One Hundred and One Dalmatians
1961
I wonder what it would be like to own ninety nine puppies. I’m thinking it would probably be not as fun as One Hundred and One Dalmatians makes it out to be. Just having one puppy was hard enough for me! With that many puppies, your furniture would be ruined, your shoes destroyed, and you would forever smell of wet dog, quite possibly the worst smell in existence. Plus, puppies grow into dogs, which are just not as cute. So I’m thinking that many puppies is a very bad idea.
But Rodger and Anita, the humans in this movie, sure seem to find it a rather dandy idea! They are most defiantly insane.
In the beginning of this story, there were only two Dalmatians, Pongo, and Perdita. They and their owners all get married in the first few minutes of the film. Pongo and Perdita quickly get busy and have fifteen adorable little puppies, named Patch, Lucky, Rolly, Penny, and eleven others not worth giving names. Apparently they are the parents that pick favorites. The poor unloved eleve.
After hearing about the puppies, one of Anita’s old friend stops by for a visit. Her name is Cruella De Vil, and she offers to buy the puppies. You see, she would like to turn them into fur coats, which is completely cruel. Hence the name, Cruella De Vil (Cruel Devil, get it? Yeah. I got it! Yay me!). Anita of course says no way. What is CDV doing to do now?
Steal them. Duh. She hires some henchmen and they round up the puppies. I don’t think it is possible to be more evil than that. Stealing puppies. The inner most circle of Hell is reserved for people like her, I am telling you.
Now that their babies are gone, Pongo and Perdita, like all good parents, send out messages to the dog world, telling all other canines to look out for their babies. After an agonizing wait, word comes finally that they were spotted at the De Vil place. Off P&P go to save their babies.
At the De Vil mansion, CDV’s henchmen are “watching” all the puppies. All ninety nine of them. CDV got a little greedy and bought up every Dalmatian she could get her hands on, totaling eighty four. When you add in the stolen puppies, it equals ninety nine. Yay math! Anyway, because the henchmen are dimmer than a mole convention, a crafty cat that has heard about all this helps the puppies escape through a hole in the wall. Now CDV can never make coats out of them! Yippee!
Well, it’s not that easy. Even though the puppies meet up with P&P, they still have to make the long trek home from the country to the city. With the help of a few animal friends and a crazy delivery truck man, all the dogs successfully outrun CDV, who ends up in a ditch, and make it home. Once home, Anita and Rodger decide that they must keep all one hundred and one of the Dalmatians, and everyone lives happily ever after. Except CDV. She’s pretty unhappy with life now. It’s what she gets for going after puppies. The end.
I hate Cruella De Vil, which is why she is a great villain. She makes you want to jump inside the movie and punch her in the face. But that’s good! I think. We will go with yes, it is good.
This movie has more going for it than a perfectly devious villain. It is adorable! That makes sense though, since the stars are puppies, and lots of them. Who doesn’t like puppies? Even psychopaths love puppies! You don’t believe me? Why don’t you go ask one for yourself then? Good luck with that!
So yeah. This movie=Flippin cute. Yay math again!
Movie Watching Budd(y)(ies): Ian, Leslie, and all my siblings.
Best Part: When all the puppies play in the soot. It reminds me of when I was little and loved to play in the mud. Secretly, I still love it. Oops. Guess it’s not a secret anymore.
Best Song: There is only one. “Cruella De Vil.”
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