Watching Oliver And Company (1988) FOR THE FIRST TIME!! || Movie Reaction!
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Hey everyone, know it is later than I usually upload, just got this passed copyright! Hope the watermark isn't too bad, one of the toughest Disney films I have edited yet haha. See you guys next for Return To Oz!
Return to Oz movie gets me a creep by the headless lady and I got nightmares when I was a kid.
Another great movie focused on cats is Aristocats!! I loved that movie as a kid.
Oh heck yes! I'm so excited for Return To Oz!!!!
Sykes is an old school loan shark
Where they kill u if you don't pay em back
The reason why the dog can sing so well is because he is voiced by Billy Joel.🙂 Awesome singer!!
"His voice is amazing" It should be. It's the great Billy Joel!
Wait... WHAAAAT!?
@@Zonose yeah, Billy Joel played Dodger. Singing voice and Speaking voice. Also Bette Midler (aka Winnifred Sanderson) played Georgette
@@MagdalenaRay61 DUUUUDE I grew up loving this movie and Billy Joel, I never knew it was him! That's so eye opening! I love both even more now.
Is that really you DisneyFanatic?
Didn't he voice and write some of the songs?
Its so weird how much cartoons were forgotten, Am I THE ONLY ONE that really appreciate handdrawing cartoons? When CGI wasnt a thing and they had to draw the whole movie is so amazing
There is some cgi in this film though with all of the cars, Georgette going down the stairs, and a couple other scenes.
To be fair I think one shot of the car was actually CGI
Definitely Love these movies
@@jamesmoyner7499 Back in the days when CGI was used sparingly and only when absolutely necessary. In some cases (such as in Jurassic Park), it made the CGI from BACK THEN better quality when compared to some of the mass produced CGI today.
@@domidium I know all of this as I read and watch documentaries about film.
Fun fact: the voice of Georgette is Bette Midler, who's Winnifred in Hocus Pocus.
Ooo never knew that! Now I'll picture Winnifred when I hear that 😂
Holy mother fudgin ducks HOW HAVE I NEVER REALISED I FEEL SO ASHAMED FOR NOT RECOGNISING HER VOICE
Heyy i know you lol
@@shismith8785 Oh I didn't realize that for a long ass time so it happens
Good to know.
I still sing "Why Should I Worry" to myself as a full-grown adult.
Me too.
Whoo hoo whoo hoo hooo hooo lol :D
So do i 😎
Same sometimes I still sing it also when I’m walking out on the streets lol
You too?! Cool! ✨🌸
“Why Should I Worry” is such an underrated Disney song and should get more recognition, gosh dang it!! 😆❤️ this movie always pulls at my hearts strings for so many reasons. Loved watching it as a child and now I can barely make it through as an adult😭
One of the most underrated Disney films
Fact
Seriously! Great music, voice acting was top notch, heart and comedy. Very underrated?
Haven't seen a movie about cats?... Then I recommend Disney's Aristocats... I love that movie.
And cats 1998
Yes! Thats another one of my favorites. My middle name is Marie.
@@fightingfaerie It's interesting, I got a stuffed animal of Duchess the Cat, and heard Everybody Wants to be a Cat and the song the kittens sing at the beginning of the movie through Disney Sing-alongs but I never got to see the actual movie until it came out in VHS for the first time in the 90s. It is a sweet movie for sure. My middle name is Marie too lol. I really did feel bad for Edgar initially too, but yeah what he did was unacceptable.
