Sometimes, all you need to make a movie is two characters from opposing backgrounds forming an unlikely bond. It’s not enough to make a great Disney movie, but it still gets the job done.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 20, 2023

While it is impossible to claim the film is an all-time masterpiece, especially for this era of Disney, this is a thematically rich and crafted feature with real value.

| Jan 14, 2023

The Fox and the Hound is a kind of an experiment... certainly a promising one, if a little disappointing.

| Jul 27, 2022

The Fox and the Hound is a flawed, but effective kids' flick.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 29, 2012

not one of the studio's best efforts, but nonetheless it remains a fascinating product of an era of upheaval as well as a meaningful statement about the nature of prejudice

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 11, 2011

A work of both learned, assured poise and triumphant freshman determination, not far away from other benchmark-status works like Snow White or Pixar's Toy Story.

| Aug 10, 2011

Sweet but a bit dull...Overall, the picture is good-hearted and colorful, with an ending that carries a nice touch of ambiguity about the tussle of nature and nurture. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 8, 2011

Cloying and cutesy, a helpless callback to a number of truly classic movies that it couldn't hope to equal, let alone better.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 21, 2009

All charmingness aside, this cute but rather thinly plotted yarn exposes the cracks that were present in the pre-renaissance Disney empire.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2008

Wonderful entertainment for both kids and their parents.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 3, 2008

Against all odds, a tear or two is effectively jerked, and there was enough skill on display to encourage some hope for the new generation of Disney animators, who made their debut here.

| Sep 3, 2008

Importantly, the story relies on plot to carry it along and serves as a welcome reminder that audiences don't require a popular reference or in-joke every five minutes to sustain their interest.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 13, 2008

It was a self-contained story that didn't try to change the world, and that was part of its charm.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2007

A southern gothic--and a damn good one at that

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 10, 2007

...boasts an old-fashioned vibe that proves impossible to resist...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 3, 2007

Disney may have gone off the rails for a few years after The Fox and the Hound, but this one still feels like a classic. Or at very least, a mini-classic.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 21, 2006

A wounded and unresolved movie free of the expected Disney cutesiness and complacency.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 13, 2006

...very sweet and no doubt a delight for children, but I found it quite slow and tedious.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 11, 2006

One of the more homely Disney animated features.

| Jan 26, 2006

The bottom line, I suppose, is: Will kids like this movie? And the answer is, sure, I think so.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004