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14 Of Cinema’s Most Adorable Animals
Oh wook at der widdle faces!
Nowadays, studios lure kids into the cinema with giant robots (Transformers 3), buccaneers (Pirates) comic book heroes (Thor, Captain America) and, of course, CGI animals with Hollywood voices (Hop, Rio, Rango). But back in the day, movie-makers didn’t have access to CGI trickery. So what did they do? They wowed audiences with cartoons and live-action animal capers. So in honour of the seemingly passé work of animal actors, here are 14 of our favourite cute critters, from dogs to penguins, sea lions to orang-utans, all of them stupidly sweet and aggressively adorable. Any we’ve missed that you still love? Let us know in the usual place…
WORDS ALI PLUMB
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LassieFilm: Lassie Come Home (1943)
Owner: Joe Carraclough (Roddy McDowall) Sure, Lassie is the most obvious answer to the perennial pub question “What’s the cutest animal in cinema?” – hey, it’s a perennial pub question round our way – but how could we not include him? He’s Lassie, the Dogfather of movie mutts. It’s compulsory. There have been plenty of Lassie sequels but it’s the original that still shines brightest, telling the tale of a Depression-era Yorkshire schoolboy and his beloved long-haired collie. The poor pup is sold by Joe’s parents to pay the rent, and is carted down south by his new owner. Lassie promptly escapes, and so begins his one-dog journey back home, making new friends along the way and generally looking immaculate. Come on, it’s a good-looking dog. Good hair. Good poise. Good… we’ll stop now. It’s a cute dog, done.
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