Load of rubbish!!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

. . . KISS ME KATE (sometimes referred to by its working title, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW), the Looney Tunes animators are able to cast the title part far better than Bill ever managed, given their superior Power of the Colored Pen. A shrew is a mouse-like rodent, only scruffier. The shrew featured in Warner's KISS ME CAT enslaves bulldog Marc Antony's pet kitten, Pussyfoot, forcing the wee feline into a Life of Crime, stealing food from the increasingly exasperated man and woman of the house, Tom and Vi. The last straw comes when the shrew kidnaps Pussyfoot, holding her for a cheese wheel ransom while threatening to dismember the innocent young cat. Like Shakespeare's original hero Petruchio, Marc Antony decides to put his foot down, and stifle the shrew once and for all. Borrowing a page from Macbeth's Macduff, Marc uses trickery to conjure a threat which looks more formidable than Cleopatra's War Barge. This sends the shrew fleeing, along with eight insatiably hungry little shrews. As someone once said, "All's well that ends well."

"Kiss Me Cat" is a very good Warner Bros. cartoon starring two best friends: Pussyfoot the kitten and Marc Anthony the bulldog. The man of the house threatens to do away with Pussyfoot unless he catches mice. Marc Anthony runs interference for Pussyfoot so that the adorable little kitten may keep his happy home.My favorite scenes: I love Marc Anthony's reactions to Pussyfoot sharpening his claws on the dog's back (aided by Carl Stalling's music score). Marc Anthony shoves bits of cheese in the mouse hole and then literally gets his ass swatted! I also love Marc Anthony's hilarious ballet dance with a lamp shade as a skirt.In addition to what I've listed above, "Kiss Me Cat" also greatly benefits from a gallery of facial expressions from Marc Anthony, characteristic of director Chuck Jones.

Chuck Jones's 'Kiss Me Cat' is the first of his follow-ups to the masterpiece 'Feed the Kitty', starring bulldog Marc Anthony and his beloved kitten Pussyfoot. My first impression was that 'Feed the Kitty' was such a perfect film that it should have remained a one-shot and that I would spend the entirety of 'Kiss Me Cat' just wishing I was watching its predecessor. However, if you clear your mind of all presuppositions, 'Kiss Me Cat' is actually a very fine cartoon indeed and a worthy sequel to 'Feed the Kitty'. The plot has Marc Anthony attempting to fool his owners into believing that Pussyfoot is a champion mouser when in fact the kitten would rather act as the mouse's beast of burden, assisting the rodent in his acquisition of food from the fridge. With Pussyfoot's position as house cat at stake, this plot allows Marc Anthony to once again perform a pantomime tour-de-force of facial expressions and wild gestures. Also wonderful is the mouse character, who is completely mute but so hilariously designed and animated that he need not say a thing. Although it doesn't quite live up to 'Feed the Kitty' (and, to be fair, few things could), 'Kiss Me Cat' is another triumph for two of Jones's sweetest characters.

I saw this cartoon about on ABC once, and I laughed my head off. I'm not the type who scorns and says cartoons are kid stuff, but I have never laughed so hard at a 7-minute cartoon in my life!