There’s never any actual conflict in this story. Even the class related things you could play up aren’t really that relevant. All of this set up sounds like something interesting, but unlike 101 Dalmatians, there really isn’t any kind of tension in the story. Meanwhile, Duchess and her three children have to make their way back to Paris - and of course they get help via a back alley cat named Thomas O’Malley. The sequences with him are kind of dull and unmemorable, and the extended sequence where he’s going up against a couple of dogs is just elongated and dumb.
The butler really isn’t that interesting a villain (despite the fact that I don’t blame him for being irritated his employer of who knows how long is giving money to animals). Only, cause we’re in a Disney movie, he just kinda throws them out into the country. Well, the butler hears about it, and of course tries to get rid of the cats. The story is that an old, French, cat lady wants to leave her pets her fortune, and then after the cats die, it goes to her butler. And, while I’m 100% more a cat person - the dogs of those other films had more character and charisma. It’s like the animators decided to take the plot points from Lady and the Tramp and 101 Dalmatians and squish them together using cats instead of dogs.
It’s the first time a Disney film (excluding the anthologies) where the film itself feels tired. Which is almost worse because either good or bad films have discussion points.
It’s not bad, it’s not good, it’s just… there. I’m gonna be honest here, I have remarkably little to say about this film. However, it is in Paris in 1910, and features British Geese, so let’s not get too excited here.
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