Very disappointing...

Don't Believe the Hype

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Warner Brothers deliver yet another DC Showcase, this time about Catwoman who is by far the most well known of the hero choices thus far.It tells the short story of Catwoman in pursuit of Rough Cut who appears to be smuggling more than just diamonds this time.Fluid, action packed and well paced this is everything a short should be.I'm a fan of Dushku but I question how much she was paid for this 14 minute short considering she speaks about 3 lines total!Good stuff.The Good:Very well animatedEliza DushkuThe Bad:Very little dialogue yet has an expensive voice castThings I Learnt From This Movie:Kevin Michael Richardson needs to learn some new voices

I saw this the following day after Batman Year one and it is definitely better but....Warning ahead: There is a scene where Roughcut and is punks go into a dodgy club and a hooker removes her bra. In other words, this is probably one which you can't show children.

Okay, did we all watch the same show, here? I've seen several complaints about the quality of the animation, and I keep wondering what part are they complaining about? The car chase, the multiple fight scenes, the pole dance (!), it all looked great to me, far above the usual quality of US animation. Example: check out the backgrounds and you see people actually moving, not just static figures. Granted,character development wasn't superb here, but from a pure action perspective this was a great debut for our favorite pussycat antihero. I mean, how much character development can you cram into a short? Which is my one complaint and the reason why I only gave it an 8. I wish it would have been longer.

7.5/10--Worth watching if you want 12 minutes of mildly adult entertainment, or you're already getting "Batman: Year One".DC Showcase: Catwoman is a nice, short animation. However, there-in lies the drawback: it's short. As in, shorter than an episode of an animated series. Written by Paul Dini, best known for his contribution to the DCAU, this animation, and it's story, is equivalent to a stand-alone, 20 page comic book issue. It tries to put in as much action as possible within 10 minutes. I believe the main attraction however is sex. Catwoman is sexy, but they really emphasized this here. The animation itself is not as excellent as one would expect. Being only 10 minutes long, one would have to wonder why they didn't invest in superb animation. Thus, the animation falls in between a regular animated series episode and an exceptional anime.