Bad Cat

As may be noticed from the reviews, this animated movie is not for families, children and snowflakes. The movie does a great job of presenting the essence of Bulent Ustun's legendary character. It's a beautiful reimagination of Istanbul city life that involves cohabitation of animals and humans. Yes, it involves gore, profanity, debauchery and vulgarity; but you still feel that it comes from a place of love and particularly a love for cats. I remind you that animals are less 'civilized' than humans. Street cats die everyday and they have a hard life (despite people's love). These are the realities of the situation.

First off, I never expected a Turkish animation could be this good -- how I was wrong. The animation is so great I can't help not to write a review; something I don't usually bother doing. The level of details put into every scene is stunning, the character motions, the physics of things, the visual effects and everything that a good 3d movie should tend to was done close to perfection. As far as the animation goes, this movie is a real winner. But now here comes the unfortunate part: the story. From the beginning, I felt nothing is so engaging about the story. I was honestly bored and could have left the movie after 15 minutes if it wasn't for the animation. I watched the English-dubbed version, so maybe something is lost in translation. There isn't much to enjoy from the dialogs througout the duration, some were crude, some were cheesy and none is entertaining. But again, this is the dubbed version I was watching. if only I could understand the movie in its original language, probably I could have enjoyed it more. However kudos to the team behind this animaton work.

A typical bad and ugly SOB big city cat in Istanbul.. The film depicts his relation with his owner, or rather servant, and a hot "purebred" chick he wants to bang. Lots of cussing, lots of action and lots of fun running around 3D modeled back streets of Istanbul.. Not sure if Turkish word plays and sense of humor will make sense in English. Hope the translation crew did it justice. Great viewing none the less.

This is not a children's movie! The story is full of violence, animal cruelty. After the first 10 min people letf the theatre with their kids. I hoped that the story would have a twist but completly waste of time. The animation is good but the rest ...

I had to look up the comic strip after watching this movie as it left me really puzzled what had led to this trainwreck. Apparently the running joke in the source material is swearing, which in the modern Turkish culture is about at the same level as when Sex Pistols dropped the F-bomb in a TV broadcast back in the days. The animation is okay for the most part, but the big letdown is that the story doesn't really go anywhere. They obviously attempt at some kind of finding your life in family life moment for the main character, but failed to bring it home. At the same time everything else was a mess where swear words and mentions of alcohol usage were dropped like they alone make the best joke ever. There was so much potential where they could have taken this, but they didn't go beyond a questionable attempt at "Garfield gone bad". This would have been a lot better as a 15 minute student project than a full movie, but as is there's a very loosely written story that lazily binds unrelated scenes together to waste 80 minutes of your time.

I was ready to toss this into the delete pile in 5 min after I started. That's all I was going to give It. I thought It was surely going to be another pile of crap 3D animation cash grab. I'm still watching and almost done. Profanity, death, gore, sexual innuendo, alcoholism, theft, drunken driving... the list goes on and on. It's actually amusing at times. I'm surprised frankly. This Is no stinking kids movie. It's adult oriented through and through. Well animated as well.

If you have watched, Fritz the Cat 1972 and liked it, you'll more likely also watch and enjoy this one. Bad language is flowing like a water-turd fall and toilet humor is rife. There is an overall moral though, and there is also a sense of order among all the chaos. I felt the poor zapped fella was hard done by myself, he didn't deserve all that beating. That aside, this is an enjoyable watch but not with granny or the kids. Not the crispest animation if you are picky, but you soon get absorbed into the plot and those failings soon get brushed aside and are more than made up for by the unique animated methods and rapid fire scenes and constant twisting mini plots and scene to scene shoots. The perspective the animators used i don't think can ever be emulated with as much success as was achieved here, it was quite something to feel my own chair move when i was trying to follow the movements on screen.