Despite being faithful to the plot of its source material, the remake sacrifices the charm of the 1963 original because of the decision to apply human voices to the animals. In the original, the relationship between the pets is delineated entirely through their tactile communication. The remake relies heavily on human slang and then-topical references (i.e. mention of 'action figures' and Arnold Schwarzenegger, use of the "Mission: Impossible" theme), which succeeds in anthropomorphizing the animals to the point of burlesque. That topicality went against everything Walt Disney believed in regarding the timelessness of his movies, a seal that had regrettably been broken the year before with Robin Williams' free-form improvisations in Aladdin (1992).

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