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A man walks into a producers office and tells the producer he has a great idea for a movie. The movie producer asks what's it about, so the man says well its a family picture. I see says the Producer, Whats the Story. Well, says the man its set in Paris, France in the year 1910, this is the story about a mother cat named Duchess and her three kittens: her daughter Marie, and her two sons Berlioz and Toulouse. They live in the Mansion of retired opera singer Adelaide Bonfamille, along with Edgar the Butler, Frou Frou the horse, and Roquefort the mouse, who is a good friend of the cats.

Adelaide, who will be passing away soon, wants to settle her will with her lawyer Georges (a senile old man who denies his old age and refuses to accept Edgar's offer to use the lift instead of the long staircase). Adelaide tells Georges that she wishes to leave her entire fortune to her cats, something that Edgar overhears (through a secret soundpipe) and disagrees with, as the greedy butler wants the fortune for himself.

That evening, Edgar drops some sleeping pills in the cats' milk, putting them to sleep. Then, after night falls, Edgar takes the sleeping cats in their basket far away from home, hoping to drop them into a river near a farm. However, two farm dogs, Napoleon and Lafayette, hear Edgar approach the farm and attack him, biting him on the butt. The dogs believed him to be an intruder who plans to rob the farm, forcing him to drop the basket on the bank. Edgar manages to escape from the farm, but is forced to leave his motorbike's passenger seat, hat and umbrella.

Back at the mansion, Roquefort learns that the cats are missing, and goes out to look for them.

Meanwhile, Duchess and the kittens awake to find themselves in the middle of nowhere. Worried, they decide to sleep in their basket and wait for the morning. When the sun rises, Duchess meets a nearby friendly stray cat named Thomas O'Malley, who befriends the cats and helps them get home.

Roquefort returns to the mansion, and miserably tells the downhearted Frou Frou that he couldn't find the cats anywhere. Edgar, the only happy person in the mansion, dances into the stable, and tells Frou Frou (believing that she can't understand him) that it was he who kidnapped the cats. It is then that Edgar remembers that the only evidence left to convict him is the stuff he left at the farm the previous night, and that he must get them back quickly.

Thomas, Duchess and the kittens continue the journey home, and befriend three geese named Abigail, Amelia and Waldo on the way. Later on, they find an old house to stay at with Thomas' alley cat friends led by Scat Cat.

Meanwhile, Edgar sets off to the farm to find his stuff, and sees that Napoleon and Lafayette have made beds out of them. Edgar lures the two dogs away from the stuff, and, after another fight, manages to escape again, but this time, with everything. Napoleon and Lafayette stare at the triumphant butler in horror, and Napoleon scolds Lafayette by bashing him on the head.

The next morning, the cats make it back home, and Duchess says goodbye to Thomas. Edgar opens the door for them, letting them in. But before Roquefort can warn them, Edgar slams a sack over them, tying them up and hiding them in the oven. Horrified, Roquefort runs to get Thomas, who tells Roquefort to call his alley cat friends while he holds Edgar off.Y yo soy la mas bonita de todas... obvio y la mas inteligente la mas fuerte ... la mas popular de las fbi gurls--------ANDREA!!!

Thomas sneaks into the barn, where he sees Edgar lock the cats in a trunk, hoping to send them to Timbuktu (since this, Timbuktu has become a slang term for charitable organizations that take people's used items for the poor.) Thomas stops Edgar and closes the barn door. Edgar and Thomas fight over the trunk, but Edgar, being human, overpowers the stray cat and pins him to a wall with a pitchfork (but not stabbing him). At that moment, Roquefort and the alley cats arrive and stall Edgar while Roquefort unlocks the padlock on the trunk.

After a fierce battle, Frou Frou kicks Edgar into the trunk, just as the delivery men arrive and ship him to Timbuktu.

That night, Adelaide accepts Thomas into the family, and erases Edgar from her will (Edgar was to receive the fortune after the cats died). She also gives the cats a surprise: her new cat foundation, which makes a home for all the alley cats of Paris.

A party is thrown in the foundation room, with nearly everyone from the movie: Frou Frou, Roquefort, Napoleon, Lafayette (the farmer possibly kicked the two dogs out for making a mess in the farm during their battles with Edgar), Amelia, Abigail and Waldo.

Thats great, says the movie producer, but what do you call it? I call it the Aristocats!

--- where is it said in the film that the 2 boy kittens aren't actually Duchess's?

Vishva Shah

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Contents 1 Voice Actors 2 Misc 3 Based on Casablanca 4 Title 5 A Cat's the only Cat that knows where it's at... 6 101 Dalmatians > The Aristocats comparison 7 Transparent Mind Games

[edit] Voice Actors

Why are all the voice actors for the characters messed up? They're all Wizard of Oz actors

Looks like someone cut-and-pasted the IMDB credits from "The Wizard of Oz," instead of the voice actors for "The Aristocats." I have corrected this.--Marysunshine 03:33, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

There seems to be some confusion about the voice actors. Perhaps some new material was added in the 1997 release?

