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3''A Cat in Paris'' (French: ''Une Vie de Chat'') is a 2010 traditionally animated film. It was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Animated Feature.
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5Zoe, a young girl, has no idea that her beloved cat Dino sneaks out every night to play accomplice to a ClassyCatBurglar named Nico, and neither does her detective mother, Jeanne. But when a notorious gangster rears his head in the city, these unlikely characters must find a way to stop his plot and gain friendship along the way.
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7Originally in [[UsefulNotes/{{France}} French]] it received an English dub with Creator/MarciaGayHarden as Jeanne, Creator/SteveBlum as Nico, Creator/JBBlanc as Costa and Creator/AnjelicaHuston as Claudine.
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11* AntiHero: Nico is a ClassyCatBurglar but also the one[[spoiler: trying to rescue Zoe.]]
12* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: [[spoiler: The first hint that Claudine is not as good as she seems is her delight at tormenting Dino with the vacuum]]
13* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Claudine.]]
14* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler:Nico warns Jeanne and Lucas that he wasn't kidnapping Zoe, he was only trying to help her. And after seeing Claudine (who's in her [[BitchInSheepsClothing nice lady façade]],) he tried to tell the cop partners that ''Claudine'' is the one trying to hurt Zoe. This is justified since Nico is a thief and thieves usually do lie, as Jeanne points out]].
15* CatchAFallingStar: [[spoiler:Jeanne catches Nico as he falls from well over 20 feet by his bag, and this enables him to swing effortlessly and land with no problem on a gargoyle.]]
16* CharacterTitle: The work is about Dino, the "cat" in the title of the movie.
17* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Claudine's rancid perfume allows Dino and Nico to find where she and Costa's gang are holding Zoe.]]
18* ChekhovsSkill: Jeanne's prowess in martial arts. It allows her to [[spoiler: fend off Costa when he tries choking her]].
19* TheChewToy: Zoe's mother's partner.
20-->''Lucas'': Ten years on the force and she's got me following cat pawprints.
21* CityOfAdventure: Paris becomes this to Nico and Dino when they go out thieving.
22* ClassyCatBurglar: Nico. Bonus points for having an actual cat for a sidekick!
23* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Costa. Despite his flabby physique, he's able to [[spoiler: perform acts of parkour and hunt down Nico effortlessly, something even the police couldn't do]].
24* CurseCutShort: A security guard in the beginning when he spots Nico: "You sneaky son of a--"
25* CuteMute: Zoe, though it's implied that it started with [[spoiler:the death of her father]]. She gets better.
26* DamselInDistress: Though she's somewhat resourceful, Zoe is about as useful as an average young girl prowling on the rooftops and running from criminals.
27* DamselOutOfDistress: Jeanne when [[spoiler: Costa tries to strangle her. She kicks his ''butt'']].
28* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Costa]] falls from a crane after he hallucinates that a giant is there to catch him... ItMakesSenseInContext.
29* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:He was a police officer that was killed by Costa.]]
30* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Dino, Nico, Jeanne, and Zoe are now a family.]]
31* EasilyForgiven: Justified in that Nico, a cat burglar [[spoiler: saves Zoe twice, which persuades Jeanne off-screen to prevent him from going to jail]].
32* EiffelTowerEffect: The {{Trope Namer|s}} is shown, and the climax of the film takes place on top of Notre Dame de Paris.
33* EtTuBrute: Averted when Jeanne finds out that her cat is helping a burglar, but played straight when Zoe sees [[spoiler:Claudine passing information to Costa]].
34* EvilBrit: Costa, in the English dub, has a wicked Cockney accent.
35* EvilDetectingDog: Cat in this case. Dino knows who is a threat to Zoe and who is a friend.
36* EvilSmellsBad: [[spoiler:Claudine wears some rancid perfume]].
37* FairCop: Jeanne. If his pictures are any indication, [[spoiler:her late husband]] was one too.
38* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Claudine [[KickTheDog mean-spiritedly]] using a vacuum to get rid of Dino while she's cleaning is a huge hint that she's an accomplice of Costa.]]
39* GoodCopBadCop: Jeanne and her partner, Lucas, have shades of this.
40* TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil: Jeanne, Nico, and Costa, respectively.
41* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:How Jeanne escapes Costa's chokehold]].
42* HeelFaceTurn: Nico wasn't a ''bad'' guy per se in the beginning, but he did rob houses and museums without any scruples, and his first question is why a group of men, a girl, and [[spoiler: a woman]] are in his house. When he sees Zoe is in trouble, however, and that Dino knows her, he switches his motivation to saving her from Costa.
43* HeightInsult: Since Costa is too short to reach Nico when both are dangling on opposite sides of a statue, Nico begins teasing him for being short. At one point, he says, "Did your mum pick out those shorts for you?" (the joke being that he's both a MamasBoy and so short he wears a pair of shorts as regular pants). However, Costa [[ComicallyMissingThePoint thinks]] he made a YourMom joke.
44* TheHeist: What Costa and his gang are planning.
45* HeKnowsTooMuch: This is initially why Costa's gang try to kidnap Zoe, since she accidentally listened on their heist plan and [[spoiler: saw her nanny was TheMole]]. Later on the plan changes to IHaveYourWife.
46* HeldGaze: [[spoiler:Nico and Jeanne do this after everything is over.]]
