I’ve been looking forward to seeing directors Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol‘s Oscar nominated A Cat in Paris for some time and GKids is finally bringing it to theaters on June 1 and the first domestic trailer is now online with a look at the first 3 minutes and 30 seconds of the film.
The short version of the synopsis is to say a regular house cat is leading a double life, first as the pet to a little girl and second to a Parisian cat burglar with a big heart. The long version is as follows…
Dino is a pet cat that leads a double life. By day he lives with Zoe, a little mute girl whose mother, Jeanne, is a detective in the Parisian police force. But at night he sneaks out the window to work with Nico–a slinky cat burglar with a big heart, whose fluid movements are poetry in motion–as he evades captors and slips and swishes from rooftop to rooftop across the Paris skyline. The cat’s two worlds collide when young Zoe decides to follow Dino on his nocturnal adventures–and falls into the hands of Victor Costa, a blustery gangster planning the theft of a rare statue. Now cat and cat burglar must team up to save Zoe from the bumbling thieves, leading to a thrilling acrobatic finale on top of Notre Dame.
The synopsis, as far as I’m concerned, isn’t the draw here, but instead the tone of what I’m seeing here and the animation. While Rango may have been the decided lock for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars this year, based on what I’m seeing here it’s too bad GKids didn’t have a larger “For Your Consideration” budget for what looks like an excellent feature.
Check out the trailer and opening sequence below.
