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.
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.