Review of The Rabbi's Cat (2011) by Sarfaraz A — 16 Feb 2013

The Rabbi's Cat (Le Chat du rabbin) French animated film directed by Joann Sfar and Antoine Delesvaux. The film is based on volume Sfar's one, two and five s comics series of same name. Voice artists: François Morel, Hafsia Herzi.

Set in 1920s Algeria. A cat in Algiers swallows a parrot and it can speak its mind.

The plot focus cat's relationships with his open-minded sensual mistress, and her father, who is rabbi. The cat suspects about being Jewish himself to roam around the mistress and thus wants to go through circumcision and bar mitzvah - A Russian packed in a coffin-like box claiming to be Jew and plans to head to Ethiopia - ultimately all set out to take him to Ethiopia, including the Cat, the rabbi, a donkey, a big-mouthed Jew.

Charming. colorful and at some instances hilarious. Though unsuitable for the young children, film takes unbound indecent references.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Most of the people in the west; wrongly refer/mean 'Arabs' as being Muslims. Arabs can be Muslims/Christians/Jews. Christian doesn't mean to have been born in the US, UK, Italy or France, or Jew doesn't mean to have been born in Israel or Italy - All three religions have their foundation in Middle-East. If the people in the world were to refer Muslims comparatively as Arabs, due to combined population of most of Muslim countries in one region, then all three countries of South-Asia namely Pakistan, India, Bangladesh make up the far greater population than all Muslim countries of Middle-East - Hence, it's embarrassing on account of filmmakers and the people to keep repeating this mistake. Indonesia is the largest Muslim populated country in the world.