Its Hard to believe this movie is almost 20 years old. I was 9 when I first saw this and have maybe seen it once more since today when I gave The Cat in the Hat one more crack. I dont recall ever having much to say about the film, Im even more sure what I thought of it untill the rewatch was it was horrible, but anyway here's a small review...
This was in no way a dumpster fire but in no way was it great either, definitely got some good laughs out of it to end it sweet. Mike Myers was definitely a hit or a miss, in some scenes it felt he over acted but in others he hit the nail on the head, as far as a Dr. Seuss film is concerned its a pass and would recommend it for that good old nostalgia hit if you're watching with friends or family.
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ironhorse_iv17 April 2013Honestly, I'm probably one of the very few people that like the movie, 2000's real life version of How to The Grinch Stole Christmas. So when I heard that Cat in the Hat was being made, my first thought, was OK, I hope it's as good as the Grinch which I thought was decent. I saw The Cat in the Hat recently and I was amazed at how inappropriate it was. It's disgusting! It was a pastel colored nightmare that I hope I never have to sit through again. Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat is the worst of all the Dr. Seuss movies so far. This film is awful. I really had doubts how they were going to fit in, a short book into a 2 hour movie, and when I saw that scary clown mutant cat dressed and play by Mike Myers that looks more like a child molester of Ronald McDonald in a furry costume, I knew this movie was going was going to be hard to watch. It's so evil looking that the some kids after seeing him in that awful makeup. The movie has lots of naughty jokes like there's a scene where the cat stares Kelly Preston's boobs and the cat pumps up his hat in an erection matter. Then there is butt cracks jokes, as well awful sexual puns. It's like they forgot it's a kid's movie. Let's not forget the scene where the cat got hit over his balls with a fantasy plot point of the cat wearing a drag with sparkles of unicorn? Kill me. Another thing is that film is so lazy that it rushed for adding more plot stories to the point it's not even like the book. The book is pretty simple. It features a tall, anthropomorphic, mischievous cat, wearing a tall, red and white-striped hat and a red bow tie. Here, Mike Myers is not a tall cat, but a fat bobcat hybrid. In the book, the Cat brings a cheerful, exotic and exuberant form of chaos to a household of two bored, loneliness, and friendless young children, brother and sister, one rainy day while their mother leaves them unattended. In the movie, Conrad (Spencer Breslin) is a destructive and misbehaved 12-year-old brat and Sally Walden (Dakota Fanning) dull, well-behaved, and rule-obeying 8-year-old daughter, so unlike their characters in the book. The only problem about changing the characters, is why did they created two of most unlikeable children ever. I would rather have the loneliness children of the book since that is how we, the readers can related to. Mike was honored to play the cat in the hat because of how much he loved the book. Well, he doesn't act like the Cat in the book as he even states that he can't rhyme. Cat in the Hat can't rhyme? It's like if Sam I am can't make Green Eggs and Ham. It's doesn't make sense. Instead, we get Cat's personality goes beyond simple homewrecking a-hole. Poor Mike Myers, he sounds like he miss misses his old career at SNL. Obviously, the jokes, scenes, and impressions all look like rejected Saturday Night Live skits in this film. Before I forget, Adam Baldwin is in the film as the villain Larry Quinn, who wants to send Conrad to military school to solve his destructive ways and marry his mother Joan (Kelly Preston) for her wealth. I don't know what wealth, because in the film, the mother seem like a low-paying real-estate agent who boss Mr. Humberfloob (Sean Hayes) fired people who leave a mess due to Obsessive–compulsive disorder. Sean Hayes also plays the fish in the story. He is barely mention in the film, which is so unlike in the book, where he is the orderly protagonist to Cat in the Hat chaotic antagonist. There wasn't no need for Larry Quinn or Mr. Humberfloob in this movie. Yeah, it didn't feel like Cat in the Hat anymore, or at least the one I grew up. Yes, neither did "The Grinch" as everyone else says, but I felt like that movie could get away with some of the things they did to some extent because, well, it's the Grinch. He's mean, cold-hearted, and was willing to destroy a well-loved holiday just because he wanted to make everyone else miserable, and adding that back story to him, gave us a reason to feel for him, he wasn't really a monster. In Cat in the Hat, the Cat is just awful. In here, you have rubbery fast-paced special effects. The music and singing that pretty damn bland. There were a few moments that got a small laugh, I felt like there was a lot of things Mike did as the Cat that I don't think the Cat would do like swear in front of children. Yeah, you really put it into words best: the attempts at being more adult, relevant, and meaningful just make it more obnoxiously juvenile, dated, and pointless in the end. This film represents everything wrong with kid adaption movies. I know that Dr. Seuss estate even sued Hollywood to prevent any more live-action movies of his books due to this movie. I have to agree. The biggest insult, this film had was a dumb cameo by Paris 'I really wish she never existed' Hilton. What an abomination! I agree that this whole movie is one big sellout, and they plug Universal Studios Florida and other products in the film. Growing up I adored the books Seuss wrote. They taught me to read and properly emote. When I read such stories and things before bed, it made me call up fanciful things in my head. This movie is crap, and I'm proud to say, I'd rather watch the cartoon version any day.
