I was absolutely in love with this movie when I was really little, but when people started calling me Robin Hood in Kindergarten, I stopped watching it. After someone brought it up on the AL forum, I pulled it out and watched it again.
The only one of my favorites with true traditional animation, the movie has loveable characters, great songs, and magnificent voice work, making it more than suitable for my favorites list.
I loved the anthroed animals - the symbolism of each character in the animal she or he was portrayed as. It was a fun movie. Lots of adventure, humor, just enough romance so as not to be sappy, all the good stuff. And the accents...oh, buddy. Even though the southern ones didn't really belong in merry old England, I was still quite happy that Disney allowed the main character and the love interest to retain British ones.
The songs were great. I have become quite the Roger Miller fan since rediscovering the movie, and "Not in Nottingham" (is that what it's called?) has got to be my favorite of his, "One Dying and a Burying" close behind it (rather depressing songs, ain't they?). And "The Phony King of England" puts me in stitches every time.
Another of the ones that the movers savagely ripped away from me and threw into storage for the next 4 months, I am on a RH low. I'll try to write some more after I see it again.
Robin Hood was produced and directed by Wolfgang Reitherman and written by Ken Anderson and Larry Clemmons. The score was written by George Bruns and the songs by Roger Miller, Johnny Mercer, Floyd Huddleston, and George Bruns.
Thanks to Kevin Teter's Disney Clip Art Page for the picture.
