The Aristocats
The Aristocats
Your feedback improves this guide
Your feedback highlights guides that need a second look and keeps the rating trustworthy.
Does this age rating seem accurate to you?
Sign in to vote
Watch-outs
What this film brings
Content barometer
Violence
1/5
Mild
Fear
1/5
Mild
Sexuality
1/5
Allusions
Language
0/5
None
Narrative complexity
1/5
Accessible
Adult themes
2/5
Present
Expert review
The Aristocats is a warm family animation classic with a playful musical tone, a charming Paris setting, and an easy to follow adventure structure for children. The main sensitive material comes from a dishonest adult who drugges the cats with sleeping pills, kidnaps them, and tries to get rid of them for money, along with a few chase scenes, falls, and brief moments of danger. The intensity stays low and highly cartoonish, with no graphic injuries and no sustained frightening atmosphere, though some younger viewers may still feel upset by the family being separated from home or by the butler's threatening behavior. There is also a very mild romantic thread between adult characters, plus a comic scene involving a drunken character, which merits a small content note without making the film hard to handle. For most children, it works well from about age 5, with parental support helpful for kids who are especially sensitive to kidnapping plots, greedy villains, or animals in temporary peril.
Synopsis
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.
Difficult scenes
The most sensitive material comes when the butler decides to get rid of the cats in order to secure the inheritance for himself. He puts sleeping pills in their food, then carries them far from home while they are unconscious, which may unsettle young children because the betrayal comes from a trusted adult and the separation from home is very clear. Several scenes show the cats stranded in the countryside and moving through risky situations on the way back. These include a fall into the water, a rescue, and a brief train related danger sequence, but everything is presented quickly and in a very stylized way, which keeps the fear level fairly low. The villain returns more than once with the intention of making the animals disappear in order to protect his plan. Even though the tone stays mostly comic, his greed and threatening behavior are obvious, which may lead children to ask questions about cruelty, jealousy, and animal safety. One secondary scene features an adult character who is clearly drunk and played for laughs. It is not intense or central to the story, but alcohol use is visible and treated comically, which some parents may want to explain in simple terms.
Where to watch
No verified platform for the US market yet. We keep this section updated as availability changes.
Availability checked on Apr 01, 2026
About this title
- Format
- Feature film
- Year
- 1970
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Countries
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
- Studios
- Walt Disney Productions
Content barometer
Violence
1/5
Mild
Fear
1/5
Mild
Sexuality
1/5
Allusions
Language
0/5
None
Narrative complexity
1/5
Accessible
Adult themes
2/5
Present
Expert review
The Aristocats is a warm family animation classic with a playful musical tone, a charming Paris setting, and an easy to follow adventure structure for children. The main sensitive material comes from a dishonest adult who drugges the cats with sleeping pills, kidnaps them, and tries to get rid of them for money, along with a few chase scenes, falls, and brief moments of danger. The intensity stays low and highly cartoonish, with no graphic injuries and no sustained frightening atmosphere, though some younger viewers may still feel upset by the family being separated from home or by the butler's threatening behavior. There is also a very mild romantic thread between adult characters, plus a comic scene involving a drunken character, which merits a small content note without making the film hard to handle. For most children, it works well from about age 5, with parental support helpful for kids who are especially sensitive to kidnapping plots, greedy villains, or animals in temporary peril.
Synopsis
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.
Difficult scenes
The most sensitive material comes when the butler decides to get rid of the cats in order to secure the inheritance for himself. He puts sleeping pills in their food, then carries them far from home while they are unconscious, which may unsettle young children because the betrayal comes from a trusted adult and the separation from home is very clear. Several scenes show the cats stranded in the countryside and moving through risky situations on the way back. These include a fall into the water, a rescue, and a brief train related danger sequence, but everything is presented quickly and in a very stylized way, which keeps the fear level fairly low. The villain returns more than once with the intention of making the animals disappear in order to protect his plan. Even though the tone stays mostly comic, his greed and threatening behavior are obvious, which may lead children to ask questions about cruelty, jealousy, and animal safety. One secondary scene features an adult character who is clearly drunk and played for laughs. It is not intense or central to the story, but alcohol use is visible and treated comically, which some parents may want to explain in simple terms.