There may still be a soft ban on the importing cultural products from Russia into the UK while the war rages on in Ukraine, but someone has let this one in under the wire. Produced by a Moscow-based production company called Licensing Brands (a fabulously utilitarian name worthy of the Stalinist era), Cats in the Museum is an animated feature that delivers just what its own title suggests. There are some cats, and they are in a museum. Book your ticket now because what else is there to take small children to see in the holidays if you’re not sure they can cope with The Boy and the Heron or Godzilla Minus One?
The film’s feline-featured player is an orange tom (voiced in the English dub by Jordan Worsley) who doesn’t even have a name when he is washed ashore on a desert island well before he gets to the museum of the title. There he only has a painting of a lady and a cat that looks like a Modigliani knockoff for company until a mouse named Maurice (Stephen Krisel) shows up, befriends him and names him Vincent after Van Gogh.
