What about the poor rabbit an his family back home? No one is crying for them!?
Reviews for "Outfoxed"
I appreciate what you tried to do with this, but despite the great tragedy and heartwrenching drama presented early on, it still mamanged to be somehow almost as goofy as the comedy toons. For instance, where does the vixen keep getting all these knives and dynamite? Why did she walk on all fours sometimes, and on two legs in others? Why don't the hunters seem to have any apparent fear of this silent huntress who manages to off like three of them before they even know what's happening? Things like that break my immersion in the drama and tell me that this is a silly cartoon, which I don't think is what you were going for (or was it? It's a very strange fusion if so).
The almost Rambo-parody-like, comedic quality of the hunting scenes is really kind of strange and disjointed when juxtaposed with the very dark and tragic subject of all the deaths. I think I'd have liked it better if there was more ACTUAL outfoxing-- clever things that foxes really do in real life, like in the Fox & the Hound film.
One thing I don't think was a problem was the style of the animation-- you can tell a story with cartoony pictures just fine, so I did like the animation and I appreciate your dedication in making such a LONG cartoon (something I know isn't easy to do). IF you want to do something more serious and dramatic, though, I think the style of the storytelling has to be different.
Meh. Having the frigging casper the friendly ghost ending (and I say that because there actually was a casper the friendly ghost episode where he tames a fox which is then killed by hunters and then of course predictably reunited with Casper when he becomes a ghost fox at the end - nearly making me gag/giving me type II diabetes even THEN when I was young) completely ruins it. It trivializes the whole point of a struggle, of revenge, and diminishes or destroys any sense of the hunters being evil if life is just a frigging pac man game and you just get to try out life as a ghost afterwards. What's so bad about killing then, right? Those hunters weren't such bad guys, they just allowed the little foxes to become non-corporeal foxes that can fly, which is even more fun than being the regular kind of fox, right? As if the anthropomorphising of the fox wasn't annoying enough after already establishing her as the regular wild 4-legged kind at the beginning, suddenly she's using complex tools and walking on 2 legs and where the hell did she get the TNT from? Hammerspace? But hey, the animation quality was good.
KFoxyFox responds:
She got the TNT from a quarry; it's in there in one brief scene =P
It was nice, the part where the hunter catches the arrow is a good reference, but its kinda stretching it to have a fox use TNT and create complex tools, then proceed to master archery within a day. Then kill the equivalent of Rambo. 3/5 Stars.