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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Jeffries

Cat Burglar review – Charlie Brooker’s note-perfect nostalgia trip for cartoon fetishists

It’s like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? – if you were both viewer and contestant, and couldn’t phone a friend ... Cat Burglar.
It’s like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? – if you were both viewer and contestant, and couldn’t phone a friend ... Cat Burglar. Photograph: Courtesy of Netflix

If you can’t answer these three questions, the cat will die. So pay attention. Who walked on the moon – was it Alan Bean or Hugh Jass? Obviously not Hugh Jass. Who had more heads – Simon and Garfunkel or the Wu-Tang Clan? Come on, this isn’t Mastermind. A good therapist says: “Our time is up” or “Oh, boo-hoo”? Idiot! It was obviously the first option.

Welcome to Cat Burglar (Netflix), an interactive cartoon in which you, the viewer, are asked increasingly tricky questions so that our hero, Rowdy Cat, can get past security dog Peanut to his goal – the priceless painting in a museum. Once he’s nicked the cat-faced approximation of the Mona Lisa, Rowdy will be so obscenely rich he’ll realise his dream of having a concert pianist play for him while – get this – they are both inside his stretch limo.

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