44 Cats

44 Cats is originally an Italian children's show which was picked up by Viacom and dubbed into English and shown on Nickelodeon in the US. Now it's made it's way back across the Atlantic over here to the UK. This has been shown on the channel POP for about the past two weeks. I like cats and children's shows so I watched it. And it was good. The animation was bright and colourful and the quality of the CGI was pretty standard for an animated children's show. The storylines, while not the greatest, were entertaining, if a little weird at times. But then again, most children's shows have strange plots. But if you're a small child, you'll find it entertaining. Now we move on to the main part of any show, the acting! Now, I have only seen the English dub so I can only comment on the English voices. When looking at the cast for this I was most surprised to see that most of the voice actors were also in the Pokemon Anime (Pokemon fan here) I was more surprised to see that the reviews on here at the time of writing this thought that the voice acting was bad as the actors are generally good in Pokemon. I thought the voice acting was good, but the problem was that the voices didn't fit the characters as one reviewer said. They sounded exactly like their characters in Pokemon. For example, Lampo, voiced by Sarah Natochenny, who also voices Ash Ketchum from Pokemon, and has done since 2006. She is just doing her 'Ash' voice for Lampo. Another example are the characters Neko and Zoe are voiced by Alyson Leigh Rosenfield, who voices Sophocles (From Pokemon: Sun and Moon series) and Bonnie (From Pokemon: XY series) respectively. Neko sounds like Sophocles and Zoe sounds like Bonnie. Yes, it may seem I'm nitpicking here, as I'm sure a large amount of the target audience for this haven't watched Pokemon. But honestly it kind of distracts from the show itself, when most of the characters sound like they're in the wrong show. I kept expecting Lampo to suddenly say 'Pikachu, use Thunderbolt!' It doesn't help that both Lampo and Ash wear baseball caps.

English voice dub aside, the rest of the show is good and would probably entertain children for a bit. But if you've watched Pokemon, you may enjoy it a little less.