Epic Win: The Fox and the Hound
Submitted and Written by Caitlin E, Cory Feldman fan
The Fox and the Hound is an underrated animated classic from the Disney canon. It’s actually a pretty clever parable about prejudice that thoughtfully challenges how society determines exactly what we’re supposed to do.
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Xaqtly said:
100% win. This movie is a perfect example of when Disney didn’t suck. Fantastic hand animation, excellent voice work and a story that really, truly made you feel for the characters.
It made me cry, it was such a heartbreaking story at times. Now the only time I cry from watching a Disney movie is in disgust. But there was a time when Disney consistently put out the highest quality movies, and this is one of them.
The sequel made me sick to my stomach. What an insult to the high standards set by the original movie.
Copper whadda doing?
LOVE this movie!
Fox and Hound Poupon your face.
Ah, a childhood favorite.
Part of me died when a needless sequel came out a few years back.
Ditto. Very much ditto.
Let’s us not forget a certain child star was in this movie. Thank you Corey Feldman for being young Copper.
i didn’t know that this movie was called the Fox and the Hound for the longest time, I used to call it “The Todd and The Copper.” I’m 21 now and I still call it that sometimes. I still love this movie and always will
I always call it “Todd and the Hound”
Awwwww. I used to love this and I think it might have been this one where I used to cry all the time.
Then again, I cried at so many Disney films, they really are quite traumatic.
Bambi’s mother dies!
Mufasa dying in the Lion King, gets me everytime :’(
I cried at the end too
Pointlesssequelsaywut?
if this movie did not make you cry, then you have no soul!
This was THE first film I saw. Absolute win.
This movie always makes me cry when the old lady has to leave Todd in the woods. :’(
It’s that song, “Goodbye May Seem Forever” is one of the most soul crushing songs I’ve ever heard…
Oh yeah, that one gets me every time. I rarely cry during movies, but that one is guaranteed to get me all choked up and teary-eyed.
100% win. This movie is a perfect example of when Disney didn’t suck. Fantastic hand animation, excellent voice work and a story that really, truly made you feel for the characters.
It made me cry, it was such a heartbreaking story at times. Now the only time I cry from watching a Disney movie is in disgust. But there was a time when Disney consistently put out the highest quality movies, and this is one of them.
The sequel made me sick to my stomach. What an insult to the high standards set by the original movie.
it’s also a perfect example of how Disney movies completely change things from their original source. as much as I love the Disney version of The Fox and the Hound I also love the book, which is 100% different and ends on quite a sad note. in the book the fox and the hound were never friends and it was about their rivalry, not any profound message on friendship or roles or anything else. I kind of liked the book The Killers by the same author a little better (think book version of Fox and the Hound only with a hawk and a fighting rooster sans downer ending) than both versions of The Fox and the Hound, tho.
“I’m a houndog!”
My brother and I say this all the time, in that voice.
That is my favourite line from the movie. It always makes me laugh.
I had never seen this movie all the way through when i was a child, mainly because my mom never bought it. She had ALL the other Disneys, but because this movie was so sad, she refused to watch it.
Wasn’t until a few months ago that my girlfriend got it from the library that I was actually able to see it start to finish.
It’s a great story – and reminds me of a true irony of Disney….
A lot of people loathe “Song of the South”, and consider it bigoted, because of the really bad (from a modern view) racial stereotyping, leading to it never being released in the US (legally) – yet….
If you actually watch “SotS”, you realize that the educated white children and the black children, are friends and totally without prejudice – and the villains of the film are the ignorant rednecks (and their counterparts B’rer Fox & B’rer Bear, which were the African-American folklore interpretations OF said redneck types).
If you get past the fact that SotS portrays an era LONG gone by the time it was filmed, it actually has similar themes (of real friendship knowing no color) to The Fox and the Hound – and exposed many of us now in our 40s-70s to an American folklore that we’d never have heard of, without it.
SotS is my absolute favourite movie. I grew up in the American south, and my mom would read The Tales of Uncle Remus to me. In the 80s, I was able to watch SotS in the cinema, and fell in love with it.
Lots of good lessons to be learned from that movie.
I remember being so jealous of the kids. I wanted my very own Uncle Remus to tell me tales.
Ah no! When I was little, “Zipadee Doo Dah” was one of my favorite songs! I would sing it all the time! Knowing that I can’t get it (legally) in the US makes me sad…
i had about 6 surgeries growing up and after each one i was always sick and puking and the only thing i wanted to do was watch this movie. i love this movie!
This is the first movie I remember ever seeing with my parents in a theater.
I still haven’t seen it all the way through…. vague memories of it starting to get sad looking and quickly finding something else to do.
This is one of the saddest movies Disney ever put out. I swear, I get seriously teary eyed every single time I watch it! It isn’t that something bad happens, just reminds me of a childhood when everything was new and innocent and you didn’t know the horrors the world held.
The Fox and the Hound is not an original Disney story, so you can’t give them credit for that one. The original novel is less geared to small children and much sadder than the sugar-coated Disney version (so was Bambi, for that matter).
That said I really enjoyed Disney’s version of TFATH.
Since when has Disney done anything original? Micky Mouse and friends?
Doh! Misspelling got here before it was corrected…
Since when has Disney done anything original? Mickey Mouse and friends?
one of the best movies they ever made.. unlike the garbage disney puts out now that i wouldnt let my kids watch, ever.
I love love love old Disney. It’s all I watched when I was 3 to 6-ish! I never owned this one, but it was one of my favorites.
Except for the whole point of the movie being that “Oops you can’t be friends because you are from different worlds.” Anyone remember what the end of the movie was? Anyone at all? It’s more than “You’re the best of friends” montage.
Loved this when I was a kid. The ending still makes me a little bit sad. Disney tries to ruin everything good with sequels. And idiot parents buy them, so they keep on making them.
Ahh, classic Disney magic. This is what I miss. What happened to the magic?
I’m 17 so I still go to my child pediatrician. It’s super awkward sitting in the waiting room with two year old kids, but usually I bring a book and try to hide myself. ANyways, I was in there the other week and they were showing the Fox & the Hound on the TV and I started tearing up towards the end. I was super embarrassed but god, what a heartwarming tale.
I love this movie when I was a kid….Pretty sure we still have it on VHS. Now, if only the VHS part of our DVD player actually still worked (it’s developed the habit of unspooling the tape inside the machine, with the result of my dad trying to just yank it out and my sister trying to shove him out of the way to carefully manage to extricate it without doing damage to whatever tape happened to be the unfortunate victim…..)
Anyway, I loved this movie, and I had the hound (oh, god, I forgot his name. *sob*) in stuffed animal form. Actually, that should probably be “has”. I imagine if I dug through my extensive “collection” of stuffed animals I’d find I still have it….
Almost every classic Disney movie is a sugar-coated version of an older story. The Fox and the Hound, Bambi, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, nearly all of them. The only real difference in Sleeping Beauty is that Aurora wasn’t asleep for 100 years like she was in the original story. The Lion King is an animal and more friendly version of Hamlet by Shakespeare. Really, the Fox and the Hound as well as Bambi were NOT originally meant for children. Disney changed the stories to make them suitable for children.
AHHH finally other people who have seen this wonderful movie! Almost everyone else I grew up with had never heard of it, but they didn’t know what they were missing! Of course, I had no idea that there was a sequel. Good job, Disney, way to take something perfect and use it like a swizzle stick in a septic tank.