[edit] Misc

Why would anyone assume the 2 boy kittens are not Duchess' s?? Of course i ve already heard Berlioz is probably gay....FC

I have a young child and have had to watch this movie many times (fortunately, I like it). Just wanted to explain some changes I made and some other issues that need to be addressed. 1) Edgar does NOT want to kill the cats. He only wants them to go away. 2) Saying that it is insinuated that Duchess is pregnant is a stretch. They just talk about their future little ones. 3) Why do you think Berloiz is gay? I think it is much more likely that Napolean and Lafayette are gay. Check out the scene where Edgar is trying to take back the evidence he left behind. 4) Edgar is misunderstood. He was a kind and unfailing servant and quite reasonably expected to receive the inheretance. He was upset because, due to his poor math skills, he calculated that he was going to die after the cats. 5) Is it even legal for cats to inheret money? 6) There seem to be many historical anachronisms in the film: motorcycles(?), the hepcat language of the musical cats, and the style of jazz music.--Notmyrealname 19:55, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Vishva Shah

I thought all the kittens were Duchess', but i'm not sure who their fathers are: If they were 2 different colours i'd understand, but they're each a different colour! Anyway, that's not important. What is is that there was a story here in the UK about a woman who left her fortune to her cat. The reason I remember it is that it ended up in the papers, and was therefore on that weeks episode of Have I Got News For You. They pointed out that the article had kept the cat's address anonymous (so no-one could go get the cat / money), and yet the photographs on the page showed that it was the first house on a street, and the clearly readable street sign was on the side of the house! --JaffaCakeLover 08:51, 06 March 2007 (GMT)

They never realy gave a date for the movie that I saw and was most definetly around when those types of vehicles were new and still lives even though the same motorcycles and cars would be museum pieces. As for the language used simply remember ITS DISNEY. They have never made a movie where more than 2 or 3 characters use the accents that should be used and have only used the correct language when it was supposed to be english. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.14.203.32 (talk) 02:00, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

A date is given at the very beginning; 1910 . It's "Disney" isn't a good strong argument. T.W. (talk) 22:42, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Based on Casablanca

Is this film based on Casablanca? 67.188.172.165 23:58, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

No. Rhindle The Red 16:22, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Title

Should the title be adjusted to match the IMDb's "AristoCats"? It does appear to be the correct way of spelling it, although Disney does not use the InterCaps. Rhindle The Red 16:24, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

No, the correct form of writing for this film has always been "The Aristocats". IMDb had it right until some fan, I assume, decided it was time to send in a title "correction". T.W. 20:07, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A Cat's the only Cat that knows where it's at...

Now I know it sounds silly, but I only saw this film the other day (for the first time since I was about 5), and it took me a day to figure out the grammar of the aforementioned line. My friend who owns the DVD didn't know at all! Basically, i'm on about that fact that the first mention of Cat is obviously as in feline. However, the second use is old slang, as in 'what's happening, hip cats'? This was difficult to explain last night, and i'm not sure what that kind of slang was called. Anyway, it may deserve a mention on the wiki page. --JaffaCakeLover 09:00, 06 March 2007 (GMT)

[edit] 101 Dalmatians > The Aristocats comparison

Just what is this section's purpose? I don't get the point in listing similarities between the two films, we can do that with just about any two Disney films or films in general. Are we trying to see whether The Aristocats is a rip-off of 101 Dalmatians? Try Sleeping Beauty, I mean, it's the tale of a beautiful princess hated by an evil sorceress and taken away to the safety of the woods. Eventually the evil sorceress finds her and places her on an enchanted sleep, to which the princess wakes up when she receives love's first kiss. Sleeping Beauty? Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? Both. Not to mention that both films feature the cleaning of an old cottage as well as a princess who's best friends are the forest animals. T.W. 17:23, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

I also find the information on Napoleon and Lafayette to be totally irrelevant and unnecessary. T.W. 19:46, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

There's no need to have two sections listing the cast and characters, they should be merged into one. T.W. 19:02, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Transparent Mind Games

"This particular exchange is the third (and final) instance of a gag seen in the movie where Lafayette makes a suggestion, and Napoleon says that, as he's the leader, he is the one to decide the circumstance, and its demands, only to pause for a few seconds and go with Lafayette's suggestion." This gag is also often seen in Futurama episodes featuring Captain Zapp Brannigan and his first officer, Kif. I have experienced this tactic used in all seriousness by a former friend with Borderline Personality Disorder. He would turn down my suggestion, discuss other options, then "suddenly" come up with the very suggestion I had originally made, claiming ownership for himself. It was disorienting to experience, as during the discussion of other options, I often forgot I had made the suggestion, so when he re-suggested it, I thought it a surprisingly sensible plan. When I finally figured out what he was doing, it lost its power. --75.161.84.72 (talk) 05:09, 27 November 2007 (UTC)