The Fox and the Hound

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Summary: Want a copy for my grandchildren.
Review: Want to sell your copy? Contact me at [e-mail]

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Summary: I was a good movie
Review: The movie was a very good movie.The fox was really really cute.I like this movie and recomend this movi

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Summary: Finally a DVD Version of this Awsome movie
Review: I love this movie a lot it has great music like "Best Of Friends"
"Goodbye may seem Forever" and "Thats what Friends Are For" are all great songs on this DVD.

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Summary: A Good Movie for people of all ages
Review: I am sixteen years old and when I saw this movie, it really brought tears to my eyes. It reminds me of how me and my best friend was. I really enjoyed this movie. Everyone should watch it on Family Nights.

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Summary: Friends to the end.
Review: This is one of my favorite Disney movies. When Widow Tweed takes in a baby fox, whose mother had been shot by hunters, she names it Tod and raises it. About the same time she takes Tod in, her neighbor, Amos Slade brings home a hound dog puppy named Copper.

One day in the woods, Copper and Tod meet and instantly become the best of friends. When fall comes and Amos takes an unwilling Copper along for his winterlong hunting trip, Tod tries to convince his friends, Big Mama, Dinky and Boomer that even though Copper will come back a trained hunting dog, that they will still stay the best of friends. Big Mama tells Tod that a fox and a hound are natural enemies and that, surprise, you ARE a fox.

When the two are finally reunited in the spring, Copper tells Tod that they can't be friends anymore. After a tragic accident involving Amos's other dog Chief, Copper swears that Tod will pay. Widow Tweed, realizing that she can't keep Tod locked up forever, takes Tod to the game preserve and lets him go. Amos resolves to kill the fox, and with Copper's help, goes to track him down. But when Copper has a run in with a bear, Tod comes to his rescue and, ultimately, Copper gets Tod spared from death.

A touching story about friendship that never fails to bring a tear to my eye.

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Summary: Friends forever
Review: The movie is not only entertaining-it teaches a lesson to kids that you can come from different sides of the block and still have something in common and build a friendship against all the odds. I give this one a two thumbs up!!!

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Summary: Ignore Amazon's Editorials...
Review: [...]. "The Fox and the Hound ranks as one of the studio's lesser efforts, but it suggests that better films were soon to follow." What is that supposed to mean? Despite what some may say, I think nearly every Disney animated film from "Snow White" to the mid-90s are magical. (There are others past that, but those are what I consider their classics. Don't get me wrong, "Lilo and Stitch" is adorable, but I won't remember it 30 years from now like "Aladdin" or "Bambi". I think "Brother Bear" was a notable exception, perhaps.) "The Fox and the Hound" was one of my favorite Disney movies when I was probably in Kindergarten-2nd grade. It is such a simple story, but it's definitely one of the studio's most heartwarming. Like others have said, it's most certainly bittersweet. This is the story of a young Fox, whose mother is shot. A kindly old owl is concerned about the orphan and arranges for a kindly farmwoman to adopt him. Young Tod soon meets Copper, the hunter-neighbor's hound puppy. They form a dear friendship. However, Copper leaves to learn how to be a hunting dog and their friendship is never the same. I don't know who wrote the songs in this movie, but whoever did, I salute them. "When You're the Best of Friends" and "Goodbye my Seem Forever" (I'm not sure if those are the original titles, they're my best guesses.) are beautiful, heart-wrenching songs. I still remember them as a sixteen-year-old and I still adore them. This is one movie no child should miss out on, although I strongly suggest for VERY young children that a parent sit with them the first time they watch it as a couple scenes might frighten them a bit.

