Editing Cats Don't Dance (section)

{{short description|1997 film by Mark Dindal}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Cats Don't Dance
| image          = Cats_dont_dance_poster.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster by [[John Alvin]]
| director       = [[Mark Dindal]]
| producer       = {{Plainlist|
* [[David Kirschner]]
* Paul Gertz
}}
| screenplay     = {{Plainlist|
* Roberts Gannaway
* Cliff Ruby
* Elana Lesser
* Theresa Pettengill
}}
| story          = {{Plainlist|
* [[Rick Calabash|Rick Schneider]]
* Robert Lence
* Mark Dindal
* Kelvin Yasuda
* Brian McEntee
* David Womersley
}}
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Scott Bakula]]
* [[Jasmine Guy]]
}}
| music          = Steve Goldstein
| editing        = Dan Molina
| production_companies = {{Plainlist|
* [[Warner Bros. Family Entertainment]]
* [[Turner Feature Animation]]
* [[Warner Bros. Feature Animation]] 
* David Kirschner Productions
}}
| distributor    = {{Plainlist|
* [[Warner Bros. Pictures|Warner Bros.]] (United States and Canada)
* Turner Pictures Worldwide Distribution (International)
}}
| released       = {{Film date|1997|3|26}}
| runtime        = 74 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $32 million<ref name="numbers">{{cite web|title=Cats Don't Dance|url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Cats-Dont-Dance|publisher=The Numbers|access-date=August 22, 2011}}</ref>
| gross          = $3.5 million<ref name="numbers"/>
}}

'''''Cats Don't Dance''''' is a 1997 American animated [[Musical film|musical]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Mark Dindal]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/172/mode/2up |page=172}}</ref> The film features the voices of [[Scott Bakula]], [[Jasmine Guy]], Matthew Herried, [[Ashley Peldon]], [[John Rhys-Davies]], [[Kathy Najimy]], [[Don Knotts]], [[Hal Holbrook]], [[Betty Lou Gerson]] (in her final film role), [[René Auberjonois]], Dindal, and [[George Kennedy]].

The film's musical numbers were written by [[Randy Newman]] and includes the contributions of [[Gene Kelly]] as [[Choreography|choreographer]], before his death in 1996. The film was Kelly's final film project and is dedicated to his memory. It is the only fully animated feature produced by [[Turner Feature Animation]], which was merged during the [[post-production]] of ''Cats Don't Dance'' into [[Warner Bros. Feature Animation]] after the merger of [[Time Warner]] with [[Turner Broadcasting System]] in 1996.

''Cats Don't Dance'' was released in the United States and Canada on March 26, 1997, by [[Warner Bros. Pictures|Warner Bros.]] under its [[Warner Bros. Family Entertainment|Family Entertainment]] label. It was a [[box-office bomb|box-office failure]], grossing $3.5 million domestically due to lack of promotion.{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}} Despite this, the film received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for its animation, humor, characters, voice performances, and musical numbers.