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Cats: The Movie

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and I was enchanted by the adventures of Marcello. The photography was amazing... obviously the filmmaker understands how to direct the feline stars. I've never seen that before with live cats. Definitely a stocking stuffer!

This movie is for the cat lover in us all! Real cats, in an exciting
adventure story. Charming and funny, exciting and heart-warming.
Anyone who has ever loved a cat beyond reason, will want to see this film!

We liked this movie a lot but I can see how not everyone would. Watching the director/writer's commentary about how it was made was facinating. The cats were not trained!

I work as a cat adoption counselor and I really was impressed by this film. They must have shot thousands of hours of film (or digits or whatever you call it now) and composed it into a storyline.

I make every one of my homeless cats watch the segment on how to get adopted. It really helps them charm their way off death row.

I was not sure what to expect with this movie, but I was intrigued by the use of "real" cats. This is not a flashy Hollywood movie; it appears more like a home movie with trained animals and voice-overs, but the story is cute and the use of real animals makes it fun to watch. I recommend this film for cat lovers of all ages!

Great movie, got a few laughs, and something nicely different. I got it for my daughter who loves cats and she really liked it. The "plot" gets a little confused in the middle, but really this is more about watching cats playing than any great work of drama. I'm sure we'll watch it again as it is a nice change of pace from cartoons and "air bud" movies.

I personally didn't enjoy the movie that much. I will say this though - my son and my niece(4 and 6 years) really enjoyed it. They are both cat lovers, having grown up in a household where the only pets are cats.
We didn't buy the movie, but we may, if the kids ask for it a lot. I just didn't like it enough to buy it for my own enjoyment.

Marchello (Troy Garrity) is a pampered black-and-white medium-hair cat, an indoor-only feline who, when his human "mom" goes off for a weekend, manages to push a window open and get out. His main goal is to visit Jujube (Michelle Rodriguez), the beautiful long-hair across the street, but he soon discovers that the Great Outdoors offers more dangers than dogs, cars, and the Big Blue Bus: a rollerblading catnapper scoops him up and carries him off for ransom! Marchello contrives to escape, but now he's in territory utterly strange to him. How will he get home? His situation is complicated by two other cats he meets: Pinky (Shannon Conlin), his own almost-twin, who has stuck loyally to her "home" for the last seven days even though her "mom" has disappeared and the house is being torn down around her, and Blackie (Jeremy Piven), the tough-talking short-hair who compassionately helps strays find humans to love them. Meanwhile Jujube enlists the local birds and squirrels to find Marchello and help guide him back to his own neighborhood. This movie was made entirely with cats going about their natural routines (no trick-training) and is a sweet and touching--and often suspenseful--tale of the woes of strays. All cat-lovers, young and old, should enjoy it.

I could have paid hobo off the streets to shoot a better film than this! I think this movie was shot with one of those VHS camcorders and put into a dvd/vhs combo and burned on a dvd, then voice edited, then burned again and shipped out for release. Its sad really. I may go out this afternoon and record snails with my cell phone, add voices, and make a movie out of it. I'm quite sure it would be more entertaining and would not induce the headache commonly associated while watching Cats: The Movie, not to mention a huge upgrade in video quality. Please, Stay away from this sorry excuse of a movie!

Got this for my wife. It's an amusing movie, but fairly cheaply made considering there are a few actual star voices. Fun for kids, amusing for adults who like cats.