In the interest of having a surefire good time, we decided to return to the Dingo Pictures well, the super low budget German Disney rip-off factory. While we really wanted to get our hands on "Hercules", with what we had available we decided that a pet-themed double feature would work. Each film was a mere half hour but felt longer.
"The Dalmatians," unlike it's more popular counterpart, only features three Dalmatians, siblings named Toby, Timmy, and Teuful (devil in German). Toby and Timmy get kidnapped by black pitbulls who make them work in a factory "licking and gluing and licking and gluing and licking and gluing..." Their demonic sister teams up with a beagle who gets her in with a gang of dogs who help to look for the missing pups. The gang includes a dog named Tramp who is clearly styled after "Lady And The Tramp," a dog with a weirdly sensual voice, and a bulldog who is completely incomprehensible. An exceedingly annoying bird who acts as our narrator prides herself on not getting involved until she helps free the dogs. Maybe there's a moral there.
Spoon Rating: 6
"Nice Cats" is about some really classist cats going on vacation with their owner. The female kitten ends up walking off on her own and is captured by the cat catcher (a man with a droopy ear, large nose, and "I Love Cats" shirt) and thrown in cat prison where she meets a street cat. In spite of her being an "educated domestic cat" they form a friendship and break out of prison together. The rest of the film involves them trying to get her back home. This film was slightly less amusing than its predecessor because it only had one voice actor who told the plot like a children's story, but it did have the backgrounds from "The Dalmatians," the music from "Alladin," and the Italian and Asian stereotype chefs from "Pocahontas." We are now much more versed in the Dingo Expanded Universe.
Spoon Rating: 5
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