Product Description
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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 s 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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