Anyone remember the original Oliver & Company release?

[Johnboy]

And i'm talkin' about the 1988 release, not the 1996 one! well i did back when i was 6 years old in 1988 ( Hey! i'm a child of the 80's) and i remembered it well! i saw it when it came out in november of 1988 and i saw it again after christmas, i had some of the original merchandise like pajamas, storybooks, coloring book, Mcdonald's Finger puppets, Mcdonald's Christmas Tree Ornuments, and a readalong book with cassette. i was preety disappointed when it didn't came on video but thankfully it did and i enjoyed it again at the age of 14 in 1996 when it came back to theaters, it's became one of my favorite animated movies since and i replaced it with DVD which DVD is far superior to VHS

oh the memories! i still enjoy it and was a major success after "Black Cauldron" and "Great Mouse Detective" (Great movie too) bombed at the box-office and what really started the renaissance.

[Nemo7]

I thought Oliver and Company was just 'alright' the first time, but I've watched it again on DVD, and it just seems to keep getting better!

The Great Mouse Detective is my favorite Disney film of all - I feel it is the most underrated animated movie.

[anger is pointless]

i was eight years old when it came out of corse i saw it lol and i loved it its a great movie i saw it three times while it was in theatures then i saw it three more times when it came back out and i always wanted to know why it didnt come out on video after it left theatures the first time

so i called i think it was buena vista i called them almost every other day and i requested it

was oliver and company not very successful or something why did they not want it releaseed on video

[corrwill]

I LOVE THIS MOVIE. mean I was 7 when it fist came out and I got really into it. I had all the stuffed animals from sears, the coloring books, the story book and of course the soundtrack tape. I just couldn't get enough of "Why Should I Worry?" I think it will always hold a special place in my heart as being the first movie that got me hooked on the whole Disney craze. I mean it was the leader of a new generation of musicals as well as Eisner's first venture as CEO. It had a great voice cast and I think it was really underestimated.

Oliver fan true and true.

[I am the Doctor]

anger is pointless wrote

was oliver and company not very successful or something why did they not want it releaseed on video

At the time (1988), Disney hadn't yet released very many of their animated movies to video, and there was a long list of movies that Disney could release. By 1988, the only animated features released to video were: Alice in Wonderland, Robin Hood and Dumbo were early releases. Pinocchio ('85), Sleeping Beauty ('86), Lady and the Tramp ('87) and Cinderella (1988) started the Black Diamond Classic line. With other movies like Bambi ('89), Fantasia and Snow White available, it really isn't much of a surprise that they waited on Oliver until after the re-release in 1996. It's a bit of a shame, because I enjoyed Oliver as well, and it did quite well considering it had Don Bluth's The Land Before Time coming out the same day for competition.

[Wonderlicious]

was oliver and company not very successful or something why did they not want it releaseed on video

I think it was (it grossed domestically around $54 million on original release whilst the film cost a budgety $18 million to make). However, about the video release, I believe Oliver and Co may have gotten wiplash from Disney's neurotic feeling that having the movies in homes would cheapen the Disney experience. Although a few animated films, as I am the Doctor pointed out, were/had been available on video (such as Alice in Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty and Pinocchio), these films had been released several times over before in cinemas, so were somewhat dubbed as extra special material. Perhaps Disney was trying to intentionally make Oliver a special classic by keeping it off video before re-releasing it again theatrically.

[universALLove]

I hope this film gets a Special Edition re-release with remastered picture and sound quality, I love Georgette she makes me laugh.

[anger is pointless]

i think oliver and company is a real classic do you guys think it will ever be on the disney platinum line

or am i just dreaming sigh

but anyway i love all the songs in the movie especially why should i worry thats my favorite

[edsouth]

Oliver came out originally when I was 15, I remember all my friends thinking I was nuts for wanting to go see a cartoon movie in the theatre. To me, Disney Animated Films have always been the best movies there are!
It was such a great film....and then of course, a year later The Little Mermaid completely floored me...and a few weeks later, everybody was going to see Mermaid and cartoons were cool again! (Thanks to Mermaid and Simpsons!)

[Disney Princess Ariellen]

I remember hearing about it...the trailer is on my 1987 Cinderella VHS.

I didn't SEE it until the 1996 rerelease, though...my little brother was a newborn when that movie came out, and there just wasn't a chance for my parents to take me to see it. We did, however, buy the soundtrack on vinyl record, so I was fairly familiar with the movie before I saw it. That's the only Animated Classic soundtrack that I have on vinyl...my Animated Classic soundtrack collection is bigger than my Animated Classic DVD collection.

[Robin Hood]

I still haven't seen Oliver & Company.

I'll have to rent it one of these days.