by Linda Kay
Directed by: Reinhard Klooss
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!
Synopsis: The Pampered pets of Robo-City must unite with a stray dog to fight a technological takeover of their town.
Cartoon Cats: Belle (voiced by Natalie Dormer) is a spoiled Siamese cat with a tabby tail. She is startled one night when a dog named Roger (voiced by Patrick Roche) breaks into her apartment and starts stealing food.
Roger is a stray dog who takes care of fellow strays. Another little black cat with white paws and face is one of the homeless animals whom Roger cares for in their section of town.
Belle belongs to a wealthy woman who gives her kitty every luxury.
The pampered pets are dropped off at a high class gym for animals.
When the mayor turns the robots of Robo-City on the people, driving them from town, the pets are left behind.
Roger is determined to find out what is really behind the takeover. Belle and the other pets reluctantly join him.
Passing through a zoo, the pets have odd encounters with various animals, including a monitor lizard.
Belle takes everyone back to her apartment in the hopes her owner will be there, but is crushed to find she isn’t.
Roger and the pets, as well as an emotional robot named Bob who is wanted by the evil mayor (who also turns out to be a robot), continue their quest for answers.
They find time for a little fun and dancing at an abandoned mall.
Feeling he is putting his animal friends in danger, Bob gives himself up. Roger insists on going to look for Bob alone. But Belle and the others decide they will follow via the sewers.
Finding Roger and Bob in danger, Belle jumps in to help them.
Even though she fears spiders, she faces the Mayor’s giant spider robot and takes it down.
In the end everything works out okay, as one would expect. Co-produced in China and released there first before being thrown onto Netflix in the U.S. market, this one is honestly a pretty poor excuse for a movie all the way around.
Final Mewsings: Cats (and all animals) deserve better content than this.
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