Synopsis
Tamala is a cat living on Planet Cat Earth in the Feline Galaxy. In attempt to leave the Feline Galaxy, which is practically owned by a mega corporation called Catty & Co., she crashes on the violence-ridden Planet Q where she meets Michelangelo. Together they have fun, while Tamala seaches for her connections to Catty & Co. and her mysterious homeworld Orion
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Cast
- Béatrice DalleTatla the Machine God (Voice)
- Takeshi KatōZombie Cat (Voice)
- Hisayo MochizukiTamala (Voice)
- Shinji TakedaMichelangelo (voice)
Recommendations
- 89
Austin Chronicle
As we are informed in the film’s prologue, "Cats live in loneliness, then die like falling rain." Sh--, man, whatever. This is so stupid it’s positively genius. - 80
Los Angeles Times
A dark allegory and a dazzling example of Japanese anime. - 75
Boston Globe
So spectacularly bent that it exudes a contact cough-syrup high all its own. - 70
L.A. Weekly
The images -- including a giant robotic Colonel Sanders with an ax in its head that walks the streets of Tokyo -- reinforce every paranoid fantasy of a controlled future ever concocted. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
Asks a lot of the viewer, but it gives something back, though I'm not sure exactly what. It's an amusing and exasperating catnip dream about the adventures of a 1-year-old cartoon kitten. - 50
Variety
The kind of tale where even viewers who didn't miss a frame will feel as if they entered in the middle, muddled but amusing account of an adorable yet profanity-prone feline who travels through time and space is fueled by irony and incongruity. - 40
The A.V. Club
Tamala 2010 feels like either a singularly detail-organized dream, or an exceptionally formal drug trip. - 30
Chicago Reader
If you can make any sense of this you've probably been smoking whatever the animators were when they concocted it.
