The AristoCats follows a rich feline and her three kittens, after their elderly owner willed all of her belongings to the cats, her butler Edgar plots to get rid of the felines.This movie is hilarious. The characters are loveable, the dialogue is great and there some fun slapstick action scenes. The music is great! The song "Everybody Wants to be a Cat" will be stuck in your head for days!The plot isn't very realistic (Is Disney ever "Realistic"?) But it's a lot if fun. The kids will definitely enjoy it!The voice-acting is good too. You may recognize Sterling Holloway, known for voicing Winnie the Pooh and the Cheshire Cat. Here he lends his voice to the cats' mouse friend.The AristoCats definitely deserves it's place among the Walt Disney Animated Studios canon.

The Aristocats (1970): Dir: Wolfgang Reitherman / Voices: Eva Gabor, Phil Harris, Scatman Crothers, Sterling Holloway, Roddy Maude-Roxby: Animation about class and a family of cats left with a Paris estate by their millionaires owner. Edgar the greedy butler doesn't much care for this news so he kidnaps the feline family and abandons them in the country. Duchess the feline mother and her three daring children are eventually joined by an alley cat named Thomas O'Malley. Simple plot and very undemanding with a slapstick violent climax common in these films. One must question the mental stability of a person who leaves her estate to animals. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman with dazzling colorful animation. Eva Gabor voices Duchess, whom like any mother cares for her children and their safety. Phil Harris voices Thomas O'Malley who is a rather simple character with an uplifting attitude that churns romantic vibes at Duchess. Scatman Crothers voices Scat Cat who leads his Jazz playing band of cats that sing "Everybody Wants to be a Cat." He will be recruited by O'Malley to fight against Edgar. Sterling Holloway voices a loyal mouse whom assists the cats. Roddy Maude-Roxby voices the villain butler Edgar who provides some humour with his downfall. Simplistic and flat yet colorful Disney animation about family with wit, charm and a touch of class. Score: 6 / 10

NOTE: This film was recommended to me by Lizz Rutter for "Steve Pulaski Sees It." Disney's The Aristocats is such a charming, almost compelling story that I wished the narrative didn't need to interrupt itself so sporadically with jazz-fueled musical numbers amongst not only cats, but dogs and a variety of other animals. The musical interjections, that push this Disney film over the edge into being a full-blown musical like most of their films in this respective era, unfortunately disrupts the magic these feline characters manage to conjure up when they are just trying to sift their way through their poor circumstance.The result, as one can expect, is a film that you say "aww" to over a dozen times and a film that has you either tapping your foot or rocking your legs in melodic harmony with the music. The Aristocats is a simplistic story, concerning a wealthy woman named Madame Adelaide (voiced by Hermione Baddeley) in 1910 Paris that has just signed a will granting her lavish estate to her cat Dutchess (Eva Gabor) and her three kittens. This move greatly upsets her jealous, hot-headed English butler Edgar (Roddy Maude-Roxby), who has slaved away at serving Madame Adelaide for years and has ostensibly gotten nothing in return. As a result, Edgar conjures up a plan to get rid of the cats so when Adelaide dies, he can inherit the estate. He rounds up the four cats and throws them into the street, where the four homebody felines must learn to survive in order to be reconnected with their Madame.On the long, rainy, and uncertain road back home, Duchess meets a gentle feral cat named Thomas O'Malley (Phil Harris), who has been living off the land for many years. O'Malley is kind to Duchess, as he recognizes their predicament, but most important to note is how well he responds to her kittens, playing with them and assisting them whenever they need it. Both him and Duchess strike up an affable relationship as the gang tries to get back home, but not without a few musical numbers slowing them down along the way.The Aristocats, in a strange way, could almost be seen as a parable for single parent-dating or "getting back out there," especially for a woman who has children, which is no easy process. The film showcases such a challenge with admirable conviction and a willingness to have long stretches without musical numbers or any kind of distractions in order to allow this relationship to build. For an animated film in the modern day, even some of the best ones stamped with the Disney or Disney Pixar approval can't help but feel a bit scatterbrained in some sense, stepping over their toes to try and cover all the bases in subplots, character relations, and cause-and-effect relationships that are questionably worthy of being a focus in said film.The Aristocats was birthed in a time when animation took a more relaxed and reserved approach, which is why we could see Duchess, O'Malley, and Duchess's kittens do everything from hop aboard a train to meet two snobby swans in a river below a bridge. This kind of fluid, real-time focus on the characters makes the process and narrative development all the more natural. Of course, the film cuts back to Madame Adelaide desperately trying to find her cats, along with Edgar's conniving plan to make sure the furry beasts will never come home, and the jazzy musical numbers occasionally get in the way of a film that's already extremely short (a mere seventy-eight minutes). However, nothing truly distracts from The Aristocats being simple, effervescent entertainment with a plethora of fun characters, a timely moral, and, okay, some pretty catchy jazz numbers as well.Voiced by: Edna Gabor, Phil Harris, Hermione Baddeley, and Roddy Maude-Roxby. Directed by: Wolfgang Reitherman.

The movie The Aristocats is great movie. Its the theme is mostly adventure. There is the mom Duchess with her three little children Marie, Toulouse, and Berlioz. Edgar the butler, makes them fall asleep with some medicine. Then proceeds to take them away but in the process drops them trying to escape some dogs. The basket of cats falls near a stream by the bridge. Once awoken they hid in the basket, while it rains. I'm the morning they meet Thomas O'Malley. He agreed to help them get to Paris. Other than helping them, Tomas saved the children a few times from being left behind, drowned, or falling off of something. When they were getting close to Paris they started liking each other more. Duchess was sad she could not bring him but Madame would be worried. My analysis is that this is an perfect example of how good is at work in this greedy world. It also gives an example of that a very kind person would help. But in real life there are very few people that would do that. Most people would be like the butler and throw the kittens out just so they could inherit some money. It an example of the trials of life. The cats have to go thought some complicated stuff to get to Paris but they also make some great memories. I really think this is a good movie it has a lot of hidden messages that different people will get out of it. It's so kind how some they meat would help them and show them parts of the world they haven't seen