Same :D
@@fightingfaerie Same here :D
Billy Joel was Dodger, both speaking and singing, and he is a heckin' iconic rock singer. 💖 To name a few of his hits: Piano Man, River of Dreams, Uptown Girl, Movin' Out, It's Still Rock n' Roll to Me...... Go pull up a playlist and jam out! 😄
I got to see Billy Joel a few years back. He was amazing live, but the whole time I was hoping he'd play Why Should I Worry
Piano Man is a MASTERPIECE. 😍😍😍
Okay so first and foremost this is a modernized adaptation of the Charles Dickens story Oliver Twist about an orphan boy who sets out for London to seek his fortune and meets Fagin an old man who has a group of Children pick pockets including the main one named Dodger and for a human version of this story I would recommend the musical film version from 1968,
The opening song is sung by Huey Lewis who did the two songs for Back to the Future and the song was written by Howard Ashman who would work with Alan Menken on Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin before Ashman’s his death from Aids,
Billy Joel absolutely loves his city of New York and besides voicing Dodger also wrote the song Why Should I Worry and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Song, if for some reason you don’t know who he is he wrote and sang songs such as Piano Man, New York State of Mind, The Longest Time, Big Shot, etc,
Bette Midler who voices Georgette is more familiar with live action Disney audiences as Winifred in Hocus Pocus and when you see the pictures of dogs she has one of them is supposed to be Scooby Doo on the far right even though he isn’t a Disney character,
Cheech Marin is the voice of Tito and was the hyena Bonzai in The Lion King,
Dom Delouse has been in a couple of films you have watched so far as Jeremy in Secret of NIMH and Tiger in An American Tail,
Similar to 101 Dalmatians there is a few animal cameos in this film with Pongo from Dalmatians appearing as well as several from Lady and the Tramp all during Why Should I Worry,
It never made sense to me what Tito was doing in the car with Dodger until I watched along with you and realized they were going to steal the car radio which is why he was cutting the wires so then they could give it to Fagin and he could sell it for money and when Dodger said “work the crowds” while Everyone was focused on Francis in the middle of the road they were going to take the wallets from the people. They don’t make that scene very well explained, but it adds up for me now especially knowing they were scoping out a fancy car to take from,
Also in regards to Return to Oz just know it is going to be much much darker the classic with Judy Garland as the books are rather dark so the film matches that tone and just a heads up there is no songs in it,
I might have to watch it again to make sure but I’m pretty sure Aurora from Sleeping Beauty cameos near the start of the film. I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure
I also recommend Oliver!, the musical version of Oliver Twist. It’s extremely long though, like Sound of Music long. It’s so long it has a real time intermission that was never cut out for the video release
Don’t forget though the musical is more true to the book than the Disney version. I was going to recommend read the book but, well I’m taking a class on the works of Charles Dickens and we also talk about the Victorian Era. And that era is pretty bleak and depressing I don’t think Nick’s sweet heart could handle it. Especially as Fagin and Sikes, and several more members die. I’m glad they didn’t have a Nancy in this film though I think Rita may be Nancy.
@@forestcatkay14 Plus the fact that in the book Fagin is simply referred to as "The Jew" through 90% of the thing could make first-time readers uncomdortable if not prepared.
**(As a Jew myself, I actually love Fagin as a character in most incarnations and I fully acknowledge that Charles Dickens did later speak out against anti-semetism and if memory serves apologized for any damage his careless writing in Oliver Twist may have caused, but it's still very jarring)**
@@forestcatkay14
Of course the 68 film is more accurate than the Disney version that is a no brainer. Though either you haven’t seen it or are mixing thing up with the book as Fagin does not die and is very likable in the film so much so Ron Moody was nominated for Best Actor at the Oscars.
Trivia:
- Animators shot photos of New York streets as reference, using cameras set eighteen inches off the ground to get a dog's point of view.
- The last animated Disney movie to use line overlay, also called cel overlay, a technique used to make the backgrounds on xerography pics. Afterwhich Disney transitioned to "CAPS" digital ink and paint.
- Patrick stewart was originally cast to play the HIgh society dog Francis, but was busy Shooting Star Trek TNG.
- Whitney Houston was offered the role of Rita
Oh my gosh, just imagine Whitney Houston in this. 😱
The Little Mermaid was actually the last Disney film to use Xerography/cel animation.
Fun fact: When Disney was making this movie, they planned on reusing Penny and Rufus from “The Rescuers”, but they changed their decision at the last minute. They were also gonna do the same thing with “Cruella De Vil” from 101 Dalmatians, except they were gonna reuse Cruella in “The Rescuers”, but they replaced her with that similar-in-personality villain “Madame Medusa”.
Yet The Rescuers is based on a book. So no Madame Medusa in the book?
Love Madame Medusa lol.
Oh, I never knew that! 😱
In New York City- Huey Lewis
Why Should I Worry- Billy Joel
Streets of Gold- Ruth Pointer
Perfect Isn't Easy- Bette Midler
Good Company- Meehunn Trunn
Buscando Guayaba- Ruben Blades
The voice of Tito the chihuahua was none other than Cheech Marin
Dang, that chase scene is intense. Also the villain’s death, that was brutal.
Yep but it's one of the most satisfying.
@@RedRoseSeptember22 True.
Not that brutal than his death in the book.
@@lalachristy5581 I’ve never read the book.
@@tacksgmvs2070 well, we were taught about it in class so that's how I know it. The story from the book is more dark than from the movie. Especially he didn't actually die on a car crash but he hang himself by accident because the angry mob were chasing him.
