The tongue-in-cheek film noirish opening is the first clue that this will not be typical National Geographic
fare. Writer-director-narrator Allison Argo manages to keep up the
light tone throughout the 56-minute documentary despite the serious
subject matter (feline interference with wildlife) and a prodigious
amount of small carcasses. Argo uses dramatization to introduce the
ills of unaltered cats run amok, but she also takes cameras to areas as
diverse as the Galapagos Islands, Antarctica, and Dade County, Florida,
to show what happens when domesticated cats forge a life in the wild.
In Australia she documents the anti-cat movement, with Aborigines
making dinner of them and at least one activist making a hat of one. A
British survey pinpoints a tabby named "Missy" as responsible for a
vast amount of missing wildlife, and infrared cameras catch kitties
raiding the nests of rare New Zealand shorebirds to the point of
near-extinction. While this documentary ultimately slips back into joke
mode rather than reaching a conclusion, it certainly raises many valid
questions.