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...film begins firmly rooted in the human world, but it is clear from the start that the dogs are in charge. Dalmatian Pongo wakes his "master" Roger (Jeff Daniels), starts the shower, makes the coffee, and turns on the computer. Pongo's expressive grunts, barks, and tail-wagging make Roger's conversation with him seem perfectly normal, as any dog owner will insist. The camaraderie between humans and dogs is affectionately represented in the movie, although the pooches appear to have a significant intellectual edge...
After one helter-skelter day of turbulent bicycle rides in the park, Roger and Pongo fall in love with Anita (Joely Richardson) and Perdita. They hold a double wedding and soon Perdita gives birth to 15 Dalmatian puppies. Daniels and Richardson play these potentially corny scenes with deadpan sincerity, making the parallels between canine and human love amusing rather than insipid. The always-reliable and lovable Joan Plowright also appears as the couple's nanny...
Pago à Go-Go. When the presidential party touched down for a 115-minute refueling stop at Pago Pago (pronounced pongo pongo or pahgo pahgo) on the American Samoan isle of Tutuila next day, nearly one-fourth of its 22,000 people turned out, carrying umbrellas and banyan branches against the blazing sun. Along the tapa-cloth welcome mat, 50 bare-chested chiefs and their wives took part in the Pago à Go-Go, draping the President with ulas-Samoan leis-made of shells. In an even more honorific ritual, the Johnsons were offered coconut shells filled with a bitter...
Hero and Heroine, Pongo and Perdita, after several months of dogmestic bliss, produce a litter of 15 purebred Dalmatian pups. Fate, the hound, decrees that all their troubles shall not be little ones. The pups are promptly dognaped by a couple of unmitigated curs in the employ of Cruella de Vil, a wicked wealthy witch who intends to slaughter the dogs, strip off their pelts and make herself a beautiful Dalmatian coat...
...Pongo Twistleton, Uncle Fred's nephew, who goes all "white and shaken, like a dry martini" on seeing the punctured topper fly through...