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Boba_Fett11388 November 2005This movie was really painful to watch. It was an extremely busy and annoying movie without anything funny or original ever happening. The humor was just completely wrong and totally unfunny.
The story is just basically about nothing and only serves as an opportunity for Mike Myers to show his silly antics on the screen. He is however given awful material to work with and an awful imagine-less director to direct him. The movie is annoyingly fast paced at times and it relies to heavily on just Mike Myers. Alec Baldwin does play an enjoyable and good 'villain' and they could had really used him better in this movie. There are really some missed opportunities here...OK I have to admit that there are some good and funny moments but really not enough to save this movie from being a disaster.
I did liked the visual style in this weird typical fabricated world with all those weird looking sets and colors. It really reminded me of the Tim Burton movie "Edward Scissorhands". No wonder it did, director Bo Welch worked on "Edward Scissorhands" as the production designer. Unfortunately the visual style is underused and doesn't play a significant enough role in the movie. While watching this movie I really kept on wishing that Tim Burton would had directed this movie with perhaps starring Johnny Depp, how perfect would that had been?
I don't see how anyone could like this movie and I most certainly can not recommend this movie to anyone, especially not to children. If this was a movie made for children than it was done completely wrong. There is nothing to enjoy or find imaginative in this annoying, loud, too fast paced mess of a movie, that has totally no story and a wobbly message in it.
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Jim Carrey was The Grinch, and know Mike Myers is The Cat In The Hat. A good kids story taken from the pages of Dr.Seuss. A magical feline(well played by Mike Myers) goes in the home of two siblings named Conrad(Spencer Breslin from last years The Santa Clause 2) and Sally(Dakota Fanning from this years Uptown Girls) and tries to teach them on how to have a fun time, while there mother(Kelly Preston) is at work. But what happens when there scumbag neighbor(perfectly well played by Alec Baldwin) begins to suspect what there up to, and trying to woo there mother at the same time. I liked this movie, it is not overacted like The Grinch was. Mike Myers plays the part in his own way, and his own comic style. And it also had cool special effects. I don't care what the other critics say, I liked this movie.
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zombiefan8922 April 2013If Dr. Seuss were still alive, he would be VERY disappointed in Hollywood. It's the Cat in the Hat! How do you screw that up!? Mom leaves her kids alone, and a cat shows up. Together with Thing 1 and Thing 2, he causes all sorts of mischief, creating a big mess. Then, when the kids tell him to leave, he feels bad, comes back with a cleaning machine, and fixes everything back to the way it was. Mike Myers, in that horrible costume, was terrifying. Shameless advertising, adult humor, and sexual innuendo had no place in that movie! People were expecting children's movie and ended up with Austin Powers in a freaky cat suit! The bottom line is, in terms of "kid" movies, it's a God awful abomination, and needs to be burned. Just read book or watch the classic cartoon.
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ralphies9 December 2003If you liked the Grinch movie... go watch that again, because this was no where near as good a Seussian movie translation. Mike Myers' Cat is probably the most annoying character to "grace" the screen in recent times. His voice/accent is terrible and he laughs at his own jokes with an awful weasing sound, which is about the only laughing I heard at the theater. Not even the kids liked this one folks, and kids laugh at anything now. Save your money and go see Looney Tunes: Back in Action if you're really looking for a fun holiday family movie.
