Way to ruin a classic.
29 December 2020
Warning: Spoilers
They basically changed everything...For the worse...Jock is now a girl, for god knows what reason. Which of course means the proposal scene has to be removed. Worse, they changed his(her) character into one that spends her time getting painted by her silly owner, instead of being the wise old dog he is supposed to be. At least he/she still speaks Scottish...

Jim Dear and Darling are now an interracial couple, even though the movie still takes place in the early 1900's as before, when something like that would be unheard of in the US, and you see other well dressed black people in this rich, snobby district during the movie as well. Please don't change history to fit your PC agenda, Disney...

In a similar vain, the Siamese cats and their song, have been completely changed, even though there wasn't even anything offensive about this scene in the original; Siamese cats are an actual breed of cats, come on...In the original the two cats also try to eat the fish and and the bird in the house, and the conflict with Lady is because of that, while in this version the cats just want to trash the whole place for no other apparent reason than just...because...

The beautiful and funny scene at Tony's, where Tramp/Butch and Lady eat spaghetti while the Italians sing Bella Notte, in my opinion the best scene in the entire movie, is now completely soulless, taking out the funny parts, and the acting and delivery being completely wooden...I guess they once again couldn't have heavy Italian accents, because that would be offensive, right? Sigh... -_- This PC and woke stuff of this generation in movies is really killing me...They made the beautiful song worse too...

Unfortunately the changes don't stop there...The Russian philosopher dog character at the pound is completely removed. The scene with the zoo beaver helping to get Lady's muffle off is removed, and instead they have Lady and Tramp/Butch remove the muffle via the use of...a beaver STATUE (seriously? The heck?)... -_- The baby's gender is changed from a boy to a girl (the pattern here at this point is becoming painfully obvious...), for reasons unknown (admittedly one of the more harmless changes). The adorable opening sequence with puppy Lady is shortened down and simplified considerably. Lady and Tramp/Butch don't have adorable puppies at the end of the movie like they do in the original. Tramp/Butch desperately searches for Lady when she's captured by the Dog Catcher in the original, but here he reluctantly leaves her to save himself. They spend about a bazillion times more time on the guy trying to catch Tramp/Butch, and portray him as being a real jerk, while in the original the people working at the dog impound are not actually all that mean. Tramp/Butch's heroic saving of Lady by fighting off 3 other street dogs is replaced by him saving her from ONE other dog by TALKING to him, and tricking him...

It just goes on and on, but I'll stop now, as I'm sure you can see my point. Honestly, the only good unchanged things about this version of the movie is that for the most part they left Trusty's character as is, and the short scene with the doctor was funny. And I suppose the scene with the rat in the baby's room is a bit less scary now, if you want to show the movie to small children, and that matters to you. That's pretty much it. Add on top of all of that, that everything is just a lot more charming to look at in the cartoon version, with actual facial expressions and so on, and yeah...You're way better off just sticking to watching the original classic.
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