Robin Hood isn’t a history lesson, it’s a jaunty, beautifully animated series of very funny set pieces that remain effective, perhaps more so to younger audiences unfamiliar with the strong personalities doing the voices.
Robin Hood is the best Disney movie ever. It is my favorite Disney movie, and one of my favorite movies of all time. I don't get why people say it's bad. it deserves 100%
Good baddies, good poignant bits, and an archery contest that degenerates into all-action American football make up for the familiar, repetitive plot and the several lapses of taste and intelligence inevitable in medieval Nashville.
The visual style is charmingly conventional, as gently reassuring as that of a Donald Duck cartoon, sometimes as romantically pretty as an old Silly Symphony.
If Robin Hood’s charmingly sh**ty animation comes damn close to redeeming the film from utter vapidity, it’s a damn shame they couldn’t manage to supply a villain with the balls of an Ursula, a Cruella, or a Maleficent.
Purely and simply one of the most beautiful and profound films in the Disney franchise. Story is really original. Animation is great and funny even for adults. The morals of the story are fabulous. The characters are varied and terribly touching. Even if the set is planted around anthropomorphic animals, we have very little difficulty to understand the protagonists, their desires and their goals. There is indeed a princess to save, but the difference with the rest of Disney films on this point is notorious. From the very beginning of the film we can feel the mutual love uniting the hero and the heroine. Even the one who assumes the role of a turbulent knight is therefore able to express the deepest and purest romance. Throughout the film, we can feel that the two soulmates have seen their destinies drift apart by force of circumstance rather than as a result of a stupid spell or a decision taken lightly by one of the partners. Princess is able to defend herself.
Robin is simply perfect. He knows how to fight without blindly using force and doesn't hesitate to put his grey cells ahead of his so-called aggressive male impulses. He is rather frail but copes with his weaknesses by his amazing bowing skills. Cunning is also a talent that he does not hesitate to put forward.
The film is punctuated with questions about our relationship with authority. At what price do we have to fit into the mould of society? How can we (re)act in the face of the innumerable injustices that characterize our world? To what extent is it really possible for us to make efforts to change the world? Through his actions and speeches, Robin Hood gives us a set of answers full of nuances and endowed with powerful loyalty and courage.
Prince John is an example of the inescapable anti-hero of the spoiled and envious child with whom the young audience easily understand that they should not identify. By his great power, he manages to surround himself with servants and minions who are present but terrified, unlike Robin who voluntarily chooses solitude but whose allies are counted in legions.
The rhythm of the film is perfect and does not fail to alternate beautifully between desperate, sad, poignant scenes of battle, romance and cruelty. Soundtrack is awesome. Definitely a must-see.
Robin Hood is one of Disney's weakest films. This movie feels dated, and that's bad because many Disney movies prior to this are timeless animated masterpieces, while this...This feels like something that really needs a remake. The story is unfocused and uninteresting, the characters do have charisma but aren't well developed and are very one-note, the writing is bad at times and not even the animation is that good.
Even in a weak Disney movie like Ralph Breaks the Internet or The Black Cauldron, they have fantastic animation, but this doesn't even have that. The animation is mediocre, with tons of recycled elements from previous Disney movies, there's no style to it or anything. The music...This movie had music? Whistle Stop is catchy but annoying, one of Disney's worst songs, oh my god, the rest of the music is almost non-existent, making the movie feel empty when it's not its intention and the little music there was, is pretty forgettable.
I can't give this a negative review because it's a movie that at least tries, I guess, like the writing isn't bad or the worst in a Disney movie, the animation is mediocre but not bad, the characters are underdeveloped but not bad or annoying, I mean this is at best a mediocre movie. This is the kind of movie Disney should remake, not timeless, almost perfect movies like Dumbo, Beauty and the Beast or The Lion King.