The cast for this movie was seriously underrated:billy joel as dodger, joey lawrence as oliver, cheech marin as tito he also voiced banzai in the lion king :), dom deloiuse as fagin if you ever get to watch a troll in central park youll recognize him and robert loggia as sykes i know him from grand theft auto 3 he voiced ray machowski
Dom DeLuise contributed to more Don Bluth films other than A Troll In Central Park. An American Tail and All Dogs Go To Heaven are other works of his with Bluth.
Yep I didn't see Oliver and Company until I was an adult. But I grew up with Troll in Central Park as a kid. So every time I hear Fagin's voice I think of Troll in Central Park.
More like terrifying 11:50
The movie as a whole is CRIMINALLY underrated. Idk why/ how? The storyline, the characters themselves, just everything about this movie is beautiful ✨
I clicked so fast. I still have the song “Why should I worry?” On my playlist. I loved that song when I saw this, and at the time I had no clue who Billy Joel was. Great job!!
The songs in this one are up there tbh, this movie is nostalgic af
Claw attack 12:56
15:16 awww how adorable☺😍
Great choice!
The story itself is a retelling of the story of "Oliver Twist"(Charles Dickens), down to the names. Though the story of Dickens tale itself is a great deal darker, so I can understand them Disneyfying it.
Tito is voiced by Cheech Marin(who you definitely would know as Banzai, the second of the three hyena's in "Lion King").
Georgette is voiced by Bette Middler(Winnie from "Hocus Pocus"). I actually had the pleasure of working with her on a movie set a year or two back. :)
A heartwarming note about Fagin, while he owes so much money to Sikes, he clearly got the bones for the dogs in his first scene.
“Hey man, if this is torture, chain me to the wall!”
it's still in my convo one liners...use it whenever fitting TO THIS VERY DAY!
still hits & real 1s know what I'm talking bout. 😉
By the way Nick, this movie is an adaptation of the famous story "Oliver Twist", but with animals lol
have a good weekend dude and congrats on reaching 50k! 🎊🎉✌☺
Thanks so much!! And thanks for letting me know! Hope you have a good weekend too!
@@nickflix8657 There's another famous stage musical based on Oliver Twist called "Oliver!". There's a pretty great movie adaptation of it from 1968 that's definitely worth checking out.
@@HobGungan Yes definitely check out “Oliver!”
@@nickflix8657 Tito’s voice actor played Ramone from the Cars movies.
I remember being ready to fight everyone in NYC for leaving him in the box at the beginning. Even as a kid I was ready to square up lol
Poor kid about her Birthday 16:58
This movie had one of the best Vocal casts in any animated movie ever. You got Billy Joel as Dodger, Bette Midler as Georgette and Anita Pointer as Rita. Of course the songs are amazing with these music power houses behind them. Also featuring Cheech Marin at Tito, he may not be much of a singer but man is he funny, his voice acting is always great. You even have Dom Deluise as the voice of Fagin. I love this movie, its so underrated.
Actually it’s Ruth Pointer as Rita’s singing voice! Sheryl Lee Ralph is Rita’s speaking voice.
And who played Francis, also, @Mary Harrison ? The voice definitely sounds familiar.
Anita Pointer was only the singing VA though. I just looked it up because I thought Anita Pointer did both talking and singing.
Now this is an underrated disney movie. Sometimes I find myself getting ready for the day singing the Perfect song and just rocking by myself in the bathroom 😂😂😂
I think this one has one of the most brutal villain deaths
Dude! A movie that I think is right up your alley is “Beethoven” from 1992! A movie about a family and their dog!
It’s been a favorite of mine for as long as I can remember! I watched it again this week and I instantly thought of you. The score is amazing! Which you always have a keen ear for! And also I think you have a soft spot for animals! So win, win!
It’s a gem! I would totally love to see your reaction to it! No one has reacted to it yet either!
🎶 Why should I Worry! Why should I Care... 🎶
I love this movie, very underrated! 😎👍
Ooh, more of my childhood! This is a pleasant surprise! And I agree with you; Oliver is one of the cutest animated kittens!
This is actually my younger sister's favorite movie and I'm sad it's not celebrated as much as the other Disney classics because even though it's not perfect, I still think this is one of the good ones. Thank you for another great reaction!
