The 10 Animated Classics Disney WON'T Remake In Live Action

9. The Aristocats

Urgh. After Walt Disney died and the Nine Old Men began to retire, there was a distinct dip in the quality of the studio's animated output that would be regarded as poor as what we got in the naughties (think Home On The Range) if it wasn't for the fact the output rate was so slow that there's less of them (in the decade after Walt's death, only two movies were released). There's some diamonds in the rough, but most are worth steering clear of for anything other than nostalgia reasons.

Take The Aristocats. It's... not great. The story is ridiculous and episodic, the songs too bandwagon jumping to be classics and compared to the higher-tier Disney it offers little thematic weight. You could say similar things about The Jungle Book, but the distinction in quality is clear.

This lack of quality and serious question over modern audience connection would be a major worry in making this into live action (there are humans and a real setting, but most of the film is spent on the cats), although I'd say the heavily contemporary setting would be the real stickler. All the other proposed films tie into that timeless Disney feel, while this one feels too much rooted in its own present; just as the animation was very 1970, a remake would be too 20-whatever.