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The Adventures of Milo & Otis Actors: Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Kyôko Koizumi, Dudley Moore Director: Masanori Hata Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Pan & Scan Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Running Time: 76 minutes Studio: Columbia/Tristar Studios Region Code: 1 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2004-02-03 Buy from Amazon |
 "PUG PUG PUG PUG PUG PUG PUG PUG PUG PUG PUG PUG"Here's the deal: any movie that has a Pug in it is, of course, a classic. Any questions?  "What can one make of this?"Gotta tell ya, even as a meat loving, annoyed with PETA regular guy, I found this movie pretty distressing. I would put the animal casualty count at 4 dead and 5 wounded/maimed. If your kids love this flick when they are 3 or 4 years old you'd best have a little talk with them because sure as heck they will be throwing cats off the roof to test the "land on their feet" saying when they are 10. "Best Friends"The Adventures of Milo and Otis is one of my favorite movies. I like it because it is about animals, and I like animals. Well, a cat named Milo meets a dog named Otis, and weird enogh become best friends. Their favorite game is Hide'n Seek. Milo finds a box in the river, jumps in and floats away. Otis tries to save him but just them farther and farther down stream. So with that, an adventure begins. You should go out and watch this movie, because it's great!!! "A-w-w-w-fully Cute!"My pug and I watched "Milo and Otis" with the same interest my sisters and I used to watch "Lassie" and "National Velvet". I used to sit as close to the TV as I could get making sure Lassie made it safely through his adventures. The natural environment of "Milo and Otis" is beautiful; the animal characters, delightful; the dialogue, clever; and the music, both beautiful and fun. It would be my hope that children of the new millenium feel the same sense of adventure while watching "Milo and Otis" as I felt while watching "Lassie". The themes of loyalty, friendship, heeding the advice of your parents, etc. are the same. The piece is not educational TV, fragmented into lessons repeated by muppets or purple barnies. Nor is it cartoony. It is, instead, one simple, attention-holding story of a young kitten and pup who get separated, then reunite at the end, each having their own new adventures and families to share. Animals teach people, old and young. This movie was filmed with great sensitivity. Pugs in the snow? Tabbies floating in the river? Not too real, but believable in this film. Hope they WERE closely supervised during the filming and not made to suffer. Thumbs up to the Japanese for going back to the farm, nature, and animals. Now I want a Tabbie.  "The story of a cat and dog friendship"This is a movie portraying the special friendship of a cat, Milo, and a dog, Otis, which stays true from when they a puppy and kitten until the very end. Milo is a mischievious cat who is always getting into some sort of trouble, and Otis is the brave pug who is always there to look after Milo. The adventures of Milo eventually lead to separation between the two, and Otis is there to find and rescue him. Milo's everlasting confidence and Otis's continually worried expression contribute to the movie as well. And we can learn a lesson about friendship from Milo and Otis; true friends stick together and help each other out through thick and thin. As a child, I enjoyed this movie and found it very entertaining. I was sad when the two friends were separated so long, but there were lots of hilarious episodes that balanced things out. As one reviewer pointed out, the fact that there are no humans in the movie makes it more attractive to kids, and probably adults too. One concern of several viewers is the possibility of animal abuse which decreases the quality of the movie. It says somewhere though that the animals were well supervised, which is reassuring. As for the chance of casualties, perhaps the animals were slightly injured at one time or another, but I don't believe any died. That's a little extreme. How is it possible to find more than one identical cat like Milo or dog like Otis that is the same in looks and brains. My family has had four pugs over the last 25 or so years, and there are definite distinctions between them. The colouring, build, features, and especially the wrinkles are different in them all. So I think the abuse part of it is nothing to be so concerned about unless you're an extreme protester against animal abuse who blows up every chance of abuse to a monumental size. I certainly didn't feel like throwing my grandparent's cat off the roof or making my dog copy Otis after watching the movie. If anything, it creates a tighter bond between a child and their pet. If you enjoy animals, adventure, and laughing, you'll probably like Milo and Otis. |