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source: The Adventures of Milo and Otis

This is just criminal. If you have any intelligence then you have to realize that these animals were abuse, thrown off cliffs, thrown into the river and made to fight each other. A small dog forced to fight a bear, a raccoon forced to fight a bear, a small cat forced to fight a bear in a tree! A small cat attacked by seagulls then thrown off a cliff!! Whoever made this should be in prison or shot. This is not entertainment just sick sick sick evil. Anyone involved in this criminal animal abuse is just sadist.

This is seriously the worst movie I've ever seen. Imagine the most annoying voice you can and then square that and that is the narrator. The narrator alone completely destroys any entertainment value to be had at films of cute baby animals. The baby animals have an unbelievable adventure involving animals that I don't believe are even all native to the land. But that small continuity error aside, even if there were that many diverse species all living so close to one another it's impossible to believe that these animals would run into so many in just one day. In addition, there are scenes that may not be suitable for children that show cruelty to animals. While this isn't the main reason I don't like the movie, it adds to the whole effect.

A cute movie for children about a kitten and a puppy who experience various adventures when the kitten gets lost. What WAS disturbing watching this movie was the obvious fear and anxiety the young animals were put through in order to film the scenes in the movies. Absolutely inhumane.

Like some of the other posters who were bothered by this movie's treatment of animals, I'm not a PETA member. In fact, I'm a deer hunter. I shoot cute deer and watch them die. Then I cut them open and remove their organs. Then I cook and eat them. But I don't throw them 30 feet off a seaside cliff into the water, like the filmmaker did to Milo the cat. I don't allow a partially tamed bear to repeatedly duck them and hold them under water, like they did to Otis the dog. I don't make them fight with other animals, which happened more times than I can count. They put a cat in a box and floated him down a stream through rough water and over a waterfall. The animal is clearly terrified, and is almost always at the point of tipping the box over. I'm sure that box tipped over a lot. I'm also sure they did many, many takes of the rapids and waterfall scenes before they got the shots of the terrified cat they wanted (I understand this movie took 4 years to shoot). They threw the dog into the water several times. Apparently it hated water and couldn't be taught to jump in on its own. In one scene (on the dock) the board they use to tip the dog in is visible in the water next to him. In other scenes, they don't show the dog jumping in the water, just landing there after being thrown in. My dog Kiwi loves the water. This dog obviously does not and is terrified. Watch how it swims with its head almost straight up in the air, trying to stay out of the wet. It's a very exhausting way for a dog to swim, and just about the point where the filmmaker sics the bear on him. The movie has a nice story, and some scenes are quite entertaining (the stuff with the fox in particular). But it makes me angry seeing those animals abused in the process. I wish we hadn't bought this movie and supported the cruel people who made it.

Chatran has the only merit to show how far you can go to earn a fistful of miserable bucks. Sacrificing a dozen cats who never asked for anything does not represent my conception of bringing fantasy and entertainment to an audience. "Sure, let's throw the cat from the roof and put it on film, I'm sure the kids will love it!" I'm not saying that no animal was ever harmed on any other shooting that this one, but there's a difference between a horse with a broken leg and five cats thrown from a cliff until one survives and the sequence is wrapped up. (I'm not making this up.) Watching Chatran is like witnessing scientific experiments on animals with the medics laughing their heads off in the background. Except here, the only goal is to make money. The ultimate hypocrisy is that it's supposed to be a charming and moving story with big moral issues about life... To think that the director of this thing is one of the most talented and popular writers in Japan really has me wondering. A sickening experience of cinematographic lobotomy. Blindness is dangerous. Stay aware.

this movie is excellent, kids love it and it's fun for adults, too. the animals are adorable, and the narrator is perfect. i love the complete absence of humans throughout the movie. far preferable to other animal movies in which the animals talk (which is just an cheap way of getting around the communication problem in animal movies). instead of a slap-dash disney-type production, this is more like a storybook that someone has really taken the time to bring to life.

I'm so upset. I purchased this movie for my son for Valentines Day. I read the back of the movie before purchase, Rated G, Cute little story, made by Columbia Pictures, endorsed by The Washington Post, purchased at Walmart for $5 bucks, how can this be wrong? WRONG is when my little son came running "They're torturing the animals! I could not believe my eyes! Kittens screeching for their lives, animals yelping through out, a dog getting whacked by a bear with a sudden cut away as if the dog was killed. Animals don't jump off 100 foot cliffs on their own. So much to say here. Don't show this movie to any child! Kittens and dogs belong in the home, not out in the wild for your movie money making sick escapades! All involved should be so ashamed. I will never trust the film industry again, not even the newspapers. I'm just so angry, how could you do this to me?

single scene description enclosed (does not 'spoil' the movie plot) I'm not a Peta freak. In fact I hate those non-meat eating fools, so it really angers me to have to agree with them on this one. For those that say this movie did not harm animals I could submit scene after scene as example, but will instead limit it to one. At one point the cat is stuck on a ledge with some seagulls, as the narration explains he is attempting to get some eggs. At one point the gulls attacks the cat who does the best acting job I've ever seen, because he looks so scared that he runs around in circles trying to get away from the gulls. That's not entertainment that is torture. This movie could have been made with animation or in the vain of one of those terrible Disney flix like Homeward Bound and still maintained its plot, its theme, and its merit. Instead cats falling into holes, off of cliffs, stranded on rocks in the ocean, having crabs stuck to their fur, and having birds dive bomb them as they run in terror away, is hardly much of an intellectual pursuit, and frankly only entertaining to a corrupt culture.