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The Fox and the Hound

The Fox and the Hound (1981)

July. 10,1981
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7.2
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G
| Adventure Animation Drama Family

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 Copper. Life is full of hilarious adventures until Copper is expected to take on his role as a hunting dog -- and the object of his search is his best friend!

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cinemajesty
1981/07/10

Movie Review: "The Fox And The Hound" (1981)In a time when Disney Animated Studio domination on the U.S. domestic market started to fade by restreating, initiative feature director Wolfgang Reitherman (1909-1985) known for animating "Cinederalla" (1950) and then directing the popular animated movie classics "The Jungle Book" (1967) and "Robin Hood" (1973) comes this highly-unlikely story of the title-given two speaking-out animals in an Arkansas-forest-region in a united state of nowhere, when the spectactor must indulge into the struggle of life for finding balance by meeting unlikely friends, battling them, forgive them, learning further lessons to grow-up and then keeping out of trouble before a show-stopping, over-the-edge, grizzly-bear-hunted showdown destructs any hope of former Disney pleasures.Even though this evening-filling, fairly-paced animated feature by an directing trio, including writer Ted Berman (1919-2001), externalized producer Richard Rich and Art Stevens (1915-2007), a former animator for "Peter Pan" (1953) among others in favor of Disney Animation Studios as being lucklily a protegé of at that time still-dominating as co-producing Wolfgang Reitherman, who together could deliver in "Star Wars" -owned summer season of 1977 with entertaining "The Rescuers", but here break off the magic bow from a sacred tree for Walt Disney Pictures in giving-in to melodrama without one song sung by any character, especially due to the unless professional-synchronising actors Kurt Russell and Mickey Rooney (1920-2014), who share a portrayal of a hound, getting drilled to hunt for trails in the woods for food-purposes in order to feat shot-gun swinging not-in-the-slightest sympathical character of Amos Slade, given voice by look-a-like Academy-Award-winning actor Jack Albertson (1907-1981), who eventually dealing with trash-white designed, but decency-spreading neighbor of high-talking too-old single character of Big Mama, cowardly engaged by talented voice-gifted Afro-American entertainer Pearl Bailey (1918-1990).Additional trademarking feature, concerning this controversial animated feature by Walt Disney Animation get neglected as an unspectacular, almost in-audible soundtrack composed by Buddy Baker (1918-2002), who cannot save the major league animations as high-peak effort of the entire animation department with analyzing human as animal behaviour, mimics and gestures in dedicated detail to fulfill a simple-enough story of rivals by nature, when in today'sworld a blue police bunny & red crime-embracing fox is needed - totally recalling "Zootopia" (2016) - to blast international box offices.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

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Hitchcoc
1981/07/11

First of all, the critical issue here is the way we treat one another based on things we can't control. Tod and Copper were born to be enemies, but as little ones ignored all that. But as they grew they were forced to forget their empathy. It's truly sad how we often treat one another based on the superficial. The downside, if one wants to take this seriously, is that these are natural adversaries, and in the natural setting, would not hesitate to kill. One could say that Disney's pairing of them is a bit unfair. Even in a Biblical sense, people and animals carry labels, and, in some circumstances, it is said that it's the way things are. But I think the former message prevails here. This is a good film for young children to absorb that sense of the clash of differences which can be deadly.

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kaileazlatunich
1981/07/12

In the Fox and The Hound a baby fox's mother gets killed and a widow finds the baby fox and names a Tod. The widow lives next to a guy named Amos, who hunts foxes and has a hunting dog. The guy gets a puppy and named him copper, train him to hunt, the puppy finds the fox and they become best friends. Amos goes on a hunting trip to train Copper to hunt foxes and Tod doesn't think he will change. When they come back from the hunting trip in spring Copper is a hunting dog now. When Tod gets put out in the wild because the widow is scared that Tod is going to die. Tod is all alone in the wild and then meets a girl fox named Vixey. Vixey is very nice to him and they like each other but then Amos is out to get Tod and when Tod gives Amos's other dog named Chief a broken leg then Copper is out to get him. I think that this movie is very sweet and loving and it has a very good motto in the end. Little kids will love this movie and if they watch it when there older then they will find the motto easier unless the little kid is very smart.

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KineticSeoul
1981/07/13

So this movie is basically about a bromance and friendship between a fox and a hound. The problem is, one is trained to be a hunter and the other is a prey for the human hunter. I my personal opinion the main aspect that drives this movie is the cuteness and the relationship between the animal characters. Also the bond when it comes to friendship is actually heartwarming in this. When it comes to friendship, the test of time plays a big part. The development and the animation is also really well done. There are no musical numbers (well there is, but it's very subtle) or anything like that, this is strictly based on the development of the friendship. Even if some parts seem to be drawn out, like the birds and the caterpillar parts. Overall, this movie plays a part in my childhood memories for a reason, even if it's slightly. I don't know, I like these types of stories, where the relationship between 2 shouldn't be but it happens. And how certain circumstances makes things a bit complicated.7.5/10

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