Oliver and Company is an adaptation of the Charles Dickens Oliver Twist story set in modern day New York and using animals as the main characters. It's an average feature for the Disney studio with nothing too notable about it other than having Billy Joel star as Dodger and provide one of the soundtrack songs.
This is an underappreciated film that often gets overlooked because it came out at a time when Disney was not producing it's finest work
When you review a big body of work like our Disney Films Project, you have to bear through some of the less than stellar offerings. It's a good exercise to watch both the good and the bad and boy, was this one bad!
I've been looking forward to The Rescuers coming up on our list as it is one of my childhood favorites. I was about 8 years old when it was released in theaters and it just captured my imagination.
The whole thing began with Walt seeking after stories, as he so often did. The idea of some old wood and a group of stuffed animals interested him more than many would believe, and he cottoned to taking the whole thing home.
It's been very well established here that we are big time LEGO fanatics and I don't think you can really claim to be a true fan if you aren't familiar with Nathan Sawaya's incredible work
In 2010, Tim Burton got it in his head to take his mental stylings to an old English tale, that of Alice in Wonderland. Disney had tried and failed first time round, as had many others, but that never stopped anyone before.
Moving along in our Disney Films Project list, we hit upon one of the bigger splits in our opinions. Most of the time, we are pretty close on our viewpoints, but this one definitely left us divided.
I secretly wanted a brass bed with removable knobs, and I certainly wanted to be able to control my own armor army! Although, in retrospect, I'm a little surprised that didn't scare me as a kid
This is one of those movies that Alex and I disagree on. I grew up with the Aristocats and it was one of my very favorites. To be fair, we didn't have VHS or DVD and we could only see the films when they came out in the theater every 7 years.
This is one of my childhood favorites and I still enjoy it as an adult. I never read Rudyard Kipling's books so I never worried about it being so unfaithful to the original works.
We decided to wait until the movie had been released on iTunes and DVD and give everyone about a month to see it before we wrote our post. It worked out perfectly because we watched it on May the 4th which has come to be known as Star Wars Day!
