From the Eisner era onward, Disney hasn’t been above cheapening its legacy and history to chase an easy buck, whether it’s from making shoddy DVD sequels to their classics, or making unnecessary lifeless live-action remakes of those classics. The studio has now made so many of the latter cursed things that it’s running out of animated films to de-animate. They’re digging The Aristocats out of the vault now.
The Aristocats was originally released in 1970 and was the last animated film Walt Disney himself had any input in. It’s about a family of French felines who live with a wealthy duchess who has just willed her entire fortune to them. The duchess’ butler gets angry over this and kidnaps the kittens, dumping them in the countryside so the duchess will give her money to him instead. The rest of the film is about those cats crawling back to the mansion to thwart his scheme, and meeting one singing weirdo after another. We expect the story to remain the same, even if the visuals are blander.
What’s different about it will be the fact that Jimmy Fallon’s drummer will be directing it. Questlove, frontman of Fallon’s in-house band The Roots, will be helming the project. He’s fresh off his first independent project, the documentary Summer of Soul, which just won the Oscar. Guess we’ll see what he can do with this.
The original The Aristocats will always exist and is watchable on Disney+ at any time, though Disney has to stick a warning in front of it because there’s a cat with buck teeth and sharply slanted eyes playing the piano with chopsticks somewhere in it. We doubt he’s going to make the cut this time (and we’re sure the unsavory corners of the Internet and Ron DeSantis will be mad about that). We don’t know when the “new” The Aristocats will make its debut, but it will presumably be after Disney releases the live-action versions of The Little Mermaid, Snow White, Lilo and Stitch, Peter Pan and a bunch of others.
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