fox and the Hound is, nonetheless, an emotional movie that holds rapture and fun for the junior audiences. I remember liking it as a child, but watching it again as an adult, no, it just didn’t do it for me. 

When a baby fox’s mother is killed, he is adopted by a lonely farmwoman and given the name Todd. As a cub, Todd is adventuresome and feisty and he soon makes friends with a hunter’s pup named Copper. The two become best friends, but then Copper goes away and, as times goes by, the two grow up and their friendship is not what is was when they were younger. 

Based on a book, the story is still a very heart warming and lovely one; all about the strength of true friendship and the changes that time and distance brings. Unfortunately, this movie gave off a strong feeling of starting with potential and then giving up halfway through. 

The story of a friendship between a fox and a hound is easily one that the Disney studio could latch onto and make into a nice little animated feature. What brought the movie down was that it was such a half-hearted attempt at a film. There is practically no soundtrack to speak of and the establishment of the friendship was very whirlwind and quick, which therefore, made all the dramas and tribulations that threatened that friendship not nearly as emotional or heartbreaking as they could have been. This movie had emotional potential like Bambi or even The Lion King, but because it seemed that so little effort went into it, this possible future was dashed. 

Featuring the voice talents of Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Peal Bailey, Jack Albertson, Sandy Duncan, Jeanette Nolan, Pat Buttram, Paul Winchell, Richard Bakalyan, and John McIntire, The Fox and the Hound is a lovely story, but a half-hearted attempt at a Disney classic. Filled with friendship, change, danger, and drama, it has to be the worst of Disney’s animated classics.