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102 Dalmatians [VHS]

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My Grandma gave this movie to me and I really wanted to see it. I watched it and it was great. Cruella just gets released from jail and she tries to be nice because she dosen't want to go to jail again. Eventually she becomes mean and tries to kills the puppies once again. They end up at a cake factory and they cook Cruella. I enjoyed watching this movie. I think anyone should get it. A great film!

I am SO EXCITED that this movie has finally been released on DVD. I think it was released on DVD, maybe 8 years ago, but it has been GONE since, and trying to find it online has resulted in serious sticker shock. (The cheapest I had seen it was in the neighborhood of fifty dollars!) and I have been looking for this movie since my daughter was born 6 years ago because I love this movie. This movie is incredibly cute, and though I love the first movie (the live action 101 Dalmations), I actually like this one more. Glenn Close is brilliantly evil, the animal talent is adorable, and Gerard Depardieu is hilarious as a fur favoring fashion designer. This movie is full of pratfalls and physical comedy, but never "mean" or inappropriate or tasteless. This is a perfect family film that everyone can laugh at, and the comedy shines through to every age group.

Cruella De Vil has spent 3 years behind bars, and in this seagual she gets granted her freedoom, but if she harms pupppies, she lose her fortune to the anmal shelter. Cruella De Vil (Glenn Close) gets rleased from jail on parole. And gets assigned to parole officer Chloe (Alice Evans), who loves dogs. But doubts that Cruella De Vil is chagned. Cruella joins the 2nd chance animal shelter where the owner (Ioan Grudd) is fooled by Cruella's new ways. Now, you would have to be dumb to fall for that Cruella is crued. Roger, Anita, Horace and Jasper are not in this film. And if you didn't like one or more of those characters you may like this movie. But for some reason this has a G rating when it may be scary, and with mild violence. But remember there are very few live action movies with a G rating.

Someone please tell me what the point of this film was? The 1996 film 101 Dalmatians was a remake and now they're doing a sequel to a remake? That is seriously quite odd. Even though this movie is much better than 101 Dalmatians from 1996, I still don't really see a reason to sequelize the movie. Anyway I really didn't see much values in this family film, apart from good ol' Glenn Close and the dogs. Yes, the dogs are still very cute and make the movie bearable enough. However, the story is absurd, the typical predictability deal is here in this movie and I didn't laugh very much. Apart from the ending where Cruella literally gets baked, this film is pretty much comedy-free. Kids will find it hard to laugh at this flick and to generally enjoy this film too. Even they're little minds will not be tricked by the movies dotty silliness. Adults will be dragged along by kids to see this sequel, but I'm sure none of them will think too much of it. Sure, 102 Dalmatians has some good points - the groovy opening song, Glenn Close's excellent performance, the funny ending and the cuteness of the dogs - but ultimately it doesn't succeed. This is a sequel that you will only be bothered watching while you're one a plane or a boat or something just to pass the time. I'll ask again, someone please tell me the point of this movie?

NOTE: 102 Dalmatians does look extremely neat in Widescreen Edition, so if you are thinking of buying it, this is the format I recommend it in.

Disney is not doing well with the dog thing anymore. First, they've dragged out the Air Bud series even more, they made a cruddy Lady and the Tramp sequel that's a disgrace to the original, and now this. I saw this movie in theaters because my cousin said her friends had seen it and liked it, but at least now I know what their opinions are worth. They're worth as much as the little dung piles dogs leave on other people's lawns.

102 Dalmations takes place in London, where one of the original 101 pups is an adult, and now a father. The thing is, over time, one of the puppies isn't getting her spots. So, sadly, she gets labeled with the ridiculous name "Oddball." Also, at the same time, a guy is not making enough money to care properly for about a dozen dogs, and an annoying parrot that THINKS it's a dog. Cruella has now seemed to be cured of her hatred for kanines, and is given parol.

The movie looked like it slightly had the chance of being a good movie until Cruella lost it and went back to her old ways. Then I thought, "Oh no...(heavy sigh)" After that, there wasn't much to look forward to. The rest was pretty stupid. The puppies does Cruella was icing while she's stuck in a humongous cake, Cruella gets put in prison again, and Oddball finally gets her spots. So what's the point of the movie? It's okay to want to be something else; you shouldn't be happy with the way you are. Not only was the movie itself stupid, but it didn't have any good messages either. I would have much rather preferred it if Oddball HADN'T gotten her spots in the end, but she realized that she was just fine without them. But no, Disney rather decided to waste two hours of everyone's lives without even having a good message. Just stick with the older Disney movies like Aladdin and The Lion King. The only GOOD Disney film has come out with in the past five years is Remember the Titans.

I didn't expect to like this movie, but it turned out to be entertaining and kind of cute, a solid 3 star offering - and it's definitely just right for the kids. Adults will find the plot transparently obvious and standardly Disney-predictable, but then it *is* supposed to be a kids' movie! If nothing else, grownups, get it to watch the usually serious Ioan Gruffudd (Horatio Hornblower and Fantastic Four) play tug-of-war with his dogs and get made fun of by his parrot, who was voiced by the incomparable Eric Idle.