He is!! I Growing up I wanted a kitten just like him✨🌸. On a serious note, I hate how Oliver & Company never get the recognition that it deserves
8:14 Yeah, that's a dog, a chihuahua XD
17:52 The hint was Tito being in "charge of electronics"- I'm pretty sure Tito was trying to disconnect the radio out of the car so they can steal it (so Fagin could sell it for some money towards his debt), but Oliver slipped onto the keys, the turning of which surged extra charge through the car.
Nicky it’s late my sleep schedule *grabs popcorn and gets comfy *
When I was a kid my sisters and I would pretend to be dogs jumping around during the Why Should I Worry song 😄
I’m glad you loved Oliver and Company. I loved the movie so much. I love Oliver especially.
I like how they're helping Oliver the kitten when he's in danger 13:10
Yo I was listening to its soundtrack earlier today!
Tito: You can be a look out
Oliver: What's a look out?
Tito: Just look out the window. Make sure it's still daylight, ok?
My favorite line in the whole movie XD
absolutely lost it at Nick's wide-eyed dumbfounded look of awe at Georgette's entrance, his reaction was too funny!
Billy Joel, Ruth Pointer, Bette Midler...I love how these iconic singers are in this movie.
Why Should I Worry, one of the catchyest disney songs till this day.
Billy Joel is a damn good singer.
Whatever your opinion of the film as a whole, everyone will agree that this song is the best thing to come out of it and deserves to endure and be remembered
@@HobGungan I love this film when I was a kid and is still one of my favorites
Imo this movie is so underrated along with the sound track so glad for this reaction 🙌
NO WAY I LOVE THIS ONE 😭 ITS 4AM AND I CANT SLEEP THANK YOU SO MUCH
I NEVER CLICKED SO FAST omg this my second favorite disney movie !!! home alone is first of course 🥰
The way the villain died, like i totally forgot that. So brutal, what a way to go. 😳
When people talk about underrated Disney movies they always mention Atlantis or Treasure Planet, but noone ever mentions Oliver and the Company. Talk about underrated! This is an amazing movie! One of my favourites😍 So glad you've reacted to it.
This is my favorite hand-drawn Disney movie!!! I’ve been watching it my whole life, and recently became a HUGE FAN of Bette Midler. When I found out she was the voice of Georgette, I LITERALLY had a heart attack 😂
Seeing as you seem to love these old school animated movies I highly recommend the rescuers down under, I think you'd love it
I've always resonated with this film's opening sequence, especially after taking in our cat who we found as a baby in our yard. It's been over a year, and she's made an impact on me for the best.
(side note; you can really tell how much Di$ney has changed since 1988...from brutally killing off villain-owned Dobermans to demonizing Dalmatians in their "make the villain sympathetic AU backstory movie backstory")
Wow, I literally just suggested this, he works fast.
You should watch aristocats.
One of my favorites since I was a little kid. Thank you for reacting to this. 🐱💖
I love how Georgette's song "Perfect Isn't Easy" is such a piss-take on the "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" scene in "Cinderella," down to the wake up and the birds.
This was one of the very first movies I can remember ever watching as a kid. As such, it's one of my all-time favorite Disney films.
26:05 aww they feel bad
Again, I believe that most of us won't judge you for getting emotional. I certainly won't.
Had almost forgotten how good this movie is! Literally been years since I watched it. Oliver and Company is such a good movie.
Interesting story, this movie came out in 1988, but for some reason, Disney chose to not release it on VHS. As a kid, I remember having the VHS of Cinderella, (This was early 90s) and it had a preview of Oliver in theaters, featuring why should I worry. I remember loving the song, and wanting to see the movie, but it never came out. Then in 1996, my mom worked at a movie theatre, and Disney did a big promotion where in the first 4 months of the year, they would release a new movie. January was Muppet Treasure Island, February was Homeward Bound 2, and April was James And The Giant Peach, March was Olifver, and I was so excited to finally see it!
Fun fact: The successes of The Great Mouse Detective, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Oliver and Company helped pave the way for the Disney Renaissance (films starting from The Little Mermaid to Tarzan).
this movie is always why i wanted an orange cat, and 10 years ago i actually "rescued" one from a couple who was selling them in a box same as in the movie
That's awesome! 😍😍😍🧡🧡🧡
Loved this reaction. Since you asked in the beginning if Tito was a dog, he's a chihuahua. xD He is by far my favorite character in this. He's so funny and I love his Spanish accent!
It's so sad how this movie has gone under the radar, the characters are lovely, it has so many great songs and the villain is criminally underrated. One of the true hidden gems of Disney
Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think you would review this movie and I am so happy for it! 😁
*Sees Nick get emotional at the song choices and here I am getting emotional seeing the Twin Towers in every scene they're in* Darn it . . . .
