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List Price: $24.98 | | Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Salesrank: 133449
Released: March 30, 1999 |
| Our Price: $26.91 |
| Used Price: $6.39 |
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MPAA Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Here's today's trivia question: What Disney movie costars both colonels from television's M*A*S*H--that is, Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) and Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan)? Heck, that's easy: 1978's The Cat from Outer Space, a family comedy about a feline extraterrestrial named Jake (voiced by actor Ronnie Schell, who also plays Sergeant Duffy). Eerily similar to the plot of Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, released four years later, Cat finds Jake stuck on Earth and in danger of being trapped here forever if his fellow space kitties can't rendezvous with him soon.
While a gruff Army general (Morgan) tries to scare up some answers about the whereabouts and agenda of the purring alien, Jake allies himself with an unorthodox scientist (Ken Berry), plus the latter's friend (Stevenson)--a compulsive gambler--and mathematician girlfriend (Sandy Duncan). Together, they try to raise the scratch to purchase expensive materials to make Jake's ship run again, and in short order. Norman Tokar, an old Disney hand (The Happiest Millionaire) directing his final film before he died the following year, gets the comic machinery going with his slick cast of character actors (Roddy McDowall, Jesse White, Hans Conried), sly one-liners, and lots of enjoyable suspense. A kid-pleaser for sure. --Tom Keogh
The Cat From Outer Space Reviews:
Classic Cat Movie! 
2009-09-08 - The Cat From Outer Space is a childhood favorite of mine and still holds up today, decades later. It's a great non-animated Disney family movie. I highly recommend to you and your children. Especially if you like cats! The cat in the movie is a very beautiful one too--an abyssinian.
Enjoy!
Great family movie...grab the popcorn!
2009-07-09 - I remember this from my childhood, so I bought it for my children who are 6 and 8. They enjoyed the movie, though they did point out to me that smoking is wrong (Mcclean Stevenson's character and others smoke) and that stealing things (motorcycles, etc) was not ok either. This is a Disney classic!
Very cute movie!!! My kids loved it:)
2009-06-29 - Very cute movie:) One of those Disney classics...just good, clean, fun!!! Would recommend:)
The Cat From Outer Space
2009-06-27 - This was the ONLY thing my Grandson asked for for his fifth birthday, and he's thrilled to have it!
Classic Disney :-)
Really a great movie for kids
2008-12-12 - This Disney flick is not animated. It uses believable special effects for the 70s, back when I was a kid. Very funny and cute. I'm buying this on DVD because my daughter loved it when I borrowed it from the library on VHS.
The cat behaves and sounds like a 30 year old man. He's a space explorer like the crew from Star Trek. Ironically, he makes a man out of the spineless earthling he meets while trying to get home. This movie probably inspired E.T. and stars the actor who played Colonel Potter on M.A.S.H.
