Not fantastic by any means

Rating: Null/10 (26 May 2001)

Entering the theater, I suppose my aspirations weren't too high. In the first five or ten minutes I was however pleasantly surprised by such an interesting, and unamiable protagonist. While the movie perhaps would have been more interesting, or witty, or clever, or funny had the characterization continued along these lines, within the first quarter of the movie it was revealed that he was really a likeable scamp. From this point, the movie is robbed of its ingenuity, and has become like the Disney movies that it attempts to be critical of. One of the things about this movie that bothered me the most, however, is an obvious continuity error. Towards the end of the movie, when everyone is rejoicing, the three blind mice are turned into a carriage. Within two minutes, the same mice are seen to be frolicking on a piano. This might have been forgiveable had the span in the error been longer, but it was two minutes! Also, I had problems with the soundtrack, which tended to blast the most obnoxious music very loudly. Furthermore, the scene in which the "heros" encounter Robin Hood, I consider to be an obvious rip-off of Mel Brooks'"Robin Hood Men In Tights", as far as the singing and dancing is concerned. All in all, this movie should have been much better than it was, and it was truely disappointing, especially considering the rave reviews surrounding it.