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Dr. Seuss's stories are funny and charming, and some of them like How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Horton Hears a Who have been made into surprisingly good films.(Jim Carrey was brilliant as the Grinch but the animated short is a wonderful timeless classic) However, Cat in the Hat is just a joke of a film. I saw it with four of my friends at the cinema for my 12th birthday 5 or 6 years ago, and all of us hated it.
The main problem is the casting of Mike Myers, or miscasting more like. He was good as Austin Powers and Shrek, but his performance as the Cat was beyond cringe worthy. There were times when he had a preposterous Scottish accent that didn't suit him at all(it sounded nothing like the voice he used on Shrek), and all the Cat had to do was make terrible fart jokes, and sing songs with lyrics that were impossible to decipher.
The script was terrible, full of fart jokes and clichéd one liners. Kids are most unlikely to laugh at the overused bathroom humour, they will a find it unfunny, or b find it offensive. None of the 5 of us laughed once in this movie, other than when the Cat was singing.
The film does have two redeeming qualities. One is some nice scenery in the latter half of the film. The other is Dakota Fanning, who was the only actress in the film who made some effort to make her character true to the story. Kelly Preston was okay, and Alec Baldwin is very good in films like the Shadow and Hunt For Red October, but in films like this and Thomas and the Magic Railroad, he is completely wasted as the villain.
All in all, a lifeless and unfunny film. It isn't quite as abysmal as Home Alone 4, but it is really awful. I am sorry if I have offended anyone, I genuinely hate criticising movies, but Cat in the Hat really did take the biscuit. 1/10 for the scenery and Fanning. Bethany Cox -
planktonrules16 September 2018I assumed that "The Cat in the Hat" was most likely a terrible film, as it's currently #79 on IMDB's infamous Bottom 100. This inclusion is recent, as the website changed its parameters for admission to the list to only include more commonly seen films. Before this, films with only a few dozen scores could make the list...now it only includes movies which were rated by at least 1500 users. This change means that many Hollywood films are now on a list which previously was inundated with more independent features. Most of the films newly to the list are dreadful....but being a bad film junkie, I am a glutton for punishment! Going into the film I assumed it would be bad but was willing to give it a chance...like I enjoyed "The Flintsones in Viva Rock Vegas" (currently #70, though I enjoyed it and scored it a 6).
So is the film bad? Absolutely. In fact, it's horrible and painful to watch. There are two main reasons for this. First, the original Dr. Seuss story was very brief and a movie based on it might only last 10 minutes. So, the studio added a lot....and much of what they added (such as the obnoxious boss and the obnoxious neighbor) was just annoying. Second, not to be outdone by these additions, Mike Myers made his character, the Cat, truly obnoxious and hateful. He talks almost non-stop when so often the film would have worked better had he just shut up! A few times, his prattling was also very child un-friendly--with crude commments that most kids wouldn't understand and a shot to the groin that shouldn't be in a kids movie in the first place?! The bottom line is that the film is annoying and dreadful instead of being fun...and the original story was all about kids meeting a cat who was a lot of fun. In many ways, the film is much like an endurance contest that dares you to turn it off....it's THAT bad. By comparison, Myer's "Love Guru" is practically a Truffaut masterpiece!!
Parents...think twice about letting your children see this movie...it might just make them stupider...particularly if they like it! Also, after the movie was over, my wife (who had slept though almost the entire movie) said "Why was that movie so LOUD?!"....I couldn't have said it much better myself! -
gaiafaye2 January 2006The only good thing about this unfunny dreck is that I didn't have to pay for it. I saw it for free at college. And if a college student can't find humor in something that was free, it's hopeless.
Stale acting and poor jokes cannot be masked by an excellent, yet bewildering set design (that goes out of its way to market Volkswagon Beetles). I don't know what Michaels Myers was doing in this movie, but I have never seen anything more depressing. This was nothing more than a blatant effort to capitalize on the previous success of the Grinch (which has its opponents, but I enjoyed it very much). It's difficult not to sit through this failure and wonder what better projects were passed over to fund it.
