Did you guys forget that you can just stab dragons?
Impressions:
Somehow, this was far dumber than I imagined. Cats are sentient, and shoot lightning, a thing that cats are obviously known for, but not mice. They’re imbecile feed animals. The forest is apparently literally crawling with cats that can incinerate you or start massive forest fires, which are also completely helpless against a couple dudes with rocks and sticks. Killing them is a grave injustice, of course, not like killing mice, because they’re being hunted merely for being lighting shooting WMD cats, so our ‘hero’ kills them, and flies off to kill their families too. He’s unstoppable now because they’ve forgotten the great technology that felled his mother, a large sharp stick, and only ends his rampage when one of his ‘kind’ says “Hey, I live here.” So he gets a personal meeting with the king, whereupon the entire kingdom begins worshipping him. I wonder if the family of all the people he burned to death got a vote on that or burst into tears every time they see a flag celebrating their father’s killer.
The writing, uh, let’s just say that it does not stand up to strict scrutiny. Or any scrutiny. Unscrutinous, as it were. I didn’t even mention how the mother cat was spontaneously summoned away, again, some weird thing that apparently just happens in this world. You’d think that’d lead to a lot of invasive species and spreading of disease if every time you summoned a house pet, it went into the magical lottery and pulled a random one from somewhere across the world. Also, again, these are apparently sentient lightning shooting cats, preaching austerity and innocent to the cruelties of man while reveling in the hunt of the lesser creatures. Which is more analysis than it deserves. Certainly more thought than went into the animation too.
