8/14/2023 0 Comments Pongo and perdita live actionHis mate is typically called Perdita, although originally he was married to a dog named Missis. Pongo's "pet" is Roger Dearly or Roger Radcliffe depending on the source. In each story it is his idea to use the Twilight Bark to find the fifteen puppies. In the movie he changes the clock and is responsible for Roger and Anita's first meeting. It is claimed that he has one of the brightest minds in dogdom, however can be puppy like on some occasions. He is very intelligent, and is often looked to for advice. Pongo is known for his two solid black ears and red collar. 4.4.1 Episodes Where Pongo has a speaking role.The greatest movie about dogs of all time. Honourable Mentions: Amores Perros (2000). This was one of the cleanest VHS' in my garage, after being hardly touched for decades, when I decided to find and summarily dump all of my childhood VHS' recently. As for me, I had higher tastes in infancy. I don't doubt some young children got a kick of it back in the day and it probably fulfilled its mission of getting 3-year olds to shut up for 40 minutes with its constant stream of songs and canine gyrations. Apparently all of the kids and all of the dogs in this 40-minute montage had names. It's funny to look through the cast list on this site. Now the lyrics are less absurd but dumb and inane. Most of these songs originally had absurd lyrics. The score consists of a series of public domain songs rewritten for the worse. Some creepy lady has like 10 dalmatians (I guess they didn't want to dish out the cash for all101) and she holds a party where the guest list is entirely composed of little kids and their smelly dogs. It has a skeleton plot that just barely props up its carcass. In conclusion, worth seeing as a Disney completest or as someone who wants to see all of the series, but this was the only one that disappointed me hugely. Usually the lyrics in the subtitle/sing along captions are easy to follow in the Disney Sing-Along series but not here, with the coming and going too quickly, some out of sync parts and sometimes not showing at all children and adults will struggle making sense of them here, because not everybody will know all the songs. Even the elaborate set design and sometimes spirited staging cannot disguise the children's overacting, very little of the video educates and in the couple of times it tries to it feels preachy and out of place and it's just far too removed from Disney to make one feel nostalgic. Disney's Sing-Along-Songs series often does a great job entertaining, educating and making one nostalgic, but '101 Dalmatians Pongo and Perdita' never really does either. The other eight songs are hampered by canine twists on standards that are not as clever as they'd like to think ("Hokey Puppy", "Pongo) or ridiculous, overblown and over-zany choreography with some sometimes painful hamming up and mugging from the children ("Take Me Out to the Ball Game", "Do Your Ears Hang Low"), while the rest are bland and forgettable with some of the shoutiest and out of tune singing of any of the Disney Sing-Alongs. Even the use of "Cruella DeVil" and introductions from Professor Owl and Ludwig Von Drake would have made it feel more like a Disney Sing-Along. Because of the theme it must have been a struggle to find songs that fitted the theme without being irrelevant, however it just feels like any old sing along video as apart from "Zip a Dee Do Dah", "Following the Leader" and the live action Dalmatians to a lesser extent '101 Dalmatians Pongo and Perdita' doesn't feel very Disney-like. The sequence of stupid dog tricks is fun too. Two songs are good, and they are "Zip a Dee Do Dah" and more successfully "Following the Leader", the most well sung, the catchiest and the most entertainingly staged. The dogs are adorable and show great personality, the video is beautifully shot, the set design is wonderfully elaborate and who can't help getting nostalgic in the "Following the Leader" number especially. '101 Dalmatians Pongo and Perdita' is not by all means unwatchable. Almost all of them are worth watching in fact, and most of them very good to great. There are some fantastic ones in the series, especially the Disneyland and Christmas outings as well as the 'Zip a Dee Doo Dah', 'Be Our Guest', 'Heigh-Ho' and 'Circle of Life' videos. A shame because even to a young adult who has been a huge Disney fan all her life the Disney Sing-Along-Songs videos are fun, charming, educational and nostalgic, with a great chance to bask in one's favourite childhood memories and know one's favourite Disney songs better. Well, there was also mixed feelings for 'Little Patch of Heaven', but at least there was much more of a Disney feel in that sing-along-songs video than in '101 Dalmatians Pongo and Perdita'.
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