History Film / OneHundredAndOneDalmatians

* AshFace

* BananaInTheTailpipe: Raccoons put a large nut in the tailpipe of the bad guys' truck. The pressure does shoot the nut out eventually - when the bad guy is examining the tail pipe.

* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: Why do [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers National Newspapers]] like ''The Independent'' have reports on two relative nobodies getting married? Or make the kidnapping of fifteen puppies front page headline news? Though Anita did work as a fashion designer for Cruella's fashion house, nothing on screen implies she is particularly notable within in the company - Cruella only notices her when she designs the coat (her original idea being for [[ItsFakeFurItsFine FAKE fur]]).

* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: Why do [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers National Newspapers]] like ''The Independent'' have reports on two relative nobodies getting married? Or make the kidnapping of fifteen puppies front page headline news? Though Anita did work as a fashion designer for Cruella's fashion house, nothing on screen implies she is particularly notable within in the company - Cruella only notices her when she designs the coat (her original idea being for FAKE fur).

''101 Dalmatians'' is a 1996 live-action adaptation of Disney's ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''. It starts Creator/GlennClose as Cruella DeVil, is updated to ThePresentDay, and the animal characters don't speak this time. The film was written and produced by Creator/JohnHughes and directed by Stephen Herek.

''101 Dalmatians'' is a 1996 live-action adaptation of Disney's ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''. It starts Creator/GlennClose as Cruella, is updated to ThePresentDay, and the animal characters don't speak this time. The film was written and produced by Creator/JohnHughes and directed by Stephen Herek.

* DecompositeCharacter: Jasper and Horace's job to kill and skin the puppies in the animated film was given to Skinner.

* GrossOutShow: A pig farts in Cruella's face, she falls into a vat of molasses and is kicked by a horse into a pigsty.

* DisappointedInYou: Cruella was furious when her best employee Anita got married, earlier she tries to discourage her from such things as married/family life would damper her potential. When Anita refuses to sell the puppies to her, Cruella screams that she fired and "will never work in fashion again".

* LargeHam \ EvilIsHammy: Glenn Close knew this was a great role for the application of ''mountains'' of ham, and she brought it all with her. Her legendary talent let her pull it off while making it look easy.

* LoveAtFirstSight: Perdita for Pongo.

The live-action version got a sequel in 2000, ''102 Dalmatians'', where Cruella undergoes hypnotherapy to love puppies and hate fur coats and is released from jail to do community service for a struggling animal shelter, warned that if she ever repeats the offense, her entire fortune will go the shelter. Unfortunately, Big Ben's chimes break the hypnosis and Cruella reverts back to her fur-loving puppy-hating self. Not even bothering to use her idiotic henchmen Jasper and Horace, Cruella makes an agreement with another animal skin coat lover from France named Le Pelt to make the coat, planning to use ''102'' dalmatians this time. Only Glenn Close and Tim [=McInnerny=] reprised their roles as Cruella and her timid butler Alonzo from the original film. The main human characters in this film are Chloe Simon, a young probation officer who now owns Dipstick (one of the 15 puppies from the first film) and is skeptical about giving Cruella another chance, and Kevin Shepard, the owner of the dog shelter Cruella is assigned to help, who is so excited that his shelter is finally doing well to be the least bit suspicious of Cruella (which comes to bit him later in the film). This film invoked PollyWantsAMicrophone to provide a talking animal character.

* AbsoluteCleavage: At one point Cruella can be seen wearing a corset that shows off her upper body rather nicely.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Oddball, the spotless dalmatian.

* AlwaysCamp: Cruella and Le Pelt from 102.
* AnimatedAdaptation: Sort of. Cartoon versions of these movies' unique puppies have been featured on tie-in merchandise, and a few characters from the first movie made it into the cartoon series.
* AscendedExtra: Alonzo was a two-scene character in the first movie. But the character (and the actor who played him) is one one Cruella's main henchmen in the sequel.

