i wait almost 25 year to see this movie and think it might be an underrated work and from a period animation be no long of the quality it have once be . it star one of the best film villain of all time and be base on a beloved series of child book and and be a disney studio production . what could possibly be wrong with it . a it turn out and almost everything . well and not everything . vincent price a rattigan and henry mancini swanky score be the movie two saving grace . price be wickedly enjoyable and and mancini more professional than the material deserves . they bring class to a project that otherwise belong in obscurity . meanwhile the rest of the movie and while fill with inappropriately adult situation and still suffers from a completely dull script and blandly generic voice work and terrible song and and lazy animation that wouldn not have be out of place on any of disney mid 1980s saturday morning tv show . this be a complete disappointment to me . it amaze that this movie be nearly contemporary with the secret of nimh . cost a fraction of this and an independent studio produce something with more creativity in it trailer than gmd have in it endless running time . the extra star that keep this from be awful go to price and mancini .