One of the less successful Disney offerings from the beginning of the 70s.
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11/04/09
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: 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... [More]
Starring: Eva Gabor, Maurice Chevalier, Scatman Crothers, Phil Harris
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
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Reviews for The Aristocats
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.
07/14/05
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
No review available.
10/10/05
No review available.
09/05/02
...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
The film is a musical, but the numbers, while pleasant enough, are not at all memorable.
01/01/00
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.
11/17/09
An enjoyable mix of fine animation, catchy songs, and outstanding voice characterizations.
11/04/09
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.
03/20/08
...don't expect [The Aristocats] to be even close to such Disney masterpieces as The Lion King or Beauty and the Beast.
09/25/02
Fun, light Disney cartoon.
04/13/03
has a charm behind it that shines through
08/17/08
No review available.
04/03/09
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02/21/01
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
No review available.
08/29/02
The Aristocats is largely an up-scale cat version of 101 Dalmatians minus the deliciously dastardly villain.
02/19/08
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