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Man... The fight/chase after the archery was all over the place!



Ok, this is not only my favorite Disney movie, but also one of my most favorite movies EVER, but I watched it last night, and, well...

Ok, so there's the part where a group of characters (Including Little John) go into a tent, and then all run off still inside it. L. John looks out and sees a load of character run left and right; the mother rabbit suddenly has two extra bunnies from nowhere, that dog with a broken leg somehow keeps up with everyone else, and we can clearly see Robin and Marian running to the right of the screen. Then in the next shot, Robin is fighting an Alligator - how the hell did he get there so fast?

A few more scenes of romantic lines while fighting (which I always found cool), and the runaway tent comes crashing through, and then all of a sudden the Alligator no longer has his sword and shield (assuming it's the same one), and is all "Attention Everyone!!" before getting owned by the tent - seriously; did he not notice all the commotion around him? Who the hell decides to give a speech during a brawl?!

Then, the tent crashes into a tower with two elephants on top, and destroys it with ease - if it could be destroyed that easier I'm surprised the elephants didn't break it just by standing on top of it. Then there's the nice Jungle Book reference, and the NFL parodies which I laughed at as a kid, and they're done. It's so nice how this scene is JUST before my favorite song/scene in the movie (I just love romantic scenes), but seriously I think that whoever planned this scene had a few pints beforehand.

Love this movie :D

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Well thanks, guys. After reading this thread, I just had to find the scene. And the croc really did get owned by the tent, didn't he?

Truck or Squad. What side are you on?

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Yeah,him and Trigger both got owned by that tent!That whole scene and the whole jailbreak scene were the two funniest scenes in the whole movie!

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LOL!!!I wonder what he was going to say,as well,after"Attention everyone!

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Now I'm gonna have to go home and watch the movie, tonight. The riot at the archery tournament is, without doubt, the funniest scene in the movie. So many great moments:
- Clucky and Little John shoving each other in and out of the melee in the tent
- The tent taking off and running amok
- Clucky banging PJ on the head with the golden arrow ("Take that! You scurvy knave!"), which prompts what is probably my favorite line in the movie, for some reason: "Seize the fat one!"
- Segue way into the football scene and 'On Wisconsin!' playing behind it
- The best, the one that made me laugh out loud, was when the elephants on the tower think the rampaging tent is going to hit them, but it narrowly misses; they relax, breathe sigh of relief - then the ground starts to shake, we hear a train whistle from off-screen, and BOOM!

"You may have come on no bicycle, but that does not say that you know everything."

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