The Hanna/Barberaism of the Disney studios continued (after the plodding and dull "Aristocats") with this lame excuse to make money off of kids. A few other reviewers have pointed out the jerky and often grinding-to-a-slow-crawl plot and the characters that were more wooden than Pinocchio. What bothered me, and I mean what bothered me to the point of wincing when it was originally released, was how the people at Disney were simply plum out of ideas. You really can appreciate Walt Disney's genius at telling a story, and the team he left behind simply couldn't pull it off. So, they decided to recycle some old animation in the hopes that no one would notice. First, they put some clothes on Baloo, then they use animated scenes from Snow White, the Aristocats, and the Jungle Book just to cut corners and hope that no one noticed. What were they thinking? Even though Maid Marian's dance moves were so obviously from Snow White, at least that film was older than the kids who went to see this movie. But to rip off animation from the previous two movies? Particularly the high-points of the previous two movies? The only good thing they did was use the Hamster Dance in the opening credits. Pity they didn't have any hamsters dancing, though. Just recycled clips from the movie itself.
Review of Robin Hood
