I've STILL never seen the whole thing.

But OH, that Marian. ♡

It's also getting a live-action remake

Live action version of anthro cartoon characters?!?!? What are they gonna do, put actors in fursuits?

Personally, I'm rather dubious as to how that might work out.

Or at least potentially, according to that article.

Never really cared for it to be honest, since I was a little too young to watch it on first release. Marian and the Sheriff do 'interest' me in a furry sense, however.

Lady Kluck is another hottie.

A furfriend and I occasionally RP as gossipy Disney hens, and on one occasion a mutual friend joined us as Lady Kluck - and the two of us were utterly dazzled that such a celebrity would visit our humble henhouse!

Heh.

TBH, I was at least half joking, but there's some pretty good R34 out there...

some pretty good R34 of everything out there!

Pretty much, yeah.

Especially if you're someone like me that just generally enjoys the idea of not taking any characters, particularly corporate ones, too seriously. And there's also something particularly great about R34ing obscure characters and things.

The movie's flaws aside, it's hard not to love Robin himself - not many characters manage to be cocky and laid-back at the same time.

I actually saw Brian Bedford onstage once in NY - IN DRAG, no less - as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, a production he also directed, and you could hear his 'lady fortune-teller' voice when he played her. Amazing to watch, even if in person he could be a real bitch.

The late Kevin Conroy said his costars called him 'The Duchess of Bedford."

Coincidentally enough, we recently re-watched this movie on one of my livestream channels. The biggest problem with Robin Hood, as with many of the Disney animated features of the 60s and 70s, is that without Uncle Walt to keep the story on track the result is several great animated sequences that don't relate to each other or advance the narrative. The result is a film that feels very rambling and "episodic."

That said, I believe Robin Hood represents the absolute pinnacle of Disney-style character animation. Characters have weight and volume and move in very believable and distinctive ways. Sadly, this technique wasn't fully passed on and CG films have now supplanted "traditional" animated movies. It is, sadly, a lost art form.

While pretty much gone from US animated features, 2D animation is still being produced, particularly in Japanese anime features.

You very much nailed it regarding Walt's absence from the scene; he had this impeccable story sense of knowing how to keep a narrative moving. (Years ago, in reviewing the first Rescuers movie I described his movies' narratives as flowing like melting butter.)

I think the ultimate example of Uncle Walt's story sense (I can just hear him saying "my story sense is tingling!") was leaving the soup-eating scene out of Snow White even though it was fully animated, because it didn't progress the story.

"Millions of children watch Disney’s Robin Hood and go on with their lives, while for others… there’s a kind of lightning bolt that digs into the pit of you and generates a current throughout your whole life." Michael Arthur, You Can't Get Inside
https://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2.....nt-get-inside/