I can't believe I avoided watching Basil all these years because I thought it woukldn't be any good! I watched it again and was even more majorly impressed!!! Disney tends to maintain a good standard of entertanment and animation, and they do it with this one with minimal amount of songs and sap!! I would have to say it's one of the best of what I call Disney's "New Fangled Era" (basically mid eighties onwards).It's got some really funny good moments in it, and some really good characertization in the animation.And the Oh Rattigan song is really cool!!