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- “Every cat has his day.”
- ―Tagline
Catz is a 1993 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures and United Saints Studios. It features the voices of well-known actors such as Scott Bakula, Jasmine Guy, Grey DeLisle, Tom Cruise, Matthew Broderick, Moira Kelly, Emma Thompson, John Cleese, Tobey Maguire, and Samuel L. Jackson as various members of a cat society. Some of the main characters share facial similarities with the actors who voice them. Catz is the animated film before The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Lion King, as well as the first United Saints animated film with Walt Disney Pictures.
The film was released theatrically in the United States on June 25, 1993. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, and performed modestly at the box office.
Plot[]
The setting for the story is an cat colony in Jacksonville, under the chronological timespan of four days. The protagonist is Danny, a neurotic, pessimistic, and individualistic worker cat living in a wholly totalitarian society who longs for the opportunity to truly express himself. His friends include fellow worker cat Kitty Katswell and a soldier cat, Tom. Danny meets Princess Sawyer at a bar where she goes to escape from her suffocating royal life and falls in love with her.
In order to see Sawyer again, Danny exchanges places with Tom and joins the army. He marches with the ranks, befriending a staff sergeant named TurboCat in the process. He doesn't realise that the army's leader and Sawyer's fiance, General Cat R. Waul, is secretly sending all the soldiers loyal to the Queen on a suicide battle with the dogs, so he can begin to build a colony filled with powerful cats. At the base of the tree near nightfall, Danny realizes he's marching into battle, and all of the soldiers except for Danny are killed by the Dogs. Following the battle, all Danny can find of TurboCat is his head. Before he dies, TurboCat tells Danny to think for himself rather than follow orders all his life, leaving Danny saddened and depressed. Danny returns home and is hailed as a war hero, even though he did not do anything and was traumatized by the fighting. He was also congratulated personally by the secretly irate General Cat R. Waul, and is brought before the Queen. There he meets Princess Sawyer, who eventually recognizes him as a worker. When Danny finds that he has been cornered in a lie, he panics and pretends to take Princess Sawyer "hostage" in order to trick the queen's guards into letting him leave rather than imprison him. They escape the colony and hide, and Sawyer begins searching for the legendary Petopia.
Word of the incident quickly spreads through the colony, whereupon Danny's act of individually sparks a resolution in the workers and, possibly, a few soldier cats as well. As a result, productivity grinds to a halt. Seeing an opportunity to gain control, General Cat R. Waul begins to publicly portray Danny as a war criminal who cares only about himself. Cat R. Waul then promotes the glory of conformity and promises them a better life, which he claims to be the reward of completing a "Mega Tunnel" planned by himself. Cat R. Waul learns Danny is looking for Petopia after interrogating Tom. Knowing full well of the plane's existence, Cat R. Waul sends his second-in-command, Colonel Kovu, to its location to retrieve the Princess and possibly kill Danny. Kovu, however, slowly begins to have second thoughts about Cat R. Waul's plans and agenda and develops sympathy for the worker cats.
Danny and Sawyer, after a misdirection and a brief seperation, finally found Petopia, which consists of a human waste-bin overfilled with decaying food (a treat for insects of all kinds). Here, Sawyer begins to reciprocate Danny's feelings. However, during a break, Kovu arrives and flies Sawyer back to the colony against her will. Danny finds them gone and makes his way to rescue Sawyer, aided by a lion named Simba, whom he met earlier and has made himself drunk grieving over the loss of his swatted wife, Nala. Danny arrives at the colony, where he finds that Sawyer has been held captive in General Cat R. Waul's office. After rescuing her, he learns that General Cat R. Waul's "Mega Tunnel" leads straight to a body of water (the puddle next to Petopia), which Waul will use to drown the queen and the workers who have gathered at the opening ceremony. Sawyer goes to warn the workers and her mother at the ceremony, while Danny goes to the tunnel exit to stop the workers from digging any further. He fails, however, and the water leaks in. Danny and Sawyer unify the workers into a single working unit and build a towering ladder of cats toward the surface as the water continues to rise.
Meanwhile, General Cat R. Waul and his soldiers are gathered at the surface, where he explains to them a vision of a new colony with none of the "weak elements of the colony". However, he is interrupted when the workers successfully claw their way to the surface and break through. Waul angrily tries to kill Danny but is stopped by Kovu, who finally rebels against Waul and instead tries to help Danny and the worker cats out of the hole "for the good of the colony." The enraged Waul charges toward Kovu, who is, however, pushed away by Danny at the last moment. Waul inadvertently takes Danny with him back down into the flooded colony and is killed when he lands upon a root while Danny falls into the water. Kovu, taking charge, orders the other soldier cats to help the workers and the queen onto the surface while he rescues Danny. Although it seems that Danny has drowned, Sawyer successfully resuscitates him. Danny is lauded for his heroism and marries Sawyer. Together they rebuild the colony with Kovu as their General, transforming the colony from a conformist military state into a community that values each and every one of its members.
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