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jaredpahl21 August 2016You'll be hard pressed to find a more toxic film than Mike Myers' The Cat In The Hat. It's one of the worst reviewed movies of its decade, by critics and audiences alike. Most found its vulgarity and juvenile sense of humor to be offensive, considering the magical and timeless source material. There's no doubt that Mike Myers' Austin Powers brand of humor is an ill fit for the classic Dr. Seuss story, but if you can power through the shock value inherent in The Cat In The Hat, you'll find a fairly entertaining kids romp with a couple of genuine laughs for adults.
The Cat In The Hat shares the same basic outline from the book, with two kids, Sally and Conrad, having a chance encounter with a life-sized Cat played by Mike Myers. The crux of the story is that general hilarity ensues and the kids must clean up before their mother comes home. It's a great story to tell in a children's picture book; There it is charming, innocent, and whimsical. Here, the hilarity is a strange mix of Mike Myers brand humor and standard kid's potty jokes. The kid stuff is dreadfully unfunny, but I can't say that Mike Myers doesn't infuse some kind of welcome energy to the proceedings.
I may sound like I'm giving this film a glowing review; I'm not. The Cat In The Hat spends much more time with flat gags, needless plot points, and baffling music numbers than it does with the moments of real comedy. The story here meanders through every kind of cliché kiddy movie plot point you can think of, and Mike Myers tries his best to annoy even the most optimistic viewers to tears (He relentlessly shouts "Oh Yeah" like an off-brand Kool-Aid Man... Guess what? That catchphrase ain't sticking).
I'm not here to sing the praises of The Cat In The Hat. I'm not even going to defend it, but call me crazy, I laughed during this movie. I really laughed, at more than a few points in the film. Dakota Fanning and Spencer Breslin are cute, and the sets are colorful and inventive. This movie has problems for sure, mainly stemming from the fact that the whimsy of the book has been replaced with mean-spirited, gross-out humor. If you can get past that fact, there is fun to be had here. It all depends on what you're willing to sit through for a couple of good laughs.
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dokkelly-120-94327012 July 2020This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Dr Seuss rolled in his grave. I usual like Mike Myers but he was terrible in this. Most of the time he just does a stupid laugh and doesn't even look the kids in the face. The acting from the kids seems like they weren't even trying. Even the make-up is poor. The cat looks like one of those photo things in amusement parks where you stick your face through it, and don't even get me started on Thing 1 and Thing 2. It thinks it's being clever by inserting innuendos but it just comes across as desperate. The only positive thing I can say is the sets are kind of fun because of Bo Welch, who helped with a lot of Tim Burton Productions. But aside from that I have nothing. Terrible movie, stay away
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cbecker-9380423 December 2020The Cat in the Hat is a comical cinematic masterpiece. Bo Welch took a simple book and made it into its own bright lively world. The unique costumes, lighting, and filter used in this film, submerges you into the story. Mike Meyers one liners and jokes are forever quotable, and bring a smile to the faces of many. The cinematography of this film is astonishing for a children's movie. The low angle shots used to announce the dominance and relationship between characters is unexpected in a film such as this, yet it works so well. Every time viewed, I find something new to smile and laugh at. This is my favorite film of all time, 10/10.
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Majikat762 February 2019A great little feel good film for the family, with a little moral tale for the kids.
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iggyzero20 November 2021I don't feel like any more needs to be said than just this: no one needs to ever think of or remember this movie. It can be stored away somewhere very far away. I just cannot stand looking at that cat monstrosity for what feels like an eternity.
If you can stomach the appearance of the cat, well, maybe there is hope of a different opinion. I just don't know. -
ersbel10 September 2017This is an okay movie. And the visuals are nice. The virtual world is really polished. And the colorful costumes do make a break from the usual movie. The jokes are okay, but nothing special. And the children seem to have fun. But, boy, I had no idea Dr. Seus was a fundamentalist Christian poster boy. That would explain the poor box office results compared with worse movies.
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chcolter21 November 2003How do you answer this question " Uncle Cliff why did the Cats hat go up when he looked at the picture?" ... Yes how do you explain why a cat got an erection when looking at a picture to a five year old.
What a lame piece of work this is... bury it in the cat box! as far from human eyes as possible! It is so bad! My niece actually asked to leave before the movie was even finished, and the child on the other side of me fell asleep.
