* AnimationAgeGhetto: Despite being a fairly sophisticated story, with plenty of non kid-friendly themes such as prostitution and [[DrivenToSuicide attempted suicide]], the film is more often than not lumped into [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids the children's movie section]] at video stores or airing on kid-friendly networks.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: The paintings of Mewsette that Meowrice commissions.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: ''The entire film''. It's written by the same songwriting team as a little musical called ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', after all.
* CultClassic: This is not a very well-known movie, but is quite popular among the handful of people who've actually seen it.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: 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."
* EvilIsCool: Meowrice, especially given his VillainSong, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTiPr2l_6o8 "The Money Cat"]], and that dark, slinky voice Creator/PaulFrees gives him.
* GeniusBonus: The portraits of Mewsette are done in the recognizable styles of the various named artists.
* HarsherInHindsight: The melancholy "Paris Is A Lonely Town," in which Mewsette contemplates suicide, holds a lot more weight knowing that this was one of Creator/JudyGarland'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.[[/note]]
* HilariousInHindsight: This ''definitely'' wouldn't be [[WesternAnimation/TheAristocats 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.
* HoYay: At least assuming that [[AmbiguousGender Meowrice's shadowy goons are all male]], one of them affectionately licks another during "The Money Cat" after getting hit by him.
* MoralEventHorizon: 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.
* NightmareFuel:
** The paintings montage. Having the film [[PlotTumor basically stop for five minutes]] to show a montage of still paintings is already bizarre, but the paintings themselves become increasingly surreal and OffModel (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 ScareChord. 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 Padding]]: That aforementioned montage. It seems there just to stretch the plot a bit and feels like a clumsy way to inject a little [[EdutainmentShow E/I]] value into the script.
* TearJerker
** "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 [[BreakTheCutie crying]] after being pushed too hard by Mme. Rubens-Chatte.
---> "I want Jaune-Tom!"
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Okay. A farm girl leaves her DoggedNiceGuy 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 [[SlippingAMickey pass-out drunk]] and ''[[PressGanged 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 MailOrderBride. She runs away and spends an unspecified amount of time hiding in the alleyways and sewers of Paris before she is cornered and attempts ''[[IDieFree suicide]]'' to evade capture, but fails. She's packed in a ''crate'' and taken to a train only for her boyfriend to arrive JustInTime 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 [[ChekhovsSkill 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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