DVD Review: “Oliver and Company”

Jan 26, 09 • In Movies

Oliver and Company (20th Anniversary Edition) (2009, Walt Disney) purchase this DVD (Amazon) We look back on The Little Mermaid as the movie that lifted Disney out of its long journey through the shadow of the valley of cheesy live-action features (like 1981′s Condorman) and subpar animated adventures (1985′s The Black Cauldron, natch), but the truth is that the process was really more gradual. Giving the fishtailed Ariel all the credit for the Disney revival leaves out a handful of quality movies, including 1986′s The Great Mouse Detective — and 1988′s Oliver and Company. It’s been sort of swept aside in the second Disney golden era — it wasn’t even released to the home video market until the late ’90s — but Oliver‘s box-office success helped lift the studio out of its doldrums, and the