it takes the main points of The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) and pushes every button it can find in them—miscegenation! cannibalism! bestiality! vivisection! colonialism! eugenics! Charles Laughton flirting with everyone!

I think the tortellini would be stuck between plate and mouth as I watched that.

not very feline until she drops out of a tree onto an enemy and claws his throat out. yup. The tortellini would be getting cold, for sure.

Then he tried to groom my hand and got confused and groomed one of his feet instead. Aww. He's glad you're home.