Top Cat: The Movie, review U cert, 90 min Dir: Alberto Mar; starring Jason Harris, Chris Edgerly, Bill Lobely, Melissa Disney (voices) When it was first broadcast by the BBC in 1962, the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Top Cat was renamed Boss Cat, because of the existence of a popular brand of cat food of the same name. It was screened for the first time in Britain under its original title in 1999, by which time the cat food company had long since ceased trading. If the firm was still around today, however, it might well consider suing this film for defamation. Top Cat: The Movie is a product of Mexico, where Top Cat, or rather Don Gato, is still very much a big deal. It is a grievous insult not only to the original cartoon but animation in general, and also arguably cats. The animation looks startlingly cheap and the plot, which involves robots, is incomprehensible. The jokes are either baffling or wildly inappropriate: for instance, the film ends with a merry quip about prison rape. Surprisingly, the 3D is also sometimes back to front, with background objects appearing closer than the characters standing in front of them. As animation errors go, this seems roughly on a par with accidentally drawing one of the characters upside down, one of the few mistakes this thoroughly dismal film does not make.