The Aristocats: Special Edition Blu-ray Aug 21 - Review

[Donat96]

The Aristocats Blu-ray

The Aristocats Blu-ray Review



The Aristocats Blu-ray (DVD Packaging)

The Silver Screen The Making of Walt Disney's The Aristocats article


August 21st.

Disc breakdown:

DISC 1 - BLU-RAY(TM) FEATURE FILM + BONUS

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

• 1080p High Definition
• English 5.1 DTS-HD MA
• English SDH Subtitles
• French 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound
• French Subtitles
• Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound
• Spanish Subtitles
• 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio

BONUS FEATURES:

• The Lost Opening
• "Oui Oui Marie" Music Video
• Classic Deleted Song: "She Never Felt Alone"
• The Sherman Brothers: The Aristocrats of Disney Songs
• The Great Cat Family (Excerpt)
• "The Aristocats" (Disney Song Selection)
• "Scales And Arpeggios" (Disney Song Selection)
• "Thomas O'Malley Cat" (Disney Song Selection)
• "Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat" (Disney Song Selection)
• Classic Bonus Short: "Bath Day"
• Play Movie With On-Screen Lyrics

DISC 2 - DVD FEATURE FILM + BONUS

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

• English 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound
• English SDH Subtitles
• French Track and Subtitles
• Spanish Track and Subtitles
• 1.75:1E Aspect Ratio -- Enhanced for 16 X 9 TVs (Original Theatrical Ratio)

BONUS FEATURES:

• Disney Virtual Kitten - Adopt Your Own Virtual Kitty. The More You Care For It, The More Hearts You Earn
• Virtual Kitten DVD-ROM - Two Mini Games And Your Very Own Printable Adoption License
• THE ARISTOCATS Fun With Language Game -- Play Along And Learn The Names Of A Variety Of Musical Instruments
• The Great Cat Family (Excerpt) Hosted By Walt Disney
• The Sherman Brothers: The Aristocrats of Disney Songs
• THE ARISTOCATS Scrapbook
• Deleted Scene

The Aristocats Blu-ray Trailer - YouTube

[SpaceDog]

Cool, but where is Lilo and Stitch!!!!

[taei]

I officially name 2012 as the Disney Blu-Ray year!! I'm so excited.

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by taei

I officially name 2012 as the Disney Blu-Ray year!! I'm so excited.

oh please release Mary Poppins and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

[Donat96]

I'm very excited as well. One of my favorite traditional Disney movies. Day 1 on my part.

[EricJ]

Uh, think Mary Poppins and Lilo are too BIG to be released during non-Diamond seasons.
(Well, maybe Lilo; as far as Disney's concerned, it's still stuck in the '95-'05 "ghetto".)

With this and Fox/Hound, they're experimenting with working from the bottom up and doing respectable releases of "micro" titles from their forgotten 70's/80's titles that were rescued on video, eg. Robin Hood.
After F&H2 showed them that they could resurrect icky old Ron Miller 70's movies by making new vidquels that parents would buy at Target anyway--to get kids identifying the characters--they were originally all set to make "Aristocats 2: the Cruise Ship Caper" to sell the first movie, but that was one of the last casualties of John Lasseter's Toon Studios crackdown.

Here, they're trying to reproduce the marketing strategy of FH1-2, by selling "Aristocats 1 + 2, if we had gotten to make it".

[Lnds500]

http://forum.blu-ray.com/france/1868...d-feature.html

There's a thread about this here and since this will be a worldwide release, is there really a reason to justify 2 threads for the same topic?

[Slim Jim]

When are we going to get Aladdin?

[Darth Anakin]

In for this, assuming I like the trailer on Lady & The Tramp.

[jchampl]

Originally Posted by Slim Jim

When are we going to get Aladdin?

Supposedly June, I can't 100% confirm this, but it is what I was told as a cast member at Disney.

[Lnds500]

Originally Posted by jchampl

Supposedly June, I can't 100% confirm this, but it is what I was told as a cast member at Disney.

We only have one possible date for Aladdin and that for Spain in October. A cast member for what?

[Elandyll]

I will gladly pass on the "terrible" animated years of Disney, from Lady and the Tramp to the Fox&Hound, going through the 101 dalmatians and The Aristocats.
The one (shining) exception being The Rescuers for me, Sword in the Stone to a lower extent.

Bring us Tarzan, Aladdin and Hercules already... yeesh (can't say I care all that much for Mulan and Pocahontas, but they were imo still better than the previously mentioned "gems").

PS: I realize that Sleeping Beauty -which I actually consider a classic- has been made in between, but this is just how I feel about these movies hehe)

[jchampl]

Originally Posted by Lnds500

We only have one possible date for Aladdin and that for Spain in October. A cast member for what?

I work for Disney, and while I don't work for animation studios division, I am very involved with upcoming products and promotions in retail locations.

But I must stress, I have no date, and it's simply nothing more than what was relayed to me buy a merch manager in January.

[Movie*Maniac]

Do you think we might FINALLY get to see Lorenzo on this release??

[CKane]

Originally Posted by Lnds500

http://forum.blu-ray.com/france/1868...d-feature.html

There's a thread about this here and since this will be a worldwide release, is there really a reason to justify 2 threads for the same topic?

Don't be mad about opening new topics it is just part of expresing themselves in their own thread. At the end, we know it is going to be released in the US too. And in the other topic they can speak in french since it is in the french section. English is more universal.

[Lnds500]

Originally Posted by CKane

Don't be mad about opening new topics it is just part of expresing themselves in their own thread. At the end, we know it is going to be released in the US too. And in the other topic they can speak in french since it is in the french section. English is more universal.

I'm not mad. It's just pointless to have multiple threads for the same topic IF there is no real difference. the guy who opened the other thread only put it in the French section because - at the time - that was the only country we knew the movie was getting a release in. No French words whatsoever.

[SpaceDog]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Uh, think Mary Poppins and Lilo are too BIG to be released during non-Diamond seasons.
(Well, maybe Lilo; as far as Disney's concerned, it's still stuck in the '95-'05 "ghetto".)

I would love to think of both of them as Diamond Quality, but Diamond is pre-set, and neither is included. The sad thing is that Mary Poppins was re-released during the BD era, but on DVD only. I wasn't about to upgrade my old non-anamorphic DVD just for an anamorphic DVD when I'd since moved on to blu-ray.

The treatment of the 95-05 catalog seems a lot of baby out with the bathwater. The output was more miss than hit, so the gems get overlooked.

I personally love:

Lilo & Stitch
Mulan
Fantasia 2000
Brother Bear
and to a lesser extent...
Atlantis

[Pirate King]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

oh please release Mary Poppins and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

My thoughts exactly!!

[Slim Jim]

Originally Posted by jchampl

I work for Disney, and while I don't work for animation studios division, I am very involved with upcoming products and promotions in retail locations.

But I must stress, I have no date, and it's simply nothing more than what was relayed to me buy a merch manager in January.

What about the other aladdin movies are they going to release a boxset

[Darth Anakin]

Well I loved the trailer so I will get it and flip coupon #2 to my sister so she can get it for my goddaughter. Wonder when we're going to get another collectible case for a Disney movie.