3. ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS (196
We already spoke a little about Disney villains in Beauty and the Beast, but to get sheer over-the-top evil incarnate, one can't look any further than Cruella De Vil. She's ugly, she smokes, and she kills puppies. Why not give her a grenade launcher or Ebola while they're at it?
One Hundred and One Dalmatians is, unsurprisingly, a story about dalmatians: Pongo, Perdy, and their 13 puppies. Cruella De Vil wants the puppies so she can make them into fur coats, so Pongo and Perdy have to enlist the help of their doggy friends to save their pups from certain death. Standard 60s kids' fare. Car chases, cute puppies, a last minute rescue, underdogs *snicker*, and a whole mess of puppies (making, what we assume, are a whole mess of puppy messes).
Notes:
- It has been re-released so many times that it has made more money than any other film originally released in 1961
- Remade into a live-action movie starring Glenn Close in 1996
- Someone once counted all of the spots in this film. He counted 6,469,952. He must have been a very interesting guy.
