The story starts off showing New York City, and the camera zooms in on a box on the sidewalk. The box happens to be full of kittens, which one by one are taken home by families. They all get picked, until just one is left. That one, as you can guess, is Oliver. He is left in the box until night, when it begins to rain.  Oliver  is swept out of the box with the current of water. All of this happens in a short period during the song “Once Upon a Time in New York City.” All I can say about the song is that it wasn’t terrible.

The next morning, Oliver wakes up and goes to find food; when he is spied by a dog. This dog annoyingly tries to be cool(and fails) throughout the movie. He sees Oliver approaching the cart of an angry hot dog salesman and makes a horrible cat pun. The dog, whose name is Dodger, then uses Oliver to distract the salesman, so that he (Dodger) can get the hotdogs for himself. He then runs away from Oliver stealing the sausages for himself. As he flees from Oliver, he launches into the song “Why Should I Worry?” That song is about the only memorable song in the movie, simply because it will be in your head for the next week or more.

Oliver doesn’t give up. He chases Dodger all the way back to his (and several other dogs’) home. The dogs give him a small portion of the sausages for helping get them, but they are interrupted by the man who owns the shack that they are in. They find out that the man is being followed by another, very rich, man named Sykes. The shack owner goes outside, and Sykes demands money that the other man owes him and gives him three days to get it back.

The next day the dogs and Oliver go out to find valuable items to help the man. Oliver searches inside a rich family’s car, but before he can get out, he is found  by a small girl. The girl takes him back to her house, and he becomes her pet.

The dogs have no idea what happened and believe that Oliver was kidnapped. They then stage an elaborate plan to save him. They take him back to their home, only to find out that he was happy where he was. Their owner comes back, still with not enough money to repay the rich man, when he sees Oliver. He sees that Oliver was taken in by a rich family and decides to ransom him to them.

I won’t give away the rest of the movie, since Oliver and Company is worth watching. However, worth watching is the best I can say about it. It has an interesting but horribly pulled-off story, forgettable characters, and a song by Bette Midler that will make you instantly wish for death. My main problem with it is how good it could have been. Since the movie is based on Charles Dicken’s Oliver Twist, it could have been fantastic. Nevertheless, Disney managed to make it into one of their worst movies.