Nor is it like in Homeward Bound, where you see a close up a of a swimming cat, and then something indistinct going over a waterfall. And it certainly didn’t just decide to wander off of a cliff when cameras were positioned just-so. Because while, yes, it shows a kitten exploring a farm, that kitten probably did not go over the waterfall as part of its natural explorations. Milo and Otis felt more like a documentary, less contrived…īut when you watch it, you realize – it is contrived in all the wrong ways. It isn’t like some of those other kids movies where the mouths are made to move in a creepy way, or the animals are clearly responding to a trainer’s direction off-screen (I was hyper-aware of this sort of thing as a kid, and could tell when they switched animal actors, and was alert to where the trainer must be). One of the things I really liked about it as a kid was that it featured real animals, doing real animal things. Milo and Otis gives you the feel of the camera man just having shot hundreds of hours of footage of pugs and tabbies playing, and then making a movie out of it. You don’t think about it as a kid, even if you’re a kid who has been used in filming and knows how contrived it all is. You’d think he’s actually scared out of his wits. Wait, doesn’t this cat later fall off a cliff after being attacked by seagulls?Ĭat’s a damn good actor. When I watch the movie now, I realize that it is far too horrifyingly real.īy the time I turned it off, I had watched a cat attack two baby birds, get pinched by a crab and a crayfish, a dog attack a frog, a drowning pug being batted about by a BEAR, and then a crying kitten go OVER A WATERFALL in a box.Īnd then you start to remember the movie a bit. Ironically, that’s probably part of what protected me, although I’m sure the reason that myself and all the other kids sat through this movie so happily was simple lack of reflection. If anyone had pointed to Milo And Otis and asked me “is that real?” when I was small, I wouldn’t have had the problem with that question that many younger children do. I was in TV commercials and made-for-tv movies as a kid, so I had an enlightened attitude of what goes on behind the making of a movie. I’m starting to keep an eye out for movies that would be good for Owl to watch when he’s older, so I pressed play.Īw, it’s so cute! With the British voices, and little animal antics! How did they get that mother cat to swim after her kitten like that?Īfter twenty minutes I turned it off because… I was beginning to feel disturbed. Nothing like a bit of sex ed in your children’s family viewing. Plus, I loved that it gave such a… graphic depiction of live mammalian birth. It had talking animals and British accents, and who could ask for more? So, I was trawling through Netflix on my day off and spotted Milo and Otis.Īdmit it, you think about it every time you see a pug, and you can’t hear one of those names without thinking of the other.
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