The Rescuers (1977)
Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman
Two agents of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society search for a little orphan girl kidnapped by sinister treasure hunters.
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The use of Disneyfied cartoon animals, including a pack of murderous wolves who look like they walked out of The Rescuers, undermines sleek action sequences…
He’s the most reluctant of Disney heroes since The Rescuers ‘ Bernard, but what he lacks in personality he more than makes up for in choreography.
Most Disney heroes are orphans—think of poor, mournful Penny in The Rescuers, or the Lost Boys of Never Land, dreaming of having parents.
Gone was a song-driven narrative (even something as relatively tuneless as Mulan still at heart was a musical), gone indeed were diegetic songs, for the most part; Tarzan was a return to a style that the studio had briefly kicked around with The Rescuers all the way back in 1977, in which all but one of the musical numbers were pop songs performed by an offscreen agent - in this case, Phil Collins.