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This review evaoluate the story and the narration, because as movie it isn't giving much aside some wage nature-documentary stlye, or some interactive novel computer game eg. Werewolf the Apocalypse: Heart of the Forest.

The narrative follows a child who feels neglected by her family and isolated from humankind. One day some woodland spirit transforms her to various animals, giving the child wildly different perspectives in themselves, and to the expectation how those creatures live, think and feel.

These experinces teaches her to recognise equal value in all living things, and sheds light that her parents do care after all, and being human has its place after all.

Sure, these people are old. Probably friends in real life. Doing a vanity-project of the director. On the other hand, they are life-long trained martial arists, who know they are not doing big in Hollywood, but neither just film their vacation-trip to cover the expenses.

And if you are into the whacky side of martial arts movies, you have everything: sitting under waterfall, training montage, cutting down trees with your knuckles - all that goodness. We even have space-dragons!

So if you want 2 hours of Obviously Bad Guy vs Obviously Good Guy preparing against each other, constant martial arts fighting, plus some cheesey scenes inbetween, ina film where you finaly can see something instead of the hollywood-darkness, this movie is for you.

And while it is definitely "so bad it's good", it's actualy somewhat competent, unlike a Seagal-flick, and definitely not boring like Champagne and Bullets.

I'm happy this weird thing exists,

I'd say it has a 3-story structure, roughly every 30 minute some major thing happens. And no, it never turns into full xxx territory. Also, the cat-thing is not rly a fetish, but a persona-thing, but later it even gets an in-universe explanation. Every chapter gives more in-universe lore/worldbuilding, but I don't think we should exclusively concentrate on that.

The first chapter is about this blond woman moving in from a small town to the big city of LA. Has little money and the city is expensive, so she settles for an area of dubious reputiation, full of weirdos. At least there doesn't seem to be violence around. Then she goes to work, and I'd swear this is full-fledge satire, and she is realising her "normal life" is full of weird people too (this later gets an in-universe background established too, but again, I don't think that applies for this chapter), so when she goes home, and the cat-person visits her, she just absent-mindedly sits down to pet it, and realises, there's nothing wrong with the other residents, they are not harming anyone, so might as well just go with the flow. In the end she gets into a ... relation with the cat-person, and it's fine. Also, there is this carrier who shows up time to time bringing in pre-paid reasonably expensive gifts (like a big bucket of ice-cream and stuff). We, the audience obviously know cat-person is sending these.

I thought the movie will be just that now, but it's not. For the next half an hour we start to concentrate on this drug-producing criminal organisation, which gets hit with incrised frequency. There is no rival gang, and tbh none is actualy interrested to shut them down, so they are really questioning what is going on. We the audience obviously suspect at least, it is the work of cat-person, who is kinda inspired by DC's Cat-Woman.

The third act is where every subplot is closing down: the workplace, the neighbours, the carrier-guy, and of course the big finalé: the maffia vs Baby Cat. Protagnoist and Baby Cat1s relationship is in turmoil, the kinda Super Mario-level incompetent maffia-henchmen kidnap protagonist instead of cat-person, who goes onto the rescue. Turns out she became this way as side-effect of some military superhero project, so while it is obviously this kinda-fetish thing, in-universe she has this kinda tragic backstory, establishing it's not her choice, but inevitably she is just this. Which is kinda eduational when you think about it.

Of course Maffia Boss (who only now gets a face-reveal, unlike Subhuman: the Amityville Experiment, which botches doing so) gets the super-serum too... With unexpected consequences.

But in the end everything turns out fine, I mean the bad people are arrested, protagonist gets out unharmed, the government project is shut down, and Blondy + Baby Cat's relationship comes to get cleared out.