Buena Vista Pictures
Directed by George Scribner
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Walt Disney)
A stray kitten on the streets of New York City is befriended by a carefree mongrel and taken to a barge where he lives with a thief and other dogs. The thief owes money to loan shark and has only a few days to come up with it. During an attempted robbery, the kitten gets adopted by a wealthy little girl ignored by her parents. Thinking the cat has been kidnapped, the dogs stage a rescue. The thief hatches the idea to ransom the kitten to pay off his debts, but it falls apart when he realizes the owner is the little girl. She ends up getting kidnapped instead by the loan shark, and it is up to Oliver and company to rescue her. Entertaining reworking of Oliver Twist, with stylish animation from George Scribner. However, the music badly dates it (Huey Lewis and Billy Joel), getting in the way rather than complementing the story. Cheech Marin steals every scene as the voice of a feisty Chihuahua.
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