After having moved into a rundown shithole house with his literary - yet slovenly - owner, a savvy cat gets himself caught up in a curious string of cat killings popping up around the city. It's thought that the culprit may be linked to an enigmatic lab-cat, used for grotesque and torturous experiments...
That's basically the short-form rundown on this flick, as I must admit, it's extremely hard to follow. From what little I've looked up on this, it's based on the first of a series of novels about murder and cat vs. human drama. Now I didn't hate this movie at all, despite how incredibly convoluted it is - though, in my defense, I think the German language element might've tripped me up a bit, as far as my relatively loose grasp on the whole plot went. There's apparently a scientist trying to form a new breed of cat, an evil cat cult who worships electric volts, humans becoming cats (I think), a cat prophet and more.
Based on it's visual merits, "Felidae" is a VERY cool animated flick. The animation - while not up to Disney standards or anything - is fluid, detailed and full of a unique charm. There are a few crazy dream sequences that are hypnotically hellish and gruesome. Speaking of which, this is a fucking violent flick! We're talking cats ripped to shreds - one of which is shown with a litter of fetal kittens spilled out of it's eviscerated mid-section. Another has it's brain melted with acid. Badass.
So, yeah, overall I wouldn't go so far as to call this film is "brilliant" like a lot of other people have raved - mainly because the plot goes so deep that it ended up kinda losing me. However, it's a great looking piece of animation and is definitely much darker and more 'graphic' than some other notable animated films with a politically driven narrative, such as "Watership Down" and the 50s "Animal Farm" adaptation.
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