47* HeroicBSOD: Both Zoe and her mother suffer from this to certain degrees. Zoe [[CuteMute refuses to speak]] and Jeanne is shown breaking into sobs at work after being tormented by a demonic vision of Costa.
48* HiddenDepths: Bumbling henchman Mr. Frog mentions that he was once a dancer.
49* HostageForMacGuffin: Costa plans to hold Zoe captive to force her mother to give him The Colossus of Nairobi.
50* ItsPersonal: Zoe's mother is partly intent on catching Costa because he [[spoiler:killed her husband, a fellow cop, on his last heist]].
51* KarmaHoudini: Nico seems to escape judgement for stealing millions of dollars worth of jewelry, although with the TimeSkip it's possible that Jeanne vouched for him to receive a pardon or a commuted sentence, and return all that he stole.
52** {{Justified|Trope}} for Dino since he's a cat.
53** {{Averted|Trope}} for Costa's gang and [[spoiler:Claudine]] who are arrested and go to jail.
54* LeParkour: Justified since this is Paris. Nico, Dino, [[spoiler: Jeanne and Costa]] demonstrate this.
55* MacGuffin: A giant statue called The Colossus of Nairobi.
56* MamaBear: Jeanne. Do not threaten her daughter in her presence.
57* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Costa's gang. The only one who's competent is [[spoiler:Claudine]].
58* TheMole: [[spoiler:Claudine.]]
59* MoralityPet: Zoe becomes one for [[spoiler: Nico]] and Dino, though ironically Dino is her literal pet. They spend the second half of the movie protecting her.
60* MotiveDecay: At first Costa wants the Colossus of Nairobi, but he starts losing his mind [[spoiler: while chasing down Zoe all night and wants ''her'' instead and to murder Jeanne]].
61* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:Costa vs. Zoe's mother in the finale, although Jeanne returns the favor.]]
62* NonHumanSidekick: Dino the cat, both to Zoe and Nico.
63* NoodleIncident: [[spoiler:The heist that ended in Jeanne's husband, Zoe's father, and a fellow cop being murdered.]]
64* NotListeningToMeAreYou: [[spoiler:Zoe asks this after she catches Nico and Jeanne paying more attention to each other than her story.]]
65* NotNowKiddo: When Jeanne arrests [[spoiler: Nico on charges of kidnapping, she ignores Zoe tugging on her shirt and desperately trying to tell her the truth.]]
66* OhCrap:
67** Zoe when [[spoiler: Claudine catches her in Nico's house and grabs her]].
68** Jeanne when she realizes that [[spoiler: Nico was telling the truth after finding Zoe's bed empty and that she left her daughter in the hands of a real kidnapper]].
69** Nico when he starts to fall [[spoiler: off Notre Dame]].
70* OnlyOneName: Except for Costa, we don't know the full names of the cast.
71* PermaStubble: Almost off the male characters shown have this.
72* PoliceAreUseless: The two guards at the beginning are effortlessly outsmarted by Nico and Dino. Averted with the actual police, who track down Nico and Dino with old-fashioned detective work.
73* ThePrecariousLedge: Nico makes a career of walking along incredibly thin ledges. At some point, he even saves a potted plant from falling off a window sill without so much as a stumble.
74* RescueRomance: Rather, [[spoiler: rescue my child romance]]. After Nico shows that he's been protecting Zoe, [[spoiler: Jeanne saves him and they start a relationship at the end of the movie]].
75* RedRightHand: [[spoiler:Claudine's perfume]] functions roughly as this.
76* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Claudine is working for Victor Costa.]]
77* RunningGag: Dino bothering Rufus, the small and very yappy dog.
78* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Costa suffers this when he imagines the Colossus statue arriving to save him.]]
79* SaveTheVillain: Jeanne tries to do this for [[spoiler: Costa]] and Nico helps, but [[spoiler: Costa is too heavy]] and suffers SanitySlippage.
80* SayMyName: Rather, say [[spoiler: "MAMA!"]] after Jeanne drives away and leaves Zoe in [[spoiler: treacherous Claudine's hands]].
81* ShownTheirWork: In the English version, Jeanne correctly refers to Dino as a "tomcat" which means a male cat.
82* {{Sleepwalking}}: Nico almost runs into one when he's stealing another priceless piece of art.
83* SnowMeansLove: At the end of the film, Paris is coated in a lovely layer of snow as Zoe, Jeanne, Dino, and [[spoiler: Nico, presumably married to Jeanne,]] celebrate a merry Christmas.
84* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Most of Costa's minions drag Zoe around like this when not carrying her. Justified since she is a young girl and they are adults.
85* StopDrowningAndStandUp: One of Costa's henchman almost manages to drown in three feet of water -- until his boss yanks him up by the collar.
86* SurroundedByIdiots: Aside from [[spoiler:Claudine]], Costa's minions really aren't all that bright.
87* TapOnTheHead: Thoroughly averted. Costa [[spoiler:has his head bashed against a steel crane a few times, and promptly begins laughing madly and hallucinating]].
88* TeethFlying: {{Downplayed}}. [[spoiler:Nico only loses one tooth during his brawl with Costa.]]
89* ThatPoorCat: Claudine scares away Dino with a vacuum cleaner, and Costa tosses Dino [[spoiler: twice in the climax, though the first time Dino shows him why you ''shouldn't'' do that to a cat]].
90* WomenAreWiser: [[spoiler:Costa explicitly states that Claudine is the only one he can depend on.]]
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