Cats Don't Dance
(c) Universal Cartoon Studios 1997 "Cats
Don't Dance" is the story of a star-struck
cat named Danny (voived by Scott Bakula, Sam in the TV
series "Quantum Leap"), and his quest to get
into the movie world of Hollywood in the late thirties. Danny dances into town, fresh from the small town of Kokomo, Indiana - a checklist for stardom in his pocket, and heads straight for Farley Wink's Animal Actors Agency. The agency that day is filled with hopeful animal actors... the new Darla Dimple (a sinister Shirley Temple-like girl who hates animals) picture, "Little Ark Angel" is casting for animal actors and Danny manages to get a part... as a cat! Danny
is handed his script, and is surprised and disappointed
that his only line in the film will be "meow!" -
but that's all cats get to say in Hollywood! Danny
Cat decides to ad-lib a little, and in doing so begins to
upstage Darla Dimple and the rest of the animals!
Darla is enraged, and calls for her giant Lurch-like
("The Addams Family"'s butler) butler Max, who
teaches Danny the error of his upstaging ways!
That's
it for Danny - he's helped wreck the careers of himself
and his friends, just as Darla Dimple had hoped he would.
He boards the next bus for Kokomo, and heads back
home...
I'm sure most children will like "Cats
Don't Dance" - Its brightly-coloured, has
lots of songs and dancing, and also has a child villain,
voiced by the then 9 year old Ashley Peldon.
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