SnoopyStyle It's the classic Robin Hood characters as animal characters in a Disney animation. While it is a classic, it's at a time in between the traditional Disney classics and the newer classics like Beauty and the Beast. It doesn't have a catchy tune to hang on to. The music is mostly country folk genre and doesn't have the pop punch. The animation is traditional and bright. While it's not breaking any new grounds, it does have the charms of traditional hand drawn Disney. I do love the character designs. Robin Hood himself lacks a certain charisma. Brian Bedford is a Shakespearean actor which leaves the lead feeling old fashion and old. Overall, this is a fun little adventure for the little ones but one that is mostly forgettable for older teens or adults. Honestly, I don't remember much soon after watching it except for the often-done archery competition. This is definitely a second tier Disney.

Hitchcoc There have been so many treatments of the Robin Hood legend. In this animated one, we are serenaded by the wonderful Roger Miller (who died way too soon). He plays a singing rooster. The plot is the old Sheriff of Nottingham going after the poacher and thief, Robin Hood. Robin wins the big archery tournament and hooks up with Maid Marion (they are both foxes or there would be some issues here). Of course, Prince John and the Sheriff will stop at nothing to get their man and use the threatened hanging of Friar Tuck to draw our amazing archer into the open. There's no question how this ends. The animation is truly striking and it's a nice story. You will recognize some of the voices though we must go back some time.

tavm After years of only watching bits and pieces of this movie, I finally watched the entirety of this on a recent flight from Korean Air. Made after Walt Disney's death, it still had many of his old crew involved making this quite entertainingly funny to watch. All the characters of the Robin Hood tale are portrayed as various forest animals with the leading character and his leading lady being foxes. This marked Phil Harris' third and final voice role in a Disney movie, having previously been such in The Jungle Book (Uncle Walt's last in the animated category) and The AristoCats. Roger Miller contributed some songs and also voiced a character though the tune that got an Oscar nomination-"Love"-was written and performed by someone else. Overall, Robin Hood was a nice movie to watch on a flight back home...

Anssi Vartiainen Robin Hood is Disney's version of the classic English folktale, including multiple elements from different retellings, including King Richard being away on a Crusade, evil Prince John ruling the land with an iron fist, Maid Marian and many others. It's also one of the most successful films from the so called scratchy era of Disney when they were using the Xerox copy paste method to make their films with a smaller budget.Robin Hood succeeds because it's just so likable. The style, for one, is nicely medieval. Everything, from the opening titles to the characters to the style of music to the dialogue, hearkens back to the Dark Ages and as a whole it's one of the best medieval films Disney has ever done.Another great thing is the character cast. This is a film of many unforgettable characters, from Robin Hood himself to Little John, from the sheriff of Nottingham to Prince John, who's the perfect example of how to make a complete wimp of a villain that's still a legitimate threat, plus interesting to watch. The side characters are also excellent and as a whole they're so good that the story practically tells itself.The one problem and the reason why I didn't rate this higher, is the fact that this film is notorious for borrowing heavily from previous films. Various dance and action sequences were copy pasted directly from The Jungle Book and Snow White, among others. The character of Little John is basically just Baloo with a green shirt. Sir Hiss, Prince John's lackey, is simply just Kaa with a hat and a cape. It doesn't ruin the film, and you really can't tell if you haven't seen the films in question, but it does mean that it cannot be called a perfect film.Nevertheless, Robin Hood is a great deal of fun. It's filled with thrilling scenes, one after another, has a great character cast, some good songs and as a whole it's simply entertaining.