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The Aristocats (1970)

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Reviews Counted: 18

Fresh: 12

Rotten:6

Average Rating: 6/10

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

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  • The Aristocats
  • Disney's 20th full-length animated masterpiece, THE ARISTOCATS is an unforgettable mix of wild adventure, colorful characters, and jazzy music your family will find absolutely irresistible! This enchanting tale begins in Paris, when a kind and eccentric millionairess wills her entire estate to her family -- a family of adorable high-society cats. But when Edgar, the greedy butler, overhears her plan, he catnaps Duchess, the elegant, soft-spoken mother, and her three mischievous kittens and abandons them in the French countryside. Soon, they're being escorted home by the charming Thomas O'Malley, a rough-and-tumble alley cat, who takes them to his "pad" along the way, where Scat Cat and his band of swingin' jazz cats perform the memorable "Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat." Enriched by "high-style Disney animation" (The New Yorker) and toe-tapping music by Academy Award(R)-winning songwriters the Sherman brothers (MARY POPPINS), THE ARISTOCATS is a timeless treasure and the last animated feature to get the nod from Walt Disney himself.
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    04/03/09
    Michael Dequina
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    has a charm behind it that shines through

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    08/17/08
    Kevin Carr
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    N/R

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    03/20/08
    Brian Webster
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    The Aristocats is largely an up-scale cat version of 101 Dalmatians minus the deliciously dastardly villain.

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    02/19/08
    Ryan Cracknell
    Movie Views

    Proves that even the studio's halfhearted larks still have life in them, thanks to golden-age animators...tunesmiths...and vocal talent.

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    02/05/08
    Peter Canavese
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    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.

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    02/04/08
    Eric Henderson
    Slant Magazine

    ...not a bad film...just a middle-of-the-road one from a studio that has given us some true animated classics.

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    01/31/08
    John J. Puccio
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    Jake Euker
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    Emanuel Levy
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    05/09/05
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    The cat's pajamas, dah-ling!

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    01/17/05
    Staci Layne Wilson
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    always a classic, if tepid

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    11/15/04
    Karina Montgomery
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    05/21/04
    Ryan Cracknell
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    Fun, light Disney cartoon.

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    04/13/03
    Gerry Shamray
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    ...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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    08/29/02
    Philip Martin
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    Nell Minow
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