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A world of cats and Danny (Scott Bakula) is trying to break into '30s Hollywood. His only problem is that he's a cat and he can't understand why he's only getting parts playing an animal. He gets into trouble with a human star and almost sees his chance at a movie career disappear.

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Cats Don't Dance, but they should easily entertain all-ages audiences thanks to some colorful animation, sharp humor, and a catchy soundtrack.

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Cats Don't Dance | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Paul Tatara CNN.com Cats Don't Dance is a blast... There's a pleasing luminescence to the animation, with colors that glow like neon throughout. Aug 15, 2018 Full Review Cats Don't Dance | Rotten Tomatoes (2) John Petrakis Chicago Tribune Cats Don't Dance has some of the sharp irreverence of the brilliant Who Framed Roger Rabbit. There are plenty of clever asides and witty one-liners, not to mention a few terrific supporting characters. Aug 15, 2018 Full Review Cats Don't Dance | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Nell Minow Common Sense Media Very cute animation with Randy Newman music. Rated: 3/5 Dec 22, 2010 Full Review Cats Don't Dance | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Matt Brunson Film Frenzy The characters are dull in both form and content. Rated: 2/4 Oct 14, 2023 Full Review Cats Don't Dance | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Cory Woodroof 615 Film I refuse to believe anything else but that a young Damien Chazelle walked into a movie theater, watched this and left thinking, “I’m going to make this movie, but it’ll be a 3-hour bacchanal with Brad Pitt.” (Mark Dindal kicked ass with this one) Jan 15, 2023 Full Review Cats Don't Dance | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Rachel Wagner Rachel's Reviews (YouTube) We rarely get movies like this that have so much heart. Rated: 9/10 Feb 12, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Noe G Cats don't dance is my most favorite Warner Bros., animated film I give this film a 10/10 Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/06/24 Full Review devin o I Like That Darla Said "CUT! CUT CUT CUT!" Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/19/23 Full Review StephenPaul C The greatest 1.25 hours of animation and music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/21/23 Full Review Audience Member It was a really funny and very purr-fect animated family musical comedy movie. It had very refreshing animation, really extraordinary voice cast, really fun characters, really engaging songs, very wacky comedy, really great adventure, really astonishing backgrounds and a really cute story. In my opinion, I think it’s one of my personal favorite animated movies of the 90s so far. My favorite song is “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” (the final song). I definitely recommend this film to both children and adults. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/20/23 Full Review Hannah B To this day I can hear the faint echoes of fellow animation students crying in outrage that this movie is STILL so under appreciated. Real ones know this is a CLASSIC Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/10/23 Full Review Legoware A very refreshing animated movie. A love letter to classic Hollywood and animation, it serves as a spark of originality in the 90's era of animation. Sad to see this banger is pretty obscure Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/11/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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Mark Dindal Director Scott Bakula Danny Jasmine Guy (speaking) Ashley Peldon Darla Dimple (speaking) Natalie Cole Voice Kathy Najimy Voice
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Synopsis A world of cats and Danny (Scott Bakula) is trying to break into '30s Hollywood. His only problem is that he's a cat and he can't understand why he's only getting parts playing an animal. He gets into trouble with a human star and almost sees his chance at a movie career disappear.

Director
Mark Dindal

Screenwriter
Mark Dindal, Robert Lence, Brian McEntee, Rick Schneider, David Womersley, Kelvin Yasuda, Bobs Gannaway, Cliff Ruby, Elana Lesser, Theresa Pettengill

Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures

Production Co
David Kirschner Productions, Turner Feature Animation, Turner Pictures

Rating
G

Genre
Kids & Family, Musical, Animation

Original Language
English

Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 26, 1997, Wide

Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 1, 2009

Box Office (Gross USA)
$3.6M

Runtime
1h 15m

Sound Mix
Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Surround
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