101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure

(The Disneycember logo is shown, before showing clips from 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure)

Doug (vo; sighs): I don't know if it's the string of particularly bad Disney sequels I've had to sit through the last few days, or the fact that this might actually be a good movie, but 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure...is actually kind of a good movie. I dare even say, on par with the original. Yeah. I can't believe those words are leaving my mouth, either! Really? This is the one? It has the spirit of the original, artwork similar to the original, some great updates, some good callbacks. It's exciting, I didn't always know where it was going to go. It's funny, adventurous... Oh, my God! I think I came across an actual good Disney sequel!

Story
Doug (vo): It begins not too shortly after the first one, where we see the Dalmatian Plantation is about to be put into effect, so the family is about to move. But one of the puppies, named Patch, is feeling a little bit out of place, and it's understandably so. When you're the middle child of a hundred and one, you can get a little lost. Hungry for his chance to stand out, he sees that a TV dog, named Thunderbolt, is holding auditions for a new dog to be on his show. What he doesn't know is that his current sidekick, named Lil' Lightning, has told him that they're about to kill off his character, so he needs to find a way to prove to the public that he's a real hero. Patch gets roped in, as he knows everything about the show, but they seem to cause more chaos and misery than they do save people from it. Meanwhile, Cruella...oh, God, how do I even explain this...gets sucked into the art world because she sees a guy who paints a dot. She admits that it feeds her crazy obsession, and they just kind of paint dots together. But he seems to be running out of inspiration, or at least she doesn't like the work he's putting out, so she once again tries to kidnap the puppies. Only this time, she's not gonna make a coat out of them. She wants to paint the canvas with them. Oh, my God, that is delightfully psychotic! In fact, I think she's even crazier in this movie than she was in the last one.