13. Aristocats- 1970
You have cat to be kitten me with how cute the cats in the Aristocats are.
Rating: 👌🏼 ok
When a wealthy cat owner leaves everything in her will to her cats, her butler decides to get rid of them to ensure that he gets his inheritance. He catnaps the pampered pets and sets them loose in the French countryside. Mama cat Duchess must make allies in the wild and find a way to get her sweet babies home.
We are only 13 movies into this challenge and this is already the THIRD time that the plot goes something like “people have pets, people love pets, pets get taken, pets must find way home”, and if I’m being honest, I’m getting bored of this plot. Aristocats is an undeniably cute movie with lovable characters but if you want to watch a Disney movie about a pet’s quest home, make it 101 Dalmatians and not Aristocats. Aristocats fails to deliver a scary villain in Edgar the butler. He’s a bumbling idiot and it’s mildly entertaining, but compared to Cruella DeVil he just does not deliver the goods. While all of the characters are endearing, they’re not particularly memorable. Overall, Aristocats is a cute movie, but that’s where my praise for this movie begins and ends.
Aristocats may not be my favorite Disney movie, but it does have really cute cat characters.
