Cats in the Museum review – Russian animation worthy of the litter tray

Minor tom: Vincent, centre, in Vasiliy Rovenskiy’s animation Cats in the Museum. Photograph: Dazzler Media

A cat marooned on a desert island escapes, alongside an art connoisseur mouse, inside a floating harpsichord that somehow ends up in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. And if you think that seems like a bafflingly random piece of plotting, it barely scratches the surface of this lamentably poor English-dubbed Russian animation. The cat, named Vincent (Jordan Worsley), joins forces with an elite feline squad of cultural protectors; the mouse, Maurice (Stephen Peter Krisel), views the contents of the gallery as his personal buffet. Oh, and there’s a ghost. The Christmas holidays may be long, but life’s too short to waste a minute of it with this nonsensical mess.

Watch a trailer for Cats in the Museum.