The Scarecrow

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.

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...

This film could have been a success. The scarecrow looking too human made the conclusion slightly ridiculous. He should have been more nightmarish. Also, two annoying sidekicks, bad animation, an annoying villain and (except one) awful songs made this a failure, at least to me. You'd be better off sticking with the new wave of Disney adaptions then this rubbish.

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.

WOW!

The Love Song from this show makes me cry! It is a wonderful story, and it is not SCARY as the title has Scarecrow in it. Yes it ends well, and it is a fantasy. The music is pretty good, the lines are okay, and the story is hopefull!