Whenever you go to the store and see this movie for sale, it is typically in a Blu Ray combo pack with the first "Fox and the Hound". What is appropriate to note is that next to it is a copy of first movie by itself without this sequel attached. The price of "Fox and the Hound": 23.99. The price of "Fox and the Hound 1 & 2" is 20.99. That makes the approximate market value for "Fox and the Hound 2" negative 3 dollars. And you know what? I would gladly pay the 3 extra dollars just to not have this sequel in my collection.
The movie's very existence is frustrating. Disney was trying to milk their sequel train for all it was worth, so they figured "Fox and the Hound" was next on the chopping block. But upon watching the film they realized, wait a second...how can we make a sequel to this movie? Everything got wrapped up in the first. We can't do a prequel because we see the two characters meet in the first movie. We literally see the beginning and ending of these characters stories. What are we to do?
They do like they did for "Bambi 2" or the "Beauty and the Beast" movies. They make, and yes this what they call it, an "inbetween-quel". A movie that takes after the beginning of the movie but before the ending. Something that by its own existence proves to be unnecessary. It would be like a compilation of scenes that were taken out of the original movie because they proved to be not relevant to the overall story.
Typically, when I am describing exactly why this movie is so bad, all I have to do is explain the premise. In "Fox and the Hound 2", Copper is given the chance to run away with a band of Western singing hound dogs. Never mind that everyone already knows how the movie will end, remember it is an "inbetween-quel", that may be the dumbest set up for a movie I have ever heard.
Let's throw in some celebrity voice actors. Kurt Russell was in the first, so let's have Patrick Swayze in this one. And let's have Reba and Jeff Foxworthy as well. This movie sounds like a joke movie, like a movie that wouldn't really exist but just an SNL sketch making fun of Disney. But no, it is real, and the joke is on all of us.
It is a shame, because I do love the first movie. One of my only critiques of it was that I would have wanted to see more time with Tod and Copper together as friends. In theory, this movie is giving me that. But if this is what I would have gotten, I was better off not knowing. Be like the rest of the world, and just pretend this movie doesn't exist.
The movie's very existence is frustrating. Disney was trying to milk their sequel train for all it was worth, so they figured "Fox and the Hound" was next on the chopping block. But upon watching the film they realized, wait a second...how can we make a sequel to this movie? Everything got wrapped up in the first. We can't do a prequel because we see the two characters meet in the first movie. We literally see the beginning and ending of these characters stories. What are we to do?
They do like they did for "Bambi 2" or the "Beauty and the Beast" movies. They make, and yes this what they call it, an "inbetween-quel". A movie that takes after the beginning of the movie but before the ending. Something that by its own existence proves to be unnecessary. It would be like a compilation of scenes that were taken out of the original movie because they proved to be not relevant to the overall story.
Typically, when I am describing exactly why this movie is so bad, all I have to do is explain the premise. In "Fox and the Hound 2", Copper is given the chance to run away with a band of Western singing hound dogs. Never mind that everyone already knows how the movie will end, remember it is an "inbetween-quel", that may be the dumbest set up for a movie I have ever heard.
Let's throw in some celebrity voice actors. Kurt Russell was in the first, so let's have Patrick Swayze in this one. And let's have Reba and Jeff Foxworthy as well. This movie sounds like a joke movie, like a movie that wouldn't really exist but just an SNL sketch making fun of Disney. But no, it is real, and the joke is on all of us.
It is a shame, because I do love the first movie. One of my only critiques of it was that I would have wanted to see more time with Tod and Copper together as friends. In theory, this movie is giving me that. But if this is what I would have gotten, I was better off not knowing. Be like the rest of the world, and just pretend this movie doesn't exist.