Bad, Horrible, rotten, not fit for human consumption and i'm a Mike Myers fan! -
KobraX146 August 2014If Dr. Seuss were alive to see this piece of garbage, he would either have a heart attack or kick the living crap out of whoever produced this thing you people call a movie. To me this feels almost like a parody of Dr. Seuss than an actual adaption. My biggest gripe though was with the dirty jokes and sexual innuendo. THIS IS A DR. SEUSS MOVIE, DIRTY JOKES HAVE NO PLACE IN THIS!!! I also felt Mike Myers was severely miscast as the Cat in the Hat. What is the deal with that accent. It sounds like a cross between a Yiddish accent and the lion from The Wizard of Oz. That laugh got really annoying after a while too. I really hated the cat costume. It looks like he he got stuck with only two facial expressions and when Myers moves he looks stiff. Do not get me started on the gratuitous scenes such as the cat in dress after getting hit in the balls with a bat or the party booth with Paris Hilton. To say that most of the special effects suck would be an understatement. The one thing that makes it really terrible though is even if you had never heard of the Cat in the Hat or Dr. Seuss and just watched this, you would still say its a terrible movie. Here I quote the Nostalgia Critic, "By adding grown-up humor, you make it more childish, by modernizing the dialogue you make it more dated and by changing the source material it shows you have no respect for what is already perfect." Avoid this travesty and read the book and then watch the 1971 cartoon.
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uzzman22 November 2003...and that is probably the idea...right? I have read some criticisms on this board and others and came away with the general idea that I would hate this. The fact is that I really liked this film and maybe the people criticizing should stop holding off on their indie-film reviews for a film that was going to be an overt massive marketing commodity from the start. To read some of these diatribes you would think that people wanted the exact storyline from the book or something close to it. Well, then it would have been a 15 minute movie. This movie IS what it IS...a campy and silly film geared towards young kids with large disposable incomes and not arrested developmental adults that wish they were young kids with large disposable incomes. Sure...Myers sounded a little too much like the Lion in Wizard of Oz sometimes and yes the screenplay was not on par with On the Waterfront, but my kid laughed and left the theater wanting to see it again. My big problem was that a Beatles classic like "Getting Better" had to be ripped off by some two bit pop band!!!
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jack-ager005 September 2013This. Is. The. Worst. Film. Ever. Made. Whose bright idea was it to make this spawn of Satan you might ask? Universal studios of course! And they straight up butchered our childhood's. It is disgustingly revolting. The sheer thought of THIS as an adaptation of a KIDS book that we all read and grew up with, just makes me sick to my stomach. Also, I would like to go punch the MPAA in the face for not making this a PG-13 film of an adaption of a kids book for crying out loud. Let me give you a few reasons why this movie is my least favorite movie of all time. 10. This should have been an animated movie. I would have liked it a heck more if this was animated. At least then I could give it some credibility. 9. What gave them the idea to make this an actual movie. Look, I don't care if Hollywood adapts more books into movies as long as they represent the source material. 8. IT does not represent the source material and doesn't understand why the material was great to begin with. 7. The casting of Mike Myers as the cat. I love Mike Myers but he just doesn't seem like the type to play this sort of character. I would have preferred Robert Downey, Jr. 6. The pop cultural references which I hate with a passion. 5. The acting. Breslin and Dakota are just so bland and boring. Steven Hawking's voice- box emotes more emotion than these two do. 4. The director, Bo Welsh, is a production designer and better than a director I must say. 3. Rated PG?! That is the dumbest decision the MPAA has made since giving Roger Rabbit the same rating, which totally deserved the same rating. Seriously, the boy almost said the s-word!!!! 2. If Dr. Seuss was alive, he would rage all over the execs. At universal. 1. The fact that this actually exists!!! Worst movie ever made. Worse than batman and robin by just a tiny little bit. 1/10
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FiendishDramaturgy7 October 2004Dog the Grinch if you must, but it was LIGHT YEARS ahead of this muddled mess!! They were so worried about Carrey coloring the role of the Cat in the Hat, that they hired an actor who has one basic personality which he dresses with different costumes. This was nothing more than Mike Meyer's "Dr. Evil" character in a cat suit. He uses the self same gimmicks in his shtick as the maniacally irresponsible Cat, as he did as the irresponsibly maniacal Dr. Evil. There's very little difference between the two and what difference there was, he comes off as a very poor comic this time around.
