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Rating:  - This was an amazing video
I think this video is amazing because I like when Cruella DeVil got cook into a cake and when the Dalmatians spread frosting on Cruella.It was sad when Oddball's mom got kidnapped by Le Pelt and Oddball's bothers.I think that Cruella should not get out of jail.
Rating:  - Miserable Sequel
This movie was terrible. The plot is very thin, even for kids, and Gérard Depardieu is a real flop. (Why isn't his PR photo from this movie at the mulletsgalore.com website?) The leading couple is cuter and more believable than the current issue 101 movie, but their love story is poorly written and very superficial.
The maccaw should have been named Jar Jar instead of Waddlesworth -- it was pointless, annoying, and dropped my raiting from two stars down to one.
Go to some garage sales and find the original children's books. Read to your children; don't buy this movie.
Rating:  - Cruella De Vil is cured or is she?
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.
Rating: - Darker than the First and a Terrific Glenn Close
Upfront, it should be noted that "102 Dalmatians" is far darker and more violent than the original - either the live action or animated versions. That said, this is one of those rare sequels that actually surpasses the first film in a number of ways. First, the story is less ingrained in our heads, so its fresher and unexpectedly more effective. Second, there are plot twists to rival a gangster flick, with Cruella DeVil first framed as a puppy lover, and then as the nasty character we all love to hate. Third - and most impressive - is Glenn Close, who chews up every scene here in a Golden Globe nominated performance that makes her far scarier and more effective as a villain. She's almost channeling the spirit of Alex in "Fatal Attraction" with her vile manner and spitted dialogue. This is an actress at the top of her form - part Alex and part Norma Desmond (who she played to raves, and a Tony Award, in "Sunset Boulvard.) Bluntly said, Close gives a tremendous performance as the puppy-coat wearing diva - it's high camp at its best, and she makes the film soar in unexpected, hystrionic ways. This Ella-Cruella is one of a kind.
Rating:  - Acclaimed actress goes to the dogs...again!
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.
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