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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Peter Bradshaw

Top Cat Begins review – tiptop tat

Top Cat and badly animated gang … Top Cat Begins
Top Cat and badly animated gang … Top Cat Begins

[Big band TV sig intro – but slower and gloomier than usual.]

Top Cat! Now, I just want to plead:
“Stop that!” The first film made us
bleed
Wounds of horror stabbed in our
brain!
Now we have to watch the same
thing again ...?
Not that! Look, I’m quite ser–i–ous,
Avoid this prequel please.
Top Cat 2’s frankly poo and it’s
coming at you
You must avoid this film and –
that’s that.

[Instrumental break, while TC and the badly animated gang zoom around having unfunny escapades]

Top Cat – it’s really just so grim!
Swap that – for quite another film.
Nolan’s Batman prequel had a whole
lotta verve,
“Top Cat Begins”? What unforgivable
nerve.
Drop that! It’s frankly terrible. Really.
Walk away.
That Halifax ad was quite sufficiently
bad
I’d rather share a shower with a …
dead rat.


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