Let me ask you a question dear reader: Have you found during your childhood watching TV a random animated pick that you forgot the name but still can remember the images? Well The Great Mouse Detective was like that to me, airing randomly and between really long periods of time on national TV, but I´ve always ended up watching just the final Big Ben confrontation, weird was me luck says I.
For a long period of my life i didn´t had a single clue about this film, but the aura was so enigmatic that it hooked me to found out, a completely unknown film intrigued me for years and that´s a somehow underground experience, and the responsible is the Box Office failure of Disney´s Dark Age (Age when the movie was released)
But when i found out the name, and I´ve watched the entire film, I felt in love with everything, the time period, the atmosphere, the duality of genres, the songs (Being a musical hater that´s truly a one of a kind exception), the suspense and of course the conflict between the Hero and the Villian.
And my god... What a great Villian is Ratigan, the best Disney Villian IMO, he is charismatic as Hades, Intelligent as Scar, Cruel as Frollo and Scary as S&%T
And the Hero is absolutely original and two-dimensional, he isn´t a perfect Hero like the majority of Disney without defects, Basil is egocentrical, cocky, bipolar and more, but those defects does conform Basil as a interesting character and of course, a Hero above those defects because the Film does show a development on Basil showing kindness and self sacrifice and that is just beautiful
The only thing that bothers me about this film is the duration, just too darn short, I wanted more of this.
But without a doubt, this movie touched my heart more than any Disney film has done ever.
For a long period of my life i didn´t had a single clue about this film, but the aura was so enigmatic that it hooked me to found out, a completely unknown film intrigued me for years and that´s a somehow underground experience, and the responsible is the Box Office failure of Disney´s Dark Age (Age when the movie was released)
But when i found out the name, and I´ve watched the entire film, I felt in love with everything, the time period, the atmosphere, the duality of genres, the songs (Being a musical hater that´s truly a one of a kind exception), the suspense and of course the conflict between the Hero and the Villian.
And my god... What a great Villian is Ratigan, the best Disney Villian IMO, he is charismatic as Hades, Intelligent as Scar, Cruel as Frollo and Scary as S&%T
And the Hero is absolutely original and two-dimensional, he isn´t a perfect Hero like the majority of Disney without defects, Basil is egocentrical, cocky, bipolar and more, but those defects does conform Basil as a interesting character and of course, a Hero above those defects because the Film does show a development on Basil showing kindness and self sacrifice and that is just beautiful
The only thing that bothers me about this film is the duration, just too darn short, I wanted more of this.
But without a doubt, this movie touched my heart more than any Disney film has done ever.