Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
Kinetique | Release Date: April 2, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
3
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
89
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
As we are informed in the film’s prologue, "Cats live in loneliness, then die like falling rain." Sh--, man, whatever. This is so stupid it’s positively genius. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
A dark allegory and a dazzling example of Japanese anime. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy Burr
So spectacularly bent that it exudes a contact cough-syrup high all its own. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyJon Strickland
The images -- including a giant robotic Colonel Sanders with an ax in its head that walks the streets of Tokyo -- reinforce every paranoid fantasy of a controlled future ever concocted. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleWalter Addiego
Asks a lot of the viewer, but it gives something back, though I'm not sure exactly what. It's an amusing and exasperating catnip dream about the adventures of a 1-year-old cartoon kitten. Read full review
50
VarietyLisa Nesselson
The kind of tale where even viewers who didn't miss a frame will feel as if they entered in the middle, muddled but amusing account of an adorable yet profanity-prone feline who travels through time and space is fueled by irony and incongruity. Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
Tamala 2010 feels like either a singularly detail-organized dream, or an exceptionally formal drug trip. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderReece Pendleton
If you can make any sense of this you've probably been smoking whatever the animators were when they concocted it. Read full review
30
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
My conception of “punk” must differ from the creators of Tamala 2010. The lead character is feisty enough (she says “f---” a lot), and even skateboards, but she’s owned lock, stock, and oversized eyeballs by the Big Evil Corporation. Read full review
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