 [Larger view] | The Great Mouse Detective
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| Vincent Price - What A Motivating Meany he Can Be! | |
| THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE is one of the Disney animated films that is underrated and not scene or talked about it a lot. The animation and settings are superb. The music is brilliant and the characters very real - for being animated that is. First off, Mr. Henry Mancini (Pink Panther and the Elephant Walk fame) is the films composer of note. The main theme for Basil (Our Great Mouse Detective) and the subsequent enhancements made by the 'dangerous' moments in the play make this score a fantastically orchestrated one. The story is a little unique in that Basil and his sidekick Dawson (hence Holmes and Watson like) are searching for the abducted father of our little heroin (age 8) Olivia. The plans get complicated as the bad guy; Professor Ratigan tried to take over the mouse world with one evil plan against the mouse queen. Not only is the day saved, but I think the kids will learn a lot about respect, being brave, being honest and what friendship is all about. Nice moral play in this film. You even get inside the famous Big Ben itself. Now the supreme evil character is voiced by the one and only Vincent Price. Need I say more? The DVD extras on this one very good as well and surprisingly entertaining. To keep in the clock themes, there are two 'time' related shorts that are pretty funny and the behind the scenes documentary are very good as well. There is even a sing-a-long for the kids. This is a delightful edition to the Disney and animated collection of any family. 8-20-02 | |
 Disney's The Great Mouse Detective | |
| I HIGHLY recomend watching Disney's 26th animated movie The Great Mouse Detective! Finally released on DVD, this is my fvorite Disney movie! It is a funny, entertaining, suspenceful movie about Basil of Baker Street, the Great Mouse Detective. In the movie, a popular toymaker is kidnapped from his toyshop by a peg-legged bat. The toymaker's daughter, Olivia Flavisham, sets out to fid the famous detective Basil. On the way she she meets Dr. Dawson. Dawson helpes her on her way to the find the detective. When they find the detective at 122 1/2 Baker Street, Basil is reluctant to help her find her father. Then basil realizes that the kidnapper is under the employey of his enemy, the infamous Professeur Ratigan. Although they dont know it yet, all of mousedom is endangered! With the help of Toby the dog they set off on their exiting adventure which climaxes in the inner clockworks of Big Ben towering over the streets of London. Will Basil be able to save mousedom? With the voices of Vincent Price, Barrie Ingham, Suzanne Polloatschk, Val Bettin, Alan Young, Candy Candido, and with music by Heneri Mancini. The Great Mouse Detective is also the first animated movie to use computer animation (used in the clock scene). I HIGHLY RECOMEND THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE!!!! | |
| Why rated G | |
| This is one of my favorite disney movies,i think that the song 'Goodbye so Soon'could be used in younger classes at the end of the day when its time for the kids to go home,however i don't think that this movie should be rated G,there is a scene in the movie showing mice smokeing and drinking it should of been rated PG. |