* BagOfKidnapping: In the first film this is how Horace and Jasper steal the puppies, they also do this to Oddball in the sequel.

* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: Cruella's London mansion. It looks fairly normal on the outside, but the inside is a completely different story. There are no windows for a start and the first floor looks like it's underground and instead of electric lights there are torches. In other words it's like Hell.

* ChekhovsSkill: At the climax of the sequel.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Alonzo [[LiteralMinded took Cruella's statement rather literally]] once in ''102 Dalmatians''.
-->'''Cruella:''' Alonzo, we're going to [[{{Revenge}} make them pay]]!\\
'''Alonzo:''' Yes. How much?
** There's also this exchange from the first film after Cruella and her henchmen have been defeated:

* ADogAteMyHomework: The sequel has an example not related to school. Probation Officer Chloe Simon wants one of her charges, Ewan, to show a pay stub and he says he can't because a dog ate it. Chloe, of course, doesn't believe him and asks if he couldn't come with a better story. He tells one about being abducted at Picadilly Circus. Ewan eventually shows a photograph of him and his boss at the dog shelter he works at and a drool-covered [=IOU=] note he received instead of the pay stub because the shelter is low on funds.
* DogWalksYou: In the first film, Pongo and later Perdita run after the other, dragging their owners on bikes by the leash. Poor Roger and Anita end up veering out of control and land in the park duck pond.

* EasilyForgiven: In the end of the second live-action film, Allonzo was still free and there was no mention of him being on probation. Also, he was on friendly terms with the heroes.

* FurBikini: In the fashion show in the second movie.

* HumiliationConga: The villains in both films end up getting this.
* JumpingOutOfACake: Clever inversion in the climax of the sequel, where Cruella is apprehended by ''trapping'' her inside a cake.
* JustTrainWrong: In one scene in the sequel, Cruella De Vil travels on the Venice-Simplon Orient Express to Paris, hauled by preserved locomotive 'Flying Scotsman'. However, the train leaves from St. Pancras (whilst nowadays trains to Paris 'do' leave from St. Pancras, that wasn't the case in 2000), the train to Paris would have been the Eurostar, and while it is likely that Flying Scotsman hauled the VSOE at one time that year, it would have left from Victoria as an excursion train to points around Britain (steam locomotives are not permitted to operate in the Channel Tunnel).

* LargeHam \ EvilIsHammy: Glenn Close knew this was a great role for the application of ''mountains'' of ham, and she brought it all with her. Her legendary talent let her pull it off while making it look easy. Gérard Depardieu gives her a run for her money in the sequel.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: [[spoiler: The sequel has a mild JumpScare which involves a cut to a closeup on Cruella's face and her saying "Surprise!" In-universe it's because she had just sneaked up on Chloe who found the plans for her coat. At the same time it can seem like she's talking directly to the audience. [[http://youtu.be/Vlq1L-A8asM?t=40s The version of the scene that's in the trailer certainly plays it off as such.]]]]

** Oddball has/d no spots, Little Dipper had his father's tail, and Domino's ears are black with white spots.

* NervousWreck: Poor Alonzo the Butler, who has a twitch ''and'' a stutter. Considering that he works for [[BadBoss a person like Cruella]], it would be somewhat alarming if he wasn't this.

* NPlusOneSequelTitle: The sequels is titled ''102 Dalmatians.''

* PimpedOutDress: Some of Cruella's outfits and the fashion show in the second film.

* PollyWantsAMicrophone: Waddlesworth, a talking macaw (voiced by Eric Idle) who thinks he's a Rottweiler in ''102''.

* RevengeByProxy: In the second live-action film, Cruella planned to get even with Dipstick by turning his puppies into a hood for her coat.

* ShipperOnDeck: Waddlesworth in the sequel ships himself and Oddball.

* TastesLikeChicken: Waddlesworth says this while chewing at the woodwork when he saw the puppies below.

