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What A Cartoon Movie! - The Great Mouse Detective (Patreon)

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2020-02-23 22:39:45
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2020-02-23 22:40:27
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This month on What A Cartoon Movie! we're looking at one of the few bright spots of a particularly dark decade for Disney. The Great Mouse Detective only aspired to capture that classic Disney magic, but thanks to its economical nature, it proved the  viability of feature animation and made the careers of artists who would later craft some of the company's biggest hits. On this episode, listen in as we give the fascinating history of The Great Mouse Detective, and then discuss every detail of this charming little movie. Crack open your favorite bottle of Rodents' Choice brandy and get ready to join us for another super-size discussion!

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Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

Similar to other WAC Movies, I only vaguely knew about this one beforehand and enjoyed it a hell of a lot. Since I didn't know much about it going in, I had no idea about the Sherlock Holmes connection, so the specificity of Dawson mentioning he came back from military service in Afghanistan seemed VERY ODD to me. Of course, once they arrived at Basil's house I was like "oh, so it's very clearly some kind of Holmes adaptation" and fact checked it on the wiki, only to learn it was based on a book series that ITSELF was an adaptation/send-up of the Sherlock Holmes novels. So in this case, it WASN'T Disney just claiming something from the public domain for themselves. (And of course the books are cited as a basis in the credits so it wasn't passing it off as such like Disney did with other things.) You really do learn something new everyday...

Boyd Adkins IV

"Bats aren't rodents, Dr Meridian" - Batman Forever.

Jose Rivera

Yes!!! So glad this won!

Rhomega

This movie started me down the road to becoming a furry. Thanks, Miss Kitty Mouse.

KaiserBeamz

As a Great Mouse Detective fanboy, I really loved this episode. Three things: First, while his Tom and Jerry Kids credits are listed last on his IMDB, I’ve seen some people say that David Michener’s last true credit was being animation director on Hannah-Barbera’s last independent feature film, Once Upon a Forest. He’s credited for helping pin down the entire look of that film and you can see why. It looks like a Disney movie on a modest budget from the backgrounds to the way the character animations. It’s a very fascinating and, in my opinion, underrated movie that also traumatized me as a kid like Great Mouse Detective did. Second, it was confirmed in a Disney Adventures comic from the mid-2000s that Fidget survived his fall. Not only that, but he also made a heel-face turn. I don’t think I’ve found full scans of that comic, but what little I have found reads like “what if Great Mouse Detective got its own Disney Afternoon show”. And finally, yes the Miss Kitty scene was just one of the many scenes of my childhood that made me furry. But she wasn’t the first. That credit goes to Maid Marian in Disney’s Robin Hood.

Brian Hortin

Has anyone tried to play the Basil The Great Mouse Detective video game? I didn’t realized it existed until searching around about the movie recently. I haven’t played a lot of C64/ZX Spectrum era games. I think the 1st Disney movie licensed game I played as a kid was Little Mermaid on NES. Anyway here is a long play of the game if anyone is curious. https://youtu.be/cdbdMXLTDjM

Brian Hortin

I really like the moment in the scene where Ratigan is enraged to have been called a rat and his thugs start reassuring him that he is a mouse the voice of Bill the lizard changes. He slips into what is pretty much a full Mickey voice to say “yeah, a big mouse” nervously. Wayne Allwine (the then current Mickey Mouse) is credited as one of the thug guards. I’m guessing he was Bill. Not sure if it was intentional, but it made me laugh.

Devin Hoffarth

So here's a crazy bit of Serendipity: if you know the twist of the first Professor Layton game the plot of this movie might be familiar. Can't help but wonder if one inspired the other. Anyway good podcast guys!

Brandon Wells

Don't remember if this was referenced, but do you think the trap Basil and Dawson are in at the end is a nod to the mouse trap board game?

nina matsumoto

I also brushed it off as a cheap kiddie movie for a long time until a few years ago and liked it way more than I thought. This was a great WAC Movie episode! Just wanted to point out that Ratigan is the only character with 5 fingers in this film, but Basil has 5 fingers for some reason on the Blu-Ray cover.

JoshuaMartian

Hey, I just listened to the whole thing (and loved it, great job as always) and at some point Henry recommends an Hmbomberman video I can't remember what it was about except that I really wanted to watch it and can't be arsed scrubbing through a four-hour podcast to find the exact point they mention it. If somebody reading this could let me know, I'd appreciate it. Thanks Talking Simpsons Community!

Kris

So no joke, transformers the movie is one of my favorite movies and I've lost count on the amount of times I've seen it Its not particularly great but its the movie I like to watch when I'm sick even in my 30s I'll throw it on

Boomer Spacely

Ratigan made a death trap with a real life axe and anvil and recorded a specially written song on a LIFE SIZE FOR HUMANS record. Oh it is a two way relationship. Maybe this movie (my favorite Disney one) made me a furry. That's arguable. But it wasn't the dance scene that did it, that's for damn sure. Also, you were watching the 1986 DTV Halloween special. I remember that GMD plug like it was yesterday. The species racism is nothing compared to the Redwall series though.

Adam Esat

In regards to the part about Pints - In the UK a Pint is an actual Pint of Ale/Beer/whatever it is you want. (you can get half pints also) So in mouse world, their version of a Pint must be the mouse scale imperial measurement system.

Melissa Van Pelt

This was such a fun listen!! I didn’t see this when it was in theaters but remember renting it when it came out on VHS. I also watched it again recently when I heard this podcast and it’s such a fun movie! I wish it had gotten better treatment by the executives at the time but it’s still so fun. And just a fyi to maybe clarify what seemed to be confusion about Henry Higgins — My Fair Lady was the musical adaptation of the play Pygmalion, so the main character names were kept and the story is pretty much the same. Thanks again for such a fun podcast!