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The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Nov. 21st, 2019 08:23 amWe have reached the last of Disney’s anthology films! I thought Melody Time was the last, but it turns out that The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is actually two separate short films, which actually makes a lot more sense than trying to mash up “The Headless Horseman” and The Wind in the Willows into one story so maybe I should have guessed beforehand.
Silly complaint time, but the title mentions Ichabod Crane first and Mr. Toad second, but in the movie itself the order is reversed and this really bothers me because it seems so untidy. Why would Disney title it like that???
Generally, though, I enjoyed both shorts. I would not recommend the Mr. Toad short for anyone who is deeply attached to The Wind in the Willows because it is only distantly related to that book, but if you go into it accepting that it’s a completely different thing that happens to share a few names, there’s some entertaining mayhem going on.
And the Ichabod Crane short actually hews pretty close to Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” with the added amusing quality that Ichabod’s rival for Katrina van Tassel’s affections is basically a proto-Gaston. Bluff! Hearty! Annoyingly manly! But certainly more cunning than Gaston: he goes after his rival with a ghost story rather than a pitchfork, which while more indirect is also far more effective.
Silly complaint time, but the title mentions Ichabod Crane first and Mr. Toad second, but in the movie itself the order is reversed and this really bothers me because it seems so untidy. Why would Disney title it like that???
Generally, though, I enjoyed both shorts. I would not recommend the Mr. Toad short for anyone who is deeply attached to The Wind in the Willows because it is only distantly related to that book, but if you go into it accepting that it’s a completely different thing that happens to share a few names, there’s some entertaining mayhem going on.
And the Ichabod Crane short actually hews pretty close to Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” with the added amusing quality that Ichabod’s rival for Katrina van Tassel’s affections is basically a proto-Gaston. Bluff! Hearty! Annoyingly manly! But certainly more cunning than Gaston: he goes after his rival with a ghost story rather than a pitchfork, which while more indirect is also far more effective.
