YMMV / Gay Purr-ee

• Animation Age Ghetto: Despite being a fairly sophisticated story, with plenty of non kid-friendly themes such as prostitution and attempted suicide, the film is more often than not lumped into the children's movie section at video stores or airing on kid-friendly networks.
• Awesome Art: The paintings of Mewsette that Meowrice commissions.
• Awesome Music: The entire film. It's written by the same songwriting team as a little musical called The Wizard of Oz, after all.
• Cult Classic: This is not a very well-known movie, but is quite popular among the handful of people who've actually seen it.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Meowrice's goons tend to see a lot of fanart, even from people who've never seen the movie, thanks to their appealing design and goofy antics during "The Money Cat."
• Evil Is Cool: Meowrice, especially given his Villain Song, "The Money Cat", and that dark, slinky voice Paul Frees gives him.
• Genius Bonus: The portraits of Mewsette are done in the recognizable styles of the various named artists.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The melancholy "Paris Is A Lonely Town," in which Mewsette contemplates suicide, holds a lot more weight knowing that this was one of Judy Garland's final roles before succumbing to her own demons in 1969 (though for her it was substance abuse, not suicide).^note Interestingly enough, this was one of the few songs which she performed outside of the movie, singing it on The Jack Parr Show while making a promotional appearance.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: This definitely wouldn't be be the last animated movie about talking cats in Paris, France, with the female lead being a white cat and the male lead an orange cat.
• Ho Yay: At least assuming that Meowrice's shadowy goons are all male, one of them affectionately licks another during "The Money Cat" after getting hit by him.
• Moral Event Horizon: No matter how a suave Meowrice may make it look, he is essentially a trafficker and a pimp who makes a living by selling young cats to a life of refined slavery as unwilling wives for rich clients.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The paintings montage. Having the film basically stop for five minutes to show a montage of still paintings is already bizarre, but the paintings themselves become increasingly surreal and Off-Model (including a fatter version of her or one where she's shaped like a water pitcher), if not creepy. The last one has a downright terrifying Picasso-esque rendering of Mewsette 'reaching for the sky with a horrified expression, red surrounding her eyes, accompanied by a chilling Scare Chord. And the subtext just makes it worse: Maurice commissions these paintings to give his client 'something to enjoy' while he waits for his mail-order bride.
  • Meowrice in general when you realize he's the cat equal of a human trafficker.
• Padding: That aforementioned montage. It seems there just to stretch the plot a bit and feels like a clumsy way to inject a little E/I value into the script.
• Tear Jerker
  • "Paris Is A Lonely Town." Not least the implication that Mewsette has been waiting all winter for the ice to break over the Seine so she can throw herself in.
    River, river, won't you be my lover?
    Don't turn me down!
  • Mewsette crying after being pushed too hard by Mme. Rubens-Chatte.
    "I want Jaune-Tom!"
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Okay. A farm girl leaves her Dogged Nice Guy boyfriend and runs off to Paris. She immediately catches the eye of a sleazy sweet-talker who takes her to a "school" that will "teach her to be a Proper Lady". In between lessons, he wines and dines and tells her how amazing she is. When the girl's boyfriend shows up, the sleazeball sees him first, gets him and his sidekick pass-out drunk and sells them into slavery. While the boyfriend is off in Alaska earning the money to get back to France, the sleazeball reveals that he doesn't want to marry her, he wants her to become a rich old American's Mail-Order Bride. She runs away and spends an unspecified amount of time hiding in the alleyways and sewers of Paris before she is cornered and attempts suicide to evade capture, but fails. She's packed in a crate and taken to a train only for her boyfriend to arrive Just in Time to beat the ever-loving crap out of the sleazeball and his gang. There are scene-setting songs. Is this a kid's cartoon or a swashbuckling adventure flick? Replace cats with people, and it is a romantic musical with an all-adult cast. Even Jaune Tom's champion mousing ability could just be a back-woods punk's skill at bare-knuckle boxing (which is the way Jaune beats Meowrice, appropriately enough).

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