The Great Mouse Detective | Disney's Most Underrated Classic 

My favorite Disney movie ever.

Definitely underrated. This movie is a masterpiece.

Henry Mancini did the score, nuff said. Vincent Price said Ratigan was one of his favorite roles. He was having the time of his life devouring the scenery. The animators said they copied a lot of Price's moves.

I contended for the longest time that this is my favorite disney film, too bad no one knew what I was talking about.

It really is a shame that it didn't get as much love when it originally came out, seeing as it is one of my favorites. I feel like the plot is pretty solid, and the characterization really sells the movie-- as both the antagonists and protagonists are fully engaging. I ended up reading the Basil of Baker Street books years ago, and I was actually surprised when Ratigan wasn't actually a rat in the series. Honestly, there were a lot of changes Disney made which I think were for the better-- as the movie gives Basil way more depth than a Sherlock Holmes knock-off.

Rattigan is such a great villain. Ruthless and intelligent but his insecurity regarding his image gives him a more respectable flaw unlike cowardice or stupidity. Rattigan is also the villain with the best facial expression of any other disney villain. How marvelously they portrayed his twisted mentality through those amusing facial expressions. And voiced by Vincent Price to boot.

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And to think "The Great Mouse Detective" is my number 1 in Disney movies. This movie was part of my childhood since the beginning as I remember. It also made me get interested on Detective stories such as Sherlock Holmes, (obviously) Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple, Murder she wrote, Diagnosis Murder, Kommissar Rex, etc. And of course Detective Conan. This movie is so underrated. This is one of the movies that kept Disney magic up during its "Dark age". Give some gredit, people!

Definitely one of my favorite all time animated movies. The story, music, characters, protagonist, antagonist are all really good. Disney should recognize it all because thanks to this movie they avoided bankruptcy. Yes this movie saved Disney, not The Little Mermaid, that was just the success they needed to create the 90’s golden age of animation for the company. At least this movie has aged well.

This is my favorite Disney movie! And, regarding 16:51, I think there is a message that can be taken from this movie, and it has to do with accepting yourself for who you are and being the best you that you can be. Ratigan doesn't accept himself the way he is, denying even his own species, trying to be someone that he's not. On the other hand, Basil embraces who he is, works with his flaws without changing them, and is the best Basil he can be without adhering to anyone else's ideas of who he should be. And in the end, Ratigan's schemes fail, and Basil is a hero. Might not necessarily be a message that the people who made the movie were intending to send, but I think it's there if you look for it.

This is my favorite movie of all time. Basil is my favorite animated Disney character alongside Aladdin . They need to make a sequel to this movie!!!

This animated mouse film about Victorian England with a Sherlock Holmes character with Watson, that despite being a children's film it has murder, a asasination plot, a villan that turns into a scary creature in the end, the only disney burlesque scene and beer and a scary bat scene in the begining....what a film sad there wasn't a sequal!

Clock strikes *12* - top of its face, also XII = Roman numeral 12. That aside, I agree it's a gem. Fab voices, period machines, pioneer CGI, strong story, few stereotypes - *superb!*

Fun Fact about the scene at 5:57 that is actually a recording of a Sherlock Holmes radio program starring none other than Basil Rathbone, an actor who played Sherlock Holmes from 1939-1946 and who Basil is named after! He was considered the best SH until Jeremy Brett dethroned him.

I really love the great Mouse Detective. It was one of my favorite movies.

0:18 um actually Oliver & Company actually came out after The Great Mouse Detective and was actually a pretty big hit (making more than The Land Before Time in it’s overall box office run) so no not lackluster at all.

