Oliver & Company, the directorial debut of veteran animator George Scribner, is Mouse Factory magic with edge. It's the claws ce'le`bre.
75
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Stack
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Stack
The film offers a fanciful, lush urban setting, unusual for Disney animated features, and a couple of good songs, Once Upon a Time in New York City performed by Huey Lewis and Perfect Isn't Easy sung by Midler.
75
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Take the kids. Have fun.
70
Time Out
Time Out
Cornball adventure ensues, punctuated by healthy helpings of singing, dancing and general merriment.
63
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
The animation is fairly unexciting though serviceable, and the overall mystification of class difference would probably have made Dickens shudder, but kids should find this tolerable enough.
Danger's never clear and present, but rather a convention. Simply put, Oliver & Company didn't work for me not because I'm many years past my sixth birthday but because it never scared me into forgetting that fact.
50
San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco Examiner
Oliver & Company comes across as a rather shabby transitional work, one that lacks the sophistication of today's 'toons and doesn't hold up to the Disney classics of yesteryear.
50
TV Guide Magazine
TV Guide Magazine
Although Oliver & Company is fairly entertaining and better looking than the average Saturday morning cartoon show, the computer-assisted animation is relatively stiff and inexpressive.