The Aristocats (1970)
Today I decided to knock out the other Disney pre-Renaissance film that I had not seen before, the movie The Aristocats. The Movie: The Aristocats is the 20th movie in the Disney Animated Canon. It was the last film of the canon approved by Walt Disney before his death in 1966 and the first one that he did no work on. It is one of the early movies in the Disney "Dark Age." The movie takes place in Paris in 1910. The cat Duchess and her three kittens are the pets of the wealthy Madame, who makes out her will to leave everything to the cats at first, and then the butler Edgar after they die. Upon hearing about the will, Edgar catnaps the cats and abandons them in the French countryside. There the cats meet Thomas O'Malley, an alley cat who agrees to help them get back to Paris. The Aristocats is a fairly simple but charming tale and a pretty good movie. There isn't much of a plot, but the movie works because of the strength of the voice actin...