Disney’s The Great Mouse Detective re-imagined the world of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famed Sherlock Holmes series as a playful adventure of sleuthing rodents. When a young mouse’s father is kidnapped, Basil of Baker Street, the great mouse detective, is called in to solve the case. Who could the villain be but none other than Professor Ratigan, Professor Moriarty’s pint sized, rat-faced doppleganger.
The Great Mouse Detective may not have the following of more popular Disney movies like Cinderella or Snow White, but it’s delightful adventure doesn’t skip a beat on the Disney magic. What the movie lacks in musical numbers, it more than makes up for with top-notch voice acting. Horror master Vincent Price voices Ratigan. Also, Alan Young, who voiced Scrooge McDuck on Duck Tales, appears as kidnapped father, Hiram Flaversham. You can’t beat that.
The closing scene where Professor Ratigan...
The Great Mouse Detective may not have the following of more popular Disney movies like Cinderella or Snow White, but it’s delightful adventure doesn’t skip a beat on the Disney magic. What the movie lacks in musical numbers, it more than makes up for with top-notch voice acting. Horror master Vincent Price voices Ratigan. Also, Alan Young, who voiced Scrooge McDuck on Duck Tales, appears as kidnapped father, Hiram Flaversham. You can’t beat that.
The closing scene where Professor Ratigan...
- 10/18/2012
- by Bags Hooper
- BuzzFocus.com
Disney is re-releasing the 1986 animated feature The Great Mouse Detective on DVD. If you missed it during its original release or its theatrical re-release in 1992, it’s cool. A lot of people did. Under-appreciated and largely forgotten, The Great Mouse Detective wasn’t even the biggest animated mouse movie
of 1986 (Universal’s An American Tail beat Mouse Detective by $22 million that year) though in retrospect, the movie was pivotal to the studio’s animation department coming off of their disastrous feature, The Black Cauldron. The Great Mouse Detective put the studio back on track and helped usher in a new golden age of Disney ‘toons including The Little Mermaid and Aladdin.
The Great Mouse Detective was one of the first animated Disney features to include CGI technology.
Basil of Baker Street (voiced by TV veteran Barrie Ingham) is the world’s greatest mouse detective and lives under the not-so-humble abode of Sherlock Holmes.
of 1986 (Universal’s An American Tail beat Mouse Detective by $22 million that year) though in retrospect, the movie was pivotal to the studio’s animation department coming off of their disastrous feature, The Black Cauldron. The Great Mouse Detective put the studio back on track and helped usher in a new golden age of Disney ‘toons including The Little Mermaid and Aladdin.
The Great Mouse Detective was one of the first animated Disney features to include CGI technology.
Basil of Baker Street (voiced by TV veteran Barrie Ingham) is the world’s greatest mouse detective and lives under the not-so-humble abode of Sherlock Holmes.
- 4/21/2010
- ReelLoop.com
.I am not a rat!. The game is afoot and the feet are mouse sized. Disney.s Holmesian pastiche is based on the books of Eve Titus but it.s pure Conan Doyle. Therefore a wonderful time revisiting those fog shrouded streets with the delightful voice cast and that Disney touch. In 1897 London, Olivia Flaversham (Susanne Pollatschek) is celebrating her birthday with her toymaker father (Alan Young). The celebration is interrupted by peg-legged bat Fidget (Candy Candido) and her father is kidnapped. Olivia escapes the clutches of the fiend and goes in search of the detective Basil of Baker Street. She gets lost and is come upon by Dr. David Q. Dawson (Val Bettin) who assists her...
- 4/14/2010
- by Jeff Swindoll
- Monsters and Critics
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