Film Summary CDLXXV (Gay Purr-ee)

It's the beginning of cat week. Why is it that week? I have no idea.
Something to do with Chinese New Year.
I don't know, it's just an excuse to watch cat movies. And will start this one off with Gay Purr-ee.

The story of a little white Persian feline cat (Mewsette) living in a farm community somewhere in the south of France. The film was supposed to suggest that she dreams of living in the big city or has Ambitions of seeing the splendid spectacles of Paris. When in reality she never had these ideas to begin with. She only got them because her former owner sister had come to town and was talking about how wonderful the city was. Of which her sister was having none of it.

Anyways Mewsette is so enthralled with the ideas of seeing gay Paris that she hops aboard a locomotive and head straight for the capital. Meanwhile a little farm cat who admires her has heard about this departure and he's depressed.

At first all seems hopeless. But then he's informed by his little kitten companion about Mewsette departure and decides to head off in the city to find her. I can't remember the exact reason he wants to find her, besides him being in love with her. He's not even sure if he can win back her affection. But he tries anyways.
Now once Mewsette makes it to Paris she's confronted by this other cat who's totally not evil.
I mean they really dress them up to be at shyster of a guy.
Honestly makes me think the people who made 'The Lion King' got their inspiration for scar from this very cat.
There's no evidence to back any of that up. But they both have little underlings who do their work for them, they both act Noble when they're in fact slimy and they even have their own little evil theme songs were at the middle of the movie.

He offers Mewsette a chance to become sophisticated in the big city praying on her lack of sophistication via the country. She decides to go along with the guy having absolutely no knowledge of the outside world and entrusting an any idiot that comes along.
This leads to a whole operation where this evil cat selling her off to this other random girl, who preps her up to become a product of an arranged marriage between Mewsette and this random Rich cat off in America. It's a whole thing that the film only sort of gets into. Really it wants to spend more time on the little orange tabby and he's adventures in Paris as he attempts to look For her. The whole time escaping high speed trains and other pit traps.
He gets screwed over by the same sleazeball that got Mew. Only he's put on a shipped out to the middle of Alaska after getting drunk on champagne.

And for the most part the rest of the movie is just our main characters either trying to find each other or running away from other people. There's a gaggle of bad cats that follow our main antagonist they're all black and you can only see their eyes and their outline. Stop besides that there's not a heck of a lot to discuss with the film.

This film has a beautiful background of Art and mid to sub par animation. All the backgrounds are painted in these classic New Age French designs. There's lots of bright vibrant colours and dark Noir Shadows. And just staring at it is still images is quite beautiful. The animation on the other hand is okay but very lacklustre. You can tell where they're trying to make up for lost animations and whether reusing things time and time again. I guess this is a case of style over substance. And I think it works for the most part. The film goes on a little too long not helped by a myriad of musical scores that just stop the feeling every time that again. They're all perfectly good on their own but the entire film could have done without. This is one of those movies that should have only been 40 minutes long and I think it would have worked better. But still, it's enjoyable enough for what it is.
I would never want to watch the movie again, but if I ever found a book of still images of various shots of the film, I like be bothered to pick that up.
Especially if they're the artistic drawings of our main feline done in various styles of French artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The artistic design of Mewsette is pretty good on its own. She has this slightly sassy \ cute and sophisticated look to her. And I would have loved for more of the film just to focus on her General development into being a more ''classy'' lady.
But instead we get a lot more Bugs Bunny esk humour and slapstick. Which I feel is a little out of place with the general tone they were trying to show. You want this kind of sweet magical image of French culture, but you're doing it alongside the Three Stooges Act of American entertainment. Maybe I'm just complaining too much. It doesn't matter. Not every movie can be Shinbone alley.