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The writing felt all over the place, lacks any twists or turns and just plays out in a very generic and formulaic way. No character arcs or anything of the sort to be found here, which is disappointing.

When I heard Yutaka Yamada was composing the score for this, I was really expecting this movie to go all in on a thrilling and unpredictable heist story along the lines of Great Pretender (which Yamada also did the score for) so this being the end result ended up being very disappointing for me.

This 2022 "D. C." animated movie "Catwoman: Hunted" is pretty interesting and entertaining with action, fun, and drama, as it twist which is typical of all "D. C." works. Selina Kyle aka "Catwoman" puts it all on the line even all of her 9 lives for the chance to get a jewel(an emerald). However on the international journey is "Batwoman" and "Interpol" trying to chase and spoil in a wicked cat and mouse game that features assassins, and "Leviathan". Thru it all it's like the ladies the bat and cat work together against the other bad guys. Overall okay animated movie in which the cat prowls and struts her stuff!

Catwoman: Hunted is the latest film starring the cat burglar from Batman's rogues gallery, and it has the character in an anime style adventure. After a heist in Spain gets Catwoman into a chase by Black Mask's gang, Selina Kyle, a.k.a. Catwoman, is taken into the custody by Batwoman, who is working with Interpol to bust the criminal organization, Leviathan. Now in Shanghai, Catwoman takes a deal to help Interpol in exchange for erasing the arrest warrants against her, by serving as a distraction while Batwoman takes out the villains.

For a new Catwoman movie, I find it as meh. The anime style looks good (even if it looks like something out of anime-like cartoons like Totally Spies), and is done by Japanese animators. The story is written by Greg Weisman, who is best known for writing legendary cartoons such as the first two seasons of Gargoyles. It's okay, but not on par with his past works, as the story has Catwoman flirting with Batwoman in certain scenes, and you can tell he injected some Gargoyles designs in one of the villains, Nosferata (who looks like Demona if she was injected with the serum that turns Kirk Langstrom into Man-Bat, and Tobias Whale is voiced by Keith David, whom 90's kids will remember as the voice of Goliath, one of Gargoyle's primary protagonists). Also, it's a little on the short side, being only 79 minutes long. It's a meh movie, but I will gladly take this over the 2004 Catwoman movie.

Going into this, I wondered what a stand-alone Catwoman movie would look like and here u have Catwoman: Hunted.

It took a while personally, to recognise the animation style for this cartoon. It didn't look good at first where the characters' anatomy were not seamless but it got better and after seeing that it's anime, it became more appreciable. It seemed to work well for the action scenes but a huge problem with that is the way the manoeuvres were handled. All laws of physics were broken, taking suspension of belief to a new level.

The voice acting is not among the best we have seen but it's one you can get by with. That being said, what killed the dialogue was the cringe worthy humour. At first, one would think that the light tone and humour meant that it was targeted at kids or very young teens. The first quarter also seemed to deliberate dodge any gory displays as well. But as the movie progressed the directors seemed to forget their layout altogether and just deliver one gruesome shot after another. Back to the dialogue and banter, I couldn't believe what I was hearing but as it went on, I found myself laughing at the movie's ridiculous attempt at any form of humour. Whenever the actress voicing Catwoman/Selina Kyle was delivering her lines, the sentences seemed to drag as if to patronize the viewer. Cheesy one liners were thrown back and forth and yet, some phrases still managed to be in-audible.

It's a movie with quite a simple plot, lots of female characters and a welcome agenda against human trafficking, "young girls" as expressly stated by Catwoman at a point.

Still it doesn't know who it's meant to be aimed at.

Catwoman: Hunted is kinda pointless since it lacks any major characters arcs, twists or real narrative but it's a good animated movie that's fast paced enough to be simple and energetic fun.

Elizabeth Gillies gives a really good lead performance and certainly has the charm and energy necessary to play Catwoman. She has solid chemistry with Stephanie Beatriz, who is an effectively cold Batwoman.

The anime influence in the animation definitely helps it standout amongst a increasingly crowded set of films. The music by Robert J. Kral is a mixed bag with some of it being way too much but other parts fitting the scene rather well.