The main theme earns its place in your head for decades, and the animation moves with a fluidity that most 1969 cartoons couldn't touch. Puss himself is the kind of character who makes you root for him immediately, clever without being smug, loyal without being saccharine. This is a fairy tale that remembers what made the original work: a cat with nothing but his wits, doing right by the people who matter, and somehow landing on his feet every single time.

A clever musketeer cat in boots sets out to protect the weak and defenseless, but sparing a mouse turns him into the most wanted outlaw in all Catdom. On the run from the Three Blunderers, Perro befriends Pierre, a young miller's boy, and the two decide to go looking for fame and fortune together. When they meet the lovely Princess Rosa, Perro makes up his mind to see Pierre married to her. The wicked ogre Lucifer wants the princess too, but with help from a band of comical mouse thieves, Perro manages to get Pierre engaged to Rosa. Then, on the night of the full moon, Lucifer kidnaps her, and Perro, Pierre and the mouse bandits set off to bring her back. This comic fantasy adventure adapts Charles Perrault's classic fairy tale.