The Adventures of Milo & Otis
Year: | 1989 |
Production Co: | Fuji Television Network |
Director: | Masanori Hata |
Writer: | Mark Saltzman |
Cast: | Dudley Moore (voice) |
What must have taken a colossal amount of patience and animal wrangling paid off in a visual delight. Outlandish animal behaviour such as a cat riding a wooden box down a raging river and swiping at a tree snake and a dog riding on the back of a sea turtle carries the story of Milo and Otis.
They're a farm cat and dog who are firm friends and who grow up together exploring the world around them, Otis mostly getting into trouble and Milo mostly getting him out of it. Moore's narration is warm and funny and some of the shots captured make it a technical feat of of filmmaking.