Fresh
The animals' exuberance is so infectious and their "acting" so true to human life that by the fadeout The Aristocats does, indeed, give the audience paws for reflection.
Stefan Kanfer, TIME Magazine
The Aristocats
A tune-filled animated extravaganza.
1970 · 1h 18m · G
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Directed by
Wolfgang Reitherman
Overview
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.
Director and cast
- Wolfgang Reitherman Director
- Phil Harris as O'Malley
- Sterling Holloway as Roquefort
- Scatman Crothers as Scat Cat
- Roddy Maude-Roxby as Edgar Balthazar
- Eva Gabor as Duchess
- Paul Winchell as Chinese Cat
- Lord Tim Hudson as English Cat
- Vito Scotti as Italian Cat
- Thurl Ravenscroft as Russian Cat
- Dean Clark as Berlioz
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
64%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Helped immeasurably by the voices of Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers and others, plus some outstanding animation, songs, sentiment, some excellent dialog and even a touch of psychedelia.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Purr-fect.
Wally Hammond, Time Out
Fresh
The real beauty of the picture, which is as amusing, smoothly machined and beautifully colored as any Disney should be, is in the characterizations, sustained within a sprightly but simple format.
New York Times
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