One of my favorite movies but the beginning of this movie makes me cry. Oliver is my favorite
So glad you decided to review this one.
Is one of my favorites.
The beginning part with that opening song always gets me. Is just so sad.
Dom DeLuise is the voice actor of Fagin (the owner of the dogs ). He also voiced Tiger from An American Tail, and Jeremy the crow from Secret Of NIHM.
Oliver & Company is an old favorite from my childhood, even though it was released nine years before I was born. Thank you so much for reacting to this movie, Nick!
Fun fact: during Dodger’s song, you can see several other famous Disney dogs in the background including Peg & Jacques from Lady & The Tramp and Pongo from 101 Dalmatians. 😊🐶
Edit: Tito (the chihuahua) is voiced by Cheech Marin of Cheech & Chong, which is probably why it sounds so familiar.
The villain from this movie intimidated so much when I was younger. Most disney villains are fantasy-based (like Maleficent) but a rich corrupt guy who threatens to (and can) torture you and kill you in broad daylight? Now, that scary
This movie breaks my heart .... I had a cat from a shelter a few years ago, she was very traumatized after years of being homeless. I eventually had to put her down, she was simply too damaged. I did everything I could for months, but ... So whenever I see a homeless cat, I always break down in tears
Trust me, I don't blame you. I lost my babies in 2017 and 2019 and no cat should be homeless, and I'm sure you gave your baby the best life she could've ever hoped for. Rest in peace and I'm so sorry. 😥🌈💔🙏
@@monsterhanna6691 thank you, and i'm sorry for your loss too ❤️
The man singing “Once Upon A Time In New York City” is Huey Lewis. He is best known as the lead singer of Huey Lewis & the News before his hearing became compromised in 2018.
THAT was Huey Lewis?! How the fuck did I never know that? 😂
Tito is probably my favorite character in this movie. He's every Chihuahua ever. Big attitude, lots of talk, I will fight you, but only when you won't fight me. XD
Ah one of my childhood favorites!!! Of course you can't resist Oliver, he is just so darn cute!
Billy Joel is an amazing performer. This is one of my daughter's favorite movies. I've watched it many times.
I love this movie to death. Its partly the reason I love dogs and cats.
This is definitely an underrated Disney film. It was one of my FAVORITE films growing up. I have the VHS somewhere. And that "Why Should I Worry" song is definitely on my normal playlist because I love Billy Joel
This movie hits me even harder because I bought my sister this illustrated book 5 to 6 months before her adopted Cat Oliver passed away. None of us knew that he was sick until it was a month before he passed. There’s something special about orange tabby cats that gets looked over. Maybe that’s why he wasn’t taking it when he was in the box. We watch this movie a lot as kids because all we had was tv was just tapes. Thank you for reacting to this, is helped a lot with healing.
I remembered almost nothing else of this movie, but Why Should I Worry has ALWAYS remained in my memory to this day as one of the absolute most banger Disney songs 😄So freaking good
I too have always loved the melody of the music that takes place when Fagan and the whole gang go to sleep
I'm so so happy you did this movie.
Oliver & Company had been close to my heart always, and I even named my first cat after Oliver!
I hope you love it, Nick!!
I absolutely adore this movie! I still have it on VHS when I was little. Just a curious question if you'll watch anymore Ghibli films? It's totally ok if not because I know copyright is strict with their music! Lots of love and aloha from Hawai'i!
It's unbelievable that Tito live being shocked
This video is probably gonna be my favorite. This movie and its Soundtrack it's sooo underrated and i've been waiting for you to react to it for a long time bc it's probably one of my favorites and 😁 I don't know! I'm just super happy for this. Thank you so much for react to it and always doing amazing videos, you are really the best 💕
I haven’t seen this movie in so long. I remember having a VHS and watching all the time as a kid. Until my VHS player broke.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSS OLIVER & COMPANY!! This was literally one of my very top favourite Disney movies when I was little omg so nastolgic and the songs are so good 😭😂
During Why Should I Worry there are some cameos of Disney dogs including Pongo from 101 Dalmatians (plus Roger's hand holding the leash) and Jock from Lady and the Tramp (who also cameod in 101 Dalmatians).
1:58 "So Oliver don't be scared"
Me: Why is it that after all these years, the song was referring to Oliver himself?!
"Why should I worry" was sung by the great Billy Joel! The songs in this film are really good, just a lot of fun.
