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Don't bother!

posted 12 years ago by karlyboy68
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This is my first post, and i'm so insensed i had to tell others the bad news, this is awful. I loved the original, and i know that things are not allways what they were viewed with the passage of time, but i thought i'd take my 10 year old daughter and see what she thought, maybe a chuckle or two could be found, and wow TC and the gang in 3D! After 10 minutes i knew this was going to be bad, i've never walked from a movie before, and if my daughter wasn't there...i would have run! Firstly, 3D, why bother, really! If you must see it, go 2D, absolutely zero plot, the mixture of original backgrounds and 60's talk with modern tech jarred me badly, there was not one giggle, laugh or murmer from the audience, and there were a lot of children in the cinema...imagine an awful, awful unaired episode from the tv series, stretched to a mind numbing 90 minutes with the ever popular 3D tag thrown in and you're somewhere near the mark. Don't bother!

[–] mr_wilson-20-926929 12 years ago

What exactly was the plot it's sad to hear the movie sucked as I loved the cartoon as a kid.

[–] TwittingOnTrender 12 years ago

(Spoilers!)

A civilian with no police experience takes over the NYPD and replaces everyone except Dibble with computers and robots. He frames Top Cat and gets him sent to dog prison. There, TC has to (now bear with me) pretend he's a dog, whilst one of the dogs thinks he's a cat.

His buddies rescue him and they mount a counter offensive against the robot empire. Oh yeah, and there's a chick cat who actually betrays TC pretty badly early on but who ends up his love interest.

I've made it sound loads more interesting than it was. This was MY birthday treat but we had to see something that suited my grandchildren too, and my daughters knew I was a Top Cat nut back in the day. I don't want to be too hard on a kids' movie but it has none of the zing and sharpness of the original and there are glaring sore thumbs, like the constant use of mobile phones to remind us this is the modern day.

A pity, but not a total surprise.

No Guru, No Method, No Teacher.

[–] Sid-Blitzen 12 years ago

Use of mobile phones? So Top Cat doesn't get to annoy Dibble by using Dibble's police box for personal calls? That was one of the recurring things back in the old cartoon series.

[–] marktayloruk 12 years ago

I enjoyed it.Not up to the original series but still good.

[–] rd-art2005 9 years ago

There's one moment when the phone rings and Dibble does answer the police box... until he realizes it's no longer functional and the ringing is from his mobile.

So, yeah...