Episode 3x06 - The Great Mouse Detective

10/13/21 • 79 min

1 Listener

Grab your coats and magnifying glasses! We’re off to Baker Street as we discuss The Great Mouse Detective, a Dark Age Disney film that shows shades and elements of what would later make Disney’s Renaissance the iconic era of success that it was.

Don’t miss:

The ways this movie walked so that Renaissance films could run
How the parallels drawn between this mouse detective and his human counterpart raise some very odd questions regarding mouse culture
A discussion of the progression of both the development process and the technology that moved the needle at the studio between The Black Cauldron and this film
Our final score for the film, which is on the higher end for the Dark Age

PLUS, we talk through all the thoughts our audience had when they watched the movie, including #ddpwatchnight commentary from some familiar friends!

Links for you:

Our website has our ranking spreadsheet for all the movies we’ve rated so far
Become a Ko-fi member for exclusive content and access to your hosts and our team
Join our ‘Ohana to be among the first to know about new content we’re developing
Follow us on Twitter @definingdisney and let us know your thoughts on The Great Mouse Detective
When our transcription is available, we’ll link it here

Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss a single episode, and if you enjoyed this one, please leave us a rating and review. Thanks for listening and we’ll see ya real soon!

Don’t miss:

The ways this movie walked so that Renaissance films could run
How the parallels drawn between this mouse detective and his human counterpart raise some very odd questions regarding mouse culture
A discussion of the progression of both the development process and the technology that moved the needle at the studio between The Black Cauldron and this film
Our final score for the film, which is on the higher end for the Dark Age

PLUS, we talk through all the thoughts our audience had when they watched the movie, including #ddpwatchnight commentary from some familiar friends!

Links for you:

Our website has our ranking spreadsheet for all the movies we’ve rated so far
Become a Ko-fi member for exclusive content and access to your hosts and our team
Join our ‘Ohana to be among the first to know about new content we’re developing
Follow us on Twitter @definingdisney and let us know your thoughts on The Great Mouse Detective
When our transcription is available, we’ll link it here

Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss a single episode, and if you enjoyed this one, please leave us a rating and review. Thanks for listening and we’ll see ya real soon!

Previous Episode

Episode 3x05 - Aladdin

Hop a carpet and fly with us to Agrabah as we tackle another one of Disney’s heaviest hitters during its Renaissance era, Aladdin!

Don’t miss:

The stellar character development we get for an unusually large number of characters
How this movie’s entire soundtrack has lasted the test of time, even without a true “I Want” song
A discussion of the film’s beautiful but inconsistent theming, particularly with regard to specific cultural references
Our final score for the film, which cracks the top three!

PLUS, we talk through all the thoughts our audience had when they watched the movie, including debunking a pesky urban legend sent in by fellow podcaster Nick.

Links for you:

Our website has our ranking spreadsheet for all the movies we’ve rated so far
Become a Ko-fi member for exclusive content and access to your hosts and our team
Join our ‘Ohana to be among the first to know about new content we’re developing
Follow us on Twitter @definingdisney and let us know your thoughts on Aladdin
Check out History of the Entire World I Guess, if you want to know where all the references we made throughout the episode are from (language warning!)
When our transcription is available, we’ll link it here

Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss a single episode, and if you enjoyed this one, please leave us a rating and review. Thanks for listening and we’ll see ya real soon!

Next Episode

Episode 3x07 - Frozen II

1 Recommendations

Return to Arendelle with us as we take on Frozen II, the sequel that brought Disney’s biggest IP of the century back to the big screen. We’ll discuss how it measures up to the phenomenal first film, which still sits comfortably in our Top 5, as well as the new efforts it made and issues it tackled.

Don’t miss:

The crucial role Olaf plays in this film as an audience stand-in
How fear once again resurfaces as the film’s antagonist, though not as clearly as in the first film
A discussion of the truly masterful music the Lopez duo wrote for this film - better than the first film, if you can believe that
Our final score for the film - can it beat its powerful predecessor?

PLUS, we talk through all the thoughts our audience had when they watched the movie, including all our listeners who joined us for #ddpwatchnight on Twitter.

Links for you:

Our website has our ranking spreadsheet for all the movies we’ve rated so far
Become a Ko-fi member for exclusive content and access to your hosts and our team
Join our ‘Ohana to be among the first to know about new content we’re developing
Follow us on Twitter @definingdisney and let us know your thoughts on Frozen II
When our transcription is available, we’ll link it here

Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss a single episode, and if you enjoyed this one, please leave us a rating and review. Thanks for listening and we’ll see ya real soon!