Product: Robin Hood [VHS] (1973)
Rating: 5.0
Family Fun, even for families with very small children!
This was my favorite Disney film as a child, and I appreciate it even more as an adult with a child of my own. We only play movies I'm willing to watch with my daughter, and I'm thrilled to sit down to watch this with her 3-4 times a week! The castle-burning scene is the only dark scene, and it's much less intense than almost any other Disney classic out there.The characters, dialogue and the music are top-notch stuff. Peter Ustinov's thumb-sucking Prince John is so hilarious, one feels a little disappointed when his staid King Richard returns and unseats John. Robin's a sly fox, and Maid Marian a foxy vixen. And the grubbing Sheriff is, of course, a wolf, and Prince John's right-hand man, so to speak, is the serpent Hiss.The dialogue is warm without being sappy. When the young girl bunny meet Robin Hood for the first time, she coos, "Oh, he's so handsome - just like his reward poster!" And the little boy bunny, Skippy, when asked at his birthday party how old he's turning today, he says, "I'm seven years old - going on eight!"It is truly a masterpiece, and I often wonder why it doesn't get the marketing of some of the other movies of its era. The write-up on the Amazon.uk page calls it a minor masterpiece. In my book, it's witty songs, charming characters, snappy dialogue, and great acting from Ustinov all the way down to the adorable child voices, make the A-List of all animation classics!