The creation of the city was quite nice and Dakota Fanning was a joy. The boy who played her brother and the fish were decent characters, but Mike Meyers' interpretation of Dr. Seuss's Cat was extremely sickening. He was very under dramatized (and must have been cememted in "Dr. Evil") for Cat in the Hat.
While Dr. Evil was a likable character in the Austin Powers movies, he had no place in this work. Hindsight being worthless, they should have hired Jim Carey and not been concerned with the "Grinch" comparisons. He, at least, would have played DR. SEUSS'S character and not Mike Meyers' character.
The Universal Studios ad right in the middle of the movie was the least tasteful thing in a virtual sea of tastelessness. I actually PAID to see a Universal advertisement. I have just been violated. No. Really.
Ah well, this will be remade in a few years, anyway.
It rates a 1/10 from...
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lara-3421 November 2003I went in with the lowest expectations, and laughed most of the time. It's not Shakespeare nor Schindler's List, but it is entertaining. I took my 5 year old daughter who enjoyed it on a completely different level. Everyone who left the theatre was grinning or giggling. It's just basic entertainment wtih no socially redeeming value. And we need those kinds of films.
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This movie was pure trash!!! I took my 5 year old cousin to watch it... and all I kept wanting to do is cover her ears between the sexual innuendos and the spelling out of curse words. Mike Myers was so sad to watch... he just cannot get enough of that silly Scottish accent of his from the Austin Powers movies, so he has to throw it in here too! Is this man not getting enough work in Hollywood or what?
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dylanatorgator12 May 2019Never has a movie changed my life so much that I would need to write a review on its comedic genius and beauty. My wife and I really hated each other because we took things too seriously. But then we saw the might of Mike Myers as he effortlessly portrayed the person I am inside. It taught me that I should not be afraid of my desire to be a cat. I will become the cat in the hat. And go door to door to inform people of this incredible film. I will now describe the beauty of this movie in detail, however disregard the creepy moments of the movie that is the only flaw anyone could ever find in this meowvie nay experience! I learned so many words and phrases includinh whatsamajiger and whosamiwhatsit however I disagree with the rating of the movie. I feel the ones who gave it said rating were to little of mind to comprehend the magnificence and darkness of the movie. The cat, obviously, represents the innocence of America's youth as it was taken by a creepy creature or communism. As shown when he unexplainedly appeared in their home unannounced. Conrad represents the evil in our our hearts and must be destroyed. And Sally is what we should aspire to be due to her astounding logical conclusions on matters. The things, are weird and creepy, however and are the only discernable flaw in the movie.
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Stompgal_8713 August 2006I rented this film after seeing the trailer, which looked pretty good, but the film was slightly better.
It was quite unusual seeing Mike Myers dressed up as a cat, but the film is a fantasy and it is bright and colourful from start to finish. There were a few downsides in the film such as some of it that wasn't like the book and the, "Dirty hoe," pun because when I heard the Cat say it, I thought he was referring to a prostitute. Also the children's screaming when they first see the Cat is over the top.
One of my favourite scenes is the big slide of the purple liquid because it looks fun. The scene that is most like the book is the one where the Cat (plus some others) clean the house with the special cleaning machine.
While most people give this film 1/10, I give it 7/10 because it is funny in parts and the Dr Seuss-style Universal and Dreamworks logos at the beginning are brilliant. -
tgrosso24 February 2004Well the previews looked funny and I usually don't go to movies on opening night especially with my kids because ......well you never know. Here is a movie that doesn't appeal either to children or adults as the jokes are too perverse for children and falls completely flat for entertainment purposes for adults. I was actually embarrassed to be with my 9 and 6 year old and having to explain to my 6 year old what S H * T spells. Essentially what happens here is a total twisting of Dr. Seuss's classic. It adds an evil and lazy neighbor who wants to marry the children's mother for her money. If that was a subplot, then maybe that would have been fine but it ends up being the major plot around the whole movie and "the cat" plays more of a subplot role in exposing the neighbor to the mom for who he really is. Take my advice and read the book and pass on the movie.