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Summary: A Bitter-Sweet Story of Friendship
Review: I have been familiar with this Disney classic all of my life, long before it attained the "classic" status. This was the first movie to ever truly touch my young heart.
Watching this movie as a small child, I already had a vague concept of the message this story was trying to get across. I knew nothing of the complexities of growing up, and the inevitabilities that come with it, but I could relate to the idea that different types of people just weren't supposed to associate with each other.. even if they wanted to. Even as a tyke, it was easy for me to pick up on the broad idea of the movie - that good hearts come in all sorts of packages.
As I've grown up and watched the video again over the years, I feel that it has grown with me. The story of Todd and Copper has worked its way even further into my heart, now that I can understand everything that is being said here. There's a lot to think about as the story touches on ecological issues and social roles and responsibilities, along with the hardship of growing up, and learning to say goodbye while cherishing a memory.
Society and the world may be against the friendship of a fox and a hound, but Copper and Todd are able to overcome their dictated roles when it counts the most, and stay true to their friendship.
The themes involved in The Fox and The Hound make my heart ache with sadness, and I never can make it through this film without shedding some bitter-sweet tears, but Disney balanced things out nicely by creating a very simple, charmingly animated, world to absorb it all in. Everything is presented in a slow and simple manner, where we're not distracted by too much commotion, and can focus properly on the characters. We know what drives them, we feel their joys and their sorrows.
The ending is a beautiful sentiment; I get a pleasantly warm feeling from the reminder that, while people may grow apart, friendship is a sacred thing, to be cherished for a lifetime.

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Summary: A truly underrated Disney gem
Review: An orphaned kit fox (voiced by Keith Coogan) is found by a motherly owl who ingeniously sets up a situation so that the little critter will be taken in by the Widow Tweed (Jeanette Nolan). The woman raises the "toddler", naming him Tod, lavishing him with love and affection. One day while out playing in the nearby fields, Tod meets a neighbor puppy called Copper (Corey Feldman) and they become fast friends. Neither fur-child knows that the other is supposed to be his natural enemy, but that all changes when the bloodhound's master, Slade (Jack Albertson), takes him away for the winter to teach him to hunt. As adults, Tod and Copper (now voiced by Mickey Rooney and Kurt Russell, respectively) meet once again, but things are not the same. Break out the tissues for this one. Based on the book by Daniel P. Mannix.

Staci Layne Wilson
Author of Staci's Guide to Animal Movies


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Summary: I Loved It
Review: A friend of mine brought over this DVD recently, practically insisting that I look at it.

I remembered Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel reviewing "The Fox and the Hound" on the PBS show "Sneak Previews" during its theatrical release. As I recall, they were very impressed with the look of the film, which is reminiscent of early Disney classics such as "Snow White," at least in terms of the gorgeous and realistic backgrounds...but I didn't recall them being overly enthusiastic about the plot.

At my friend's insistence, I relented...and loved it! These days, it's rare for any movie to hold my attention and keep it held...but "The Fox and the Hound" managed that difficult task.

If you're an overly protective parent, as some of the reviewers on these pages obviously are, stay away from this film. It has its share of Disney cuteness, but real-life dangers abound in the fantasy world that has been created. Yes, as some horrified parents have pointed out, there are guns. Yes, a gun is pointed at another human by an over-zealous hunter with a determined mean streak and spirit of vengeance. Yes, a hunter is depicted doing what hunters typically do. And, yes, characters that you end up caring for as the movie unfolds find themselves in life-threatening situations...but that's what makes this movie work. However, in typical Disney fashion, all ends well, fences are mended, and enemies even become friends...what's wrong with that?

The plot is simple but engaging...a baby fox and hound, not realizing that they're supposed to be mortal enemies, befriend each other...but, as time goes by, adult roles take over, and the friendship sadly ends...or so it seems.

The final 15 minutes or so of this film are absolutely absorbing/riveting, as the overly zealous/obsessed hunter and his faithful hound enter a protected game preserve to find/kill the fox that had trespassed upon his property several times in the past, when it had lived nearby as a pet of an elderly woman. It's obvious by this time that the fox and the hound's former friendship will reaffirm itself somehow, but the twist that Disney took at this point in the story wasn't the twist that I was expecting--happily so, as the path that the movie ended up taking was far more gripping/intense than ever anticipated...suffice it to say that I found myself wiping a tear or two away by the time this scene ended.

If Walt Disney himself could see this movie, he might not be pleased with the animation as a whole--but I can't picture him disliking the tale that the talented folks associated with this film managed to weave. "The Fox and the Hound" is a genuine classic.