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The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The narrator reads from two stories; The Wind in the Willows and Sleepy Hollow. The first story has Toad becoming obsessed with the new motor cars. He is arrested for stealing one and imprisoned to his friends' dismay. It's actually a scam to take over Toad Hall. The second story has Ichabod Crane arriving at Sleepy Hollow to be the new schoolmaster. The town's eligible bachelors including the hulking Brom Bones and the superficial Ichabod are pursuing the wealthy heir Katrina van Tassel.The two Disney stories are approximately half hour each. It's old school animation with plenty of charms. The problem is that neither stories are my tastes. Toad is foolish almost to the annoying extreme. The animals are cute and I can excuse his foolishness. On the hand, Ichabod is not appealing at all. He is basically a male gold-digger. He is finicky, greedy, and gross. He's not in love with Katrina. She is nothing more than a trophy and a pot of gold to him. Granted, she's very two dimensional. It might work as a horror but that's not what Disney is going for. The animation work is solid but I don't like these stories or characters.

Easily the best of Disney's efforts in the period of short segmented movies released during and shortly after WWII. As the other movies in this period, it consists in this case of two segments. "The Wind in the Willows" as the first and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" as the second. The first segment is centered around Mr. Toad, who has this mania of taking everything to the extreme. It is as I said fun and upbeat and thoroughly enjoyable. The second one follows Ichabod Crane as he enters the village of Sleepy Hollow. Here he is quite popular and he totally engulf himself in it. Almost the entire segment is narrated until he heads off in the dark of the night. From there on comes the greatest suspense in any Disney movie, ever. No doubt. The only thing I will say about that is that it is one of the most shocking and scary scenes I have seen in an animated movie. You should watch this movie if you like both the brighter and darker side of Disney, because this movie touches them both.

The best of Disney's combination/anthology films of the 1940s. It may be an odd combo of two unconnected stories but they're both so strong you don't really mind much. The first story, about a colorful character named Mr. Toad's crazy obsessions that nearly leads him to ruin, is an adaptation of part of Kenneth Grahame's novel The Wind in the Willows. It's narrated by Basil Rathbone and features fine voice work from Eric Blore and others. The second story, narrated by Bing Crosby, is probably the best screen adaptation of the Washington Irving story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow I've seen. It's light-hearted and humorous for the most part but the sequence with the Headless Horseman near the end is exciting and even frightening (particularly to little ones). Both cartoons are fun with good characters and beautiful animation and music. Bing Crosby sings some songs, as well. I always preferred the Ichabod story growing up but, as I grew older, I began to appreciate Wind in the Willows more. They're both wonderful cartoons made by Disney during the era they produced so many classics. Definitely worth a look for young and old alike.

"The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" is one of the anthology films that Disney was putting out around the late forties. These include films like "Make Mine Music", "Fun & Fancy Free", and "Melody Time", among a few others. After having seen "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad", I'm excited to explore some of these Disney anthology films which I have been, surprisingly, unaware of for the longest time!The premise of this film is simple, two classic tales ("The Wind in the Willows" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow") are adapted in the animated Disney format, and are shown back to back. They are two really different stories, that also make two very different short films, But, they both have their similarities. They're both dark, while still being very light and funny at times, and they are both GREAT!Although people seem to always give the "Sleepy Hollow" segment the most credit, "The Wind in the Willows" adaptation is equally fantastic in my opinion. The humor, characters, and engaging story keep it very entertaining and, simply, amazing! "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" may seem to have a much more memorable climax, but, to me, "The Wind in the Willows" also deserves a lot of credit! It is an excellent piece of animation!Now, this doesn't mean that I think that "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is worse or anything, I think it deserves equal credit and is equally classic! In "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", we get a pretty different format than we did in "The Wind in the Willows". "The Wind in the Willows" is made in a much more conventional way than "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", and this is mainly due to one artistic decision. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" has practically no dialogue! Everything we need to know is narrated and song by Bill Cosby, or is just shown to us visually. This works very well and makes the short a bit more interesting than it already was.Of course, the climax between Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman is absolutely classic and has always been the part that everybody remembers. And how couldn't they? It is an amazing scene! It is chaotic, scary, and even includes a bit of visual gags along the way. Even the scene leading up to the climax, as Ichabod is going through the woods with his horse is stunning, and is even creepier than the climax, in a sense. The atmosphere there is so heavy, that I got a really eerie vibe out of it.In the end, these are two very different classic tales put together in a film that couldn't be more perfect!