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Almost too cute to handle! You're invited to take a special look into the wonderful world of kittens! You'll see kittens frolicking, jumping, cuddling, eating, drinking, climbing, purring meowing, sleeping.... all while looking absolutely adorable!
Rated C for Cute.
This DVD has never been screened
Reviews and Other Info:
2010-10-19 Curled Up With a Good DVD
By Eric Renshaw
What's better than cute kittens tumbling around and playing with balls, toys, and each other? For cat lovers, not much. The Wonderful World of Kittens! delivers nearly an hour of cute overload with several little felines who are still a bit clumsy and finding their feet. It is really cute.
The camera operator gets right down in the action with the cats, following them closely for much of their frolicking play. Soon the cats stop swiping at the camera and sniffing it, and we got to see some real uncompromising kitten play. What's not to like?
For one, the setup of the DVD. It is arranged in such a way that you can choose chapters or hit play all to get all the action in one continuous string. Nothing wrong with that, but when I hit "play all," it dumped back to the main menu after the first chapter. If you skip a chapter in after hitting "play all," it will work from there on. This bug put me off on the whole experience to begin with. Hopefully this will be fixed for final pressing.
If you have a kitten-loving child or want to entertain your television-watching cats, The Wonderful World of Kittens! might be just what the vet ordered. It's non-stop kitten-frolicking action. While I don't care for the technical glitch, that doesn't subtract from the cute overload of Kittens!
| 2010-09-21 blogcritics.com
By Pat Padua
Microcinema International is best known for distributing video titles from outside the studio machine, and featuring, at minimum, upper-middlebrow aesthetics. Among their recent releases are Seven Easy Pieces, a survey of performance artist Marina Abramovic’s 2005 Guggenheim residence; Tatsumi Hijikata: Summer Storm, a document of Japanese Butoh dancers; and the 2002 science fiction feature Teknolust, which stars art-house darling Tilda Swinton in a quadruple role as Rosetta Stone and three Self-Replicating Automatons cloned from her own DNA. (I didn’t believe it either. ) So it was with surprise and delight that I spied on Microcinema's docket of upcoming releases the title I present to you today: The Wonderful World of Kittens. Is this a lowbrow, if adorable and fuzzy, anomaly in their catalog? Is this kitten-porn elevated to the level of performance art? Perhaps the answer is a little of both.
Divided into chapter titles such as “Molly Kitten Plays with a Thing” and "Kittenball Championship," The Wonderful World of Kittens offers surface cuddliness as advertised. At the same time, it is not lacking in the depth one is accustomed to from purveyors of independent cinema.
The chapters are divided between interior and exterior set pieces. In the former, the kittens are frequently let loose on studio backdrop muslin, but there is no reining in the exuberance and messiness of reality, as the kittens wreak havoc on the varieties of man-made ball. The tour de force “Play Ball!” offers a rhythmic electronic score punctuated with electronic pan-flute sounds, signifying the kittens’ abandonment of high society for primeval nature a la The Blue Lagoon. As the program is rated C for Cute, these young explorers will not discover their sexuality. At nearly ten minutes, “Play Ball!” is a long chapter of this wonderful world, but will human civilization degenerate even more quickly? It ends with a kitten batting at the camera, which goes chillingly dead — just like The China Syndrome.
The music for The Wonderful World of Kittens was composed by artist Brian Dewan, whose original music and drawings have also appeared in a series of filmstrip programs. (In 2000 I saw the artist present these charming filmstrips at Brooklyn's Pierogi Gallery.) His score for Kittens is more interesting than you'd expect from your standard baby animals video, though not so interesting that the music overwhelms the kitten play. Still, Dewan pushes the envelope of pet sounds in such chapters as “Kittenball Rematch,” which introduces free jazz violin tones as a musical counterpoint to the feline chaos.
As the chapters unfold, Molly Kitten becomes a clear stand-in for the artist. Molly "Plays with a Thing," is "On the Prowl," "Is Curious." Are these not the concerns of the creative class? Is the reference to Ulyssees more than coincidence? Yes yes yes she said yes.
Kittens reaches its dramatic peak with the startling “Homewreckers.” It begins with the tranquil repose of a sleeping black kitten, but soon breaks down into a scenario of home invasion not unlike Michael Haneke’s brutal film Funny Games. Finally, the program ends with “Naptime.” One can only guess what adorable horrors will ensue upon awakening. The Wonderful World of Kittens was originally released by Bright Red Rocket in 2008. It will be available from Microcinema on October 26 — just in time for Halloween.
| 2010-07-08 Host of "Cat Head Theatre"
By Frazier Tomcat
"These kittens are almost too cute to handle!"
| 2010-07-08 Author of Nothing Can Stop a Cat
By Juan Del Gato
"Meow, little kitty. Meow!"
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Special Features: photo gallery of our feline cohorts, interactive menus, scene access, Dolby Digital, stereo surround sound, special preview of "Cat Head Theatre". |
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Wholesale Purchasing:
Program MC-1191 is available for wholesale from Microcinema DVD. Contact info@microcinema.com or call at +1-415-447-9750 |
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