THE ARISTOCATS (1970) **1/2 Back when making films about rich people didn't invoke the guy who fired your brother-in-law and his 5000 compadres and then gave himself a $3 million per year raise, the snyde juvenile delinquent who just got assault charges thrown out of court, or the hideous excesses of "Dynasty"...they once made films in which it was presented as something of an advantage to be wealthy, one not detrimental to the development of your character, and benign (they rarely explained where the wealth came from). Of course they always had to introduce some poor guy with personality to get the thing going, O'Malley the alley cat here. They also used to hand draw cartoons and the early shots of Paris in Impressionistic style dwarf anything that any computer nerd is ever going to produce. Good characters are offered in the road story fashion, the British geese being the funniest and most desperate to be (even more) stuffed. Perhaps the only film ever produced in which literal jazz cats with a psychedlic light show and chorus dancing on top of a piano fall through several floors without noticing. But how did that angelic aristocat ever end up husbandless with so many children? More respectable for cats probably, and after all the '70s were dawning.
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