The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Continuing in the 1980s, we come to The Great Mouse Detective. The Movie: The Great Mouse Detective is the 26th movie in the Disney Animated Canon and the penultimate film of Disney's Dark Age. Coming on the heels of the disastrous Black Cauldron, this is the movie that kept Disney animation in business, setting the stage for the beginning of the Disney Renaissance three years later. It was met with positive reviews from critics and was a moderate financial success. The Great Mouse Detective is based on the Basil of Baker Street books by Eve Titus, which in turn draw heavily on the lore of Sherlock Holmes. This movie is set in Victorian London, where a mouse society lives within the human world. When her toymaker father is kidnapped, young Olivia Flaversham sets out to find the famous Basil in the hopes that he can track her father down. Olivia is found by Dr. Dawson, and the two of them make their way to Baker Street. Basil is initially too ...