This is one of those classic Disney movies that everyone should see around the age of six or seven. Any older than that and it will seem too saccharine, any younger and they probably won't remember. Duchess (Eva Gabor) and her three kittens live in a beautiful house in Paris with Madame (Hermione Baddeley), their devoted owner. Madame is getting on in years so she amends her will to leave everything to the cats, in the care of her butler, Edgar (Roddy Maude-Roxby). Edgar sees a future of servitude to animals and decides it's better to just get rid of the cats, so he drugs them and dumps them in the French countryside. They are chanced upon by Thomas O'Malley (Phil Harris), a roaming alley cat, who hooks them up with a ride back into Paris. But they still have to face Edgar before they can be reunited.
This is calculated to offend precisely zero people (except for the super racist portrayals of the jazz cats). The story is mild, the villain is relatively bumbling, and the songs are catchy but fairly spread out through the film. Completely appropriate for all ages.
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