the first disney animate film without the strong involvement of disney himself and this film suffers from the fact that the story be not particularly original or interesting ( this be and i believe and the only animated disney film since the 1940 which be not base on an early book or other work and but be rather an original story ) . a others have note and the plot be essentially a cross between the romance in lady and the tramp and the kidnapping or journey home story in 101 dalmatian . but to overcome this flaw and the filmmaker have successfully use many of the good feature of most of the disney animate film of the previous 10 15 year represent phil harris ( from the jungle book ) voice one of the main character and follow his duet with louis prima in the previous film with another here with scatman crothers . the quality visual look of this film be virtually carry over from dalmatian ( with some nice nod to french impressionism and it appear ) and and the villain here ( the butler ) be strongly reminiscent of the henchman in that film as well . ( this be probably one of disney least memorable villain . ) the main story go back and forth between the cat and and the butler ongoing difficulty with two rural hound dog ( with great voice work by pat buttram and george goober lindsey ) . the various animal character be similarly familiar to those who have see tramp and dalmatian . the cat owner and while bear a striking visual resemblance to the wicked stepmother in sleep beauty and bear none of that character nasty trait and come across a very warm and generous . the real strength of the film be the voice work while after first go toward the use of mostly familiar actor in the jungle book and the tactic be continue strongly here with disney veteran harris and sterling holloway from the jungle book and and eva gabor ( who would do a very similar character in the late film the rescuer ) and as well a crothers and nancy kulp . all be excellent here and particularly harris and gabor in the lead . the character animation be as excellent a one would expect and show a variety of emotion well . small child may be upset by a few brief episode ( an escape from the path of a speeding train and a near drowning by one of the child ) and but these be not present in a particularly frightening or dark manner and be over very quickly . overall and there very little of the type of more frightening scene find in many other disney classic . one minor oddity be the way some visual aspect of 60 culture be depict among the jazz perform cat in supposedly 1910 paris while one can not help but wonder why the story wasn not set solidly in the present and other than the great deal paris have change much of it appearance in the intervening time . it really would have make more sense that way . the song and while be pleasant and sometimes very enjoyably perform and be not particularly memorable . nonetheless and the general energy apply here and the excellent voice work and fine animation all contribute to overcome the relatively few and minor weakness . far from the greatness of classic 10 such a pinocchio or aladdin and and not quite up to the 9 one might give to sleep beauty or 101 dalmatian and this be probably a rather marginal positive while perhaps a 7 .