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101 Dalmatians (Two-Disc Platinum Edition) [DVD]
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November 9, 1999 "Please retry" | — | 1 |
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| $21.95 | $3.34 |
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Genre | Kids & Family, Fantasy, Music Videos & Concerts, Comedy, Action & Adventure |
Format | NTSC, Dolby, DVD, Color, Animated |
Contributor | Barbara Beaird, Frederick Worlock, Mickey Maga, Hamilton Luske, Lisa Davis, Rod Taylor, Clyde Geronimi, Tom Conway, Sandra Abbott, Marjorie Bennett, Ramsay Hill, Tudor Owen, Wolfgang Reitherman, David Frankham, Lisa Daniels, Thurl Ravenscroft, Martha Wentworth, Betty Lou Gerson, George Pelling, Queenie Leonard, Cate Bauer, Ben Wright, J. Pat O'Malley See more |
Language | French, Spanish, English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 19 minutes |
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Product Description
Product Description
101 Dalmatians has charmed audiences for generations with its irresistible tail-wagging stars, memorable music, and a wonderful blend of fantasy, humor, and adventure. Now, with spectacular new bonus features and brilliantly restored, Walt Disney s beloved animated classic shines like never before in an all-new 2-disc Platinum Edition.
Cruella De Vil, Disney s most outrageous villain, sets the fur-raising adventure in motion when she dognaps all of Pongo and Perdita s puppies. Through the power of the Twilight Bark, Pongo leads a heroic cast of animal characters on a quest across London to rescue them.
Bring home the exciting 2-disc Platinum Edition with something for everyone, including the all-new virtual Dalmatians game, over 101 pop-up trivia facts, an all-new music video and much more!
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Back in 1961, Walt Disney got a little hip with 101 Dalmatians, making use of that flat Saturday morning cartoon style that had become so popular. The result is a kitschy change in animation and story. Pongo and Perdita are two lonely dalmatians who meet cute in a London park and arrange for their pet humans to marry so they can live together and raise a family. They become proud parents of 15 pups, who are stolen by the dastardly Cruella De Vil, who wants to make a fur coat out of them. Cruella has become the most popular villain in all of Disney; she's flamboyantly nasty and lots of fun. But it's the dalmatians who shine in this endearing classic, particularly those precocious pups. Telling the story from the dogs' point of view is a clever conceit, a fundamental flaw of the live-action remake. --Bill Desowitz
On the DVD
This two-disc platinum edition features great sound and incredibly bright, intense colors thanks to the restoration process, but its most impressive selling point is the huge assortment of bonus features designed to delight children, families, and the most serious Disney fans. Kids will have fun caring for their very own puppy in the virtual Dalmatian game for television or on DVD ROM and can find out just what kind of puppy they're most like and which human Disney character they're most compatible with in the puppy profiler game. The fun with language game is geared toward the very young preschooler and teaches numbers and the names of common household items. A modern Selena Gomez music video of "Cruella DeVil" will appeal to tweens and teens. The whole family will enjoy the "101 Pop Up Facts For Families" option which prints various movie facts like the name and author of the original book and how specific scenes differ between the book and the movie right on the screen during the movie and Disney fans will love the similar "101 Pop Up Facts For Fans" feature which supplies a wide variety of film trivia about featured voice talents, famous Disney animators that worked on the film, technical devices employed like multi-pane shots and the Xerox process, and which artists directed specific scenes in the movie. Eleven separate Backstage Disney featurettes interview a host of animators, writers, historians, producers, and story men regarding the film's contemporary feel and the groundbreaking technical processes like the then-new Xerox process utilized in making 101 Dalmatians. Also highlighted is Bill Pete's amazing storytelling contribution to the film, the technical and mechanical innovations of Ub Iwerks, the songwriting process, and the animation prowess of famous Disney animators like Woolie Reitherman, Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, Milt Kahl, Marc Davis, Ken Anderson, and Walt Peregoy. The 12-minute dramatization of the longstanding correspondence between author Dodie Smith and Walt Disney is intriguing and the trailers and radio and television spots provide fun historical reference for the film and its various releases. Finally, the "Music and More" feature presents a variety of deleted and abandoned songs as well as many alternate versions and takes of songs used in the final film. --Tami Horiuchi
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Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : G (General Audience)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 4.64 ounces
- Item model number : 05439400
- Director : Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi
- Media Format : NTSC, Dolby, DVD, Color, Animated
- Run time : 1 hour and 19 minutes
- Release date : March 4, 2008
- Actors : Marjorie Bennett, Cate Bauer, Tom Conway, Barbara Beaird, Sandra Abbott
- Subtitles: : English, French, Spanish
- Language : French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : Walt Disney Studio Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B000YERP2S
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #6,169 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #41 in Music Videos & Concerts (Movies & TV)
- #611 in Kids & Family DVDs
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So why five stars? Because, in this case, the good more than makes up for the mediocre.
