The Adventures of Milo and Otis (1986)

How far did the little kitty fall into the ocean? How much did it hurt the little kitty when the crab had a hold of it's nose? Did that bear actually have the kitten's paw in it's mouth? What kind of lunatic would have a puppy wrestle a bear cub in the water? How many animals were hurt in the making of this movie? Did they get eaten at the wrap party? I have read reviews on this site stating that Masanori Hata is some kind of animal lover. Animal lovers don't put animals in harms way. Which is basically what these animals are in this entire movie. They would have been safer in a slaughter house. Two words: animal cruelty. I would never let my great grand children watch this garbage! I would love to beat Masanori Hata with my cane!

Fmovies: 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.

Throwing kittens off a cliff for entertainment? I couldn't believe my eyes. Shocking. I wonder how many cats died making that particular shot. The animal abuse in this movie is so apparent, it's amazing this got aired at all.

My girlfriend and me tried to watch this, hoping for a sweet movie; we own a pug and kitten, we did not know what was in store for us. The rest of the night we will spend comforting our pets, they are in a state of shock!

I would love to put the people making money of this through the same horrors they put the animals through.

Great movie if you hate cats.

article about the animal abuse in this movie: http://theculturalgutter.com/movies-2/is_milo_in_heaven_mommy.html

The Adventures of Milo and Otis fmovies. 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 hate when people review a film without making any researches about it. In the 80s, there was basically no laws to protect animals. A lot of newspapers at the time reported the atrocities that the animals had to endure during this shooting, well,the ones who could survive. About 30 kittens were killed during the shooting and the most terrible thing is that most of them were killed deliberately. The famous scene when Chartran (Milo or Otis, in french the kitten name is Chartran) falls from a high cliff needed many kittens, one for each take...there's also all those terrible stuff about the little bear and the dog. The Columbia refused at that time to put in the credits that no animals were harmed during the shooting. A lot of viewers were in shock after the screening cause obviously, a film like that without any FX could had not been shot without cruelty. Chartran was not a kitten but tens of them... Boycott that piece of s...! It's not a cute film for all ages, it's a snuff for kids, a HUGE mass grave that should be remembered only for all the atrocities it has done to those unwilling animals.

Sure, the end result was a very cute movie, but now that I am a parent I would never allow my son to see this film. Every scene includes some horrible thing done to the animal 'actors' in order to get a particular shot. Cats and dogs thrown off cliffs into ocean breakers, riding down whitewater rivers in a box, chased by predators, shaking and wet and caked in snow... it really is a nonstop montage of abusive scenes. The movie was filmed in Japan so it did NOT have the American standard of animal supervision, and it is interesting to note that the disclaimer at the end does NOT say that no animals were harmed.

I would never want my son to think that it was ok to treat animals this way, nor would I want to support the film industry in making films this way. The animals in this movie had no idea that it was all "just pretend" nor did they give consent. They probably thought they were about to die any number of times during the filming, and that is assuming that none did die, which I'm not too sure of.

I think it is important to consider the moral ramifications before viewing this movie or showing it to children.