Well . . . thank goodness I only spent a nickel to rent this.

*spoilers ahead; you were warned*

"Millionare Dogs" is the tale of five dogs (and a parrot too) and their owner, Miss Lilly as they live and enjoy life inside a big, comfy mansion. Unfortunately, the old woman passes away, leaving the animals lonesome and saddened. However the animals find out that Miss Lilly left the house and a million dollars for her beloved animals, which this makes Miss Lilly's closest relative twins think of a scheme to get rid of the canines so that they can get what they believe belongs to them.

Yeah. That's the basics of it. Part Aristocats and part something else . . . . it's a typical, obviously predictable film. The characters are . . . oddly thin and the design is quite different (except for the fact that Bella (the "beautiful" one) reminds me a whole lot of Sasha from ADGTH2 and the TV series), but the personalities are stereotypical (the leader, the beauty that the leader falls for, the "teen idol", the strong one, the brainiac, and the chatterbox). The animation . . . horrible. The songs and the dubbing (I watched the US DVD release of the film - English dub only) made no sense at all. It made it feel like the whole film was a waste, to a point.

Overall, it's worth a look (just one. not two . . . only ONE). Even though it will make your eardrums bleed. At least the story is a bit interesting.

I'm from Germany. I want to work in the animation industry. I want to show everyone that there could be better movies made here than "Millionaire Dogs". This is the most awful movie I've ever seen, animated or otherwise (and I've seen close to 2,000 flicks to this point in my life). It made me want to throw over, it made me want to burn every copy available of this piece of junk. It's not funny, it's not nice to look at, it's just plain horrible. Sorry, I'm running out of words to describe it and not falling into the category of hard swearing. My advice: run if you see "Millionaire Dogs" somewhere. Run as fast as you can.

(Why can't you give a movie zero stars here at KEYFRAME? "Millionaire Dogs" deserves such a rating!)

I actually have to defend this movie. I really love it. The plot has similarities to The Aristocats, but only the very basic idea that a fortune is left to some animals and greedy humans plot to take it for themselves. The story of Millionaire Dogs is far different from the Aristocats' adventures.

I think the movie is overall quite cute and fun for most age groups. Parts of it are strange, but that might be partly because it was originally German, and also just because it's different from most movies. Yet I still was able to compare it with most other 'talking dog' movies that I know (since they happen to be my favorites), as well as other films.

Miss Lilly has adopted homeless dogs and, when she passes away, her estate is willed to them. She maintains her contact with two lead dogs, J.D. and his love interest Bella, letting them know in the end that their choice to turn her house into a home for all abandoned animals is just what she had wanted. Her niece and nephew, Hannie and Ronnie, are extremely ugly, but this works because not only is it funny, but they are supposed to be unattractive snobs who want their aunt's home to themselves (well, really each one wants it mostly for his/herself) & don't care a thing for Lilly. They're twins, and do a lot of finishing each other's sentences.

All of the dogs are likable characters. They don't look or move just like real dogs because they're not intended to. Chuffie is a sophisticated astronomer/astrologer purple terrier mix who was dumped from a limousine. Sherman is a Mastiff-type guard dog. J.D. is a Labrador mix (though he just looks more like a
generic terrierish roughish mutt.) Velvet is a completely adorable teenybopper toy (small dog of the general Yorkie/Lhasa-ish type.) And the very beautiful Bella, who falls for a Labrador for the second time in her life, is clearly a sighthound (specifically Saluki)--thus her thinness. (She reminds me of Sasha LaFleur & similar dogs too, which is a very good thing.) It's a highly exaggerated, yes, but then so is almost everything in the movie (and JD's pretty skinny himself.) The animation is very appealing--but all of it is still recognizable.

Millionaire Dogs isn't quite on the level of other animated talking animal movies (purely thanks to the awkward/inconsistent/error-laden animation), but it certainly isn't bad. What I DO think, is that it gets a low grade in the Animation department. Characters, story, overall design--A+. It's just that if Disney or Don Bluth or someone had made it, I believe the animation would look 100x better in almost every scene.

I wanted to like this movie. It's German, and I'm always interested in something from a country other than the usual culprits. But this is just a bad film. There's no getting around it. It's awful.

Miss Lilly is a sweet old lady who dies and leaves her mansion and a million dollars to her stray dogs (who are joined by two other strays at the start of the film). Meanwhile her niece and nephew (who are the most hideous, horribly voiced and disturbing looking characters I've ever seen in an animated film) scheme to disinherit them. The cover slick says "In the tradition of 'Lady and the Tramp' and '101 Dalmatians'", but the plot actually seems to be out of 'The Aristocats'.

The characters are mostly horribly drawn and unlikeable. There is a hideous Pekinese who listens to a walkman, and Bella, the supposedly sexy ex-circus dog, who is so thin she looks frighteningly anorexic, and seems to have no purpose other than to come on to JD (the male lead) in the first two seconds she's on screen. She doesn't stop for the rest of the film.

Whoever designed the dog characters also seemed to have some fundamental misunderstanding about how dogs are made, because they look like horses when they walk.

I watched this back in about 1999 and was kinder to it then, but I found I couldn't sit through it twice.

This is from the director of 'The Magic Voyage', which according to the ratings on imdb is even worse. I haven't seen it and don't intend to. One of the user descriptions of the plot cracked me up so much, I'm sure the actual movie would be a disappointment in comparison.

This is only the second time out of over 160 reviews that I've given a film 1 star. Sorry, guys. Like I said, I tried to like it, but couldn't manage it.