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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 89Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovAs 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.
- 80Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasA dark allegory and a dazzling example of Japanese anime.
- 75Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrSo spectacularly bent that it exudes a contact cough-syrup high all its own.
- 70L.A. WeeklyJon StricklandL.A. WeeklyJon StricklandThe 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.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleAsks 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.
- 50VarietyLisa NesselsonVarietyLisa NesselsonThe 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.
- 40The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThe A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonTamala 2010 feels like either a singularly detail-organized dream, or an exceptionally formal drug trip.
- 30Chicago ReaderReece PendletonChicago ReaderReece PendletonIf you can make any sense of this you've probably been smoking whatever the animators were when they concocted it.
- 30Film ThreatFilm ThreatMy 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.