THE ARISTOCATS(1970)
Pretty cute, but not one of my favorite Disney movies!!!
Though it does have some pretty cool music, especially
"Everybody Wants To Be A Cat"!! C+
A review from Amazon:
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