Insofar as the film has any real ambition driving it, that ambition seems to be that the Disney brand name must be kept alive until somebody could figure out what to do with it.
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11/17/09
The Aristocats (1970)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:17
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Though The Aristocats is a mostly middling effort for Disney, it is redeemed by terrific work from its voice cast and some jazzy tunes.
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... [More]
Starring: Eva Gabor, Maurice Chevalier, Scatman Crothers, Phil Harris
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
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Reviews for The Aristocats
An enjoyable mix of fine animation, catchy songs, and outstanding voice characterizations.
11/04/09
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.
11/04/09
Top CriticOne of the less successful Disney offerings from the beginning of the 70s.
11/04/09
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.
11/04/09
Top CriticNo review available.
04/03/09
has a charm behind it that shines through
08/17/08
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.
06/17/08
Top CriticA 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.
03/20/08
The Aristocats is largely an up-scale cat version of 101 Dalmatians minus the deliciously dastardly villain.
02/19/08
Proves that even the studio's halfhearted larks still have life in them, thanks to golden-age animators...tunesmiths...and vocal talent.
02/05/08
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.
02/04/08
...not a bad film...just a middle-of-the-road one from a studio that has given us some true animated classics.
01/31/08
Purr-fect.
06/24/06
No review available.
10/10/05
No review available.
07/14/05
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.
05/09/05
Top CriticThe cat's pajamas, dah-ling!
01/17/05
Fun, light Disney cartoon.
04/13/03
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