Koty Ermitazha

We took our grandchildren, ages 8 & 6, to see this film. They enjoyed the story, characters & could identify some of the paintings being featured, especially the 'Mona Lisa'! The central character experiences quite a few hair-raising adventures, and must work his way between the demands of friendship and danger, and is finally rewarded by the love of a beautiful lady.

We also enjoyed the film, having visited The Hermitage in St. Petersburg several times, pre-COVID19.

If I had any criticism, it would be the voices chosen for English-Language dubbing. A bewildering mix of Irish, Scots & Middle American do not sit well with the characters & there are more than enough well trained voiceover actors to be found in either Russia or the Baltic Republics who would have done a far better job.

I saw this movie on the cinema, and tbh it seems like the person who wrote the story for this was just lazy, they had a great and cute opportunity and wasted it. It wasn't funny or interesting, and a there were a lot of unnecessary subplots. Also, the design of the only female cat ??? Man, that's awful.

The Spanish dub was also very cheap.

And the animation of the animals was fine, but when humans appear they seem sooo stiff, I think that was the only funny thing.

I would recommend this movie for children under the age of like 9-10, if you're older then you're just gonna waste your money. (Like me)

A fellow parent invited me and my little to see this and we both came out with regrets 😂 Poorly-animated with incompetent voice work, and an incoherent and convoluted narrative. Certain plot points (Cleopatra's seemingly low self esteem related to perceived rejection by the opposite sex, I'm not kidding) also struck me as not the greatest message for kids. There is little to latch on to as enjoyable save for the depictions of art and mentions of well-known artists. I am honestly confused as to how this didn't go straight to Netflix, but once it ends up there you should probably still avoid it.

What starts off a bit of an adventure turns out is pretty much no way connected to the main story apart from two characters. After they abandoned that idea they create a plot line to change the scene to a completely different country. Here it then basically became a russian propaganda video. If this was made by the Heritage gallery then I wouldn't be surprised. The plot then dissolved into loads of sub plots that have no purpose, they introduce a love interest for the main character for no interest and then the plot twist at the end is so stupid you question if you fell asleep and missed a bit.

I knew that russian animations isn't known to be top notch but man...this is terrible on every level. Story is nonsense, visuals are outdated, humour is nonexistent and the pacing is all wrong. It looks like an overlong episode of other mediocre russian cartoons like Masha & Bear or Booba from like 20 years ago. It is frankly embarrassing that such a poor movie was on theaters. My 6 y/o daughter wanted to see this but she found it boring as well. Don't waste your money or time on this. Definitely one of the worst animated movies I've ever seen in my whole life. Please please don't let your kids watch this,