The AristoCats (1970)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 78m
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Cast: Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers
Synopsis:
In turn-of-the-century Paris, a rich lady without relations makes provision for her cats to inherit before her faithful butler, who promptly tries to make them disappear.
Review:
All but the nadir of Disney Studios animation, this lame effort may amuse the kiddies but is derivative of earlier canine features and a pale reflection of the multi-plane animation of the forties masterpieces. The Parisian backgrounds are pretty enough, but there is little sense of depth, and the figure drawing is of the crude, televisual variety. A pair of Alabama hounds provide the comic relief, and much of the slapstick, as do two English spinster geese on a walking tour - even here invention is weak - and the romantic leads are unbecoming avatars of Lady and the Tramp. Scatman Crothers supplies the one good song ('Everybody Wants to be a Cat') but, most importantly, the story is fundamentally flawed, and realism, even for a cartoon, is given scant consideration.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 78m
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Cast: Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers
Synopsis:
In turn-of-the-century Paris, a rich lady without relations makes provision for her cats to inherit before her faithful butler, who promptly tries to make them disappear.
Review:
All but the nadir of Disney Studios animation, this lame effort may amuse the kiddies but is derivative of earlier canine features and a pale reflection of the multi-plane animation of the forties masterpieces. The Parisian backgrounds are pretty enough, but there is little sense of depth, and the figure drawing is of the crude, televisual variety. A pair of Alabama hounds provide the comic relief, and much of the slapstick, as do two English spinster geese on a walking tour - even here invention is weak - and the romantic leads are unbecoming avatars of Lady and the Tramp. Scatman Crothers supplies the one good song ('Everybody Wants to be a Cat') but, most importantly, the story is fundamentally flawed, and realism, even for a cartoon, is given scant consideration.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 78m
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Cast: Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers
Synopsis:
In turn-of-the-century Paris, a rich lady without relations makes provision for her cats to inherit before her faithful butler, who promptly tries to make them disappear.
Review:
All but the nadir of Disney Studios animation, this lame effort may amuse the kiddies but is derivative of earlier canine features and a pale reflection of the multi-plane animation of the forties masterpieces. The Parisian backgrounds are pretty enough, but there is little sense of depth, and the figure drawing is of the crude, televisual variety. A pair of Alabama hounds provide the comic relief, and much of the slapstick, as do two English spinster geese on a walking tour - even here invention is weak - and the romantic leads are unbecoming avatars of Lady and the Tramp. Scatman Crothers supplies the one good song ('Everybody Wants to be a Cat') but, most importantly, the story is fundamentally flawed, and realism, even for a cartoon, is given scant consideration.