Nice effects though.

Expected more

Admirable film.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The Rescuers is a Disney animated feature film about two mice who are on a mission to save a young girl from a woman and her assistant who are holding her captive and forcing her to search for a diamond down in a cavern that only she can fit in. The little girl, Penny, was an orphan and longs for a family, the only real "family" she has is her stuffed bear teddy. The villainous is Medusa, I loved her as the bad guy, she's kind of like a cruella without the furs. Seriously other than that they're like twin sisters lol. Outreagous driving, mean over the top behavior all the time and bumbling idiots for assistants. Our protagonists, the mice, are really awesome characters, they are sweet honest caring creatures that embark on this mission to rescue this poor orphan from this torture. The fast paced action scenes are well done, not too intense so that the target audience, children, won't be afraid, but still fairly fast paced and busy. I don't think your children will become bored if you want to show this one to them, I think they'll be interested and very entertained. I still enjoy watching it and I'm getting ready to head off to college, like just about all Disney films, this movie has no age limits, anyone can and will enjoy this film. 8/10 for The Rescuers.

This was released on the date of my birthday. It's always kind of meant something to me ever since I first saw it as a kid at this after school party night thing. It's a quaint straightforward kind of adventure, but it's very warm and charming and is a story that's dead easy to get drawn into and connect with the characters. Barring one song I love the music, it feels very representative of the decade in which it was made, very free-spirited and poignant and heartfelt. "Someones's Waiting For You" is a real tearjerker of a song that plays at a very heartbreaking part of the movie and it always puts a little something in my eye because it's about a child in a very dark place without love who must keep hope in her little heart that one day she'll have a family of her own... That's what makes this movie a ten for me, its deeper themes of lost children and family that are woven into the story. There's just two little things about it that I don't like. One is the clan of hillbilly swamp critters, their little barrel of pep booze and how they yell "Charge!" and their whole yokel shtick feels out of place and rather dumb to me, and I really dislike the Rescue Aid Society song, I actually find that entire early scene in that place to be so sappy and off- putting, thank goodness it's not reflective of the picture as a whole! Gabor and Newhart both gave very good voice performances that complement and work off each other well, and also made their mousy characters seem much bigger. They made a great team, she loves the adventure and peril and he's superstitious and overly-cautious but also brave when he has to be. I like their quasi-romantic moments, very sweet. I like Penny because she's imperfect with her gappy child's teeth and mildly annoying energetic manner, it made her seem more like a real little girl that you actually want to see pull through and have a happy ending. The most tension is easily in the scene where she has the Devil's Eye diamond under one arm and her new rescuer friends in the other hand and she's trying to get out of the flooding underground pirate cave before they all drown. I love Evinrude the dragonfly because it's so cute the way he wears a little sweater and speaks only in a fairly expressive buzzing sound, and his purpose in the movie is like a living mini motorboat that runs out of steam all the time! It might make me sound bad but I think my favourite character is Medusa. Her motivation isn't anything special at all, I mean she's just a very greedy and demented bird-like woman who greatly desires a large one of a kind diamond and is willing to go to any lengths to get it, including kidnapping a child. But the voice actress does such an amazing job with her piercing crazy inflections that to me the character all but steals the show. She's not downright evil but she's so selfish and mean to everyone around her that she's very entertaining and you love to hate her and can't wait for her to get a comeuppance and be put in her place! To my mind she's also the only Disney villain that's a redhead, so props! Her pet alligators help to make her more of a threat. I love the scene where one of them inadvertently plays a comic tune of terror on the pipe organ while the other tries to snatch the mice as they're blasted out of the pipes! Also her squat sidekick in crime Snoops is a lot of fun, the man's wormy voice and the nerdy character design make for a classic bumbling stooge and I love Snoops, it's great to see him get the last laugh on Medusa at the end. Anyway it's a fantastic sweet movie that's always been a treasure to me and take care, for tomorrow is indeed another day! X

The Rescuers, at least in my opinion, is one of the forgotten Disney films. Though perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it's one of the most overlooked Disney films. Most people know that it exists, certainly, it's part of Disney canon, and I'd even say that most people have even seen it. But not all that many people talk about it. I've never met any person who claims this as one of their favourites.And yeah, I can see why. The Rescuers is a fine movie, perfectly good children's entertainment. But, it's not very memorable. The characters range from slightly below average to merely good. The animation, while impressive in certain ways, is rather dark in its style and doesn't even try to reach for the stars like so many other Disney films. The music is okay, the story is okay and that's about it. It's okay. Which for a Disney film is not really a compliment.I truly think they should have made Cruella De Vil the villain. Yeah, this was going to be a sequel to One Hundred and One Dalmatians. But, alas, someone decided that the audience would feel confused. Disney, making baffling executive decisions since the 70s. Because, while Madame Medusa is not the worst Disney villain we've seen, she just feels like a poor man's Cruella De Vil, or perhaps like something of a practice run for Ursula from The Little Mermaid. In a word she's okay, but something's missing.Then again, Bernard and Biance, the eponymous rescuing mice, are both very good characters, the backgrounds do look gorgeous, the story does some interesting things we haven't seen in Disney films before this one, and as stated, it isn't bad in any way. It just isn't great. Certainly worth a watch for all fans of Disney, but personally I rate it pretty low on my list of canon films.

Between the golden age of Disney animation in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s and the far shorter second golden age of the 90s was a period dominated by odd, awkward features like "The Rescuers." Some of the oddness in this movie works to its benefit: Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor are unlikely voice actors, being so understated and somehow "adult", but they are very cute as heroes from a literal mouse United Nations called the Rescue Aid Society. It must be largely due to their chemistry and vocal talents that "The Rescuers" eventually got a sequel. Some of the movie's oddness, though, makes "The Rescuers" an actively unpleasant experience: a maudlin take on child slavery, trailer-trash mice in a dismal bayou, and music that sounds like bad karaoke of B-side 70s folk. The characters and some of the animation seem lifted from earlier Disney films, which was something the studio did all too frequently around this time. The depiction of the main baddie is a trashier, less enlightened version of "101 Dalmatian"'s Cruella DeVille, and much of the supporting cast is straight out of "Robin Hood" (which in turn had imported many of its characters from "The Jungle Book"). In addition to Newhart and Gabor, glimpses of the painterly artistic talents of Don Bluth, who worked for Disney before directing his own darker and more fantastical movies, makes "The Rescuers" just barely worth watching.