One Hundred and One Damatians (1961)

Rating: 90%

Oh I've been waiting a long time to see this very old friend of mine once more. This was one of my all time favorites as a kid and it's such a delight to finally see it again and let it bring back a fine collection of memories. So without further ado here's Disney review # 35: One Hundred and One Dalmatians. 

Plot: Pongo is a dalmatian who lives with his owner or 'pet', Roger. One day, Pongo spots a lovely woman named Anita and her female dalmatian, Perdita, and devises a plan where both pairs meet and fall in love and marry. Six months later, both couples live in a small apartment and Perdita gives birth to 15 puppies. Anita's old school mate, Cruella de Vil, attempts to buy the puppies with a secret intention to make fur coats out of them. Roger and Anita refuse to sell the puppies and so Cruella storms out of the house. Later however, two crooks barge into the house as steal the puppies. The police try everything to no avail, which leaved Pongo and Perdita to rely on the "Twilight Bark" (the gossip chain for dogs) to find their puppies.


Well there's no doubt about it. I love this movie. It's fun, it's exciting, and lovable characters. My favorite part was the chase scene which was just suspenseful as heck. The interesting thing is that it's roughly very loyal to the book. I'm almost curious to know what the book is like. The only thing that i'm a little "huh?" over now that I've recently thought about it, is how the place where they disguise themselves has an unusually huge amount of soot. But still, I love this movie.

Characters:
Pongo: Pongo I really liked as a leader and a hero as a kid.
Horace and Jasper: These guys are probably one of the best Disney villain sidekicks. They were just funny as heck whether they were getting their buts handed to them or when Jasper gets mad at Horace.
The Colonel and Sargent Tibbs: Tibbs was pretty funny. And I think it's going to be a while before I get Colonel often saying "On the double man, on the double!" off my head.
Cruella de Vil: Now this woman is definitely one of the best Disney villains there is. I mean it's one thing that she intends to kill 99 puppies just to make fur coats out of them. But boy will she do ANYTHING to see that it's done. And her car was really cool in terms of it looking like it's alive and looking evil too. And when she falls off the bridge, boy does she just crack. She just gets manically crazy and is destroying her car so she can get back on the road an ram the truck. It just comes to show that few things can be called an excellent pure evil villain like one who will do practically more than anything to get what he/she wants.


Music: Do I even need to bother with this? This is the movie with the infamous Cruella de Vil song, which is just a total classic!

And that's my review for One Hundred and One Dalmatians. It's an excellent film and one of Disney's ultimate classics, no questions. Which leaves me to be done with all the Disney movies from the 60's.