Comments on: Animation Addicts Podcast #77: The Great Mouse Detective – Sit, Toby

By: Emma Mc

Emma Mc — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 23:14:00 +0000

i love the podcast, except for the part where Patrick shat all over the movie. :/ other than that great podcast!

By: The Animation Commendation

The Animation Commendation — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 02:40:00 +0000

Great podcast on a film that I love!

I’m with Mason though on that I found the sexy stripping mouse a bit too much as well.

By: Chris Sobieniak

Chris Sobieniak — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 02:17:00 +0000

Mice in cartoons, preferably features like this one, tend to fall into the category I would call “tiny humans with tails”, simply because of the way they tend to view their world in a very civilized manner to that of humans through wardrobe, everyday items and what-not. Disney of course had elevated it to such an extent in Great Mouse Detective, you forget these guys are inhabiting a world that otherwise is also shared by those bigger species beyond their view. Though it does variate over time.

Gus’s introduction in Cinderella always fascinated me a little simply because he starts out as a stray mouse trapped in a cage, and it’s only after Cinderella frees him (with a little help from Jaq), gives him clothes and a name, that he’s given a personality, far from being just a blank slate before (of course his IQ hasn’t changed).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Gqt4VxdBU

Though not mentioned here, the short film, “Ben & Me” aught to get an honorable mention if only for much a similar fashion of there being a parallel world of mice cohabiting among humans. It’s main protagonist, Amos, also has an interesting background of being among a family of mice in a church who don’t mind praising a human deity (or one they could see as their own too). I always loved the piece of animation at the start of him getting out of bed to try to find a job in the cold world outside whilst getting dress. The little detail of him having to thread his tail through his pants always amused me for some reason, I guess I always wondered how an animal would have to go about that every day of their lives.
http://youtu.be/c1X6l99y23Y?t=1m23s

The notion of “church mice” (let alone mice living in a church) has been thrown about for centuries since I’ve heard the term used elsewhere a bit. Of course the 1986’s An American Tail would break that notion with it’s focused family being Jewish from the start and it’s titular young Fievel Mousekewitz receiving a hat from his papa as a Hanukkah gift. One thing about An American Tail and in similar features if the sort of “used universe” aesthetic employed with the way mice have to make due with the waste of humans to build their own world from.

By: Chris Sobieniak

Chris Sobieniak — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 01:56:00 +0000

In reply to Esther. At least you liked Tintin.

By: AC

AC — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:17:00 +0000

I love Glen Keane’s work here. He somehow managed to stay at home taking care of his family while working on what appears to practically be all the rough drawings for Ratigan, which is something you don’t really see in later characters he supervised.
Also, anyone heard of Sherlock Hound? Its bears a similar concept in adapting Sherlock but as anthropomorphic dogs. Some of it was actually directed by Miyazaki during his earlier years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Hound

By: Esther

Esther — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:39:00 +0000

Ah, so much fun. Shout out to fellow fans of “Tintin”! I was also twitching with anxiety when I heard they’d be using motion-capture for that movie (cough cough “Polar Express”) but Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg paid homage to Herge’s world well. And I think Spielberg pulled a lot of his classic Indiana Jones adventure into it.

By: Maria

Maria — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 01:06:00 +0000

I love this movie–Basil is one of my favorite Disney heroes, besides Aladdin. XD

By: Morgan Stradling

Morgan Stradling — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 16:28:00 +0000

In reply to JustinJun. Arg! There are always things that we gloss over when recording. This episode, we didn't talk much about the Robot Queen or Fidget! I wish we would have though.

By: chalooby

chalooby — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 16:48:00 +0000

Loved the podcast, i never grew up on this film so don’t have the nostalgia for it, but watching it recently i did enjoy it quite a bit. aaaaand i don’t know if you’d ever review Hanna Barbera’s Heidi’s Song (kind of obscure?!) but i think you MUST see this rat themed song, sung by the amazing Sammy Davis Jr no less! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmcEYVz4cqA

By: JustinJun

JustinJun — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 14:52:00 +0000

In reply to Marguerite. Haha, it's creepy now. But I remember at the time where DVD's were still fairly new that any kind of menu screen that wasn't completely still was pretty cool