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After seeing an ad of the show a few days ago, I looked for its Wikipedia page to learn more about it. Upon briefly reading about it on Wikipedia, I found out that 44 Cats is a hit show in Italy that somehow made its way to other countries, including the U.S.

When I watched a half-minute clip of the Italian version, I find it decent. The graphics are very colorful, and the voices perfectly fit the characters.

But upon seeing some clips of the English version which will air really soon, I can't say that I feel the same way about that one. The colorful graphics are retained, but the voices of Lampo and Meatball (and some other male characters) are too feminine. I don't know why but the English dub is a complete travesty of a great Italian series.

With this, I'm sticking with the Italian version.

I would not call this really preschool friendly. I'd like some guise of education behind the cartoons my kids watch at breakfast. Is there a fad I'm missing? Weird show. Weird voice actors, awkward characters, and silly storyline.

44 Cats is originally an Italian children's show which was picked up by Viacom and dubbed into English and shown on Nickelodeon in the US. Now it's made it's way back across the Atlantic over here to the UK. This has been shown on the channel POP for about the past two weeks. I like cats and children's shows so I watched it. And it was good. The animation was bright and colourful and the quality of the CGI was pretty standard for an animated children's show. The storylines, while not the greatest, were entertaining, if a little weird at times. But then again, most children's shows have strange plots. But if you're a small child, you'll find it entertaining. Now we move on to the main part of any show, the acting! Now, I have only seen the English dub so I can only comment on the English voices. When looking at the cast for this I was most surprised to see that most of the voice actors were also in the Pokemon Anime (Pokemon fan here) I was more surprised to see that the reviews on here at the time of writing this thought that the voice acting was bad as the actors are generally good in Pokemon. I thought the voice acting was good, but the problem was that the voices didn't fit the characters as one reviewer said. They sounded exactly like their characters in Pokemon. For example, Lampo, voiced by Sarah Natochenny, who also voices Ash Ketchum from Pokemon, and has done since 2006. She is just doing her 'Ash' voice for Lampo. Another example are the characters Neko and Zoe are voiced by Alyson Leigh Rosenfield, who voices Sophocles (From Pokemon: Sun and Moon series) and Bonnie (From Pokemon: XY series) respectively. Neko sounds like Sophocles and Zoe sounds like Bonnie. Yes, it may seem I'm nitpicking here, as I'm sure a large amount of the target audience for this haven't watched Pokemon. But honestly it kind of distracts from the show itself, when most of the characters sound like they're in the wrong show. I kept expecting Lampo to suddenly say 'Pikachu, use Thunderbolt!' It doesn't help that both Lampo and Ash wear baseball caps.

English voice dub aside, the rest of the show is good and would probably entertain children for a bit. But if you've watched Pokemon, you may enjoy it a little less.

A kid can be good guide across the adventures of cats, the bad guy measures - reminding Gargamel - and the lovely old lady. Good opportunity to discover nice crafted animation and new version of cats adventures. So, just nice.

Look i know its a kids show or whatever, but as soon as my 4-year-old younger sister started watching this, i kept walking into the room with it on, and just wanting to throw a brick at the tv each time. The plot is entirely nonsensical and not-cohesive. As an example, here is an actual line from the show: "this spot is where i usually find four-leaf-clovers". The characters are bland and annoying, especially the guy who's meant to be the comedic relief, the fat one whose name i cant be bothered to remember. His voice actor does an atrocious job, almost mocking of those with obesity. The animation is unoriginal and mediocre at best. Also these frequent concerts they have in the park just make me shout each time: "ARE THESE HUMANS BLIND???", even more so than i did in TOY STORY 4 of all things.

All in all, an utterly worthless piece of garbage with a nonsensical plot, terrible characters and absolutely no attention to detail in the slightest. 1/10.