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List Price: $14.99 Our Price: $13.99 You Save: $1 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 14 February, 1997 DVD Release : 06 May, 2003 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | If it's not broke . . . |
| "That Darn Cat" was a comedy that came out in 1965. So it needed to be remade 38 years later for a new audience, right? Wrong.
Actually, is it really a remake? It takes the basic theme of a woman held hostage putting a watch on a cat, and the cat's owner, with an FBI agent, solve the case. They could have taken the remake route, or they could have made a completely original story. The filmmakers took the second route, though there is enough of the original that it really didn't seem to know what it was doing. If that's not bad enough, this movie has elements of other live Disney comedies. There is the car chase of "The Fifth Avenue Irregulars", the surprise twist of "Trenchcoat", and the atmosphere of an Ernest movie. Instead of a cute and likeable young adult (Haley Mills) and a frustrated but competent F.B.I. agent (Dean Jones), this one has an obnoxious and bored teenager (Christiana Ricci) and an inept agent (Doug E. Doug). This movie does not have the realism or the suspense the original. The original introduced the villains early on, while this one has more of a mystery . . . but if you read the credits, it is easy to figure out who one of the bad guys is. Some of the elements of the original are here as well, though done better. These include an F.B.I agent allergic to cats, one person looking at the watch on the cat, and making a comment about the time rather than ask why the cat is wearing a watch (both males), an encounter with a neighbor's dog in a fenced in yard, and agents trailing the cat that . . . I'll stop; this would spoil what should have been a surprise to some of you. All of the above were done better the first time around. There were some good things, though. Several of my favorite actors/actresses ended up in this, such as Michael McKean (Lenny from "Laverne And Shirley", Bess Armstrong, Peter Boyle, and Megan Cavanagh. In fact, Dean Jones, the original F.B.I agent shows up, as the broke-millionaire whose servant was kidnapped, though I think it would have been funnier having him as the F.B.I. chief. This is a fun movie, but it does not live up to the original. |
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