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Marc Antony the bulldog sees and barks ferociously at a tiny kitten who completely ignores his display of bravado, eventually winning him over. Marc Antony had been warned by the lady of the house to not bring a single thing home and when he shows up with he kitten on his back, a series of misunderstandings leads him to believe his little friend has been baked into a plate of cookies being made by his master. I had never forgotten about this wonderful little cartoon and had a wonderful moment with an ex girlfriend when we both remembered it after neither of us having seen it for decades. I agree with the previous reviewer...just an outstanding sweet little gem of animation.

I'm not sure why this movie just didn't click with me. Maybe it was the wine tasting theme, possibly attempting to add a feeling of depth and knowingness when it really just came off as being pretentious. "Ahhh, these people know wine-they must be smarter and more worldly and wiser than me". Maybe it was the film's predictability. Or maybe it was because I saw it on a night flight from New York to Rome while wedged between an Italian man ranting about having to pay for a glass of wine and a flatulent oil boom salesman. Whatever the reason, it just didn't do it for me.

I literally laughed out loud when Paul Giamatti's character, a little man as he was, would prattle on about how bad a particular wine was, as if he was insulted that someone would have the audacity to lay before him such swill. From that point on, nothing in this movie really mattered.

As they say, 'Great men talk of accomplishments, good men talk of ideas, mediocre men talk about wine'.

If you are wowed and envious of those who know a supposed good wine from supposed bad wine, you'll love it. If you live to slay pretentious fools, it will make you insane.