The Great Mouse Detective TV Series Cast: Alexander Armstrong: Basil James Arnold Taylor: Dawson Tara Strong: Olivia Jeff Bennett: Hiram Flaversham Frank Welker: Toby Maurice LaMarche: Ratigan Scott Menville: Fidget Dee Bradley Baker: Felicia Tress MacNielle: Miss Kitty April Winchell: Mrs. Judson Kristen Wiig: Lady Mouse Lia Sargent: Queen Mousetoria Wayne Knight: Bartholomew Steve Buscemi: Bill Kath Soucie: Robot Queen Charlie Adler: Red Shea Whigham: Snakes Jim Cummings: Peewee Pete Sam Vincent: John Watson Tom Wyner: Sherlock Holmes Mr. Coat said that he wants a TV Adaptation of it.

I agree with everything except "I rather like...". I reeeeeeaaaallllyy like this Disney Co. production! You point out many fine aspects and present very well.

Did anyone Crush on Basil as a kid? I know I did. And I was gushing over him like a idiot😍

2:51 ah yes Holmes and his violin

This is one of my favorite movies that Disney ever made

The mystery isn’t figuring out what the villain wants. It’s how everything comes together. I find that type of mystery just as enticing.

I can't believe they haven't made a sequel of one of my favorite Disney films! Yet they made Zootopia which was great but a different time line from The Great Mouse Detective. Now another company is making Sherlock Gnomes which is going to likely suck. In my opinion, I still enjoy this film along with Zootopia. I liked your review though. Keep it up :)

I LOVE the fox and the hound!!!!!!!

I can't tell how much I love this movie so much 😍

Fun fact: the dialogue for Sherlock Holmes in this film is actually a stock recording of Basil Rathbone, taken from a 1966 production of the classic short story “The Red-Headed League” by Caedmon Records. Dr Watson is voiced by Australian actor Laurie Main, best known as the narrator of the Disney Channel series “Welcome to Pooh Corner”.

No mention of Vincent Price as Ratigan? I'm disappointed.

This movie is one of my favorites! I have a thing for underrated Disney movies (as my favorite one is The Hunchback of Notre Dame), and this is no exception! I love The Great Mouse Detective

I couldn't agree with you more and what I also think is an underrated gem is all oliver and company

Came to watch this after they added Ratigan to the Villainous board game.

This is honestly in my top three favorite Disney movies ever😊

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I really like Oliver and Company. I consider it to be Disney's most criminally underrated film.

The quote about German music actually comes from the Sherlock Holmes story "The Red-headed League"

Personally I’ve Always Strongly Considered That The Late And Legendary Actor Vincent Price was And Has always been one of the Most Casting Choices For Having played both The Dialogue And Voice Of That Villainous And Vain Professor Ratigan !!!! 🐭🐭🐭🐭🐭😡😡😡😡🎙🎙🎙🎙

This and the Secret of Nihm are my favorite cartoons of all time.

This film saved Disney and the only animated film that had Vincent Price on his greatest role ever!

i basically grew up with this

I think it's fair to point out that The Fox and the Hound and Oliver & Company weren't financial failures for Disney. The Fox and the Hound generated a nice gross and had okay reviews at the time of its release. Also, while having a mixed reception, Oliver & Company generated more than $130 million dollars in the box office on a modest budget. The rest is very on point, though. The Great Mouse Detective is arguably one of Disney's most underrated animated features and I wish it got more recognition than it did.

Since when is Robin Hood and The rescuers considered lackluster?

The 1992 VHS has a sneak preview for Aladdin.

I really like "Oliver and Company" TBH

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this movie scared me as a 5 yr old wouldnt put dat tape in again for 3 yrs gave me my first jump scare

I Love The Great Mouse Detective Such A Fantastic Adventure 🐭🔦🎈🇬🇧😉

One of the first disney movies I had (on VHS) and later on I hoped they would make a series based on it (like Aladdin, Hercule and such), but these days I fear it.

Vincent Price

Maybe they call Ratigan professor because he is smart as F

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How did disney never give us a squeal to this?

