Top Cat: The Movie

Were you a cartoon fiend as a child? If so you may remember the TV cartoon series Top Cat. Well if this sounds familiar then be prepared to feel nostalgic to those days when all you worried about was watching good cartoons. Vertigo Films presents the return of TC and his gang to the screen as Top Cat: The Movie is based on the hit 1960’s TV series from Hanna-Barbara that followed a group of ‘cool’ street cats as they battled with police Officer Dibble.

Top Cat and Boris Johnson at the opening at Leicester Square.

Top-Cat: The Movie had its opening night last night, Wednesday 23^rd May, in Leicester Square and to welcome our feline friends back to the screen after a 50 year hiatus was none other than the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.

Top Cat: The Movie follows the original characters from the TV series; TC (Top Cat), Benny the Ball, Fancy Fancy, Choo Choo, Spook and Brains. They are back and up to mischief as they are, as always, at war with their oldest nemesis Officer Dibble. The film, however, sees TC and the gang face their biggest threat yet, as Police Chief Strickland moves to town. The gang faces a robot police force and must risk their nine lives in order to save their way of life.

Both Rupert Preston and Allan Niblo, Vertigo Film distributors, stated; "Top Cat is an iconic and much-loved character known by nearly every parent in the UK. We are thrilled to be bringing Top Cat, his mischievous gang and Officer Dibble to a whole new generation.”

The film is promising to bring all the original characters, even including Griswald the Dog and Maharaja of Pookajee alongside the New York swagger that the voice-cast in the TV series portrayed fantastically.  

If you were a fan of the cartoon, or need an entertaining film to keep the kids occupied then this one will hopefully prove to be a ‘tip-top’ production.

This vibrant retro animated film is due to hit UK cinemas next Friday, June 1^st in 2D and 3D.