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101 Dalmatians - Parents Movie Review
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MPAA Rating
G
Genre
Animation, Kids & Family, Mystery & Suspense, Classics, Comedy
Director
Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske
Starring
Rod Taylor, Ben Wright, Lisa Davis, Betty Lou Gerson
Studio
Buena Vista
Release Date/In Theaters
1961
Movie Summary
Utilizing a blend of humor, fantasy and adventure, this favorite tale is about Pongo and Perdita, two lonely Dalmatians who meet in a London park and arrange for their pet humans to marry so they can live together and raise a family. They soon become proud parents of 15 pups. Those pups soon get kidnapped by the villainess Cruella De Vil. She wants to make a fur coat out of them, and all the other pups she has been collecting, 99 total. Through the power of the "Twilight Bark," Pongo leads a heroic cast of animal characters on a dramatic quest to rescue each and every pup in a story the whole family will enjoy again and again.
Movie Review for Parents - Our View
-by Allison
Cruella De Vil is one of Disney’s most well-known and most-recognized villains and her fierceness towards the pups could scare very young children; however, the animation that comes to life through the endearing qualities of all the animals in the movie, including the puppies, make the “scary” much easier to handle. Children will laugh as the puppies make their way across varying terrain while the bumbling bandits try to get them back. The pups’ fur-raising adventures combined with the cleverness of the film make it a DVD worth adding to your collection.
The non-animated version released in 1996 may be scarier than the animated version to young children. Although, the movie is rated G by the MPAA, this parental guide would rate it closer to a PG. Cruelle De Vil, Glenn Close, is scarier in the non-animated version and she smokes non-stop throughout the movie. The puppies are adorable.
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