Une Vie de Chat (Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol, 2010)

A Parisian cat is a burglar's partner by night and a little girl's pet by day. When the girl falls into the clutches of a bunch of gangsters, the burglar decides to come to her aid. The simple storyline of A Cat in Paris is just about enough to sustain the 70-minute running time and the nocturnal Parisian backdrops are luminously painted. But the characters themselves are positively dull, sloppily and unappealingly drawn, including the cat itself. It'll do for undemanding young children but there's little for an adult audience here when compared to the best examples of the genre, such as the work of Sylvain Chomet.

4/10