The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

This ripoff of Song of the South is OK. My twin sister (mentioned in the Box Office Bunny review) likes this movie than Song of the South though it does not include "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" because that song is from Song of the South. The Adventures of Brer Rabbit has the characters look different than their Song of the South appearance. In Song of the South, Br'er Frog only appears in The Tar Baby scene and the famous finale. In this ripoff, he appears In How Br'er Rabbit Breaks Up the Party. How Br'er Rabbit Breaks Up the Party is a theory to De-Wuller-De-Wust and Br'er Rabbit Rides the Fox, 2 deleted scenes from Song of the South.

A pleasant surprise that shears away the controversial racism of the previous adaptations and sticks closer to the African American roots of the Brer Rabbit folklore. It's nothing amazing, but hosts a talented all-black voice cast with some appealing character designs, colorful backdrops, and a good selection of classic brer rabbit stories that stick close to the original while repackaging them in a more dignified and racially sensitive manner. Admittedly, the original songs are a bit hit-or-miss. It's nice to see more inclusion of the original characters and stories left out from the infamous Disney adaptation and its following copycats. The structure may be loose with its vignette format, but the pacing is so fast that this movie flows by like a breeze. It's an easy watch and I was never bored. It's no classic by any means, but it's a lot better than it had any right to be.

Having a copy of "Song of the South" which this is the politically correct replacement for, I was truly disappointed with this. "Song of the South" is not that great a movie by todays technical standards, but in its day it was revolutionary in the merging of animation and real actors. The Adventures of Brer Rabbit is nothing but modern politically correct trash. The Adventures of Brer Rabbit, which some people may find offensive to their own spiritual belief systems today, lacks any basis in the folk tales of a group of Americans that was part of our heritage. Those folk tales were the story of Brer Rabbit, not this politically correct enhanced trash.

That story (Song of the South) is a part of our history, for better or worse. Slavery, as well as the way the Black actors of Song of the South were treated in Atlanta at the time of Oscar Awards was terrible beyond belief. Anyone today who believes singing happy slaves were a way of life in the old south is an idiot. But America is not the only nation with a history of slavery. Most nations of the world have that practice in their history, some still do today. Stop beating ourselves up over it, and pretending it never existed.

The history of the native American people is an even greater horror story. Some of it caused intentionally by Europeon immigrants to the Americas. Some of it just twists of fate that befell them in the collision of 2 cultures. But what a horror story that is.

Films weren't always based in total reality back when Song of the South was made, neither are they today. But the rewriting of our historical make believe films smacks of another film/story "1984".

Don't tease the people with this stuff, re-release the original movie where Brer Rabbit was made a star "Song of the South".

Cute adaption of the stories I remember my mother reading me. The stories remain true to memory, but the dialect was absent which kind of ruined it a little bit for me. DVD quality was excellent. Both my children ages 4 and 14 both had their attentions held on the screen. The colorful scenes held the young ones and Brer rabbit's tricks kept the older kids watching for whats next. The extra DVD games were a little difficult for the younger children but fun for the older set. A fun story to watch with the kids. I just felt it was missing something I couldn't quite put my finger on. I recommend seeing this just not highly. A good rental!

Growing up in Atlanta down the street from "The Wrens Nest", the birthplace of Brer Rabbit, and his wonderful friends, as a child I read all of the Uncle Remus stories, and knew them well. The only variance from the original stories, is the substitution of Brer Turtle for Uncle Remus. Otherwise they are great morality tales mixed with a lot of fun, and quite authentic including the tar baby, the laughing place, and the proverbial briar patch. It's thoroughly enjoyable, and I would recommend this to anyone young or old!