i must have seen a different film!!

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Let's begin Channel Awesome Month to celebrate their tenth year anniversary! This film was reviewed by Cinema Snob. It was great to see a movie so rare. Hey, they say that "The Day The Clown Cried" is going to be eventually shown sometime now! The best parts of this film are easily the animated bits. This is one of the earliest examples of animation blending with live-action and these are effects that really do hold up!Well, everything is CGI nowadays. I admit that the story could have been better, but Uncle Remus is still a good character. I managed to read a kid's book version of the bit with the tar baby. Kind of strange how one of the most seemingly offensive parts would be more mainstream. I guess the child actors could be better, but this is still quite fun. They actually rereleased this film half a dozen times and even have a theme park ride based on it! ***

My glorious aunt happens to have 2 tapes of this movie, so to honor the first time visiting her since I started contributing to this site, I decided to view it given how rare it is in the US. I was expecting it to be sort of okay, being both racist and anti-racist at the same time, but I had no idea that it was going to be as fantastic as it was.The story is actually more enticing than a movie this controversial would seem to possess. I found that this movie was mostly driven by its messages, all given by the astoundingly awesome role model that is Uncle Remus. The writing is actually a little bit dramatic, given Johnny's bull chase and the two rough boys who attacked him and Ginny routinely. Uncle Remus is the undisputed star of this movie, as I found that James Baskett was really having fun playing Uncle Remus. Other than messages, I also found an interesting thing; while some of the Blacks are singing about how they won't leave their plantation (which, to be fair, can be interpreted differently), Johnny, Ginny, and the other children look up to Uncle Remus as a mentor and use the lessons of the Br'er Rabbit stories when it would really suit them. I enjoyed the environments and the animation in the Br'er Rabbit "shorts", as they respectively conveyed the setting realistically and gave the shorts sort of a Tex Avery feel to them. I'm not going to say too much about the shorts except that they're actually pretty hilarious, if occasionally confusing (how and when was Br'er Rabbit captured at the start of the final short?).I would recommend that anyone who comes across this movie in the US watch it. You might find it offensive, you might find it inoffensive and in fact opposing racism, you might find that it's at the absolute middle ground between those two. Any way you put it, Disney really needs to stop hiding this film from American audiences when so many others around the world have watched and enjoyed this. If Hollywood can show Birth of a Nation (a film with way more questionable content) in American cinemas for history, then it doesn't make sense that they would hide this Academy Award winner for almost 32 years at this point. If there existed a petition to bring this movie into America again, then given how wonderful this movie is, I would sign it.

It is an All-Too-American thing for people to just run their mouths and say anything & everything & pretend they know everything when in fact they never even are in a position to write an informed comment about something. Too all of you people who saying this film CONTAINS SLAVERY, even those of you who are writing positive reviews, please answer the following questions for you: (1)How on earth is it 95% of people on this fictitious plantation on this fantasy children's films are Black, and the only white folks on the plantation are 3 women and 3 children? One is an elderly woman I night add, and over at least 100 black folks! If it did "CONTAIN SLAVERY" like some of you think it does, it would make sense to have some Strong White guys with a whip walking around watching everyone don't ya think? (2)Why did Uncle Remus get up and leave the plantation and no one stopped him? The Fact is, just like Joel Chandler Harris' book "Uncle Remus: His Songs & Saying: Folklore of the Ols Planation" written in 1880, THE STORY TAKES PLACE AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, SO NONE OF THE BLACK CHARACTERS IN THIS FILM ARE SLAVES, but share-croppers & domestic-helpers. PLEASE GET THAT CORRECT! I'm not gonna spoil anything else about this film other than to say this is a very very culturally historic film for the following reasons: (1) African-American folklore was brought to the silver screen and presented as American- Folklore.(2) The Hero of this Plantation film set during the reconstructions era IS A BLACK MAN, AND THE NORMAL SMART FOLKS ARE BLACK FOLKS IN THE FILM.(3) It was a racially integrated film, were one of the protagonist of the film, little Johnny two best friends are Uncle Remus, and Toby.(4) Live actions animation(5) The voices of African-American actors being used for cartoon characters give the animation scenes an ALL-BLACK experience. And The Gullah accents really gives it essence, unique culturally & remains loyal to exactly how Mr. Handler Harris himself heard stories being told to him. (6) The Film, if you can just put your personal agenda's aside for one second, and just look at the film for what it was -- you'll have no choice but to come to this conclusion that African-Americans ARE THE SOUTH, AND THE SOUTH IS African-Americans culturally in every sense possible. African Americans REALLY DID IT ALL, THEY DID IT ALL, and everything is culturally rich about the South, is because of African-Americans.(7) The First Two African Americans to win an Academy Award were playing in this film opposite of each other.(8) Disney was so outraged at the racism that existed within the Academy Of Arts & Sciences at the time, that they didn't even nominate James Basket for an Oscar for his role as Ucle Remus, that HE USED THE POWER & MIGHT OF HIS COMPANY & LOBBIED VERY HARD TO MAKE SURE JAMES BASKET GETS AN Oscar FOR HIS PORTRAYAL OF UNCLE REMUS WHICH HAPPENS IN 1948, James Basket receives an Oscar for playing Uncle Remus in Song Of the South.I hope Diseny takes the advice of their African-American Legend Animator Flyod Norman and not only releases this film on DVD-Blu-Ray, but I think they need to do a re-make with Bill Cosby playing Uncle Remus while he is still alive.

I've loved this movie since I was a child and had several of the Disney story books that came with records (remember those?) to listen to in my room. I grew up in the South with black friends and they felt as charmed by the movie as I did. It is rich with parables and life lessons for everyone. Why has the Political Correctness movement targeted this film this way? I say that it's time for Disney to grow a set and stand up for Walt who would be embarrassed over their capitulation. Uncle Remis is a warm and lovable grandfather-type. The color of his skin was only germane to the story as it was an avenue for stories of a Negro origin. The music is timeless and infectious. I encourage everyone to see this movie if you haven't already and decide for yourself. It's priceless Americana.