Reviews of The Animals of Farthing Wood

Pure, Classic animation.

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago on 15 March 2008 01:24 (A review of The Animals of Farthing Wood)

Oh No! Grandma has died, how do we break it to tiny Tim and his lil sister? They are too young to understand death, too young to understand that life just is not fair and that sometimes you make your own success stories by overcoming the obstacles life throws at you.
Worry not a second longer parents of earth, for Animals of Farthing Wood covers everything!
A truely brilliant tale of a group of animals who live in "Farthing Wood" discovering that their home is about to be turned into a housing estate. Coming together they decide their only option is to find salvation, and their resident Toad knows exactly the place. Ignoring their differences, and the fact that most of them eat each other on a daily basis the animals agree to co-operate and go to great lengths to ensure each of them makes it.

Sadly, a fair few do not survive!

Overcoming fires, floods, roads, rouge shotgun wielding farmers, and city folk.

(just a number of the things that threaten them on their way to "White Deer Park")

is not easy, and whilst most of them often escape unharmed, you are left with the regret and sadness that some creatures are just incapable of survival when removed from their natural habitat.

Once they reach the park the story deals with the impact a large group of animals invading a habitat which is not used to them has, and deals with rival tribes forming between the preexisting animals and the new, and also the coming to grips with facts that now they have to fend for themselves individually again.
I recommend everyone watch this as it is not your usual "cartoon" it is an animated tale! And a damn good one, if you have the attention span, read it instead, it was originally a novel. It definitely helps younger folk to understand the world, as unlike most tv shows, the characters are NOT going to just come back next season, or narrowly escape death by sheer coincidence. Everything is natural and it is perfectly portrayed as such. There are many morals to be taught here.

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