History WesternAnimation / ACatInParis

** {{Averted}} for Costa's gang and [[spoiler:Claudine]] who are arrested and [[CaptainObvious going to jail]].

* [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Minions With An F In Evil]]: Costa's gang. The only one who's competent is [[spoiler:Claudine]].

''A Cat in Paris'' (French: ''Une Vie de Chat'') is a 2010 traditionally animated film. It was nominated for an AcademyAward for Best Animated Feature.

''A Cat in Paris'' (French: ''Une Vie de Chat'') is a 2010 traditionally animated film. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Zoe, 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.

Originally in French it received an English dub with Creator/MarciaGayHarden as Jeanne, Creator/StevenBlum as Nico, Creator/JBBlanc as Costa and Creator/AnjelicaHuston as Claudine.

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* AdultFear: Jeanne goes thorugh a parent's worse nightmare when she [[spoiler:thinks that Nico tried to kidnap her daughter. And gets another fear bomb when she realizes that it was actually Claudine who had her child. Imagine how Jeanne must have felt when she harshly discovers she laced her daughter's life in the hands of a cold hearted criminal.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Claudine.]]
* 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.]]
* 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.]]

* TheChewToy: Zoe's mother's partner.

* CurseCutShort: A security guard in the beginning when he spots Nico: "You sneaky, son of a-"
* CuteMute: Zoe, though it's implied that it started with [[spoiler: the death of her father]]. She gets better.

* DarkChick: [[spoiler: Claudine.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Costa]] falls from a crane after he hallucinates that a giant is there to catch him... ItMakesSenseInContext.
* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler: He was a police officer that was killed by Costa.]]

* EiffelTowerEffect: The {{Trope Namer|s}} is shown, and the climax of the film takes place on top of Notre Dame de Paris.
* EvilBrit: Costa, in the English dub, has a wicked Cockney accent.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The giant statue called The Colossus of Nairobi. If you look further south of the statue there's [[GagPenis something that might be mistaken for something it's not supposed to be.]]
* GoodCopBadCop: Jeanne and her partner, Lucas, have shades of this.

* 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.

* ItsPersonal: Zoe's mother is partly intent on catching Costa because he [[spoiler: killed her husband, a fellow cop, on his last heist]].
* KarmaHoudini: Nico seems to escape judgement for stealing millions of dollars worth of jewelry.

* MacGuffin: A giant statue called The Colossus of Nairobi.

* TheMole: [[spoiler: Claudine.]]
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler: Costa vs. Zoe's mother in the finale.]]
* NonHumanSidekick: Dino the cat, both to Zoe and Nico.

* NotListeningToMeAreYou: [[spoiler:Zoe asks this after she catches Nico and Jeanne paying more attention to each other than her story.]]

* RedRightHand: [[spoiler: Claudine's perfume]] functions roughly as this.

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Costa suffers this when he imagines the Colossus statue arriving to save him.]]

* StopDrowningAndStandUp: One of Costa's henchman almost manages to drown in three feet of water-- until his boss yanks him up by the collar.
* 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.
* TapOnTheHead: Thoroughly averted. Costa [[spoiler: has his head bashed against a steel crane a few times, and promptly begins laughing madly and hallucinating]].
* TeethFlying: {{Downplayed}}. [[spoiler: Dino only loses one tooth during his brawl with Costa.]]

''A Cat in Paris'' (French: ''Un Vie de Chat'') is a 2010 traditionally animated film. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

* [[MinionWithAFInEvil Minions With An F In Evil]]: Costa's gang. The only one who's competent is [[spoiler:Claudine]].

--->''Lucas'': Ten years on the force and she's got me following cat pawprints.

* AwardSnub

* CurseCutShot: A security guard in the beginning when he spots Nico: "You sneaky, son of a-"

* EarnTheirHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Dino, Nico, Jeanne, and Zoe are now a family.]]

* FakeIrish: Creator/AnjelicaHuston as Claudine.

** {{Averted}} for Costa's gang and [[spoiler:Claudine]] who are arrested and [[CapatainObvious]] going to jail.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Only an hour of the movie that could've been longer. More backstory on the characters, what happened to [[spoiler:the murder of Zoe's father]], and even an attempted bank heist by Costa and his gang.

* AdultFear: Jeanne goes thorugh a parent's worse nightmare when she [[spoiler:thinks that Nico tried to kidnap her daughter. And gets another fear bomb when she realizes that it was actually Claudine who had her child. Imagine how Jeanne must have felt when she harshly discovers she laced her daughter's life in the hands of a cold hearted criminal.
* BigBad: Victor Costa

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: How did Dino becomes a literal "cat burglar"? How did he and Nico meet? These are the questions that plague many minds on such interesting characters.

!!Tropes:

* FairCop: Jeanne

* HostageForMacGuffin: Costa plans to hold Zoe captive to force her mother to give him The Colossus of Nairobi.

* CuteMute: Zoe, though it's implied that it started with [[spoiler: the death of her father.]] [[ItGotBetter She gets better.]]

* DistressedDamsel: Though she's somewhat resourceful, Zoe is about as useful as an average young girl.
* EiffelTowerEffect: The TropeNamer is shown, and the climax of the film takes place on top of Notre Dame de Paris.

* ItsPersonal: Zoe's mother is partly intent on catching Costa because he [[spoiler: killed her husband, a fellow cop, on his last heist.]]

* TapOnTheHead: Thoroughly averted. Costa [[spoiler: has his head bashed against a steel crane a few times, and promptly begins laughing madly and hallucinating.]]

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Costa suffers this when he imagines the Colossus of Nairobi arriving to save him.]]

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Costa suffers this when he imagines a giant arriving to save him.]]

* StrangeGirl: Zoe's best friend is her cat, she's a CuteMute, and she thinks that the dead lizards Dino brings her are cool.

* FakeIrish: AngelicaHuston as Claudine.

* RunningGag: Dino bothering Rufus, the small and very yappy dog.

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