Another animated mouse from the Disney studio, in fact a whole society of them underneath (and a perfect mirror image of) the London of 1897. They have their own mouse queen beneath Buckingham Palace, who coincidentally happens to be celebrating her own Diamond Jubilee. And they have a portly medical mouse named Dawson, just back from army service in Afghanistan. And they have the legendary Basil of Baker Street, private investigator and self-appointed nemesis of the evil and elusive Prof. Ratigan — actually a rat, passing himself off as a large mouse, who schemes to become "supreme ruler of all mousedom." Basil displays the same sort of mental prodigies as his upstairs neighbor, Sherlock Holmes, but has a much greater tendency to land himself in tight spots. These, as it happens, are the movie's best moments: a losing skirmish in a toy shop against a peg-legged bat named Fidget (who looks too much like one of Joe Dante's Gremlins); a miraculous escape from a Pearl White death-trap; and the climactic battle inside and on the face of Big Ben. The drawing of the characters, unfortunately, is in Disney's most insipid style, and Ratigan (with voice by Vincent Price) is too comically hammed-up to take a spot among Disney's better (i.e., more frightening) villains. (1986) — Duncan Shepherd
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