I also recommend the Aristocats and Cat's Don't Dance if you like the music and animation style here.
The singer from the opening is huey lewis, you may know him from "power of love" and "back in time" from back to the future.
When Oliver said "Half of those are mine!" about the hot dogs, for the longest time, I always thought he yelled "Damnit, those are mine" lol
The quotes cut out in this video, I just wanted to post about it lol
17:55 he was trying to take out the cars radio to sell for money. They figured it would be a good one because it's from a fancy car.
According to Roy E. Disney this movie saved Disney during hard times when it came to such small animated movies that weren’t hits. Then when this came out and hit number one the next movie was the little mermaid which started Disney’s renaissance era
Man this is my OG baby. This is one of the top disney movies I've seen first in my life
You should definately check out "Oliver!" the 1968 musical with Ron Moody, Sheena Easton and Oliver Reed. It's a musical version of Dickens' "Oliver Twist", the same story this film is based on. Love watching your heart-felt reactions, it's like re-living the time I saw these films for the first time.
So many happy memories! The opening song is sung by Huey Lewis. He sang The Power of Love song in Back to the Future. I used to sing the Good Company song Jenny sings all around my house.
This movie brings back a lot of memories, I used to watch this movie a lot next to hunchback, Bambi and other animated movies.
Back then the villains are even more menacing and sinister compared to today’s Disney villains I feel like they toned them down since then, maybe except for some imo,
I honestly haven’t watched a lot of live action Disney films, I haven’t seen Pete’s dragon(1977 version) until last year and I know how much of a classic that is.
Anyways, love the reactions, can’t wait to watch more, keep being you Nick
I actually think the Twist Villains on the 2010s were each smd every one well-done and fit their movies perfectly. The only problem with them was that there were about four or five of them in a row without any classic Bad-As-I-Wanna-Be villains inbetween to break it up so people got fatigued and started looking for twists.
i have such a distinct memory of one time when I was sick as a kid and I got to go with my mom to work instead of her staying home with me. that workplace had a big staff lounge with a couch and a tv, and one of the movies they had was Oliver and company. so I got to lay on the couch at mom's work and watch this movie, which to a kid around 8-10 years old was pretty cool, it's still one of my favorite childhood memories and this film holds a special place in my heart because of it
OMG this is my favorite childhood movie 😁👍
Dodger, the dog who befriends Oliver, is voiced by Billy Joel, a legend of Rock and Roll. As a kid, I saw this movie, barely remembered the plot, but I remembered his song ever since the day I saw it. Damn good song, movie’s ok. Not one of Disney’s finest, but a good time for kids.
One of my favourite disney movies growing up. I adored the songs & music in this and still do. The one dogs voice (Dodge) who sings "Why should i worry" is so amazing, gives me chills everytime. I miss how the disney movies/animation used to look.
Tito is voiced by Cheech Marin (of then comedy duo Cheech and Chong), he did Banzai the Hyena in The Lion King and Lion King 1/2/Lion King 3: Hakuna Matata, Ramone in Cars franchise and Corrections Officer in Coco (the guy who interogates Hector after he attempted to cross the merigold bridge (this is his first Pixar role outside of Cars).
So many of Oliver’s facial expressions remind me of Simba from The Lion King.
Interesting fact 1125 5th Avenue is a Co-Op apartment building irl, where a few years ago Bette Midler who voiced Georgette listed her triplex for $50 million.
Oliver and Company is an old favorite, I'm glad that you get to share in the joy of it too, now. :) I always loved the scene where Fagin is reading a bedtime story to the dogs in spite of the fact that he didn't know whether or not he'd live past another three days.
Fun fact: one of the writers was James Mangold who directed Cop Land, Ford V Ferrari, Logan, and The Dial Of Destiny.
Once Upon a Time in New York City" is actually sung by Huey Lewis, who you make a no from singing "The Power of Love" in Back to the Future. "Streets of Gold" is sung by one of the Pointer sisters. :)
I love that you did Oliver & Company. It's got a special place in my heart as the first movie I saw in the theater at the age of 7, starting a lifelong love of cinema.
Before Phil Collins went hard in Tarzan, Billy Joel went hard on Oliver and Company, Disney's reimagining of Dickens' classic Oliver Twist. In the Why Should I Worry song - which is a banger - you see Pongo from 101 Dalmatians and the street dogs from Lady and the Tramp which is a couple of cool cameos
Fun fact dodge is played by Billy Joel and Dodge's full name is Artful Dodger a name from Oliver Twist