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DVD The Aristocats (Disney Gold Classic Collection)
Duchess and her three kittens are enjoying the high life with their devoted human mistress until the wicked butler Edgar, with his eyes on a big inheritance, decides to dope them and get them out of the picture. How can these fragile creatures cope in the unfamiliar countryside and the meaner streets of Paris? Only by meeting the irrepressible alley cat O'Malley, a rough diamond with romance in his heart. After they get a taste of the wide dangerous world, he guides them home, and Edgar gets his just desserts at the wrong end of a horse. As always, it's really the voices rather than the animation that are the heart of the Disney magic: Phil Harris is brilliant as O'Malley, Eva Gabor as Duchess is... well... Eva Gabor; but perhaps the most memorable turns are by Pat Buttram and George Lindsay, who turn the old hounds Napoleon and Lafayette into a couple of bumbling Southern-fried rednecks. Their scenes with Edgar, and the musical numbers with Scat Cat and his cool-dude band, are classic. Most striking about seeing The Aristocats now is how deeply Disney's style of animation has changed since this was at the cutting edge in 1970. Perhaps the nostalgic, dated feel are just a result of being plonked down in Belle Epoque Paris, but the illustrations are fussier (a pity) and the animation and overall pace much less frenetic (sometimes a relief) than in more recent efforts such as Aladdin. --Richard Farr
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Cute little movie
Not as long as other Disney movies, nor are there a lot of songs, but this is one of my favorite Disney movies.
Dutchess and her 3 kittens are stolen from her rich owner's mansion in Paris by the evil butler because Madame has left all of her money to the kittens. Once out in the country they find help from a stray alleycat, Thomas O'Malley, and find their way back to Paris.
The best scene, I believe, is the scene where all of the cats are singing jazz songs in the attic of an empty house in Paris.
Not the usual fare
Disney took a cue from French animation and created a wonderfully eccentric cartoon from its usual fair. This is a very light-hearted romp, as much fun for adults as it is for kids, with action scenes made into highly amusing capers. The aristocats and the animals they meet along the way take on rich human voices, with O'Malley the Alley Cat stealing the show. Song and dance are inseparably tied together like the musicals of a bygone era, such as An American in Paris. It is all postcard-type scenes but wonderfully drawn, providing darling backgrounds for this family of lost cats.
My favorite Disney movie
Being a cat lover, this is my favorite Disney movie. The plot is quick paced and very funny. I find myself quoting this movie on a regular basis, just for fun. "I dinna mean to rough you, squeaky."
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