Review: A Cat in Paris

Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol's A Cat in Paris is an animated delight, a hand-drawn puff pastry that brings its title character into a web of deceit, revenge, robbery, and gangsters. It's a brief 74 minutes but moves well, and not at the breakneck pace of most of today's computer-animated movies. It uses physical locations well, including rooftops and hiding places, and it even manages some lovely quiet moments as well as some insanely funny ones. The movie began making the rounds in France in 2010, received a 2011 Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature, and finally lands in U.S. theaters in the summer of 2012, featuring an all-new English-language voice cast.