The Next Film From Disney and Pixar is a Crime Movie set in Italy... with Cats

Listen up, wiseguys. There’s a new Disney/Pixar movie coming out, and it’s a crime movie! Specifically, it’s a movie about the Italian mob. It takes place in Venice, Italy, and is the story of a scrawny, impoverished young fellow named Nero (voiced by Mark Ruffalo) who is taken in by a powerful crime family. In exchange for this, his job is to steal things for them… often at great personal risk.

Also, they’re all cats. Everybody’s a cat. Well, a couple of characters seem to be rodents. And there’s a pigeon, I think. But it’s mostly cats. The film is titled Gatto (which is Italian for “cat”).

Anyway, Nero starts to find himself in very dangerous situations, working as a thief for the (literal) fat cat crime boss Rocco, and learns that he has nine lives that he’s wasting, dying while doing criminal errands. Thus, he asks himself the great questions many crime movie protagonists ask themselves: is everything he’s doing worth it? Is he living a life that’s worth living as if it’s his only one? How can he change his life so that it’s full of meaning?

In addition to Ruffalo, the voice cast includes: Laurence Fishburne, Enrico Casarosa (who also directs), John Turturro, Isabella Rossellini, Natasia Demetriou, Jamie Demetriou, Jason Schwartzman, Saverio Raimondo, Jason Mantzoukas, Tracey Ullman, Marco Calvani, and Rhys Darby.

Perhaps it’s a great film to take your children to as you start to introduce them to the “mafia movie” genre. Watch Gatto and then The Godfather and find out which one they like better!

The film will be in theaters next March. Ci vediamo!