Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy, Foreign (non-English)
A lonely cat drifts on a whimsical, melancholy ark, learning to belong in a world remade by water.
A family watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Criterion.
No swearing and nothing scary, about what a PG should carry.
Our estimate: fine from about 7. Rated PG.
How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
A solitary cat, displaced by a great flood, finds refuge on a boat with various species and must navigate the challenges of adapting to a transformed world together.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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