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The fox and the hound fight1/19/2023 "Fox" tries to get by on a pinch of humor. "The Rescuers" sustained a suspense plot enhanced by a wealth of comic incidents, characterizations and throwaway gags. The languorous, saccharine tendencies need plenty of comic resistance. If anything, "Fox" demonstrates an ill-advised fondness for the most dubious aspects of "Bambi," including its ickily coy approach to animal mating, revived here when Tod is given a breathy, fluttery-lashed girlfriend called Vixey, whose demure lines have been entrusted to Sandy Duncan. The exposition tends to settle into a low-key reverie, reminiscent of "Bambi" but weakened by the failure to create fresh characters and episodes of comparable charm. Opening today at area theaters, "The Fox and the Hound" traces the enduring friendship between a fox clled Tod (short for "Toddler") and a bloodhound called Copper who become playmates as pups and eventually transcend a mortal enmity cultivated by Copper's master, a mean-tempered hillbilly named Amos Slade. Measured against a 40-year heritage of Disney classics, from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" through "The Rescuers," the studio's new animated feature, "The Fox and the Hound" seems a dinky, lackluster offering. Although the form is too costly and exacting to encourage competitors, the studio must live up to its own glittering inventory. Tradition imposes a special burden on the Disney studio when it comes to animated features.
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