A day in the life of three French kids from the banlieue—jewish, arab and black—as they waste the day away and get in scrapes. A really well done movie about race and class, it’s something like “Crash” or “Do The Right Thing”.

an amazing book, with amazing ideas… I wish that everything I bought was made with their principles in mind.

This movie never quite caught me… I ended up just leaving it on in the background while I puttered around the house.

The reason why you’ve never seen this movie is that it’s just not good enough to really be a classic. The art direction is wonderful and the basic story is pretty good, but there’s a lot of stilted dialogue in the movie. If you’ve seen stills of this movie and thought it looked good, skip over the middle era and turn the sound off for the rest…

I watched both versions in the same week and while this one is… okay, the Audrey Hepburn/Humphrey Bogart version is better. The performances are good, and they gently update and modernize the story, but if the other version didn’t exist this one would just be a fine-but-forgetable romantic comedy.

Oddly enough, they’re both period films now. I was in middle school when the remake was made, and I kept wincing at the clothes and hairstyles…

I was going to skip this one [dancing penguins?!?], even though I’m an animator, until a friend of mine urged me to go see it. I’m not certain if I loved the story itself, but the animation and visual style were great. [Savion Glover was the choreographer!] Animal Logic has done a lot of special effects for films, but I think this is their first feature and I’m looking forward to seeing what they do in the future.

You know, although I watch a lot of animation, “Cats Don’t Dance” isn’t the sort of thing that I would normally pick up. It’s actually quite good. The story is pretty predictable [just a small town cat with a dream!], but the character animation is excellent. The characters have a lot of life and a great style, especially in the dancing scenes.

I enjoyed the books as a kid, but I just couldn’t get into the remake. This version is pretty simple and cute—perfect for kids… It was made in the 50s, and it excerpts the book pretty faithfully.

I never would have found this movie if it wasn’t for that 1000+ movie list. The pieces sound really unlikely—it’s a noir film set in Arizona, and Walter Mathau is a bank robber who suddenly finds himself with too much money after a heist at a small town bank—but it turned out to be a good little film.

This version had a very 70s sci-fi setting and a more ambiguous plot. The action sequences were pretty run-of-the-mill, but the 70s-future was really interesting… It’s not as good as “Soylent Green”, but it shared the same cleanly distopian, corporate future…