A large dose of Disney magic -- here, a combination of cute animals, touching sentiments, tremendous villain and many carefully crafted extra touches -- simply makes you forget the movie's weaknesses. To write this review I sat through this film dutifully noting all of its flaws, then immediately wanted to watch it again.
In short, kids will love this DVD set, and you'll like watching it with them.
I was viewing, of course, the 1999 release, and let me tell you if there's one Disney classic that could benefit from a digital restoration, this is it. The older DVD just doesn't capture the beauty of the film's pastel backgrounds, detailed interiors and storybook-style outdoor scenes. I haven't seen this new transfer yet, but Disney always does a good job with restoring these Platinum Editions, so I imagine it will look fantastic.
Speaking of art, I should note that unlike earlier Disney films, "101 Dalmatians" is not completely hand-drawn. Much of the art was created through Xerography, a technique that, in essence, used a copy machine to reproduce the frame-by-frame line art. Surprisingly, though, it hardly matters. Sometimes the backgrounds are too flat or static, but the foreground figures are fully animated, and have the same fluid, three-dimensional movements Disney was already famous for.
BONUS FEATURES
The set includes Disney's typical varied collection of bonus features, none of which are subtitled. Those for adults include:
* An option to have trivia tidbits pop up on your screen as you watch the film.
* A documentary focusing on the movie's innovative use of the Xerox animation process.
* An interview with the late Disney animator Marc Davis regarding the character Cruella De Vil.
* A featurette that recreates the correspondence sent between Walt Disney and Dodie Smith (author of the book "The Hundred and One Dalmatians") during the movie's production.
* Deleted songs
Extras geared to kids:
* A Virtual Dalmatians game that lets you adopt, name, train and care for your own computer canine.
* A Puppy Profiler quiz which reveals which dog you're most like.
* A music video of Disney Channel star Selena Gomez performing "Cruella De Vil."
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
* Sound: Disney-enhanced Home Theater Mix, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
* Close captioning: English only
* FastPlay enabled
By the way, Disney has just published a companion Little Golden Book, 101 Dalmatians .
Like Disney classics about animals? Don't forget the essential The Lion King , moving Bambi and surprisingly good Lady and the Tramp . Topping them all however, at least in my opinion, is Dumbo .
Based on Dodie Smith's 1956 novel (inspired by her own Dalmatian pets), Disney knew it would be a 'natural' for the screen, at a time when he desperately needed a blockbuster. Despite the huge success of "Cinderella", in 1950, the decade, with the studio's resources stretched between both live and animated features and shorts, television, and the opening of Disneyland, had been a costly one, and the skyrocketing cost of producing animation, after a string of less successful cartoons (culminating in the failure of "Sleeping Beauty"), threatened to curtail any future animated films. It was a desperate time (most of the major studios were shutting down their animation departments, and the 'limited animation' of Hanna-Barbera, which Disney detested, appeared to be the 'future' of cartoons), and he turned to production manager Ken Anderson to find a way to make the film cost-effective while maintaining the 'Disney' look.
Anderson's solutions didn't please Walt, but would create a film revolutionary in style, and far less expensive to produce. Utilizing xerox technology to copy original artwork directly onto cels, he eliminated the huge staff of painters who had traditionally inked and colored each frame. The line work had a scratchier quality, which he complimented by more stylized, linear backgrounds, with splashes of color. As the story would be the first 'contemporary' Disney feature (with far less music, and a more dramatic plot), the new 'look' worked perfectly (especially in the brilliant conception of the scene-stealing De Vil, who quickly achieved 'legendary' status among Disney villains). The technique did have shortcomings (the climactic chase between De Vil's hot rod and a Dalmatian-filled moving van, as she plows into a snow bank, looks artificial, particularly as snow covers her car), but the film, as a whole, was an astonishing achievement.
