Bob Kaliban

  • 31 October 2005

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Top Cat: The Movie Review

By Rich Cline

Weak

Produced in Mexico and Argentina because of Latin America's obsession with Don Gato, this revival of the Hanna Barbera cartoon maintains the wacky tone even if there's nothing clever or particularly skilled in the script or animation. At least it's nutty, nostalgic fun.

Top Cat (voiced by Harris) is the con-artist leader of a New York alley-cat gang that's relentlessy pursued by nice-guy Officer Dibble (Lobely). But just as "TC" meets the purring Trixie (Disney), the even more ambitious conman Strickland (also Harris) takes over as police chief, converting the force to robots who do his bidding while he watches on a network of invasive surveillance cameras. He also manages to send TC to Dog Prison, forcing the gang to work out a rescue plan without their leader.

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