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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Washington PostRita KempleyWashington PostRita KempleyOliver & Company, the directorial debut of veteran animator George Scribner, is Mouse Factory magic with edge. It's the claws ce'le`bre.
- 75San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackSan Francisco ChroniclePeter StackThe film offers a fanciful, lush urban setting, unusual for Disney animated features, and a couple of good songs, Once Upon a Time in New York City performed by Huey Lewis and Perfect Isn't Easy sung by Midler.
- 75Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonTake the kids. Have fun.
- 70Time OutTime OutCornball adventure ensues, punctuated by healthy helpings of singing, dancing and general merriment.
- 63Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe animation is fairly unexciting though serviceable, and the overall mystification of class difference would probably have made Dickens shudder, but kids should find this tolerable enough.
- Danger's never clear and present, but rather a convention. Simply put, Oliver & Company didn't work for me not because I'm many years past my sixth birthday but because it never scared me into forgetting that fact.
- 50San Francisco ExaminerSan Francisco ExaminerOliver & Company comes across as a rather shabby transitional work, one that lacks the sophistication of today's 'toons and doesn't hold up to the Disney classics of yesteryear.
- 50TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineAlthough Oliver & Company is fairly entertaining and better looking than the average Saturday morning cartoon show, the computer-assisted animation is relatively stiff and inexpressive.
- 38Slant MagazineEric HendersonSlant MagazineEric HendersonOliver & Company is as out-of-touch as anything the studio ever made.