It has its charms. The songs, for instance, are notable improvements over previous works' musical interludes. The main characters are sweet and likable enough, though the villains and supporting cast are mostly forgettable. The plot, such as it is, doesn’t make much sense; it seems a bit too involved for what is otherwise just dingy, small-time crime. The script lays on the schmaltz pretty thick at times, and delivers more than a few weird tone shifts. The animation--always a key ingredient when we're talking Disney--varies significantly throughout the film and from aspect to aspect. Sometimes the drawings are very good; at other times the scenes or scene elements look amateurish. Put it all together and stir it up, and you get a fair representation of mid-century, mostly lost-years Disney studio output. It's not painful to watch, but it hardly measures up to what came (well) before and what was to come (in about 15 years).
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