One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)'s comments

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IreneAdler

Sweet story, a really nice children's movie!

9 years 8 months ago

Isavarg

The dislikes must be from fur coat wearers...

12 years 6 months ago

troggie7mtdew

Watched it like 25 times when I was little.

13 years ago

So having just seen Cruella, I watched 1961's One Hundred and One Dalmatians (in all letters, that's how you tell them apart) to see how they connect, my memory of it probably more based on having the children's book adaptation at home growing up than ever actually seeing the film (with Disney films, it's hard to know because they played clips of all of them on The Wonderful World of Disney, so do I have memories of THAT, or have I ever seen the entire thing?). It's quite a slim story, actually. Around the 80-minute mark and still it feels like it's playing for time when it's fooling around with the Barking Chain. But it's charmingly animated, and there's a nice sense of jeopardy once the puppies are in actual danger. I'm all in by the time we get to the trek through the English countryside during a snowstorm (the black spots on white of the dogs thematically connected to prints on snow), with the villains pursuing. And never mind Cruella being made sympathetic in the new film, what about Jasper?! My Lord, that's the character you can hardly imagine becoming this nasty piece of animated villainy. And while it's a movie about killing puppies - with no real motivation for it, so the new movie had a lot of space to work with unless there are way more details in the sequels and/or live action remake with Glenn Close (none of which I'm interested in checking out) - the darkest moment is probably when they flirt with the idea of one of the pups being stillborn. Bonus points for creating that very real and effective moment in a movie for kids. I still say this timeline is undone if Disney keeps revisiting this world though.

2 years 10 months ago