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[Chyron8472]

[Jennifer]

It's kind of a shame that The Great Mouse Detective and Oliver and Company are usually overlooked by most people as the "Disney Renaissance" was said to start with The Little Mermaid.

Personally, I'd say it started with The Great Mouse Detective, as that was the movie where Disney started going back to Walt Disney's desire to push the technology forward while keeping the story solid. The Great Mouse Detective was the first Disney movie to combine moving 3-dimensional objects made from computer imaging software with hand drawn animation (not counting John Lasseter's Where the Wild Things Are pitch, which was brilliant and it's a shame it never got made into an animated feature).

[Chyron8472]

I saw The Great Mouse Detective. It's decent, but I wouldn't put it in the same category as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, etc.

[coolsome]

Originally Posted by Chyron8472

I saw The Great Mouse Detective. It's decent, but I wouldn't put it in the same category as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, etc.

It has Vincent Price as the rat! What more do you need?

I hated the little mermaid.

[coolsome]

Originally Posted by Chyron8472

Amazon never get that right. Its best to ignore that and do your own googling to see if you can watch it in your region. Seriously the amount of times iv found out there wrong and I can play it even in the reviews of some things ppl take piss out of them for that.

Took me awhile but I found out it is in ABC format.

[Jennifer]

Originally Posted by Chyron8472

I saw The Great Mouse Detective. It's decent, but I wouldn't put it in the same category as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, etc.

The Rescuers Down Under is considered part of the Disney Renaissance. The Great Mouse Detective and Oliver and Company are easily as good as that one.

[DAISHI]

People don't argue for Great Mouse Detective as being as good as Beauty and the Beast but to ignore the fact that Beauty wouldn't exist without Mouse Detective is to ignore how Disney history was a scaffolding process, and Detective was an important step.

[Darth Marsden]

The Great Mouse Detective was instrumental in rebuilding Disney's trust in movie-making.

The 'failure' of The Black Cauldron was pretty off-putting to the bigwigs, but thanks to The Great Mouse Detective being a hit, Disney went on to make films like The Little Mermaid, which kickstarted the Disney Renaissance and turned the company into the massive success it is today. So yeah, TGMD is a pretty important film.

[Chyron8472]

I'm not arguing that.

"Important for the Disney brand" is one thing.

Quality of the story, memorability/catchiness of the music, and interest in the characters (esp. as compared to the Renaissance-era movies) is something else. EDIT: Oh... wiki says that The Great Mouse Detective competed almost directly with An American Tail. That's why it's been overlooked.

I like An American Tail.

[Darth Marsden]

I do to. I prefer TGMD though.

[DAISHI]

On this one I'll go with American Tail. I'm a big fan of Don Bluth's style.

[GaryCXJk]

Originally Posted by GuruGuru214

I admit, I don't know a whole lot about the original source material for The Sorcerer's Apprentice. But the film is so fundamentally different from the short on basically every level, the only thing they seem to have in common is the same VERY basic premise, and that cleaning scene in the middle of the live-action film that comes off more as a homage than anything.

Also, if we really want to be technical, the movie is inspired by the ballad that was the inspiration for the symphony, not just the animation, although it did influence the movie (especially the ending, where you can see Yensid's hat).

Also, the movie got way more flak than it deserved. I for one didn't think it was a bad movie at all.