* ThatManIsDead: When the therapy Cruella has been subjected to between the first and the second movies wears off, she tells Allonzo that "Ella's gone and Cruella is back".

* ThoseTwoGuys: Domino and Little Dipper in ''102 Dalmatians''.

** In the sequel, Cruella wanted to add Dipstick's three puppies to her coat so, instead of 99 Dalmatians like she had originally planned, the coat would be made of 10'''2'''.
* WackyMarriageProposal: Roger proposes to Anita via a FreudianSlip: "Would you like another cup of marriage? I mean tea?"
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: ''102 Dalmations'' makes no mention of Roger or Anita, Pongo or Perdita, or Dipstick's siblings.

* HomeAloneAntics

* {{Bowdlerise}}: A slight re-dub occurred in the United Kingdom release, in which Horace's line "No bloody wonder you can't talk, mate!" was re-dubbed to "No blinkin' wonder you can't talk, mate!" The "bloody" slang is [[CultureClash is considered to be profane in the United Kingdom]].

* DogWalksYou: "I saw a dog who was walking a man".

** Oddball has/d no spots, Little Dipper had his father's tail...

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Cruella cannot understand why Roger and Anita, who are on a fixed income, refuse to sell the puppies, even when she offers them a cheque for ''7500 pounds''. In fact, her insistence is what convinces them that Cruella's intentions are not in the puppies' favour.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Cruella and Jasper are choleric, Horace is phlegmatic/sanguine, and Mr. Skinner is melancholic.

** When Roger and Anita tell Cruella they're having a baby, she's less than interested. When Roger adds that they're also having puppies (meaning Pongo and Perdy were) Cruella grins and says, "Well, you have been a busy boy, haven't you?" Yes, ladies and gentlemen, they made a bestiality joke in a Disney movie.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: [[spoiler: The sequel has a mild JumpScare which involves a cut to a closeup on Cruella's face and her saying "Surprise!" In-universe it's because she had just snuck up on Chloe who found the plans for her coat. At the same time it can seem like she's talking directly to the audience. [[http://youtu.be/Vlq1L-A8asM?t=40s The version of the scene that's in the trailer certainly plays it off as such.]]]]

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Jeff Daniels is quite American, and it's quite obvious. His character could very well ''be'' an American living in England, however (as a video game designer, it's possible a British company brought over a Silicon Valley hotshot for one reason or another.)

** What follows next is that they are sprayed by a skunk that Curella had confused for her purse.

* WackyMarriageProposal: "Would you like another cup of marriage? I mean tea?"
** It also seemed a little like a FreudianSlip.

* LostInImitation: Naturally seems to be based more on the 1961 film than on the book (though unlike the first film, it does get Roger and Anita's last names from the original book right: Dearly instead if Radcliffe. Also, the sequel includes the dinner party which was not included in the original film. )

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Jeff Daniels is quite American, and it's quite obvious.
** His character could very well ''be'' an American living in England, however (as a video game designer, it's possible a British company brought over a Silicon Valley hotshot for one reason or another.)

* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: Why do [[BritishNewspapers National Newspapers]] like ''The Independent'' have reports on two relative nobodies getting married? Or make the kidnapping of fifteen puppies front page headline news? Though Anita did work as a fashion designer for Cruella's fashion house, nothing on screen implies she is particularly notable within in the company - Cruella only notices her when she designs the coat (her original idea being for FAKE fur).

* KnightOfCerebus: Mr. Skinner. Unlike Cruella, who is hammy and [[LaughablyEvil laugably evil]] at times, there are no such moments, apart from Horace's comments. He [[TheVoiceless never utters any dialogue]] because a dog tore open his throat, and there is a visible scar shown, with a permanent leer on his face. His job is basically skinning animals and turning them into coats for Cruella, and was about to do it to Lucky, until another dog ''mauls'' Skinner with a shot in the shadows. He is '''[[NightmareFuel terrifying]]''' as a result. Notably, he does not encounter any slapstick in the film like Horace, Jasper, or even Cruella.