Lady and The Tramp (1955) - 7/10

I've been watchin a lot of animated Disney films lately and figured since this isn't being released on Blu Ray anytime soon, I would check out everything on the new Platinum Edition. Even though I love movies about dogs, for some reason Lady and the Tramp isn't one of my favorite films in their library and after watching it this time, I still think it's pretty weak. The animation and design of the dogs and atmospheres are great, though it doesn't have that painted look or color that jumps out at you like others I've seen recently.
It's cool that the love story works with the fish out of water yuppie girl dog and the rough alley mutt but for me it's all about the songs and secondary characters like the blood hound and siamese cats that make it fun to singalong and participate. There are similar themes of loyalty and friendship like all Disney movies and this one always seems like it's heart is in the right place, yet for some reason it feels rushed and sporatic. Either way, the making of documentary was interesting in how they did research on the dogs and the technology they had to use to animate which really was still hand drawn at that point. I always enjoy a good animated classic like this for the spaghetti scene alone, but for me this is not something I seemed to connect to and probably won't again for some time.