BNP At Home: Six Disney “Flops” to Revisit

Stuck at home and wondering what to watch? Fret not, we’re here for you with lists of content to fit the bill from comics to a DIY Saturday Morning Cartoon lineup. So how about some Disney nostalgia? Great. Welcome. Remember the days of collecting those white-boxed Disney VHS tapes and wearing them out watching your favorites? Thankfully for our backs—the weight of those things added up fast, mayne—Disney+ lets us stream all the best minus the heavy lifting. But let it not be said that Disney isn’t thorough with their digital catalog. They’ve given us the good, the bad, and the “wait, Disney made that??” all just a click away. And now that some of us have a bit more free time and/or kids at home, it’s time to revisit some of Disney’s animated movies that didn’t do so well when they dropped. Oliver & Company (1988)

Disney’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist with cats, dogs, and set on the streets of 1980s New York City instead of London in the middle of the Industrial Revolution. This movie sports an all-star cast—for the 80s—and while some of the names may not ring any alarms, trust me, it was hitting back then. We’ve got a young Joey Lawrence as the title kitten Oliver, Billy Joel as the street-smart dog Dodger who literally sings about being street smart, Cheech Marin as himself but a chihuahua, Bette Midler as an entitled white poodle, and Sheryl Lee Ralph—Moesha’s stepmom and the original Deena Jones—as the token female dog in the street crew. The story is …