SteveHolme

I am not much a fan of the Shreck series, but as both being a catguy and interested in fencing, the whole artwork for the movie got me still kind of hooked. What really got me in was the character design of Puss himself - and thank god I was intrigued by that! I purchased it and forgot about it until today. Why did I not watch this in the cinema? The character animation is absolutely fantastic, the well-placed things (real) cats do are scattered troughout the movie. The two cats are a great team, very funny to watch even for me as 29-year old. I even laughed 6 times in the movie - I usually do not laugh because it's mostly cheese (even though I admit humour, while not physically laughing myself). The german dubbing is as good as the original english track. And for a "kids movie", the story was kind of deep (analogies to school shooting by being alienated) and even a plot twist happening. I am very surprised and after this movie - I want more!

This movie is absolutely underrated. The plot is straight forward, but this is okay this way because the movie makes this up in all other departments. I've seen it on a review on Youtube "by accident" and was hooked by the very first frames of it that, after a couple of minutes, I bought it on iTunes. Compared to other, "big studio releases", MUNE has such a freedom of design, such art going on it's amazing. This movie plays greatly with opposites (arrogant and naive, big and small, day and night...) visually. The characters are sometimes a bit weird - a molten candle as father - but little details give them immediately something to like about them. What I enjoy most is the carefree attitude. Adoring the nice colour play and lovely art and the movie score. I am not quite a guy that always defends every design with "art" and "freedom of interpretation", but this movie is some form of art. Very obscure. I bought RIO and MUNE, and I would vote for MUNE much, much more, despite RIO being nice and funny too. This movie, MUNE, is honest, sincere, enjoyable and if you let slip some strange character design, an absolutely fantastic movie. This wants me to see more, but every cute fairytale has an end, right..?

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]