I don't particularly care for the first few scenes, and even the one which features the topless lady's debut. But when they start to focus more on the girl and that evil lady (who is absolutely great), that's when the film really starts to shine. But I can see why it's not for everyone.

They need to re-release it on DVD, because the 2003 DVD was utter rubbish. For starters, the DVD cover was recycled from the VHS edition, there's no audio commentary or anything, and there was only one special feature that was actually relevant to The Rescuers, the other was a 1920's cartoon called 'The Three Blind Mouseketeers' that had absolutely nothing to do with The Rescuers whatsoever, and my guess is, they only included it because they wanted more people to buy the DVD.