I'll be seriously dating myself here when I say that this is the first film I ever saw in a movie theater. Not in some re-release, but the real deal - my parents took me to see this during it's original release back when I was four or five years old. I can even remember where it was, the old Goshen Theater in Goshen, New York. So if you're reading this and know where I'm talking about, it would be cool to say hello.
That was my prime motivation in watching this again, to see my first ever movie experience and share it with my granddaughter who's the same age now as when I first saw it. I can tell the magic works when she sits wide eyed and attentive, and gets a kick out of the same things I used to. It's weird the things you remember after a half century, like the words to the Siamese cat song; how does that work? That and things like The Tramp's pals Jock and Trusty.
But nostalgia carries it only so far. Watching today I could enjoy the animation and vibrant use of color but the story itself seems a bit underdeveloped and simple. The sequence with the killer rat seemed a little too far fetched for me to accept, and the fast forward to Lady and the Tramp having their own family of pups huddled around the Christmas tree was out of synch with the rest of the story. Still it's a fun movie and ideal for the young and the young at heart. Walt Disney would have been proud to know his talent has reached across the generations to entertain one and all for so long after his passing.
That was my prime motivation in watching this again, to see my first ever movie experience and share it with my granddaughter who's the same age now as when I first saw it. I can tell the magic works when she sits wide eyed and attentive, and gets a kick out of the same things I used to. It's weird the things you remember after a half century, like the words to the Siamese cat song; how does that work? That and things like The Tramp's pals Jock and Trusty.
But nostalgia carries it only so far. Watching today I could enjoy the animation and vibrant use of color but the story itself seems a bit underdeveloped and simple. The sequence with the killer rat seemed a little too far fetched for me to accept, and the fast forward to Lady and the Tramp having their own family of pups huddled around the Christmas tree was out of synch with the rest of the story. Still it's a fun movie and ideal for the young and the young at heart. Walt Disney would have been proud to know his talent has reached across the generations to entertain one and all for so long after his passing.