The Cat in the Hat

United States

2003

82 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 1.8/5 Stars.
1
2
3
4
5

EXEC Eric McLeod, Karen Kehela, Gregg Taylor, Maureen Peyrot

SCR Dr. Seuss, Alec Berg, David Mandel, Jeff Schaffer

CAST Mike Myers, Dakota Fanning, Spencer Breslin, Kelly Preston, Sean Hayes, Alec Baldwin, Amy Hill, Paris Hilton, Dan Castellaneta, Victor Brandt, Frank Welker

PROD DES Alex McDowell, Alec Hammond, Sean Haworth, Anne Kuljian

SOUND Michael Hilkene, Gregg Landaker

Synopsis

Visually elaborate but wildly flawed, this big-budget adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ “The Cat in the Hat” is notoriously scorned for it’s stretched translation from book to screen and it’s wall to wall mature themes and multiple double entendres. Two troubled children, Conrad and Sally Walden, are home alone with their pet fish while their babysitter, Mrs. Kwan, is sleeping on the job. Until a cat in a hat walks in the front door. He introduces them to his, and their own, imagination, and at first it’s all fun and games, until things get out of hand, and both the kids and the Cat have to set things right before their mother returns home. –IMDb

Wall

Displaying 4 wall posts.

see all

Cbarky99

20May12

Watching Mike Myers, in full Cat make-up, being strung up like a pinata and beaten by a mob of children with oversized wifflebats is the sort of thing that stays with you, for better or worse. Probably worse.

Con-Bot 2.0

22Mar12

The production design, sets, effects and props are all neat, but all of it's wasted on a very anti-Seuss film. But I will give it THIS, It's one of the funniest book adaptations I've ever seen, mostly because of Mike Myers fucking atrocious performance and the fact that when you peel back all the innocent, kid-friendly layers, it's set in a very depressing, adult world where bad things exist. Good riffing material.

The Forbidden Douchebag

2Mar12

It's brighter and more appealing to look at than "The Grinch" that much is certain, but once you see Mike Myers in a cat suit dancing in a rave with Paris Hilton, well just don't expect anything good to come out of what you're watching anymore. Insipid and annoying. Decreped and deploring. You'll be sobbing on the floor from what the writers of "Eurotrip" were employing.

Con-Bot 2.0 likes this