S.oliver

Cast and Characters

• Oliver, voiced by Joey Lawrence, is the main protagonist and an orange Tabby kitten who wants a home. He joins Fagin’s gang of dogs before being taken in by Jenny. He also saves her life from the black-hearted loan-shark, Sykes.
• Dodger, voiced by Billy Joel, is a carefree, charismatic mongrel with a mix of terrier in him. He claims to have considerable «street savoir-faire.» He is the leader of Fagin’s gang of dogs and becomes Oliver’s closest best friend amongst them. He serves as the deuteragonist.
• Fagin, voiced by Dom DeLuise, is a petty criminal who lives on a houseboat with his dogs. He desperately needs money to repay his debt with Sykes. Because of his economic situation, he is forced to perform criminal acts such as pick-pocketing and petty theft, but in truth, he has a heart of gold.
• Jenny Foxworth, voiced by Natalie Gregory (singing voice by Myhanh Tran), is a kind, rich girl who takes care of Oliver. She serves as the tritagonist.
• Bill Sykes, voiced by Robert Loggia, is the primary antagonist and is a cold-hearted, immoral loan shark who lent a considerable sum of money to Fagin for unknown reasons and expects it paid back.
• Tito, voiced by Cheech Marin, simply known as Tito, is a tiny Chihuahua in Fagin’s gang. He has a fiery temper for his size and rapidly develops a crush on Georgette (although she is initially repulsed by him).
• Georgette, voiced by Bette Midler, is the Foxworth family’s spoiled prize-winning poodle, who is jealous of Oliver getting attention. When Tito displays his attraction to her, she initially responds with revulsion. At the end, however, she displays considerable attraction to Tito — so much, in fact, that she sends him running for his life when she tries to bathe, dress, and groom him.
• Einstein, voiced by Richard Mulligan, is a gray Great Dane in Fagin’s gang, representing the stereotype that Great Danes are friendly, but dumb. He is the strongest member of the gang.
• Francis, voiced by Roscoe Lee Browne, is an English bulldog with a British accent in Fagin’s gang. He appreciates art and theater and detests anyone abbreviating his name as «Frank» or «Frankie.»
• Rita, voiced by Sheryl Lee Ralph (singing voice by Ruth Pointer), is a Saluki and the only female dog in Fagin’s gang.
• Roscoe and DeSoto, voiced by Taurean Blacque and Carl Weintraub respectively, are the secondary antagonists. They are Sykes’ vicious Doberman dogs and seem to have a long rivalry with Dodger and his friends.
• Winston, voiced by William Glover, is the Foxworth family’s bumbling but loyal butler.
• Louie, voiced by Frank Welker, is a bad-tempered hot dog vendor, who appears early in the film where Oliver and Dodger steal his hot dogs. He is meant to be one of the «enemies of the four-legged world», meaning that he hates both cats and dogs.
• Pongo (cameo)
• Jock (cameo)
• Trusty (cameo)
• (cameo)
• Roger (cameo)
• Aurora (cameo)

Additional Voices

• Frank Welker — animal sounds
• Debbie Gates
• Charles Bartlett
• Jonathan Brandis
• Kal David
• Marcia Delmar
• Victor Dimattia
• Judi Durand
• Greg Finley
• Javier Grajeda
• Robert S. Halligan, Jr.
• J.D. Hall
• Jo Ann Harris
• Rosanna Huffman
• Barbara Iley
• Harvey Jason
• Karen Kamōn
• Kaleena Kiff
• Carol King
• Marylee Kortes
• Rocky Krakoff
• David Lasley
• Christina MacGregor
• David McCharen
• John McCurry
• Arlin L. Miller
• Nancy Parent
• Whitney Rydbeck
• Gary Schwartz
• Vernon Scott
• Penina Segall
• Rom Righter Snow
• Eugene F. Van Buren

Production

After the release of The Black Cauldron in 1985, Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg invited the animators to pitch potential ideas for upcoming animated features. After John Musker and Ron Clements suggested The Little Mermaid and Treasure Island in Space, animator Pete Young suggested, «Oliver Twist with dogs». Originally wanting to produce a live-action adaptation of the musical Oliver! at Paramount Pictures, Katzenberg approved of the pitch. The working title of the film during production was Oliver and the Dodger. It pre-dated the Disney Renaissance. The original central brain trust of Disney animators, the «Nine Old Men», had retired in the early 1980s, which signaled the entrance for the next generation of Disney animators, including the film’s supervising animators Glen Keane, Ruben A. Aquino, Mike Gabriel, Hendel Butoy, and Mark Henn. At a certain point, it was to be a sequel to The Rescuers. If this had happened, it would have given the character of Penny more development, showing her living her new life in New York City with Georgette, as well as her new adoptive parents. This idea was eventually scrapped because the producers had then felt that the story would not have been convincing.

