Bulent Ustun's "Kotu Kedi Serafettin" (Bad Cat Serafettin) was a famous monthly comics of the 1990's. Depicted as a stray cat, living in a traditional neighborhood in metropolitan Istanbul, Serafettin, aka "Sero", was a badass, foul-mouthed, villain, sexist, yet a naive and a funny character. In his adventures, he followed is own (macho) ethics. Bulent Ustun's awesome drawings turned adventures of Serafettin to a film-noir like cartoon. Unfortunately, this animation lacks the harshness, and new ideas of Bulent Ustun's drawings and wit. It merely repeats the well-known storylines of former comics.

If you are looking for a children's comics, or maybe an anime, you are in the wrong place. However, miss Kotu Kedi Serafettin, this movie presents a decent animation of Bulent Ustun's famous cartoon.

First off, I never expected a Turkish animation could be this good -- how I was wrong. The animation is so great I can't help not to write a review; something I don't usually bother doing. The level of details put into every scene is stunning, the character motions, the physics of things, the visual effects and everything that a good 3d movie should tend to was done close to perfection. As far as the animation goes, this movie is a real winner. But now here comes the unfortunate part: the story. From the beginning, I felt nothing is so engaging about the story. I was honestly bored and could have left the movie after 15 minutes if it wasn't for the animation. I watched the English-dubbed version, so maybe something is lost in translation. There isn't much to enjoy from the dialogs througout the duration, some were crude, some were cheesy and none is entertaining. But again, this is the dubbed version I was watching. if only I could understand the movie in its original language, probably I could have enjoyed it more. However kudos to the team behind this animaton work.