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DVD Gaturro
 Run time: 86 min Rating: 5.0 Genres: Animation | Family Director: Gustavo Cova Writers: Cristian Dzwonik, Esteban Garrido Stars: Mariano Chiesa, Agustina Gonzalez Cirulnik, Kathleen Barr |
| Storyline Gaturro is always getting into trouble, and his master doesn’t know what to do with him. Gaturro’s heart belongs to Agatha, the most unpleasant cat of the town. His several attempts to conquer her love disappear when she stumbles across Michou, a young, handsome cat from an aristocratic background. Gaturro accidentally becomes famous but finds that fame and success brings other problems. Gaturro is sad and lonely but with the help of a little mouse, they come up with a plan to prevent Agatha marrying Michou. Written by mjsister |
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| Plot Keywords: cat, animal name in title, one word title, character name in title | |
| Details: Country: Argentina, India, Mexico Release Date: 9 September 2010 (Argentina) |
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"Gaturro" is a funny comic strip, and Gustavo Cova, the director of this film, proved some years before, with the movie "Boogie the Oily One" that he was able to do a good adaptation of a comic into an animated flick, so I was expecting this to be good, or at least entertaining.
Sadly, this film lacks of all the charm, fun and wit from the original comic strip in which it was inspired, being just a generic CGI film, that doesn't offer anything new to the medium, and to get it worst, it is boring and poorly made.
The animation from this movie is cheap and unappealing: The use of CGI doesn't capture the fun cutesy of the characters of the comic strip. That visual style just doesn't work here. Honestly, I think that if this movie has been made with the same animation style from movies such as "Fierro" or "Boogie the Oily One" it would have been much better, or at least not so unpleasant to look at.
The voice acting is merely average, while most of the comedy from this movie is just plain dumb and unfunny, lacking of all the cleverness from the source material.
"Gaturro" is a disaster in every aspect, a wasted opportunity of what could have been a much better movie for the whole family. Instead of that, it turns out to be a bland and forgettable product that didn't have any kind of impact or relevance.
A curious thing about Argentinian children movies is that, being pretty new in the computer animation field, we think that our stories we can tell through the great tool that animation is can be half as good as the ones created marvelously at Pixar, Disney or even Dreamworks studios. Nothing further from reality. The best Argentinian animated movies (or the most famous, shall we say?) were the ones made by García Ferré. Simple stories, which visuals weren't anything really amazing but yet entertaining and sweet. But obviously not all Ferré's films were as good. There were some small productions which, sadly, didn't reached the same level as the first ones. After García Ferré, they came new things; science fiction, comedies, mixed sources. But we must speak frantically -Isidoro, Boogie, Plumíferos and right this one, Gaturro- well deserved a Razzie. The lack of imagination, the poor quality animation and the cliché gags of a bad and boring parody of Garfield are nothing we can be possible proud of. In fact, I may say it's even a shame. The story was empty, hollow, and if there was actually something there inside it was only some greedy attempt to suck the money out of unfortunate parents whose children's were raised with merchandise and comic books of the character. Pity, a sad sad pity. I really hope that next time our Argentinian film industry, especially the children directed one (and more exactly, the animated) will give us a nice surprise.