Cat City

This is quite the animated feature film from behind the Iron Curtain: 

This sure was a 1986 Hungarian animated movie featuring anthropomorphic cats & mice where the former are the villains & portrayed as gangsters. Instead of watching the Oscars last night (they haven’t been viewed by me in at least the past few years), my time was better spent on the Eternal Family streaming platform; I went to one of their 24/7 streaming channels, and a movie was ending. This played next-as this was on my watchlist anyhow, the channel wasn’t changed.

There’s a Star Wars crawl and the movie was announced as taking place “80 Years After Mickey Mouse”… no, I don’t know why either.

Cats and mice live on Planet X but it’s not harmonious. A badass mouse named Grabowsky is tasked to grab plans from a city called “Pokio” (i.e. Tokyo. Expect to see mice that some will describe as “racially insensitive”… but there’s an even worse example of that I’ll mention in a moment) to built a weapon that will protect the mice for good. The cats attempt to stop this, although that is done via bumbling henchmen.

A subplot is present involving someone called LAZY DICK who is a police officer & becomes involved w/ crude Mexican stereotypes; that did not age well. Otherwise, I had a pretty good time with this adult cartoon (which was never graphic or OOT) and had a silly sense of humor that typically did make me laugh. The animation was nice, as was the score. Oh, and Cat City randomly had several musical numbers.

From other reviews, evidently not all the Hungarian humor and situations will translate well for those like me that are ignorant of the culture, either 40 years ago or now. Even so, I was still happy to have tackled an interesting animated feature film like Cat City last night. Thankfully, Deaf Crocodile released it on Blu in the West. One day, the similar Felidae (a German animated movie featuring only cats)-which I’ve known of for far longer-will finally be viewed then reviewed here.