Disney live action movies from the 1960s were, in a word, crazy. You have wild plots about pirate ghosts, electricity transforming a teenager's brain into a computer, and you have over the top and wild acting. This movie really wants to be one of those movies. The problem is, it's star is a cat. There's nothing wrong with the cat, and I think for the most part the cat was just being a cat throughout most of the movies, so it probably had a good time, dean Jones who plays the lead needs a crazy funny man that can feed off of his manic straight man energy. The cat is not funny. For a much better performance from Mr Jones, please watch Blackbeard's ghost. The movie does manage to evoke a certain era of American life. I was also wondering while watching the movie who this was directed to. Because the main bad guys in the film say they're going to do horrible things to someone they have kidnapped. And there are a lot of jokes that are definitely aimed towards adults. So I think this probably was more a film that you could convince your kids to watch with you because it was from Disney. Also strange, the casting of Hayley Mills as an All-American girl, when clearly her accent is a little more from across the other side of the Atlantic. This is particularly strange because in the story she has an older sister with a perfect American accent, has a friend who she has known since she was a child who has a perfect American accent, so perhaps she has some sort of weird British speech impediment. It's not a bad movie, it's not a good movie, it's just not as enjoyable as I thought it would be.
Review of That Darn Cat!
