While the animation is cute and the film creates an incredibly likable main cast of characters each with their own unique personality and presence, the narrative is incredibly basic and lacks any deeper dimension when it comes to purpose or poignance.

| Aug 15, 2023

The animation is masterful and the overall design is appealing.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 27, 2020

I kind of feel the same way about the Aristocats as I felt about Fun, Fancy and Free. Both felt very lazy and derivative of better films.

| Original Score: D- | May 8, 2019

The Aristocats is in there with the good ones. It is light and pleasant and funny, the characterization is strong, and the voices of Phil Harris and Eva Gabor are charming in their absolute rightness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 9, 2018

The carefully painted Paris setting has the watery air of Ardizzone, while light and colour are used beautifully throughout.

| Nov 28, 2017

Before the disastrous Aughts, was there a worse decade for Disney animated features than the 1970s?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 13, 2012

A cute, feline version of "Lady and the Tramp" that should enthrall families . . . and, of course, cat lovers.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 20, 2012

Jazz and hijinks make this Disney cat tale meow.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 14, 2010

Insofar as the film has any real ambition driving it, that ambition seems to be that the Disney brand name must be kept alive until somebody could figure out what to do with it.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 17, 2009

An enjoyable mix of fine animation, catchy songs, and outstanding voice characterizations.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 4, 2009

The animals' exuberance is so infectious and their "acting" so true to human life that by the fadeout The Aristocats does, indeed, give the audience paws for reflection.

| Nov 4, 2009

One of the less successful Disney offerings from the beginning of the 70s.

| Nov 4, 2009

This 1970 animated feature is dull, careless, and all too typical of the Disney studio's slapdash output before the unexpected renaissance of The Rescuers.

| Nov 4, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2009

has a charm behind it that shines through

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2008

Helped immeasurably by the voices of Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers and others, plus some outstanding animation, songs, sentiment, some excellent dialog and even a touch of psychedelia.

| Jun 17, 2008

A nice-enough Disney feature that some consider an under-appreciated classic and others view as a movie that's distinguished only by the inclusion of a handful of cool jazz tunes.

Full Review | Original Score: 75/100 | Mar 20, 2008

The Aristocats is largely an up-scale cat version of 101 Dalmatians minus the deliciously dastardly villain.

| Feb 19, 2008

Proves that even the studio's halfhearted larks still have life in them, thanks to golden-age animators...tunesmiths...and vocal talent.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 5, 2008

The Aristocats is one of the slightest of director Wolfgang Reitherman's contributions to the Disney animated feature canon, which is to say it's still among the studio's least suffocatingly ornate and ideologically risible films.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 4, 2008