Pixar proves that, yes, Mafia cats can still be cute in new Gatto trailer

The most eye-catching things about Gatto don’t turn out to be its feline subjects, though. Instead, it’s how they’re animated; for the first time in what feels like a long time, Pixar has moved away from its usual clean CGI style to something far sketchier, and far livelier—suggesting that not even Disney’s resident hitmakers are immune to animation trends that films like Across The Spider-Verse have been dipping into in recent years. The upshot is to create something that’s probably Pixar’s most interesting visual palette since Soul, even if the actual storytelling—cat torn between past loyalties and future happiness, with a patina of death hanging over everything—feels pretty Pixar-familiar.

Gatto arrives in theaters on March 5, 2027; it’ll arrive after a year that’s reportedly been a tough one at the studio, as it struggles to launch movies that aren’t ensconced inside existing franchises like Toy Story and Inside Out.