One Hundred and One Dalmatians with an average score of 8.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "With plenty of pooches and a memorable villain (Cruella De Vil), this is one of Disney's most enduring, entertaining animated films." Cruella de Vil ranked 39th on AFI's list of "100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains". In the years since the original release of the film, Disney has taken the property in various directions. The earliest of these endeavors was the live-action remake, "101 Dalmatians" (1996). Starring Glenn Close as Cruella De Vil, none of the animals talked in this version. Its success in theaters led to "102 Dalmatians", released
Cruella de Vil has made her husband adopt her surname as his own, in an effort to carry on her family name. She and her husband have no children. Cruella is portrayed as the tyrannical figure in the marriage, and her husband as a meek, subservient man who seldom speaks and obeys his wife entirely. He supplies Cruella with extravagances, such as the white mink cloak she often wears with skin-tight satin gowns and ropes of jewels in contrasting colours, such as a black dress with ropes of pearls, or a green dress with ropes of rubies. Cruella's chauffeur-driven car is black-and-white striped,