1:39 Dr Watson

I really do wonder how Rattigan _is_ a Professor. I feel like he only uses such a title as a _status_ symbol, to flaunt his intelligence. But I highly doubt that he has any ability of being a _public figure._ During the scene where he presents himself as the new _Royal Consort_ the crowd is visibly _horrified_ of him, and the child even openly mocks him. So does this mean that he has a disreputable reputation? How could he - Considering that Basil has been trying to link him to several crimes over the years, but has never found sufficient enough evidence to arrest him? So it's likely that - much like Moriarty - the greater public is largely ignorant of the atrocities he's committed. So I suppose that just leaves the fact that he's a _rat._ But does that mean that he suffers from an unjust prejudice by the greater community? Or are Rats actually deemed as dangerous in this society? - given Rattigan's volatile temper and his rabid transformation at the end of the film, I'd say that the mistrust is entirely called-for. So all of this begs the question; how could he possibly be a "Professor"? What is he a Professor of? Is his title anything other than just a nickname?

On the contrary!!!

I think I watched this and I remember that I did enjoy iy

this movie is really great but kinda creepy

This is such a enjoyable movie, I like the tone of it a lot and it has such a nice calm pace to it that I miss SO much in todays animation even from other countries. Tropes you mentioned they don´t do in this is only one of the examples I like it. And that a lot of one shot characters have a lot of personalities yes and some of them don´t even speak. I think a lot of movies thend to over do it or feel like they have to revisit a character. Let´s take Zootopia which I do like BTW the weasel charcter. They did´t not need to have him again in the movie, now it did make sense in the story but other movies tend to do that without or with forced reasons. The music oh it is one of the more exciting music Disney ever put out. I like the humor a lot and all the cracy stuff in it. And yes Toby is a good sidekick dog yet not overused or goofy. Olivia is a good kid character. Funny thing even if they try to emphatise that she is a girl by having her wear pink on the covers I thought she was a scottish boy all the time as a kid.

Why this movie is so underrated?

6:31 you be hatin'

the Disney classics dark age doesn’t scare me i love Disney movies and the great mouse detective Basil is my favorite character and very handsome mouse detective too BASIL I LOVE YOU ❤️😘

Lackluster?!! Wait wait wait, LACKLUSTER... oliver and company, aristocrats, great mouse detective, fox and the hound, the rescuers, ROBIN HOOD.... bruh no those are classics

I absolutely love this movie and it, like this video, needs more attention. But I still wonder how on earth it would be released if it was made today, because apparently in the eighties you could have alcohol, a drunken character, death, tobacco, drugs (in the drinks), a cabaret show, guns, and a bar fight in a G-rated movie!

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Yes! I agree this the is the most underrated Disney classic, I mean it's not in my top 10, but I ranked it as one of the good Disney films despite the fact that it's often ranked as one of the weak ones. I mean, they had a good story, good characters, the torture of Dawson and Basil was good, as well as the final battle. I'm putting it as one of the good ones, there are 60 Disney classics now, and I put it in 24th place, but it's still one of the good ones. I don't exactly feel this movie could have started the Disney renaissance, but I thought it was better than some of the movies from there. It was definitely better than the Rescuers Down Under, which is a weak Disney classic. I also thought it was better than Pocahontas, Hunchback and Tarzan, and I thought those three were just ok. Now, Little Mermaid started the renaissance, and that was one of Disney's best films. Yes! I also think Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin or Lion King if they were before Little Mermaid they also would have started the Renaissance. All four of those movies are actually in my top 5, including Jungle Book, I know Jungle Book isn't as popular as those other 4, but I loved it, and it might be able to start the Renaissance if the company had been struggling. So, I put Great Mouse Detective as one of the good Disney classics, it's true I don't think it's nearly as good as some of the other Disney classics, but it's definitely worth checking out.

Who the fuck said fox and the hound was lackluster 😤

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Show some love with Disney’s “underrated animated marvel”!!!! It’s a hidden gem that should be remembered!!!! It’s like other cult classic spectacles that barely get the proper attention but somehow overlooked!!!

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