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LADY AND THE TRAMP REVIEW: AN INTERMITTENTLY CHARMING BUT ENTIRELY POINTLESS
LIVE-ACTION REMAKE

By Jonathon Wilson
Published: November 15, 2019 (Last updated: February 12, 2024)
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It’s becoming a bit played-out to remind people that Disney’s recent spate of
live-action remakes are cynical and soulless efforts to rifle through nostalgic
pockets, but here we are again, I suppose. And after Aladdin, Dumbo and The Lion
King, which all came out this year, Lady and the Tramp (Disney+) feels like a
depressingly on-brand way for Disney to lure subscribers into their new vault of
timeless treasures. The only noteworthy thing about Charlie Bean’s faithful
sprucing-up of the 1955 animated original is that it’s intermittently charming
enough that you can’t really bring yourself to dislike it.



Well, that and the real-life dogs, who stand in for the previously inked
versions of the titular Lady (Tessa Thompson) and the Tramp (Justin Theroux).
Mostly, anyway. Unconvincing CGI meddling contorts the doggos’ faces when they
speak, which they do quite a bit, and the effect is noticeably horrifying. While
I have no proof of this, I’m also convinced that in some sequences the pooches
are sprung entirely from a computer in the vague hope we wouldn’t notice.

Noticing is one thing — but do we care? There aren’t very many reasons to. The
story’s framework remains unchanged. In the early 1900s — this time in a
racially panoramic Savannah, Georgia — Jim Dear (Thomas Mann) gifts his wife
Darling (Kiersey Clemons) a cute cocker spaniel who quickly becomes a treasured
part of the family. That’s until Darling falls pregnant and the couple absconds
for a while, leaving Lady to be menaced by psychopathic CGI cats and eventually
flee to the fake-looking streets where she falls in with a streetwise mutt. They
enjoy various romantic adventures while staying one step ahead of a menacing
dogcatcher (Adrian Martinez) and eventually share a slap-up meal for two that
brings them closer both physically and emotionally.



You can look at screenshots of the iconic beats side by side and see how
lifeless this version of Lady and the Tramp feels next to its brighter, lighter,
and more personable predecessor. Virtually all of the pleasure is in the
casting. Thompson and Theroux make for serviceable if not wholly convincing
leads, but Ashley Jensen is a delight as Scottish terrier Jock, and Sam Elliott
is perfectly cast as old reliable bloodhound Trusty. The script by Kari Granlund
and Andrew Bujalski surprises on occasion with a few tasty morsels in the form
of some well-timed quips, but it’s mostly bland kibble scattered to lead the
pooches from point A to B.

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Summary

If the point of Lady and the Tramp is to convince us that Disney+ is as good a
forever home as any for cynical live-action remakes, then it makes it well.

The songs are so few and far between that they might as well not be there, and
there’s such an awkward shifting of gears whenever a ditty starts up that the
overall effect is as distracting as the digital embellishments. This doesn’t
strike me as a story in need of much embellishment in the first place, and
certainly not of the strained, computer-generated kind that bleeds all the
wholesome color out of the warm Christmassy fable at the film’s core.
Sometimes this Lady and the Tramp is kind enough to offer a glimpse of that
treacly heart, and you can’t help but be appreciative whenever it does. But you
can see what’s underneath the gloss because Disney have demanded so many pounds
of consumerist flesh that there are only bones left to gnaw on. Go fetch.





ARTICLE BY JONATHON WILSON

Jonathon is one of the co-founders of Ready Steady Cut and has been an
instrumental part of the team since its inception in 2017. Jonathon has remained
involved in all aspects of the site’s operation, mainly dedicated to its content
output, remaining one of its primary Entertainment writers while also
functioning as our dedicated Commissioning Editor, publishing over 6,500
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