YMMV / 101 Dalmatians (1996)

• Awesome Music: "Rescue". Disney even reused it for the VHS trailer for the 1997 copy of Sleeping Beauty and the theatrical trailer for Doug's 1st Movie.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Cruella's final line to Anita in their first scene together "Well, if we make this coat, it'd be as if I was wearing your dog!" is an incredibly disturbing and inapproprioate thing to say, but when she starts cackling at her own joke, you start laughing too.
• Crossover Ship: A lot of fans ship Cruella with Miranda Priestly and Andy Sachs (The Devil Wears Prada), either individually or together. A lot of this comes from how similar Miranda and Cruella are to each other, so a lot of fans feel they would have good chemistry. They also feel that Andy would have a similar dynamic with Cruella and will often rewrite the film with Cruella in Miranda's role. The fact that both their actresses have appeared opposite Glenn Close before in different films also helps. The threesome pairing has a lot of fanfiction about it and is only topped by the very popular Miranda/Andy/Emily.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Glenn Close's Cruella gets this, with a tragic traumatic childhood alluded to.
• Genius Bonus: Cruella de Vil drives a 1974 Panther De Ville.
• Ham and Cheese: It may not be six-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close's most profound role, but she makes a really good Cruella and clearly had a ball hamming it up. In fact, she's widely seen as the selling point of the film.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Cruella dismisses Roger's occupation as a video game developer, citing it as a case of It Will Never Catch On. On the contrary, Roger being a one-man team for his game makes him seem more like a modern-day indie-developer. Though considering her disdain for video games anyway, she likely wouldn't see it as a "real job" and still wouldn't respect him.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Towards the end of their first meeting, Anita warns Roger to be careful to watch for a concussion. Several years later, Joely Richardson, who plays Anita, would lose her sister to a severe head injury
• Jerkass Woobie: Skinner, arguably. Horrible and scary though he is, after what the dog did to him, it's not completely beyond the power of imagination how he ended up the way he did.
• Just Here for Godzilla:
  • Some people watch the live-action remake just for Glenn Close's Cruella.
  • Or even to see House as Jasper.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Dr. House and Arthur Weasley are stealing puppies!
  • The portrayal of Horace and Jasper in this film is quite often compared to being the British versions of Harry and Marv from Home Alone. It wouldn't be shocking at all if this was done on purpose as both these films were written by John Hughes.
• Moment of Awesome: Anita being the one to tell off Cruella that the Dearlys are not selling the puppies to her.
• Nightmare Fuel: Skinner. Especially during the scene in Hell Hall when he arrives to skin the puppies and runs across poor Lucky (who was accidentally left behind) trying to get away. Thank God Kipper arrives to save the day.
  • Cruella's introduction also counts. We never see her face until Anita turns around. But she dominates the entire scene, walking straight to Anita as the score plays menacingly underneath. It's a tight and uneasy scene.
• Older Than They Think: This was the first live-action remake of a Disney animated movie, over twenty years before they became popular.
• Paranoia Fuel: Before she shows her true colors, Cruella's first scene with Anita has a certain predatory vibe. It doesn't help that Cruella is Anita's boss and that Glenn Close is known for portraying stalkers quite well.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Hugh Laurie aka Dr. Gregory House as Jasper for non-British viewers.
  • Mark Williams aka Arthur Weasley as Horace.
  • Joely Richardson aka Julia McNamara as Anita.
• So Okay, It's Average: For the most part, the film is seen as just "okay", owing to some outdated for the time effects, and some strange choices in the script, but having a strong cast who do the best with what they were given, most notably Glenn Close as Cruella who is clearly having the time of her life in the part.
• Special Effects Failure:
  • The scenes where the pups are sliding down a pipe use really, really dated CGI.
  • Similarly the scene at the end of the film where Pongo, Perdita, and their puppies are watching Herbert test play Roger's game. The puppies all have very bad-looking CGI bouncing heads.
  • During Cruella's "last laugh" part, there's a notable Dramatic Thunder effect but no actual thunderstorm is present outside the barn she gets kicked out from.
• Vindicated by History: While you'll be hard pressed to find anyone that like this film more than the animated one, it being fairly campy and okayish, Disney's long line of live-action remakes of various receptions throughout the New 10's and New 20's have made people look at this film more fondly.

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