This short (49 min) film is faithful to the legend, and contains no real surprises, except perhaps for the feisty Maid Marian who refuses to be left behind and grabs perhaps more than her share of the adventure. One may ask why we needed another Robin Hood cartoon with animals as the characters, to which one imagines the creators saying: "Aha, but OURS is in CGI!" Suitable for youngsters but bland for adults.

The Good: The very medieval soundtrack is charming from the start of the film. The voice acting is mostly well done. I quite liked the backgrounds, and the writing, though not innovative or imaginative or humorous, was adequate. It had some unexpected atmospheric effects as well.

The Bad: This was the sort of CGI they make in blinding saturated, glowing colors, with too much light and ambiance, because someone is under the impression that it makes the film look like cell-shaded 2D animation. It doesn't do that, it just makes it look like an incompetently-lit puppet show. In fact, the lack of interesting camera angles and so on, as well as the general design, gave the film the feel of puppet animation. The stodginess of the animation added to this...but I blame that less on the animators' expertise and more on the ridiculous character designs.

The Ugly: It's bad enough that many of the film's characters look like they were put together hastily out of play-dough, leaving lumps and seams and unsightly protuberances. Others look like plastic action figures with few joints. What's worse is that the designs don't lend themselves to animation, and so there are a lot of very stiff characters who seem to have trouble moving at all. Fortunately Robin and Marion were the least bizarre and deformed of the lot, or it would have been a painful film. The character designs which seemed the most attractive and functional were the horses, who seemed to move a lot like marionettes. (But then they had one of those 'what's Goofy' moments when, after most of the film showed the characters riding horses around, we suddenly saw a clothed horse firing a bow....) Frankly, after seeing the models limping stiffly through the movie, I wished they had tried drawing it or had used actual plastic models.

Still, better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.