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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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Disney's 2000th full-length animated classic, The Aristocats is an unforgettable mix of wild adventure, colourful characters and jazzy music your family will find absolutely irresistable!
The enchanting tale begins in Paris, when a kind and eccenric millionairess wills her entire estate to her family - a family of adorable high-society cats. Overhearing her plan, Edgar, the greedy, bumbling butler, catnaps Duchess, the elegant, soft spoken mother, and her three mischievous kittens and abandons them in the French countryside. The charming Thomas O'Malley, a rough-and-tumble alley cat, saunters by and offers to escort them home. Along the way, they stop at Thomas' "pad" where Scat Cat and his band of swingin jazz cats perform a memorable "Ev'rybody Wants To Be a Cat".
Enriched by high-style Disney animation and engaging music by Oscar-winning songwriters, the Sherman Brothers (Mary Poppins) The Aristocats makes the perfect addition to your family's video collection!
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I'm so disappointed with this item it's going straight to the charity shop. It's basically a con. All Disney has done, in an attempt to take more money, is to crop and stretch the 4:3 version into 16:9. It gives the entire file the wrong feeling. All through you just know the original animators just wouldn't have allowed it to be released like that. The most irksome thing is people's hats and heads being cut off; in one scene one of the cats is not even on the screen having been cropped out from the top of the display! Surely there must be a Cinema Scope release they could have used to give a genuine wide screen release and not a faux widescreen release torn from the original DVD release, cheap skates. It should be made clear on the box when films have simple been cropped to give them the appearance of widescreen.
55 of 61 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I purchased this copy to replace my current copy of the original dvd release.
Please be aware that this version has not been "Digitaly restored". They claim "Digital Transfer", but I could still see film spots etc, which are removed in a "restoration" i.e. the quality was not as good as it is when they restore.
They have also converted the movie into Widescreen format using Pan and Scan.
If you are interested in the animation side of the movie, then you will find lots of original detail missing as the top and bottom are chopped off.
If you just want the movie to fill the whole screen, then this is the dvd version for you.
Please be aware that this version has not been "Digitaly restored". They claim "Digital Transfer", but I could still see film spots etc, which are removed in a "restoration" i.e. the quality was not as good as it is when they restore.
They have also converted the movie into Widescreen format using Pan and Scan.
If you are interested in the animation side of the movie, then you will find lots of original detail missing as the top and bottom are chopped off.
If you just want the movie to fill the whole screen, then this is the dvd version for you.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Baught this on dvd as when i was a child i run the video tape dry! Love it, such a classic, so happy and will definitly buy of seller again. Thankyou for a happy time.
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Cats + Disney = Win Win!
Its Disney, It has Cats that sing, what more needs to be said my daughter must have watched this 10 or 12 times one rainy sunday afternoon! A must for any cat lover.
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Aristocats is classic Disney. Fun for all the family great characters and memorable songs. Phil Harris and Zsa Zsa Gabor at their best.
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Waste of money, don't buy this it's terrible.
Waste of money, don't buy this it's terrible.
I feel like i've wasted my money, my kids hated it and i found it boring in general.
I feel like i've wasted my money, my kids hated it and i found it boring in general.
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Fantastic film, brilliant characters, wonderful music. The whole thing held together with a magnificent story what more could you ask.
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