The Scarecrow

I actually like this film ,despite it's terrible half-assed looking animation and some of the music is so out of place it seems wrong, I loved Richard Rich's previous stuff as well Including The Swan Princess and his remake of The King and I. I can actually sit and watch this film over and over and not get bored. Some of the songs are horrible whilst the others grow on you and you find them forever stuck in your head, My favourites being "In Your arms" and "When she looks at me". I just hope there'll eventually be a DVD release because although I own it on VHS...it's starting to get worn out and I'll need to replace!

Seriously folks,if you have kids don't neglect this movie...it has a nice story and unlike everything else that seems to be made at the moment, is done in traditional 2D animation, I suppose that's what made me like it so much...

Did enjoy the animation and music of the film, only thing about this movie that bothers me is that Scarecrow not gets the girl, he does it by and getting away with lying. I mean Polly and orphans trusted him and the whole time, he's been lying them. It bothers because, this is one if the animated films that's designed to lecture kids the importance and differences between right and wrong, the type of life lessons that are not only considered useful in the real world, but keeps kids from growing up to be criminals. For example, Aladdin and Buster Moon dealt with the same situation, but they eventually had to endure the consequences of lying. They didn't even added a scene where the Scarecrow (Aka Feathertop) develops the balls to finally tell Polly the truth, but instead the kept Polly suckered in the Scarecrow's masquerade like the rest of Grisham Heights.

I'm an animation fanatic, and so when I saw that Cartoon Network was airing The Scarecrow, I thought it looked interesting. So I watched it. I have to say that it was very good. Most of the smaller animation studios eke out films that are barely decent, but this film was surprisingly good. The animation was extremely smooth and the colors vibrant, while the voices were excellent. (Except for the fairy in the beginning; I found the prologue to be a little annoying on her part.) The dance sequence at the competition was brilliantly executed. The music was done by Kurt Bestor, who did one of my favorite movies, Rigoletto. There was, of course, several hokey things done "for the kiddies" that were just dumb, like Chezwick's "Melvin" deal. But I found the movie to be for the most part excellent.

The Scarecrow's animation is uniquely bad. Every movement is out of synchronisation, the characters are bland caricatures and the script give them not mercy.

A bit of a copycat of Beauty and the Beast in style and in plot, but - again - with no hero or any character at all making it worth watching it!

I would have more fun having fifty leeches drain my life away through my face. And I'm not just saying that. Can you say "Anachronism?" Because that is basically what this is. A very long anachronism. This thing takes place in the 1800s, right? Then what in the ruddy heck is swing dance and ballet doing there??? DISCO?!?!It's just too agonizing to watch. And of course even the poor and destitute of the town are perfect company dancers. I wouldn't think this kind of drivel would even SELL any more - how the heck did they get the money to make this?

It is one of those movies that is so horrifically bad it's hilarious. I was watching it with my siblings and when the bad guy said menacingly, "GET THE FEATHER!!!!!" I burst out laughing, even when my little brother, bless him, turned to me with pain in his eyes and said, "That's not funny..."

But in its defense, at least they are making an honest effort to make clean entertainment for children. Too bad they didn't do a better job.