I developed a mild loathing for Aristocats just because it had been suggested so often.
I haven't seen The Aristocats since day camp at the Arlington Boys and Girls Club. About the only thing I remember from it is the number "Everybody Wants to Be a Cat," which I would have thought was only self-evident, and then the certainty that it contains at least one unwatchable racist joke (a Siamese cat who plays the drums, has a stereotypical "Asian" accent, and may or may not be wearing a cymbal on his head like a conical hat? All I know is it must have been pretty racist if I remember it over the other cats in the band—like, I think there's a jazz trumpeter and that's all I've got), which I don't know how one deals with nowadays.
I was pretty fucken young when I saw it (if it was CA in the eighties, I was ten or younger) and I knew what I was looking at.
And if your kids don't know what they're looking at, but they know it's pretty and they like it, then it's an art lesson and they get into Impressionism and Post-Impressionism when they're eight!
I think it if was released now, it'd be a big hit.
I'd love to see it on a big screen. Technicolor 35 mm, according to IMDb. Get an original print, it won't have faded a whit.
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I haven't seen The Aristocats since day camp at the Arlington Boys and Girls Club. About the only thing I remember from it is the number "Everybody Wants to Be a Cat," which I would have thought was only self-evident, and then the certainty that it contains at least one unwatchable racist joke (a Siamese cat who plays the drums, has a stereotypical "Asian" accent, and may or may not be wearing a cymbal on his head like a conical hat? All I know is it must have been pretty racist if I remember it over the other cats in the band—like, I think there's a jazz trumpeter and that's all I've got), which I don't know how one deals with nowadays.
I was pretty fucken young when I saw it (if it was CA in the eighties, I was ten or younger) and I knew what I was looking at.
And if your kids don't know what they're looking at, but they know it's pretty and they like it, then it's an art lesson and they get into Impressionism and Post-Impressionism when they're eight!
I think it if was released now, it'd be a big hit.
I'd love to see it on a big screen. Technicolor 35 mm, according to IMDb. Get an original print, it won't have faded a whit.