Harve Foster
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Still, for all the fetishism of the computer-graphic detail, when compared with his flesh-and-blood co-actors, this Hulk is no more believable than the animated Br'er Rabbit walking alongside Uncle Remus in Disney's 1946 "Song of the South."
…gibberish lyrics) into their music--from conception to DVD, the whole production is a throwback to Song of the South.
Of course, Spielberg is working in a time-honored tradition: After The Birth of a Nation, with its risible scenes of freed slaves raping and pillaging white Southerners, movies have treated this "peculiar" institution mostly at arm's length, from the happy slaves of Gone With the Wind and Song of the South to the simian allegories of King Kong and Planet of the Apes.
For a long period of time, during the rare times in which Hollywood movies told stories that involved slaves in some way, they tended to be fanciful, sugar-coated visions like "Gone with the Wind" or "Song of the South" that bore little relation to the reality of the situation.
The beauty of “Ratatouille” is more notional than the anthropomorphic homilies spun by the movie’s Disney forebears (“Song of the South” anyone?), and Bird has disguised his themes under a fantastic demi-glaze of computer animation.
What, then, do we make of the tenuous alliance between Judy and trickster fox Nick Wilde ( Jason Bateman ), which — despite the obvious design similiarities — features none of the bloodthirsty tension shown between Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox in Disney’s half-forgotten/suppressed “Song of the South”?
If these were actually Native Americans (they are portrayed as such, using every stereotype a New Age shop in Sedona would try to peddle) being led to victory against the Union Army by a white man that united the tribes, there would have been such an outcry even in 2009 that the movie would have been sharing the same cell with Song of the South.
It's nowhere near as malicious as The Birth of a Nation, less bizarre than The Jazz Singer and less awful than The Emperor's New Groove.
But when you put James Baskett's sly Uncle Remus up against, say, Butterfly McQueen's bug-eyed Prissy, it's hard to see why Gone With the Wind is available as a deluxe four-DVD set while Song of the South molders in Disney's vaults.