Lesser Disney, but a veritable masterpiece of wit and action in comparison with such contemporary competition as the Care Bears and My Little Pony films. It's the broadness and crudeness of its outlines and general animation that betray it as no more than a mildly enjoyable diversion from the studio. Its good scenes are really limited to two or three - a toyshop battle and a waterfront dive among them - and, of the three musical numbers, only one shows the signs of due care and attention that would soon return to the studio. This is Let Me Be / Good to You, which could have come straight out of Chicago and, raunchily voiced by Melissa Manchester as a mouse chanteuse, momentarily transports proceedings to a more lively dimension. Vincent Price enjoys himself much as one might expect as the arch-fiend Ratigan, a murine relative of Dr Phibes, and some additional fun is afforded by the mouse queen, target of Ratigan's plot, who looks at the peg-legged bat Fidget dressed in yeoman's uniform and asks 'Have you been with us long? ' Not too frightening, and at least never cloying, it's a safe bet for under twelves.

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