Undescribable Perfection

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Oliver (Joey Lawrence) is the last free kitten who gets left behind in the box. He has to find a way to survive in the bustling streets of New York. He joins streetwise dog Dodger (Billy Joel) and his gang of strays. They steal for bum Fagin who owes loan shark Sykes. Jenny Foxworth is a lonely rich girl with absent parents.The story is based on Dickens' Oliver Twist. The animation is inferior Disney. It may be too daunting to animate the streets of New York without looking cheap. It's pre-CGI and leans more towards TV level. There is a vast difference between this and Beauty and the Beast 3 years later. This looks bad by comparison. There are many songs but none of them are catchy enough. The story is a functional adaptation with appealing enough characters. In the end, it's fine for a family film.

First....I love this Movie Because his name is Oliver is my name too.The voice acting was amazing and showed us what probley goes through a dog and cat mind is and i really love that.Second...Jenny is the Sweetest Girl I have ever seen she would do any thing to find her cat and I mean it.Third....The Poodle Ilove poodles I have poodle and I just love it lol.Sincerely,Oliver Wady

To be a teen again back in the 1980's.VHS, Breakdance and on.Also this movie a modern New York City version of Oliver Twist.It's literary a twist with talking dogs.Some of the dogs are Dodger with the perfect voice of Billy Joel.The dogs owner are Fagin, and this time the villain drives a big black car.To mention the few merchandises way back then there was posters and read a long books.The movie got a well deserved Golden Globe nomination.An applause to the all star cast, the detailed background animation and the music by J.A.C. Redford.Don't except Pirates of Caribbean this is just some light entertainment with some nice action sequences at times.8/10

I didn't hear about this film until around 1996/1997 when it was heavily publicised in the UK, which made me think it initially came out at around that time. When I found out that this film originally came out in 1988, I was surprised but wasn't disappointed since my sister and I loved this film as children and as young women (I'm 26 and my sister's 22) we still love it to this day.Although the animation is linear and quite flat (which is present in other Disney films such as 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Rescuers'), the lip-sync on the human and animal characters is detailed as well as their facial expressions, despite the absence of tears falling from Jenny's eyes when she confronts Fagin about Oliver being 'kidnapped.' The most positive aspects of this film are its swift pace (particularly during the climax where Sykes and his Dobermans chase Fagin, Jenny and the other animals down the subway track); the talented and relatively well-known voice cast including Billy Joel (Dodger), Bette Midler (Georgette) and Cheech Marin (Tito) of 'Cheech and Chong' fame; the background designs (especially the bird's-eye views of New York City and Central Park); and the songs (the ever-so-catchy 'Why Should I Worry?' and the sweet 'Good Company' are standouts). Jenny and Oliver are sweet while Georgette is beautiful and Tito is comical, although I would like to have seen Jenny reunite with her parents and show them Oliver.As well as the 1968 musical 'Oliver!' this is one of my favourite adaptations of the classic Charles Dickens novel and also one of the most underrated films I've ever seen. 9/10.