Despite Walt's misgivings, the film was exactly the blockbuster the studio needed, becoming the top-grossing film of 1961, and, for years, the highest grossing animated film of all time. Critically praised, it became such a fan favorite that it was re-released frequently, always successfully. Blessed with a rich, funny plot, unforgettable characters, and 101 of the cutest dogs you'll ever see, it certainly has earned a place beside "Snow White", Pinocchio", "Bambi", and "Cinderella".
While I wish somebody had invited Rod Taylor (the voice of Pongo) to share his experiences of the production, I was blown away by the extraordinary quality of image and sound of this remastered edition, and enjoyed the second disc of special features (did you know TWO actresses voiced Perdita?)
This Platinum Edition is an absolute ESSENTIAL for every Disney collection!
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Die Geschichte erzählt von einem Wurf von 15 Dalamtinerweloen, die von der obsessiven Erbin Cruella de Vil entführt werden, die von ihrem Fell Mäntel machen will. Ihre Eltern Pongo und Perdita machen sich daran ihre Kids vor der bösen Frau zu retten. Dabei helfen sie nicht nur ihren eigenen Kindern, sondern auch einer weiteren Anzahl von Dalamtinern - 84 an der Zahl - wodurch sich die Gesamtzahl der Dalmatiner in diesem putzigen Disney Klassiker auf 101 Hunde erhöht.
Abgesehen von den sehr hohen Einnahmen an den Kinokassen sorgte auch der Einsatz kostengünstiger Animationstechniken – etwa der Einsatz von Xerografie beim Einfärben und Bemalen traditioneller Animations-Cels – für niedrige Produktionskosten. Jahrzehnte Später war auch die Realverfilmung mit Glenn Close unter der Regie von Stephen Herek erfolgreich. Diese Neuverfilmung spielte 320 Millionen Dollar ein, bescherte der Hauptdarstellerin eine Golden Globe Nominierung und den 6. Rang in der Kinojahres-Hitliste.
Der aufstrebende Songwriter Roger Radcliffe lebt mit seinem Dalmatiner Pongo in einer Junggesellenwohnung in London. Pongo ist ein kluger Hund, der beschließt, dass beide einen "Partner“ brauchen und beobachtet Frauen und ihre Hunde auf der Straße. Als er Anita und ihre dalmatinische Perdita bemerkt, schleppt er Roger in den Park, um ein Treffen zu vereinbaren. Roger und Anita verlieben sich und heiraten bald im Beisein von Pongo und Perdita. Das Paar stellt ein Kindermädchen ein und zieht in ein kleines Stadthaus in der Nähe des Regent's Park. Nachdem Perdita mit einem Wurf von 15 Welpen schwanger wird, kommt Anitas pelzbesessene ehemalige Schulkameradin Cruella de Vil und will wissen, wann die Welpen kommen. Roger antwortet, indem er ein jazziges Lied schreibt, in dem er sie verspottet. Als die Welpen geboren werden, kehrt Cruella zurück und verlangt, sie zu kaufen. Roger lehnt ihr Angebot entschieden ab; Cruella weigert sich, ein Nein als Antwort zu akzeptieren, schwört Rache und stürmt hinaus. Einige Wochen später heuert Cruella die Brüder Horace und Jasper Baddun, zwei Einbrecher, an, um die Welpen zu stehlen. Als Scotland Yard die Welpen nicht finden kann, nutzen Pongo und Perdita den Hundeklatsch, um die anderen Hunde in London um Hilfe zu bitten. Damit startet die Rettungsaktion...
Einer der besten Disney Trickfilme, der sofort zum Klassiker avancierte und mit einem zeitlosen Charme die Herzen der Zuschauer erobert. Die Britische Filmakademie zeichnete den Film 1962 als besten Animationsfilm aus. Der Film basiert auf dem 1956 erschienenen Roman "huntertundein Dalamtiner" von Dodie Smith, in dem sie Erinnerungen an ihren verstorbenen Dalamtiner Pongo verarbeitete. In Deutschland ist der Film auch unter dem Titel "Pongo und Perdita" bekannt.