If you are looking for the perfect film to show your children during the holidays, do not hesitate any longer and go for this title from the Disney catalog, misunderstood and often forgotten.
Take advantage of the holidays to introduce your children to Rox and Rouky, a Disney film that is often forgotten but nevertheless deserves its place among the studio’s classics. Its themes, the refusal of the happy ending and its accessibility even make it a very interesting educational tool.
From the age of 8
Rox the dog and Rouky the fox grow up together and become best friends. But this friendship is threatened when Rouky’s master becomes a hunter and decides to hunt the fox that lives near his home…
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What they will love
- The first part, the time of happiness and carelessness, in which the puppy and the fox – absolutely cute – are best friends and play together with infectious pleasure.
- The statement on tolerance and difference, which is placed underwater in the film but which the little ones will grasp, or hear unconsciously.
- Learning that not all stories end in happy endings and that sometimes compromise is not a bad solution if it allows everyone to live happily. If a situation that we thought was going to end ends, we take all the memories with us.
- Animals, perhaps to the point of asking for a baby fox at Christmas!
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What can worry them
- The hunter who goes in search of Rouky and whose rifle is threatening.
- Chef’s death, which really hits Rox and weighs on Rouky.
- The broken friendship between the two friends and the rather pronounced antagonism which results from it.
- Without worrying them, the film is very likely to greatly move them, and it will be necessary to provide hugs and handkerchiefs to accompany this difficult moment, fortunately temporary.