An enjoyable mix of fine animation, catchy songs, and outstanding voice characterizations.
The Aristocats (1970)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:17
Rotten:8
Average Rating:6.1/10
Runtime: 79 mins
Genre: Childrens
Synopsis: Set in 1910, this Disney animated classic offers plenty of adventure, humor and music (especially performances by Maurice Chevalier). After high-society cat Duchess (Eva Gabor) and her three... Set in 1910, this Disney animated classic offers plenty of adventure, humor and music (especially performances by Maurice Chevalier). After high-society cat Duchess (Eva Gabor) and her three kittens inherit a fortune from their mistress, a greedy butler plots to get rid of them--and collect the cash himself. The villainous servant kidnaps the entire feline family and takes them far away from their comfortable Paris home. A bunch of animal pals come to the rescue however, and help restore the cats to their proper place. The heroic rescuers include the friendly alley cat Thomas O'Malley, the gallant mouse Roquefort, and the hilarious hounds Lafayette and Napoleon. THE ARISTOCATS was the last film personally supervised by Walt Disney himself. [More]
Starring: Eva Gabor, Maurice Chevalier, Scatman Crothers, Phil Harris
Starring: Eva Gabor, Maurice Chevalier, Scatman Crothers, Phil Harris, Sterling Holloway, Paul Winchell, Hermione Baddeley, Roddy Maude-Roxby
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Producer: Wolfgang Reitherman, Winston Hibler
Composer: George Bruns
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Apr 4, 2000
Reviews for The Aristocats
The animals' exuberance is so infectious and their "acting" so true to human life that by the fadeout The Aristocats does, indeed, give the audience paws for reflection.
One of the less successful Disney offerings from the beginning of the 70s.
This 1970 animated feature is dull, careless, and all too typical of the Disney studio's slapdash output before the unexpected renaissance of The Rescuers.
Helped immeasurably by the voices of Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers and others, plus some outstanding animation, songs, sentiment, some excellent dialog and even a touch of psychedelia.
A nice-enough Disney feature that some consider an under-appreciated classic and others view as a movie that’s distinguished only by the inclusion of a handful of cool jazz tunes.
The Aristocats is largely an up-scale cat version of 101 Dalmatians minus the deliciously dastardly villain.
Proves that even the studio's halfhearted larks still have life in them, thanks to golden-age animators...tunesmiths...and vocal talent.
The Aristocats is one of the slightest of director Wolfgang Reitherman's contributions to the Disney animated feature canon, which is to say it's still among the studio's least suffocatingly ornate and ideologically risible films.
...not a bad film...just a middle-of-the-road one from a studio that has given us some true animated classics.
The real beauty of the picture, which is as amusing, smoothly machined and beautifully colored as any Disney should be, is in the characterizations, sustained within a sprightly but simple format.
...don't expect [The Aristocats] to be even close to such Disney masterpieces as The Lion King or Beauty and the Beast.
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