It just doesn't add up.ĭoug (vo): However, the rest of the film is just a pure delight. It's kind of like giving the voice of The Little Mermaid to a male baritone singer. Thanks.ĭoug (vo): And don't get me wrong, he does fine, it's 's so clear this isn't the right voice that should go with this character. Natoru: Emergency exit for all guests right here, please. Every time I see this character, it's just so jarring to instead not hear this cute little fluffy voice and instead Conan's co-host. Is that Andy Richter? Why is Andy Richter doing what is so obviously a female design? This isn't like in Kiki with Phil Hartman where maybe it's male, maybe it's female, you can't quite tell by the design. Natoru: Excuse me, but I think there's a bit of a problem.ĭoug (vo): Wait a minute. But then, when the American dub came, who did they get to voice her? You just saw her and you just wanted to pinch her cheeks, she was so cute and she had this little smile and this friendly little voice, she was just adorable. I first saw this in the original Japanese language, and one of my favorite characters was this cute little assistant cat. The Cat King: Whoever's next better not stink! GOT IT?!ĭoug (vo): Peter Boyle as the Baron's sidekick.ĭoug (vo): But there is one casting choice that just boggles the hell out of me. Natori (voiced by Rene Auberjonois): Yes, sire. The rest of the voice actors are great, too. She is klutzy and awkward, but she's also kind of wide-eyed, innocent, and just trying to make sense of a world that has very little of it. With magical lands, flying, talking animals, it's a really charming setup.ĭoug (vo): A young Anne Hathaway plays Haru and she does a wonderful job, actually playing it very similar to her Princess Diaries character, which I stand by wouldn't be that bad a character if she was put in a better story. Not the story itself, but more kind of the feel. The king offered her to marry him and her mixed response was confused for consent.ĭoug (vo): It's funny that they got Cary Elwes to play this part, because it actually does sort of have a Princess Bride feel to it.
Through all his magical antics and mysterious ways, he finds a way to get her out of trouble as she gets back into trouble, and they constantly keep saving each other back and forth. Her only salvation is a cat baron, played once again by Cary Elwes, who voiced the exact same character in Whispers of the Heart. So the king of the cats, played by Tim Curry, demands that she be brought to the kingdom and turned into a cat herself. She's so dumbfounded by what she's seen, she doesn't know what to say, and he confuses it for a "yes"*.
Touched by his rescue, he asks Haru if she would marry him. She saves a cat from danger in the middle of the road, but it looks like that cat is a magical cat, the prince of a kingdom, to be exact, a kingdom ruled by talking felines just like him. Insert The Cat Returns.a very confusing title, seeing how the cat isn't really returning, he's meeting this character for the first time, but whatever.ĭoug (vo): The character he meets is a girl named Haru.
#The cat returns movie#
"Big Screen" by Silent Partner plays in the background)ĭoug (vo): So remember that story in Whispers of the Heart that the girl was writing about this cat baron who could go into these magical lands and have these great powers? Well, apparently, the idea was so good, that they decided to make a movie out of it. (The Disneycember logo is shown, before showing clips from The Cat Returns.