Be My Cat (2021)

Not what I expected

I expected so much from this series after seeing the trailer, what a let down!

I love cats but this series was just to childish and so immature that it made watching it really difficult, i kept expecting it to turn around and get inspired. But nothing what a disappointment.

The ML was so full of himself and arrogantly thought he was all that, and the FL was so bland and boring and as usual never listened and thought she could what she wanted, worse was the story had no depth, we looking for her brother without giving us a clue as too why.

This series just lacked everything.

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Cotton Candy sweet drama that tried to deliver angst but fell flat

This drama had the ingredients for an addicting drama: 1) perfect cast specially Kevin Xiao as Xiu Ran with his cat-like face and Tian Xi Wei as Mint with her refreshing character, 2) good chemistry between the ML and FL with their banters and cute interaction, 3) beautiful cinematography and decent budget for the production, 4) unexpected plot twist, and 5) short 16 eps and good ending.

But somehow it still failed to hook me like how Eternal Love Rain and My Fantastic Mr. Right both of which are in the same animal transformation genre. ELR and MFMR have smaller budget but more episode count were able to deliver the right amount of sweetness and angst to make us want to binge watch on them. Be My Cat on the other hand might be too sweet and lacks that emotional depth and angst to actually make us feel that loss specially on the climax of the drama.

I’d also like to point out that the producers of this drama are also the producers for Well Intended Love so I think their work is meant for more episode counts or for modern times. Also the Director is the one who directed The Eternal Love 2 so we do have the gorgeous scenes. The screenwriter also wrote the script for Romance of Hua Rong, so we have great main lead characters. I think the main problem is that the whole production is limited by the 16 episode counts so the story felt way too rushed and they just don’t have the proper skills to make condensed 16 episode dramas like the ir South Korean counterparts.

I’d suggest this if you want to watch something new and refreshing but I don’t see myself rewatching this as much as I rewatched The Eternal Love and My Fantastic Mr. Right.

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He could be my pet any time!

Cute, light rom-com. Easy watching for the weekend. Loved the ML. I had not heard of him before but will watch out for other shows he's done. I like him. Chemistry between him and the FL was believable - who wouldn't fall in love with that innocent face. The other characters were cute too - and everybody pretty much interacted well - no vicious plots or nasty alliances.

Nice if you want a happy ending, although there was a little nail-biter there for a minute. A couple of loopholes, but for the kind of show this is it didn't hurt the production in any way. I came away feeling satisfied and happy with the way things ended. Wish we could have seen a little more of the happy ending, but hey - I'll take what I can get!

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Comedy, a prince who's a cat seeks for the other gem balls to return home.

Don't know what to say about this drama. The storyline fails because so many loop holes.I felt that they cut out too much to try to make it into 16 eps. Certain parts of the storyline seems to choppy and didn't make much sense. It wins for being cute and romantic but not enough. Not sure how much I actually like the comedy part ..... I like it when the human turns into the cat , but not a big fan of comedy mixed in with sci fi...

The story had so much more potential to have been better. Female lead has her own pet shop and she gets a blue orb gem. This blue orb gem is special in the sense that it has a cat living inside. This cat is none the other but the male lead. The male lead is a cat but stuck in Mo Xiu ran's body . Through the female lead Xiao bo he gets her blood on the blue gem and they become contracted as master and pet. When she gets hurt , he'll get hurt. The male lead turns into a cat when the blue gem touches him. The male lead is a stone cold, arrogant general. All he wants to do is get rid of the contract and go back home, in which is to get true loves kiss. Lol so he sets off a plan trying to get her to like him, but of course that doesnt work. At the same time the female lead's brother kids abducted and she has to find the four different color gems There is a white, red, and yellow gem which each having different animal inside.They have to get the animal/creature back into the gem.

Also they were together but like broke up in the next episode... then a random love rival .... which basically was an evil one who wanted the gems.... then the reveal of the real mastermind who wanted the four gems...

Honestly trying to do too much for such little episodes....

Wish there were more sweet scenes, lol thats all in episode 16.... Like they have chemistry and have passionate kisses but not enough!

