Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Benedito Dias Rodrigues I rent this movie for my children in 1993 and end up with them watching this cartoon for first time,once more now on DVD l revisited this Disney's version of tale of Robin Hood this plot is the same but oriented by children's taste bringing a good thief who steal of the rich to give to the poor...and the love with lady Marian and help the people against the phony King John...marvelously conceived by Disney this amazing cartoon not for children only!!!

Davis P Disney's Robin Hood (1973) is often overlooked and has been very underrated over the years. I couldn't ever imagine why in the world it would be though! It's so good! It has great animation just like all Disney classics and it also has very well written and colorful characters. The characters are just effortless to love, it's nearly impossible not to fall in love with them. Many are amusing and will make you laugh, then they'll tug at your heart just like only Disney can do. There's great friendship and romance shared between characters in the movie. The plot is simple and everyone knows what the tale of Robin Hood is all about. Take from the rich and give to the poor kind of thing. The plot is so well executed. The filmmakers do it with charm, wit, and a good bit of humor. The perfect combination for children! This again is a great choice to have for family movie night! It will entertain both the young and old, it's universal as far as age and gender goes in its ability to please an audience. I love the songs, they're fun and catchy. The villain is good too, we have a very silly villain here, not too seriously evil when compared to say the evil queen, and that works for this movie. All in all Disney knocks it out of the park once again. 10/10!

thedecimator1337 Marked for spoilers just in case. May still be relevant despite the ageing of the story. For starters, I wish all Disney movies were like this. Like pretty much all Disney productions, this adaptation is horrendously inaccurate to its source material, that being both the original legends and the "canonical" story dramatised by the Robin Hood: Legend of Sherwood video game. However, this movie is greatly different from the others because of the prologue. Our Narrator of sorts, Rooster!Alan-a-Dale, starts with a prologue saying basically that this movie is going to be an original work. Don't expect the source material, expect a new story fashioned out of it by Disney for their own use. That is the huge difference right there. The annoying inaccuracy and such are still there, but it's better to establish that right off the bat so we can put that aside and speak about the movie. As for the movie itself, barring canonical fidelity of course, it is a decent production. It has its low points (mainly composed of cringeworthy humour and "eccentric" for lack of a better word bits), but for the most part it is classic Disney. Anachronistic, musical, funny, and quite memorable. One thing about Disney is that its work is memorable. Whether for good or for bad, it is always memorable. As for the story itself, it is internally consistent (mostly) and fairly amusing in itself. I don't recommend it for serious social watching, but I highly recommend it for casual enjoyment and especially for middle to low intensity class kids (the high ones are better off in the serious circles). Lastly, I raise my rating for the depiction of Friar Tuck. I'm not in favour of equality and representation and all of that, but as long as you people are at it you ought to raise the rating for having a legitimate priest in there, acting pious and zealous for the Lord.

tomgillespie2002 Robin Hood rarely features on many people's favourite Disney movies, and there's a good reason why. Disney's original concept was an adaptation of Reynard the Fox, a collection of allegorical fables from Europe. The deceptive fox was seen as an amoral leading figure for their squeaky-clean and child-friendly output, so the plan was abolished in favour of adapting a more familiar folk-tale, Robin Hood and his Merry Men. This sudden change of plan causes Robin Hood to feel almost like an afterthought, written in such a hurry that the plot seems to shift around without focus, and characters feel like abandoned first draft's of the classic Disney heroes and villains.With King Richard away fighting his crusade, the kingdom is left in the hands of his thumb-sucking, mommy's-boy younger brother Prince John (Peter Ustinov). Our narrator Allan-a-Dale (Roger Miller) informs us that the poor are being bled dry by the astronomical taxes set by the Sheriff of Nottingham (Pat Buttram), and rely on the exploits of local hero Robin Hood (Brian Bedford) and his companion Little John (Phil Harris), who routinely steal from the rich to give to the poor. Robin enters into an archery tournament dressed as a stork in the hope of winning the heart of old flame Maid Marian (Monica Evans), under the watchful eye of Prince John and his hypnotic sidekick Sir Hiss (Terry-Thomas), who want Robin's head.Despite the mediocrity of the final film, Robin Hood is certainly bolstered by the impressive array of vocal talent. Bedford provides the charming twang of an English gent and Terry-Thomas is suitably and simultaneously reptilian and hilarious, but Peter Ustinov walks away with the film - his whiny rich-boy Prince John is one the greatest characters Disney have ever created. The presence of such quality British talent makes it strange that a lot of the cast sound like cowboys who have somehow wandered into a distinctly English setting. Some sequences are recycled directly from Disney classics such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and The Jungle Book (1967), and some characters are even borrowed and simply re-named. It's an up-and- down experience, where the plot occasionally wanders and lingers without any sense of narrative, but when Bedford, Thomas and Ustinov share a scene, that familiar Disney magic re-emerges.