Product Description

Animated Disney feature about the relationship between

Tod, an orphaned fox cub, and Copper, a puppy hound. As they play in the

forest, looked after by Big Mama Owl, they remain unaware that

adulthood will cast them as arch-enemies, putting the bonds of their

childhood friendship to the test.

One of Disney's less popular animated movies, for

absolutely no good reason at all, because it's an excellent story,

simply and expertly told. The box blurb rather confusingly compares it

to Bambi, but this is a story which has rather more to do with

how social conventions can divide friendships than the coming-of-age

subtext which underlies the latter. The story is perhaps predictable--a

fox cub and a puppy play together as friends, not realising that their

places in the scheme of things dictate that they will grow up to become

hunter and hunted. Of course, eventually they see the light and it all

ends happily, but even so the story promotes t.