I prefer My Fantastic Mrs right! if you want to watch a cat drama

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Best chinese fantasy drama

The idea was fresh, and the drama had its cute moments, and I appreciate it that for once a Chinese fantasy drama 1) didn't drag for 30+ episodes and 2) did not have a needlessly sad or open ending. I also liked the main actress. Her acting was conventional, but felt spontaneous and she really gave life and a specific personality to her character.
This said, the script had many holes. The parents appear or disappear from the story, they don't seem fazed by many inappropriate or unusual things but accept everything lightly. At the end, they and we don't even know what their son will be doing, where will he staying and how will he be earning his living. The female villain of the beginning suddenly reflects on herself and changes from black to white. Many "rules" of the fantasy world were not explained properly, and some new ones were added at the last moment when it was convenient just to solve a plot problem. What the orbs could and couldn't do, in which circumstances the creature gets inside or can get out of the orb, what are their healing powers and their space travel powers, how long had some of the characters been out of their orbs, how did they find the suitable body and so on and so forth. It was very confusing, not well-explained (I've watched about 300 dramas so far, and I don't consider myself stupid).
The cherry on the cake was the finale, which provided a solution which didn't come organically from the plot, and from what we'd been told so far, but by introducing yet another "new" property /rule we had been told nothing about, like a Deus ex Machina. Just like in "About Time", in "Angel's Last Mission: Love", "Mew, The Secret Boy". Lazy, lazy writers.
Not to mention the tired tropes we were served towards the end.
Moreover, the acting - with the exception of the FL - was really, really bad. This time it isn't overacting but rather underacting. The male lead most of the time had a poker face (yeah, he was trying to be cold and indifferent and cool, I get it, but it gets old real quick) and he never studied the mannerisms of a cat. Even the hiss was just a "hu" sound. His little licks were good, to be fair.
The second lead was placid and impassible like a Buddha, and so was the other second lead (the sidekick). Generally these men wore such serene expressions that made me want to go to sleep. Is that a thing for Chinese male actors? The girls are very lively to the point of being annoying and the men are like statues. I was reminded of the "acting" of Edward Lai, the equally Buddha-like but much prettier ML of "A Little Thing Called First Love".
All in all, as Chinese dramas go, it wasn't that bad. I've seen worse. I was able to watch it to the end without too many problems. Which is a rare occurrence for me. So if you want something super-light which doesn't engage your brain cells too much, for when you're tired or before going to bed, it can deliver. But it could have been much, much better.

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Extremely cute and adorable!

If you love cats and romance with a touch of humour, you can consider watching this series. It is not a very long series - not many episodes in total - and the series is filled with alot of cuteness and definitely a lot of humour parts. The casts did a very good job in this series. I really love everyone's work, especially the male lead. I feel the male lead is very "sporting" especially after watching the cat courtship dance XD The female lead is also very cute and adorable, not those faint and dainty kind of female. The OST is also quite nicely paired with the entire series. I would recommend (definitely) a first time watch for some light funny and adorable moments series. However, rewatching would be up to your individual opinion after completing the entire series.

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My Body-Snatching Alien Cat Prince

Firstly, I want to make sure everyone knows that: MINT IS HIGHLY TOXIC TO CATS!!!!

Whoever wrote the script has never had a cat in their lives, nor knows anything about cats. Please don't feed mint to any cats, like the FL does to cats in this drama, because she is an idiot.

Also, with the stray cat population in China being at crisis numbers, there is absolutely no excuse for the Chinese TV industry to be advertising human bred cats by featuring them over rescued Chinese domestic short hair cats. These bred cats not only have genetic defects because humans breed them to look a certain way, and often suffer their whole lives from physical illnesses. My rescue cats are 8× more beautiful, sweeter, and smarter than these genetically modified cats that exist for absolutely no reason but to look the way shallow, selfish human beings want them to look. They are not superior in any way, nor are they easier to train.

Anyway, I think you get my point.

1. This drama promotes poisoning your cat through mint consumption.

2. This drama promotes the purchasing of bred cats, when millions of rescue street cats need a home.

And now to the rest of my review:

I don't know why I enjoyed this drama. It had just about everything I hate in a drama:

Saccharinely sweet FL

Every possible Chinese costume drama cliché

Body-snatching alien trope (so overdone).

Every episode or two, they are catching a bad guy, just like in Pokémon, really. I hate that.

The FL is supposed to be an ancient chinese vet of some sort, but, as I stated earlier, she is "curing" cats by feeding them mint, which is toxic!!

There is every reason to hate this drama, but somehow, I didn't hate it. Somehow, I kind of liked the FL, despite her being Saccharinely sweet. At least she wasn't wooden like Angela Baby or Gulnazar (I can't even tell the difference between these two actresses, as they not only look the same, but also neither can actually act. This FL should have been painfully annoying, but somehow, she wasn't. The antics of the ML were fun, even whilst he kept a stoney stoic face. The SML was the most likeable character, as he was not only easy on the eyes, but was also written as a genuinely nice person, which made it hard to choose between ML and SML.

Technically, this should have been another unwatchable and annoying drama, but somehow, there is an undeniable charm to this series that I can't deny.

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Comedy Drama

Highly recommend for entertaining drama.

The drama start with the main lead (Mo Xiu Ran) and female lead (Su Xiao He) .The way they first meet and start quarreling and slowly turning into the romantic couple supporting each other is really enjoyable and lovable .

