Spy Cat
German theatrical release poster
Directed byChristoph Lauenstein
Wolfgang Lauenstein
Written byChristoph Lauenstein
Wolfgang Lauenstein
Produced byJan Bonath
Mark Mertens[1]
Starring
Music byAndreas Radzuweit[2]
Production
companies
Scopas Medien
Grid Animation[3]
Philm CGI
UFA Fiction
Seven Pictures
S Film
Distributed byUniversum Film
Release dates
  • June 13, 2018 (2018-06-13) (Annecy)
  • April 18, 2019 (2019-04-18) (Germany)
  • May 1, 2019 (2019-05-01) (Belgium)
  • August 13, 2020 (2020-08-13) (DirecTV)
  • September 11, 2020 (2020-09-11) (Digital/On Demand)
Running time
84 minutes[1]
CountriesGermany
Belgium
Czechia
India
LanguagesEnglish
German
Box office$3,440,104[4]

Spy Cat (German: Marnie's Welt),[1] also known by its German name Marnie's World, is a 2018 animated spy comedy film written and directed by brothers Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein.[5][6] The film was loosely inspired by the German fairy tale Town Musicians of Bremen.[3]

The film is about Marnie, a chubby cat treated like a princess and getting everything she wants, as he becoming a "spy cat" and his friends Elvis the dog, Eggbert the rooster and Anton the donkey. Together, the four heroes try to go undercover by one of us and protect them along the way, they are to solve a special agent with bus riders, eating cakes, taking pictures and how to get the lead by the dangerous missions. The film is a co-production between Scopas Medien, Grid Animation, Philm CGI, UFA Fiction, Seven Pictures and S Film.

Plot

In a fictional town called "Diabville". Humans comes in all shapes and sizes and they all together. The farmer spreads seeds, when a flock of roosters and chickens come to life with the pigeons are behind the gate. Elvis, a brown dog, who's in the doghouse, comes to the town when she ask me what she did. An orange cat named Marnie is watching television on the room. His mom is making a cake.

Marnie becomes a top secret "spy cat" and an undercover agent dons a bow tie, glasses, and serving a mystery, but she is forced to do everything she has a lonely, pampered housecat. Uncle Phil comes out to the house. Marnie starts to go undercover in the outside. Unfortunately, his mom asks when Marnie grabs it and she tell her to no going outside. The mom ask Marnie for cake, and she eats it and mom ask her to watch an extra hour of TV tonight.

Uncle Phil is cleaning up the room, Marnie then sees a map of Diabville and prepare to take a picture of Uncle Phil. However, she ask Marnie not to take pictures. Uncle Phil then burns the picture down with a lighter. Elvis is in the tractor and starts to zoom in and falls. The pair of men told them that they are going to it. He then grab a phone and calls them.

When Marine met her friends Elvis, Eggbert and Anton, they are at the bus. They drive, Elvis shoots a sign and said "nice shot". The friends are in the park and Anton the zebra, is holding up an umbrella, but the stripes became lose, turn it to a donkey. The house came out and door bell rings, Anton grabs a pizza. Eggbert and Marnie is touch the keyboard and spell it. The evil woman seeks out and shoots them.

The four heroes are set in the home in sunset and Uncle Phil is back and cuts off a picture. They are standing, Marnie takes a picture of her again and Uncle Phil once again said to grab back the picture. Marnie and friends is rescued on a plane and the police goes wrong, and Uncle Phil sprays a picture with paint.

Marnie puts a disc and opens up and paused it by a remote. Elvis is talking by a phone. Marnie is happy for everyone in a show, and Uncle Phil is arrested.

Now the mom helps the kids eat cake and Marine and his friends are happy together about it.

Cast

Release

Spy Cat received its worldwide premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on 13 June 2018,[3] before being theatrically released in Portugal on 14 March 2019.[1] It was released in Germany on 18 April 2019 by Universum Film and in Belgium on 1 May 2019, as well.[1] The film had a worldwide gross of $3,440,104,[4] but received generally negative reviews from critics.[7][8] Its television premiere of the film was on Sat.1.

For its British theatrical release, the film was edited to remove a comical scene of a man urinating against another man accidentally when he's distracted in order to receive a U rating from the British Board of Film Classification. An uncut PG classification was available.[9]

In 2020, an English dubbed version of SpyCat was released with influencer Addison Rae now voicing the character of Marnie.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Spy Cat (Marnie's Welt) at Cineuropa – the best of European cinema. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  2. ^ Spy Cat / Marnie's World (Marnie's Welt) at Soundtrack.net. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  3. ^ a b c McLean, Thomas J. (22 May 2018) Philm CGI’s Co-Production Feature ‘Marnie’s World’ to Play Annecy. Animation World Network. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  4. ^ a b Spy Cat at Box Office Mojo, an IMDb company. Amazon. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  5. ^ Staff (12 December 2019) «SpyCat», acompaña a la agente 00-Cat en su primera misión especial. (in Spanish). LaButaca. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  6. ^ Barraclough, Leo (26 September 2018) Global Screen Close to Selling Out on Spy Cat Movie ‘Marnie’s World’ (EXCLUSIVE). Variety. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  7. ^ Clarke, Cath (25 April 2019) Spy Cat review – feline crimefighter not up to scratch. The Guardian. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  8. ^ Petch, Callie (29 April 2019) Spy Cat – Review. Set the Tape. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  9. ^ Spy Cat. British Board of Film Classificationbbfc.co.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2021.