Gus is fat and lazy, rude on principle, deeply opinionated, and armed with fangs he thinks make him braver than he actually is. He is also a cat. The chaos that follows is entirely his fault.

Alley Cats is Ricky Gervais back in animation, arriving exactly as unfiltered as that combination suggests. A group of feral British cats, each carrying its own damage and outlook, navigates the messy business of finding companionship and figuring out their lives. Nobody here is a philosopher. Nobody is a hero. They are cats on a street trying to get through the day while the weight of simply existing keeps showing up uninvited.

Gervais does what Gervais does. It delivers biting social commentary wrapped in profanity & genuine feeling, uncomfortable questions asked through creatures who have no business asking them but ask them anyway. The laughs land hard. So does the rest of it.