Some of the scenes in the drama like (fighting with rock paper scissor and main lead funny dance made me laugh really hard ) . I believe that this drama is worth watching it and hope it helps to refresh your mind .

Only the story being good doesn’t matter.The way the actor/actress express also matter. The cat role played by ML (Kevin Xiao) is very perfect He is very enjoying his role whereas FL (Tian Xi Wei) is good too . Both of the couple look cute and adorable together.

I also found that this drama is quite simillar to drama “I am Pet at Dali temple” having cat character but its story is different from each other.

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Pure Fluff...Is that Your Thing?

It's not a long drama so I started watching one day when I knew I didn't have time to get emotionally invested in something that was long and binge-able. I thought this would be cute. But, it was just okay. Not bad. Not great either. I didn't really have any expectations for it to begin with so I can't really say I was disappointed but...I was disappointed? It's straight up fluff. Very little substance. It seems like they tried too hard with the comedy aspects of it. The acting is mediocre. Wait. Everything is mediocre. I ended up dropping it because I just couldn't carry on.

All that said, my mom who adores fluff dramas and the stupid comedy ones, actually thought this was pretty good so...just watch the first episode and make up your own mind.

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Silly Funny Fantasy Romance Drama

A very silly and funny fantasy romance drama. The male and female leads are so cute and even the 2nd lead males and female characters are also very cute. If you want a drama to keep you smiling this one is it. the story is very silly and funny. if you love cats you will really like this one and if you just like having a pet there are more then just cats in this drama. The ending surprise me. I did not think that I would be satisfy but they did it a very tasteful way and it was really good. The actors performance was great to make you believe in this fantasy and they had great chemistry because they seem to be having a lot of fun. It is nothing like a usual story. It is not perfect but almost. I enjoy the music and the action in it. There is some real good scenes when he changes from a cat to human. It is a WOW moment.

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Short and Sweet

I decided to watch this drama thinking that it was a romantic comedy. It does actually start out as such, but unfortunately, like most dramas, it skews into the usual theatrical story. I just wanted to watch a cutesy drama featuring princes turning into cats, but even that is shoved aside fairly quickly.

That being said, it's not a bad drama. I'm actually grateful that it's so short, considering the fact that Chinese dramas tend to drag out a lot. The characters are well written and the comedy is also well done. The FL is very cute, and does not seem annoying in any way. I definitely kept going because of her. It just... throws in a whole lot of mystery and political intrigue that sort of throws you off if you weren't expecting it.

But all in all, a short and pleasant watch. Just not what I initially anticipated.

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Serving Quality Beyond Expectation. + ML's Overflowing Adorable & Funfilled Chemistry.

That was way better than I expected.— Honestly, I started and chose this drama just to escape the tiring and time consuming 40-50+ episode dramas so my expectation for this one is fairly average but the more you watch it the more you'll realize that this piece had a great production team behind it who worked their best to break stereotypes against this kind of short-romantic-costume dramas.

I feel like this drama served not only Good Story line but even excelled in terms of Music, Acting, Cinematography and proper choice of scenes and color schemes. It's one of the 'Not-so-Perfect' dramas that literally served above and beyond set expectations.

Oh Well, Of course! This drama got some flaws but one thing I love about them is that they're rather mild? and most of the time unnoticeable not unless you're extremely keen to notice them.

Also, some of the scenes were too mushy and cringey for me. Well, I guess? it's understandable since it is still lined up under such genre. I think I'm just grateful that they didn't overdid them so they still appeared to be bearable. Aside from that I really got no major complains about this production overall.

Still a watch-worthy drama that can sooth your heart during crazy-painful days. Not much drama going on and had a good variety of pure laughter and adorable-ness.

Story - 9.0, This drama didn't have any crazy plot around it but can still make you thinking about what-ifs and such. It was created to entertain people and to lift their moods up and not to stress them out and cause them migraines.

Acting/Cast - 10, Surprisingly, the set of actors in this drama is good, Like REAL GOOD! They simply delivered even during the most important scenes; not to mention the casual day-to-day scenes and cuts. I'm literally at awe and highly satisfied of their acting and overall performances.

Music - 10, Majority of the Songs played are truly pleasing to my ears and is well-fitted to the dramas overall mood and dynamics. I felt like they really picked the right tune and sound for each of them.

Rewatch Value - 9.0, IF you're going to ask me to watch it again I would probably say "Yes!" but not after completing the long list of dramas lined up for me to watch. Nonetheless this drama deserves every view counts it can get.

Overall - 9.0, To be very transparent, 20minutes before finishing the drama It was already set in my mind that I'll give it an 8.0-8.5 rating BUT that final moment changed my mind drastically and made me go over the entire production deeply; in consideration of how well created it actually is. So after some moments of thinking I've decided to give it a 9.0 as I finished my re-evaluation and out of mere respect for this drama.

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