It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

After Walt's death, the Disney animation studio struggled to stay in business and produce wholesome entertaining pictures. While they were harmless and enjoyable entertainment, films like The Aristocats and Robin Hood lacked the cohesive narratives of the films that had Walt's involvement (this was remedied with the release of The Rescuers). The style and look of films had stagnated as well. The xerox technology that streamlined the animation process gave the films a scratchy and unfinished look. This was the style of the Disney films for nearly 20 years with no change nor progress.The release of The Fox and the Hound changed the studio had been going. This was the last film to have prominent involvement of Walt's top artists and writers, some of whom had worked at the studio since the 1930's. Many new artists had been working at the studio for a few years. Thus this film was a transitional film from the old guard to the new. Although from many insider accounts, this transition was not a smooth one. Don Bluth, one of the top artists from the new guard, decided to form his own studio and take many of the animators with him. This delayed the release of this film by a few months.Fortunately, these complications did not affect the overall film. Like The Rescuers that preceded it, this film turned out a strong cohesive narrative. I'm surprised that it hasn't been mentioned much in recent years, but the story has a darker and more mature tone and theme to it than most Disney films of the previous decades. While great liberties were taken in adapting the source material, the writers managed to create a compelling theme of two friends who aren't aware they're naturally supposed to be enemies and how they confront the issue as adults.The artistry of the Disney films finally started to show progress starting with this film. The animation no longer has an unfinished look. I presume the xerox photography had advanced so that they were able to xerox colored lines like those that appeared in the features in the 1940's and 50's. This artistic progression would continue at a great rate for the next several years.While it was critically acclaimed at the time of release and a subsequent reissue, this film hasn't been held in high esteem by fans or the Disney company itself in recent years. The films greatest strengths are the theme of a strong friendship threatened by external circumstances and the fact that there isn't a happy ending, but a bittersweet one, which is unconventional for a Disney film in a way. Definitely worth watching, like most features released after Walt's death, this one is underrated.

Best friends as infants, a hound dog and fox inevitably grow up to be mortal enemies in this popular animated film from Walt Disney Studios. Some of the hand drawn animation is quite breathtaking, the animal characters are endearing and the dramatic crux of the film works well, however, this is seldom regarded as one of Disney's better animated movies with good reason. The attempts to inject humour into the bleak tale work less than half the time, the songs are not especially memorable and having the fox's owner narrate her sentimental thoughts aloud actually subtracts from the immediacy of a key scene. The most awkward aspect of the film is the inclusion of a love interest for the fox. Sandy Duncan's vocal performance is decent enough, but her vixen character adds nothing to the film and the scenes of the two foxes romancing once another are so far removed from the fox/hound central story that the movie comes to a near stand-still. The upbeat ending additionally feels entirely wrong given how grim and serious the film is at its best. And there are some surprisingly graphic scenes here - most notably a train tracks accident. It is hard not to wonder what may have been here had Disney chosen to milk the dramatic potential of the material for all that it is worth. Apparently, the film differs quite largely from the book it is based on as it is.

The Fox and the Hound is an animated Disney movie made in 1981. The movie is about how a fox and a hound becomes friends. But as they grow older is becomes harder because the fox is a wild animal. And the hound is a hunting dog that catches wild animals. But against the odds they find a way to become friends again after such a long time apart. I give this movie a ten out of ten. I give the move, The Fox and the Hound, this rating because it was personally one of my favorite movies of all time when I was a kid. Another reason I give this movie that high of a rating because it is enjoyable for all ages. I recommend that you watch it because it will make the perfect movie to watch.

The Fox & The Hound is directed by Richard Rich who also directed one of my favourite non-Disney movies of all time The Swan Princess. The story of this movie however The Fox & The Hound is about a orphan fox named Tod(voiced later by the late Mickey Rooney from Night & The Museum)who is reared by an elderly woman in a farm. Later he meets a hound called Cooper(played by Goldie Hawn's partner Kurt Russell)who befriends Tod and the two become inseparable. Of course Cooper's owner is a fox hunter and he goes off till next spring. Years later they are both grown up and become rivals but can the two ever become best friends again.Now I saw this after a long long time as I bought it on DVD as I am trying to buy some of the Disney classics as there is a deal now at the minute where you can collect every Disney movie now at a reasonable price and I picked this up because I haven't seen it in a long time like I said. So what did I think of it well I saw it with my brother last night and he teared up where Cooper left Tod and when the old widow lady left Tod in the woods and he was in tears saying its so sad. It was a very heartbreaking scene but I didn't cry at it. Also I loved the animation as Glen Keane(who is my favourite animator from Disney before his retirement) and also it has Chris Buck(who would later become a director and direct the highly overrated film Frozen). Overall this was a very nice heartwarming tale about a fox befriending a hound and you see them grow up and later reconcile later on in the film.Also in this film is the woman who voices Queen Uberta in The Swan Princess Sandy Duncan as Vixiy(Tod's love interest).For me I give this movie 5 stars and a 10/10