In fairness the rather crude and obvious choice of title should have warned me that this film would probably share those same qualities across its other aspects. This film is a quirkumentary which looks at an elderly couple who own cats (and organize cat contests), a divorced woman who got cats to fill a gap and a woman who makes clay models of deceased cats for their owners. All of these subjects offer scope for discussion and interest into their lives and who they are in the context of their cats and it does feel like maybe that film is captured but just didn't get made.
Instead what we got was a very short film which really is only out for mockery of these people, with no context apart from a few sound bites. The film gets its laugh ("the music really clams them") but otherwise is content just giving us snapshots of odd cat women – one stroking a clay model (where really what she does is make them for others, which is an odd job but not as odd as the film suggests) and another women who is just grumpy and difficult (although it doesn't seem to be connected to the cats). I really am not sure what the point of the film was – I like quirkumentaries generally but this had such a low bar that it wanted to achieve and it hardly felt like it could be bothered to do even that.
An obvious and cheap title befits this quite obvious and cheap film.
Instead what we got was a very short film which really is only out for mockery of these people, with no context apart from a few sound bites. The film gets its laugh ("the music really clams them") but otherwise is content just giving us snapshots of odd cat women – one stroking a clay model (where really what she does is make them for others, which is an odd job but not as odd as the film suggests) and another women who is just grumpy and difficult (although it doesn't seem to be connected to the cats). I really am not sure what the point of the film was – I like quirkumentaries generally but this had such a low bar that it wanted to achieve and it hardly felt like it could be bothered to do even that.
An obvious and cheap title befits this quite obvious and cheap film.