Overrated and overhyped

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

This is a show I do not remember when I was young. Actually the show came out the year after I graduated high school and at that time I did not watch Saturday morning programs.This show is on KTV every night at 7:00 pm without the commercials. I really enjoy the live action sequences. Having had cats all my life, I root for Waldo and Felicia and their friends Sparrow and Pronto. I have never seen cats be friends with birds and rabbits.The animated sequences are not up to the live-action parts. But I must remember the show was for children not adults. I guess these jokes are to appeal to the adults who may be watching.Still the live action sequences are very good, especially when Waldo gets the best of Tyrone the bull dog.Remember the show is on KTV every night at 7:00 p.m. Tune in and form your own opinion.

Someone wrote about this show: "I thought my sister and I were the only ones watching it". Well, that applies to me too. Waldo Kitty is a distant childhood memory, so far removed I wondered for years if I dreamed it... and then, I looked it up on IMDb and couldn't help smiling. There it was: the song, the cat, the "Cat Enterprise" I remembered so well and felt so excited about ("Oh boy, a episode of Waldo Kitty in SPACE !").Funny, as I watched the opening it all seemed so familiar, so immediate, so obvious. I had forgotten that there was a real live action cat, for instance, but of course there was... Why else would my sister and I love this show so much if it hadn't been for a real cat? (We had a cat back then, which probably explains a lot....)Anyway, 7 out of 10 for sheer nostalgic fun.

As a cat lover, I remember Secret LIves of Waldo Kitty vividly.As others have noted, the show began with Waldo as a real life cat, his feline girlfriend and the bulldog who terrorized them both. Voices were provided over the real animal trio.When Waldo pondered how he would escape from this latest dilemma, he would daydream himself into anthropomorphic cartoon form.The set-ups were five very familiar scenes; Tarzan (Catzan), Batman (Catman), Lone Ranger (Lone Kitty), Robin Hood (Robin Cat) and the STar Trek Enterprise Captain.In each scenario, the bulldog would now have the same three henchmen over and over; three dogs, one tall, one short and I guess the last one was average, don't recall.In the Catman adventures, the real life cat at the beginning would be joined by a real life bird, attempting to aid friend Waldo in escaping from the bulldog.When they went cartoon, the bird of course became Sparrow, the equivalent of Batman's Robin.Lone Kitty was without a doubt the most interesting, as in real life, Waldo the cat would have a sidekick in the form of a real rabbit. IN the cartoon version, the rabbit of course became Tonto (Can't recall the character's name).Of the five adventures, four would become real cartoons from the same company that made Waldo Kitty.Star Trek, with the original cast doing the cartoon voices, came out about four years earlier.Tarzan, Lone Ranger (voiced by William Conrad of Cannon fame) and Batman (voiced by much of the 1960s TV show, including Adam West and Burt Ward) would all come about over the course of time from this animation studio.On Waldo Kitty, as on all these other cartoon shows, the adventures played out much the same over and over.In Waldo Kitty, the bulldog villain was always snarling laughing, kidnapping the female, only to be thwarted by the Waldo character. It never strayed from this plot. Over and over again in each adventure.Plotwise, I recall two moments.In Robin Cat, the hero was in disguise at the archer show to rescue Maid Marian and he motioned for her to remain quiet to his secret, so he puts his finger to his mouth and goes 'shhhhh'."Why do you put your fingers to your lips, sir?" She matter-of-factedly asked, perplexing him.In Catzan, the cat would be leaving and would utter 'keep noses clean'. I guess because at nine-years-of-age, I had never heard that phrase before and so I had no idea what he meant. It was an odd phrase to even put in a children's cartoon. I have never forgotten that bit, especially from what was supposed to be a jungle-raised character.Undeniably the saving grace was the theme. Sung by Howard Morris, showing the most majestic cat from the show walking toward the camera on a treebranch, it then gave way to some gravelly voice singing "He's Waldo Kitty" and showed the cartoon figures of Waldo.I had never heard of Walter Mitty, so I never knew what this show was based upon. Perhaps that was for the better. I did like this show and would like to see it again.

This series is a lost slice of my youth. It's been so long since I've seen it, I thought only my sister and I were the only people in the world who HAVE seen it. As a kid, I never missed 'Waldo Kitty' - in fact up until now I had no idea there were only 13 episodes. For the many who never saw it each episode started out in live-action, usually with our hero cat being put into a seemingly inescapable situation by the local dog. He would then imaging (via voice-over) that he was a hero of some sort who would easily deal with his situation. It would then go into a cartoon where Waldo was that imagined character. I remember bits and pieces of the shows, but one stands out. It was a clever 'Star Trek' parody. To this day I still smile when I recall the 'Tunnel Of Glove' sequence! It's a shame there are so few episodes - this makes it unlikely that it will ever be issued on video, and less likely it will be rerun. But it will always hold a place in my heart! Long live Waldo Kitty!