This movie was wonderful. Kid's will love it! Cruella Devil is finally being released from prison. They have experimented on her and assume that she is cured from her dog hatting days. In fact, they have turned her into a dog lover. She even goes out and buys an abandoned dog shelter. Her peroll officer, whos dog's have just had a litter of dalmation puppies including oddball who has no spots, Meets the owner of the shelter and falls in love with him. But when Cruella hears the bells of Big Ben, something goes wrong inside her head and she goes out to get revenge. This time she wants a hooded spotted dalmation puppy coat, hence it will take 102 dalmations to complete it. The only dalmation that isn't captured is Oddball because she has no spots. It's up to her and her parrot friend who thinks he's a dog to follow the kidnappers to France and save the day! Your whole family will love it! Buy it today!

The idea of movie sequels took off thirty years ago and has been going nonstop ever since. As an idea, it makes sense. TV series have conditioned several generations of viewers to want to see the same characters and often essentially the same story over and over again. A movie sequel is usually a fairly safe financial bet, as it can be expected, on average, to take in about seventy percent of the original's gross. So, it was only natural that Disney wanted to cash in on the success of the live action version of 101 Dalmatians. The result, 102 Dalmatians, failed. There were several reasons for this, but the main one may be that the original story is self-contained. Despite the sequel's attempts to be different, in the end it all boils down to the same thing: Cruella DeVille will go to any lengths to obtain the puppies from which she plans to make a Dalmatian fur coat.

This time Cruella has been rehabilitated by a doctor aptly named Pavlov. Chloe [Alice Evans], her probabtion officer, doesn't buy the change, but Cruella ["Call me Ella, not Cruella!"]really does act like a changed woman. She has Alonso [Tim McInnerny], her manservant, lock away her fur coats, since the sight of them now makes her sick. She buys a failing animal shelter and transforms it into a showplace. She even has her own dog, a dreadful thing that looks like a rat. [Why on earth they decided to make this particular dog her pet is beyond me.] The world adores Cruella. One day something happens that reverses the effects of her rehab. Cruella is back with a vengeance, and some of the finest Dalmatian puppies happen to belong to Chloe. As in the original, every character but Cruella fumbles everything, and, for the most part, it's up to the dogs to save themselves.

Glenn Close again plays Cruella. Again she is delightful. But a great star turn does not a great movie make. 102 Dalmatians is predictable and overblown. Many of the jokes are best understood by adults, but this is the kind of movie grownups use to baby-sit their children, who won't get much of the humor. There are a lot of cute dogs and other animals, but they lack the charm of the ones in other kids movies such as Babe. With the exception of a truly obnoxious parrot, none of them can talk, yet all of them are shown to have the fully developed emotions of human beings. Personally, I find this makes them a bit creepy. There is also something odd about the movie. There is not a single human character younger than thirty. What kind of children's movie has no children in it? The original didn't, but it was itself a clever remake of what was essentially a long cartoon. Perhaps this sequel would have been more successful if it had had kids in it for kids to relate to.

102 Dalmatians will divert the young ones, but it is not something they will wish to see over and over again. It is one of Disney's weaker efforts. And, yes, I do like dogs.

"102 Dalmatians" offers audiences more of one of the most wicked creatures in motion pictures, the outrageous and evil Cruella DeVille. Like the original movie, Glenn Close who plays Cruella, steals the film and this is not an easy task, what with the beautiful dogs, wonderful special effects, and great story. The film producers knew that to harbor Cruella in one film wasn't enough so a sequel was evident. In this outing Cruella is released from prison after being cured of her addiction to killing dogs to fulfill her fantasy of making a coat. However, it is only a matter of time before Cruella's evil ways start to emerge and she eventually resorts back to her old ways, but this time not only does she want a coat made out of dalmatian fur, but she also wants a hood. The movie is hilarious, funny, sad, and over the top, but most of all entertaining. "102 Dalmatinas" wasn't as successful as the original, but it became an even bigger hit thanks to the home video market. This DVD has many bonuses, among them a deleted scene called "Cruella's Release", a Behind-The-Scenes Featurette, and audio commentary by director Kevin Lima. The movie also has some beautiful costumes that Glenn Close wears.

I can watch this movie time and time again!! What a fun and entertaining movie. I'm a kid in an adult body-I will admit it- but I think both kids and adults will enjoy this film. And I enjoyed it better than the first 'live' 101 Dalmatian movie. My favorite character in the movie is Waddlesworth who acts like a rott but is really a parrot but don't tell him that!!

This movie has more laughs and giggles than it does sneers. After all, it is a Disney movie, made for kids and BIG kids. The Dalmatians mission, as with the other movie-is to stop Cruella and her evil ways. Yes, everyone knows how it ends (as it does with all Disney movies) but you'll find enjoyment in between!!

I recommend it!!