AristoCats

[Ben]

Yep, all set-top players are handling it fine.

I try the PC and it plays the movie but nothing else, returning to the menu I'm trying to get away from, or playing the Disney DVD logo over and over, or exiting my PowerDVD program altogether!

I watched the bonus stuff via set-top last night, but needed to take images from the extras for the review. Ho-hum, I've just gone with menu shots for now...

I'll post that shortly.

[Ben]

As promised:

http://animated-views.com/2008/the-aris ... l-edition/

[Daniel]

"As you'll be aware by now, I'm an AristoCats defendant!"

Me too! Great review, Ben. Shame the Bonus Feature part wasnt working out for you on your PC, but everything else makes up for it.

[Ben]

Luckily, apart from reviews, I don't watch DVDs on my comp!

[Once Upon A Dream]

Take a look at this:
http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/ ... eries.aspx
Werid that they made the series becouse it's too different from the film,but maybe it is.
I didn't like that Duchess and O'malley got kicked out of the series,and neither the new characters.

[Whippet Angel]

Yick. Interesting idea, but I'm glad they scrapped it.

BTW, nice review Ben! I especially liked the bit about Walt going to "that mother of all theme parks in the sky"

[Ben]

Well, that's where he is, right?

Thanks...glad the review seems to be going down well...AristoCats <I>is</I> an undemanding little movie that gets a lot of backlash and really doesn't deserve it.

[Farerb]

Currently there is no good version of The Aristocats to watch anywhere. The film looks unrecognizable in its over-restored state. The old DVD still has a somewhat authentic look.

Source: http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2024/04 ... s-art.html

[Ben]

I love The AristoCats. It may be a little derivative, but it’s a great little movie.

[Farerb]

Same. It's a movie from my childhood. I can't not like it. I prefer it to what Disney releases nowadays.

[Randall]

I have the Hong Kong LaserDisc. Still looks pretty good!

[Ben]

Same. It's a movie from my childhood. I can't not like it. I prefer it to what Disney releases nowadays.

We had a couple of sequences on 8mm, the first home movie format back when whole movies were too costly to produce for that market and so cut-downs or standalone sequences were issued on one ten-minute reels. Later, before home video was a Thing, my Dad was able to loan films from the studio here, and The AristoCats was one of a few Disney VHSs that he could bring home (the others were Snow White, Dumbo, Peter Pan, Lady And The Tramp and One Hundred And One Dalmatians and, strangely, Tron, though probably because that was a then-currently new title) that we played over and over at home long before official releases or Walt Disney Home Video was even producing tapes.

The US CAV LD is no slouch either. I was thrilled when the film got a Legacy Collection soundtrack issue. It’s a fun and fabulous score. I know Jungle Book, AristoCats and Robin Hood always get lumped together because of the Reitherman/Harris/Gilkyson/Bruns connections and feel, but they’re actually three very different scores individually. Now in context with much time passing, it’s good that what have always been thought of as "lesser" films have been getting reappraisals.