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Sadly Over-hyped

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Having a Promotional Homo Video Original Copy of Disney's 'Song Of The South' from 1995, and having read all of the books of Joel Chandler Harris, all I can say is this is JUNK.This is totally computerized, Politically Correct, Feminist approved, National Association for the Advancement of "Cheesy" People approved-- yes my opinion of that organization, which unfairly and unjustly smeared the original Disney classic WITHOUT ANY OF ITS MEMBERS EVER ACTUALLY SEEING THE FILM IN ITS ENTIRETY.And Yes I can say that about them because I am Black Myself. Father is a Black Man from Trinidad, Mother from Venezuela. Currently I live in Trinidad.#1. As with almost anything Hollywood makes today, it's all about the Girls coming of Age, and let's just forget about Boys ever becoming of age.#2. The fact that the 'Gullah' accent or the Historical Southern African-American dialect is absent from the Characters, which is a BIG BIG dis-service and injustice to both Harris' books and the Disney Classic makes it BORING & LAME. Because with the accent, the stories LOSE A HUGE PART OF THEIR ESSENCE. And Artistically speaking, Animated Characters are much much more fun and more interesting to watch when they speak with an accent.It was like having the stories TRANSLATED from Gullah to Corporate North American English, and as with anything else that gets translated, once translated it loses lots of the essence that comes from being spoken in the Original Language.In My Opinion it's much more worth you while to go to www.songofthesouth.net and look at the ways in which you can take action to urge Disney to re-release the original Song Of The South.Very Boring, Very Awful, and completely watered down and soul-less version of the Books and the Original Disney classic.

Clever writing and character designs, excellent voice work, and surprisingly good animation for a straight-to-video release. I've read the original Uncle Remus stories to my son (age 5), as well as other "rabbit" stories from Caribbean and Gullah traditions, and West African Anansi stories. Kids love tricksters, and this is a nice way to introduce some of the classic stories. No, it isn't "Song of the South" (a good thing or a bad thing, depending on which way you look at it--they did a nice job with the songs in this, though), and (spoiler alert!). . . . . . I could have done without the "Brer Rabbit sees the error of his ways and becomes a good friend" piece of the arc, but wrapping up with a faithful and well-paced treatment of the best-known Brer Rabbit tale rescues it. The only way you'll do better on currently-available video is to comb through the back catalog of Weston Woods/Scholastic films for the shorts based on picture-book retellings of individual stories. And that could take a while.

I just watched this movie with my kids. We all loved it. They've seen the original Song of the South and we all love that as well. I miss the mixture of live action with animation that was in the first one. I especially missed the original music but, the music in "Adventures" was very good. The animation in this movie was excellent and I thought all the characters were well played, especially Brer Rabbit. No doubt the Uncle Remus character was replaced by Brer Turtle. So, in some ways it was better than the original and in others it wasn't. We'll watch it again! We're hopeful that one day Disney will pay tribute to another great example of how African Americans have helped define American culture!

The film features many of today's notable Black entertainers. My girls (4 & 7 y.o.) are loving it. It is a great way to keep these traditional stories alive. It is also a good way to teach children about contrasting mediums (film vs. writing). You may be also get them to read the stories in various editions. The songs are great! They too are part of the Black cultural traditions. The film does a good job of presenting both sides of morality, that someone can do good and bad things. I am thoroughly enjoying myself watching the film with my children. It retells the stories I know plus many I don't. Great for the whole family.