The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

I found this film at the bottom of the bargain bin at Walmart. The fact there was an adaptation of the Uncle Remus stories starting Wayne Brady and Wanda Sykes meant it had to be interesting at the very least. I was expecting it to be quite terrible in a laughable kind of way.

However, it is a very well animated film with a talented voice cast. The character designs were wonderful and the overall art direction was well developed. The score was excellent but the songs were on the verge of unbearably cheesy, if not unnecessary.

Only complaints were that some of the jokes and gags missed the mark a little in a tired hackneyed way. But those moments were short lived. Also, there wasn't enough Wayne and Wanda!

The Uncle Remus stories are a paradoxical dilemma for American audiences. This adaptation removes the social stigmas of Post-Civil War themes but preserves important folk stories of African-American heritage, exposing these tales to a generation that might have otherwise missed this experience.

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!

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".

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.

This is the only film adaptation of "The Tales of Uncle Remus" I have. Disney has not re-released "The Song of the South" on DVD due to controversy surrounding its content. But I have seen that movie online, and quite frankly, I love both films; I am not one to take sides.

This film is loosely based on Julius Lester's take on the stories, and it starts with a bored little girl named Janey. Then she met up with Brer Turtle, and he told her the stories of Brer Rabbit's madcap adventures. You know, in "Brer Rabbit Breaks Up the Party," it was kind of cruel that the other critters would not let Brer Rabbit join the party, but he is lucky to have a friend like Brer Turtle. So anyway, I love this film.