Disney's self-copying (video inside)

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Originally Posted by EricJ

You'll notice, of course, that MOST of the cribbing was done for Robin Hood--
Which was a pretty thrown-together project to begin with, after they were trying to pick up the pieces of two other failed projects: Originally it was going to be a "Southern Robin Hood" (which explains why we have Pat Buttram and Andy Devine voices)--and which was eventually recycled into the Bayou critters from "The Rescuers"--and then had to be re-recorded after Tommy Steele just didn't sound right for Robin.

...At which point of desperation to get it finished, the default Ron Miller directive of "Oh, just copy Jungle Book one more time!" kicked in.

Good post.

Robin Hood was the first Disney movie I saw not as a rerun, but when it opened theatrically (I guess this ages me lol) and I liked it a lot at the time. It's only in later viewings that I realized how derivative and plain lazy it is.