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91It's a sweet and disquieting excursion made by filmmakers whose eyes and ears and imaginations are in marvelous sync.
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90This movie is graceful, subtle and sure-footed, much as its English title implies.
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90The picture sparkles, but in the nighttime way - its charms have a noirish gleam.
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80This elegantly hand-drawn caper doesn't have a lot to it - a little girl and her cat help break up a Parisian crime ring, un point c'est tout. But it moves to a different rhythm than the animated spectacles we're used to - it's sparer, less hectic, less cute - and the difference feels welcome and refreshing.
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80A charming, visually sparkling Parisian fantasy with a dark edge.
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75A Cat in Paris is thrilling, and a thrilling example of traditional ink and paint cartooning.
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75Some of the action (and violence) in A Cat in Paris borders on the jarring, and the slam-bang finale - set atop Notre Dame Cathedral - favors bombast over wit. But getting there is a lot of fun, in part because the animators take time to make Dino a truly charismatic animal.
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75Although there's a skeletal story, A Cat in Paris evokes a mood instead of a moral. Like a cat nap, it gives us a brief, refreshing dream with little to remember.
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75It's stylish, pretty fun, but not the kind of ambitious effort that should make the world sit up and take notice.
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70A delightfully stylized caper involving a mute little girl, her pet cat and a cat burglar.
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67Handsome and perky and built around a story so simplistic that it almost feels like it wasn't written down.
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63An animated film with the cozy charm of an advertisement for Starbucks French Roast, A Cat in Paris is all design and no danger.
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60While you're watching it, it is cozy and enjoyable, the same way a sleeping cat in your lap is cozy and enjoyable.
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60The trouble with A Cat in Paris lies not in its orchestration, which is mostly impeccable, but with what little is being orchestrated. It's well plotted but a little rote, clever but a far cry from ingenious, attractive but not particularly evocative. When it ends, it leaves behind the faintest of paw prints.
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60It's not your typical animated fare, but since the filmmakers can't quite decide whether its tale should be serious or silly, "Cat" trips and stumbles unsteadily between a bit of both.
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60It's a slight, attractive tale: a childlike fable of a little girl and her preternaturally intelligent cat that swiftly devolves into a very old-school cops and robbers yarn.
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50Slight and unremarkable.
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50Delightfully old-school on the animation side, but too old-fashioned on the story side, French 2D toon A Cat in Paris is easy enough on the eyes yet never quite justifies feature-length status.
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30Unoriginal and mired in bad jokes.
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20The charmless but harmless A Cat in Paris hits theaters yet doesn't enchant.
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A Good Fun Animated Film!
Simply One Of The Best Of The Year (So Far)