The Aristocats
1970 Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman
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A tune-filled animated extravaganza.
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children -- Bonfamille's prize family of domesticated house cats -- the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the heirs, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O'Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the Aristocats's rescue.
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Do mi so mi do me so mi fa la so it goes
When you do your scales and your arpeggiosRemember those lines from the song Scales and Arpeggios? Now imagine a little girl singing them so that every word is mumbled gobbledygook and you've basically got my childhood. I never knew most of the words to Disney songs but I memorised pretty much all the tunes and would sit in front of my tv for hours, mesmerised by the music and characters. This film was one of my favourites and so I'm massively biased whenever I revisit it. I find it hard to think objectively about it because every single sound and image is so familiar and homely,…
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Thanks to Disney re-releasing all their classic animated films on Blu-Ray I’ve been able to relive my childhood all over again. The Aristocats was never a favourite, and is in fact one of Wolfgang Reitherman’s weakest feature films, but its qualities still shine through. It is essentially a more swinging, less iconic, version of Lady and the Tramp but with a feline twist. Watching it now with a more critical eye you realise how uneventful and slight the film is, yet whilst it fails to compete with the studio’s true greats this is still a film with bags of charm.
The cast are all brilliant, and whilst the episodic nature of the story means many go by the wayside (the…
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not the best animation Disney has to offer but still a really fun film,
I remember when I was little thinking Thomas O'Malley the alley cat was soooooo cool! ha"OH a ricky -ticky-ticky"
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With its recognizable vocal talent, memorable characters, and two very catchy songs, Disney's "The Aristocats" has plenty of charms. It lacks the energy, emotion, and depth of narrative that would place it among the best of the Walt Disney canon, but the film is, at least, fun. While younger audience members will undoubtedly be entertained by the jazzily scored feline hijinks, more grownup fans of the genre will enjoy the rough-hewn character animation and the gorgeously animated backgrounds. The French countryside and metropolitona Paris are utterly engrossing in their hand-drawn, two-dimensional manifestations.
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I was never a fan of this as a kid and I'm surprised what little things from it that I remember! This is cute, but it drags and the songs are not amazing. Still, it's quite funny and I love Duchess! OH YOU FANCY, HUH?
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Just because everybody (including you) wants to be a cat, it doesn't make you a pussy. I'm more of a dog person myself but I digress.
It's basically Lady and the Tramp for cats only instead of a film low on plot with dogs doing cute stuff, this is a film low on plot with cats doing cute stuff. I actually like this more. Maybe it's because I grew up with this film as a kid and I'm getting all nostalgic but I still enjoy it. It's definitely one of Disney's weaker efforts, but like I said it's good for nostalgia, the characters are charming, the songs are catchy (especially "Everybody Wants To Be A Cat"…
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This is charming as hell, topping even the Rescuers for shaggy 70s Disney throwing a bunch of cool voice actors into a weird idea vibes. The songs are a highlight, but everything here works.
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Still one of the classiest films today.
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Another cute and sweet Disney classic, more along the lines of The Rescuers than Cinderella or Snow White. The best things this one has going are the delightfully animated cats (brought to life by a crew that included five of Disney's legendary "Nine Old Men") and the amazing voice cast. It's fun to pick out the familiar voices of Eva Gabor, Phil Harris, Pat Buttram, Sterling Holloway, and others and call out their other famous Disney characters. Throw in Thurl Ravenscroft, Scatman Carruthers, George Lindsay, and some others from outside the Disney fold and you have a jam-packed cast for a fun movie.
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Oh Edgar you sly old fox.
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Aristocats.
For such a marvellous play on words, why would someone not want to see this? It has all of the class and wisdom of the aristocratic french, with the added benefit of cats. And cats are adorable.
The Aristocats is an amazing film within its own rights. It is one of the earlier disney films, and it is definitely a better one. With every single frame in this movie, you can see the hand drawn love and passion that went into crafting this animation. It is sketchy, and not in a bad way. You can see the flicker where pencil marks have been added to each frame, but rather than destroying the motion and fluency of the production, it… -
Do mi so mi do me so mi fa la so it goes
When you do your scales and your arpeggiosRemember those lines from the song Scales and Arpeggios? Now imagine a little girl singing them so that every word is mumbled gobbledygook and you've basically got my childhood. I never knew most of the words to Disney songs but I memorised pretty much all the tunes and would sit in front of my tv for hours, mesmerised by the music and characters. This film was one of my favourites and so I'm massively biased whenever I revisit it. I find it hard to think objectively about it because every single sound and image is so familiar and homely,…
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It's Disney..need I say more?
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My childhood favourite! saw it about 10 times (or possibly more!)
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Starts with a repugnant idea and works its way down into the kitty litter.