...but I could kick myself for not seeing it at
the theatres years ago. I saw it on video only
after its re-release at the end of August. But
they had advertised it over and over during my
stint at WDW earlier that month, and the movie
sounded so good (and Basil looked so cute) I
knew I would get the film. I was "in love" with
Basil at first sight! And wasn't that Big Ben
sequence something else? The computer animation
was fantastic, and it was practically the grandfather of all CGI scenes (like the wildebeest
stampede in Lion King, the crowd scenes in HoND,
and the avalanche sequence in Mulan)!
I read that GMD followed Black Cauldron, which
Disney had considered a failure (though its fans
wouldn't agree), and after GMD's success, things
began to pick up for the studios.