10/10
Vuk has no sequels, it's a standalone retro classic for everyone
9 August 2014
Warning: Spoilers
And I mean it. This cartoon was the most successful of the 80's Hungary for a reason. Unlike Gát's "Kis Vuk" labeled monstrosity, which in no way connects to this one despite being titled as "A Sequel", Vuk delivers allegory of freedom and slavery (The Foxes are on the rebel side, fight for Nature and the Spirit of The Fox, while the Hunters and their dogs represent Slavery, kinda like any dictatorship in history, including the Soviets, under whose power Hungary was first tortured, then unhealthily spoiled.) Gát György says "they were working on the footsteps on this one". Well, with a movie that makes no sense, lacks a story, and is just outright a mockbuster, you may claim you are into Video Brinquedo footsteps rather than the master of Hungarian Animation's, whose name was Dargay Attila. And Dargay, Indeed, was an angel in the Makuta's pool of evil, which needed his works to think about freedom. The line included many masterpieces, like "Ludas Matyi" which decipted a medieval Hungary, and a boy who stroke the power of an evil man in power. Vuk did the same: Decipting a world where Foxes fought for their freedom against the Hunters, who killed their families. If Disney contacted Dargay to work on a sequel right away, it would be a better fate for this Classic than have a mockbuster claim itself as a Sequel. Before Lion King, and After the year Vuk was released, Disney was living it's golden age. So why not? Why didn't it happen? Well, maybe that's for the best too, because Hungarians are a bit sensitive towards their materials. My respect goes for the now dead Dargay, who borough us tales of freedom. And one of them was told in the POV of foxes. And they deserved it, because most of the time, Foxes USED to be the villains or bad guys in stories. Here, we find out they are not. And why they aren't.

SPOILER Oh and the sequence when Karak teaches Hunting to little Vuk? That's cute!
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