Home > VHS  $12.90   UPC: 765362529032 Aristocats Features : Animated Closed-captioned Color NTSC Directors : Wolfgang Reitherman Release Date:  24 April, 1996 Manufacturer:  Walt Disney Video Availability:  This item is currently not available. List Price:  $22.99   Accessories: (none) Similar Products: The Rescuers 101 Dalmatians (Limited Issue) Oliver & Company (Special Edition) Dumbo (Big Top Edition) Lady and the Tramp (50th Anniversary Edition)   Duchess and her three kittens are enjoying the high life with their devoted human mistress until the wicked butler Edgar, with his eyes on a big inheritance, decides to dope them and get them out of the picture. How can these fragile creatures cope in the unfamiliar countryside and the meaner streets of Paris? Only by meeting the irrepressible alley cat O'Malley, a rough diamond with romance in his heart. After they get a taste of the wide dangerous world, he guides them home, and Edgar gets his just desserts at the wrong end of a horse. As always, it's really the voices rather than the animation that are the heart of the Disney magic: Phil Harris is brilliant as O'Malley, Eva Gabor as Duchess is... well... Eva Gabor; but perhaps the most memorable turns are by Pat Buttram and George Lindsay, who turn the old hounds Napoleon and Lafayette into a couple of bumbling Southern-fried rednecks. Their scenes with Edgar, and the musical numbers with Scat Cat and his cool-dude band, are classic. Most striking about seeing The Aristocats now is how deeply Disney's style of animation has changed since this was at the cutting edge in 1970. Perhaps the nostalgic, dated feel are just a result of being plonked down in Belle Epoque Paris, but the illustrations are fussier (a pity) and the animation and overall pace much less frenetic (sometimes a relief) than in more recent efforts such as Aladdin. --Richard Farr   Customer Reviews   GREAT MOVIE....BUT WILL BE RERELEASED IN 08!! Rating: 5 I absolutely LOVE this video! Not only is it a classic, but it keeps my two year old child entertained. She loves it too and always asks to watch "the cats!" I was looking to find it on DVD but the prices are outrageous and since I am a part of the Disney Movie Club, I often receive fliers about what will be released in the coming months or year. I noticed that this movie will be appearing for a time in early 08. With these prices, I'd just wait! Daughter loves this movie. Rating: 5 Can't go wrong with this. Very cute, but if you're picky about being PC, one or two character's are sterotyped. It was made in the 70's; so you just have to remember that. Totally recommend it. Sweet Rating: 5 A nice movie. Not violent. I have a sensitive boy who can't stand to see harm come to any animals. He was slightly concerned at the cat-knapping part but that is it. So much better than the modern movies like Ratatouille.