Oliver & Company was one of the best rewrite cases in a Disney story. The screenwriters were able to eliminate all the nasty stuff in the classic "Oliver Twist": a) all the anti-semitic caricature in the character of Mr. Fagin; b) Dickens's notorious cheap sentimentality, which tends to make his works sometimes annoying, sometimes involuntarily comic, and whose major mark in this case was the celebrated passage "Please, sir," Oliver replied, "I want some more [food]." '; c) the unpalatable and hyper-caricatured character of Mr. Bumble.
With the rest, a beautiful and touching story was built.
A good and underrated work
Oliver & Company was one of the best rewrite cases in a Disney story. The screenwriters were able to eliminate all the nasty stuff in the classic "Oliver Twist": a) all the anti-semitic caricature in the character of Mr. Fagin; b) Dickens's notorious cheap sentimentality, which tends to make his works sometimes annoying, sometimes involuntarily comic, and whose major mark in this case was the celebrated passage "Please, sir," Oliver replied, "I want some more [food]." '; c) the unpalatable and hyper-caricatured character of Mr. Bumble. With the rest, a beautiful and touching story was built.