Oliver & Company

I grew up watching this movie. I have lived in a very diverse area all of my life, and this movie was always something I could relate to. As a child I would get done with dinner and beg on my hands and knees to watch this movie. It got to the point that the movie just had to stay in the DVD player. I have seen a lot of bad reviews about this movie. I am wracking my brain as to why. It could be the "scary" themes represented but I cannot understand why it is such a big deal. A lot of movies have "scary" themes throughout. I also grew up loving Pocahontas and that is a terribly rated movie. If we allowed are children to watch movies with REAL LIFE SCENARIOS maybe our kids wouldn't be asshole or serial killers. Thank you very much.

Oliver and company was phenomenal.... one of my favorite Disney movies of all time (tied with the great mouse detective) there are some kinda extreme scenes for little kids , one where desoto (one of the evil Rottweilers)gets hurt another where dodger (main character puppy) gets beaten up in a dog fight... and the adult human is told he’s going to die if he doesn’t pay his debts

Love the music! Oliver and Rita and dodger are my favorites Jenny is great to so is Winston and gorgette is kinda annoying bill sykes AWESOME

I have LOVED this movie since I was pretty little. The plot is a little bit unoriginal, and there are some bad role models (Georgette is a conniving, jealous diva. Fagan kidnaps a girl's cherished pet kitten to pay off a debt. Dodger is kind of rude and uncaring at times, but changes later. The villain, in addition to being a total jerk, smokes constantly) But just so long as kids know not to mimic that behavior, they'll be good. I think the main reason I love this movie so much is the music (especially "Why Should I Worry" and "Perfect isn't easy").

This movie has emotional elements including a kitten who is alone in the earlier scenes and some scary sequences including two meanacing dogs and an intense/violent death of a certain character. There is even some mild consumerism including an image of the Coca-Cola logo, some insults, suggestive content, messages and brief smoking. So it's on for ages 9+, iffy for ages 8- and off for ages 5-

Oliver and Company is an amazing movie! It's so underrated, everyone forgets about it but it's really good. It's funny and it has good songs (obviously, because Billy Joel is in it) it paved the way for the Disney Renaissance - which in my opinion are better than the 'classics' Oliver and Company is not to be pushed aside. Also there are some scary scenes in this movie but generally it's ok.

I've loved Disney films since I was born. No, really. I was born in '93, and the first film I saw in a theater was The Lion King. I think of all the films I saw in the theater during the first few years of my life, The Lion King and Oliver and Company hold the most special place in my heart. I've seen TLK and other Disney classics many times over, but I've only recently rediscovered Oliver. The status of the film is a bit like its central character - this was originally a very popular film back when it was released in 1988, and even got a rerelease in 1996 (where I was first exposed to its greatness), but it took 7 years for it to get on home video, had mostly mixed-to-negative reviews, and went from popular to criminally overlooked. In the 80s, the dark period of Disney history, Oliver and Company was the light at the end of the tunnel, and it helped pave the way for the best films to come out of Disney since the "Golden Age" period that began with Snow White (1937) and ended with The Rescuers (1977). The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, and other films of the Disney Renaissance period (the 90s) were all created by the artists who started with Oliver and Company. But it doesn't give off the impression of being an experimental film; it ends up being a true classic. Oliver is an orphaned kitten living on the streets of New York City. He fights to survive until he meets Dodger, a dog (voiced by the always-cool Billy Joel) who is initially resistant to Oliver, but ends up liking him quite a bit. So much, in fact, that he introduces the kitten to his group of ragtag stray dogs, including the dumb Einstein, the smart Brit Francis, the sassy Rita, and the hilarious Tito. All of them help out a homeless man named Fagin, who owns a large debt to a loan shark named Sykes, one of the scariest villains in Disney's history. He owns two intimidating Dobermans, and they're both hostile towards Fagin's gang. Then, when Oliver learns how to survive, he's adopted by a little rich girl named Jenny, whose poodle Georgette is anything but pleased about. It all ends up becoming a tale of friendship and loyalty that's on par with anything Disney did during the Disney Renaissance. But the tone of this one is very gritty and realistic at points - a shock for Disney, but still counterbalanced with happy songs and what not. For example, the opening few minutes will make even the most hard-hearted cry at least a little, when Oliver is simply left alone in a dark and scary New York at night. But, the song playing during this scene, Huey Lewis' "Once Upon a Time in New York City", is sad yet uplifting, pointing towards better things that are yet to come. And that they do. The only other things to worry about are some mildly scary scenes (when Jenny gets kidnapped by Sykes, when the characters are threatened by Sykes' Dobermans, and the intense chase scene in the New York subway). Overall, though, CSM is wrong; they've got the same biased opinion on this as the film critics who haven't appreciated it for what it is: one of Disney's best classics. The music is awesome, the animation is awesome, the humor is awesome, the voice acting is awesome...so yeah. In only a little bit over an hour, Disney accomplishes more than most films of three hours can! Just see this one! You won't regret it.

If you don't know, when you see Bill Sykes' evil smirk with sitting on the chair and holding his cigar, that expression that looks like Shan Yu says “how many men does it to deliver a message?” That is all I can say! However, Oliver And The War is the best crossover movie ever created. But I recommended for ages 18 and up because of lot of violence and Elmo is very thicc. PS: Sykes makes cars and traffic bad with his Wilkins Coffee! *stupid Wilkins Coffee*

I like this movie. It's old, cute, got catchy music, and has an interesting storyline. Alright, so the interactions between two dogs was fine to a point, then one wanted to talk to the other alone and he it took as... something else. The two dobbermans can seem intimidating. In conclusion, a fun movie but children may need to be accompanied if they are sensitive.

The movie is awesome, and I loved the songs "streets of gold"