Young was originally assigned to co-direct the film with George Scribner, a Disney newcomer who had recently joined from the Hanna-Barbera studio, but suddenly died in mid-October 1985. Richard Rich (who previously co-directed The Fox and the Hound and The Black Cauldron) was then brought on-board to replace Young, but due to acting belligerent towards the president of Walt Disney Feature Animation, Peter Schneider, as what Schneider claimed, he was fired in 1986. Rich was not replaced after his firing, leaving Scribner as the sole director.

The film was the first Disney film to extensively feature computer animation; the two immediately preceding Disney films, The Black Cauldron (1985) and The Great Mouse Detective (1986), only featured it during special sequences. The CGI effects were used for making the skyscrapers, the cars, trains, Fagin’s scooter and the climactic subway chase. It was also the first Disney film to have a department created specifically for computer animation.

The film was a test run one before The Walt Disney Company would fully commit to returning to a musical format for their animated films; It was the first such film to be a musical since The Fox and the Hound (1981). For the next decade, all of Walt Disney Feature Animation’s films, starting with The Little Mermaid (1989), were also musicals, except for The Rescuers Down Under (1990).

The film was one of the first animated Disney films to introduce new sound effects for regular use, as replacements for many of the classic sounds originally in the Disney library, which would be used occasionally in later Disney films. However, The Little Mermaid became the basis for the introduction of even more new sound effects. The new sound effects were first introduced with The Black Cauldron, while The Great Mouse Detective, released a year after the previous film, featured the classic Disney sound effects, including the then fifty-year-old Castle Thunder and the classic Goofy holler. However, the Disney television animation studio continued extensively using the classic Disney sound effects for several years, while the feature animation studio retired the original sound effects.

The film was the first animated Disney film to include advertised products from The real world. Many placements of real product names, such as those of Coca-Cola, USA Today, Sony, and Ryder Truck Rental, were some of the most used examples. It was said on ABC’s The Wonderful World of Disney that this was for realism, was not paid product placement, and that it would not be New York City without advertising.

Certain animal characters from previous Disney films make cameo characters in the film. Four of the dogs shown are Peg, Jock, and Trusty from Lady and the Tramp (1955), and Pongo from One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961).

Release

The film was released on November 18, 1988, the same day as The Land Before Time, a production of Disney expatriate Don Bluth.

As of 2008, the film made a total domestic gross of $74 million at the U.S. box office, $53.2 million of which came from its original run. Since 1988, Disney Feature Animation has released at least one film a year, except for 1993, 2006, 2015 and 2017.

During the film’s release, McDonald’s sold Christmas musical ornaments containing its two main characters, Oliver and Dodger, the start of a multi-year agreement of joint promotions with licensed products.

In the United Kingdom, the film was not distributed by Buena Vista International, but by Warner Bros.; Buena Vista International did, however, release it on home video.

Despite its financial success at the box office, the film was not released on home video until after its theatrical re-release in 1996, as was the case for most movies released during its so called «Dark Age»; this first home video release of it eventually became part of the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection series. It was later released for the first time ever on DVD, just one year after the Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection series was discontinued. A 20th Anniversary Edition was released on DVD on February 3, 2009, and a 25th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray was released in 2013.

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Reception

Despite its success at the box office, reviews for the film were generally mixed from a lot of movie critics at the time. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 50% of critics gave it positive reviews based on 48 reviews with an average rating of 5.33/10. Its consensus states that it is a decidedly lesser effort in the Disney canon, with lackluster songs, stiff animation, and a thoroughly predictable plot.

On the television program, Siskel & Ebert, Gene Siskel gave the film a Thumbs Down. Siskel stated «When you measure this film to the company’s legacy of classics, it doesn’t match up» as he complained, «the story is too fragmented». Roger Ebert gave it a «marginal Thumbs Up» as he described the film as «harmless, inoffensive.»

The staff of Halliwell’s Film Guide called the film «episodic» and «short on charm». «Only now and then,» they added, «it provides glimpses of stylish animation.»

The Ren and Stimpy Show creator John Kricfalusi suggested that the film was derivative of Ralph Bakshi’s works, and jokingly suggested its use as a form of punishment.

Accolades

• Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for «Why Should I Worry?» (Nominated)
• Young Artist Award for Best Family Feature Film — Animation (Nominated)
• Golden Reel Awards for Best Sound Editing (Won)