The Cat In The Hat Details

rent it ....... you know you want to !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I watched this film instead of, not because of, Mike Myers who is, apart from his excellent performance in Studio 54 a most over-rated talent,in my humble opinion.

I don't think his Cat was anywhere near a true reflection/interpretation of the character we see in the Dr. Seuss books. Myers does his own thing but in places is really,really funny (gulp!). My kids and I all loved it but then we are all male, so a succession of crude slapstick humour really appealed. My wife hated it probably because she is far too intelligent!

The film looks great. Reminiscent of Toys, the film makers have created a tremendously visual anarchic world that, to me, really appealed. The pace of the film is well-handled too.

On the downside, the kids are truely nauseating in that precocious way that American child actors seem to be. Dakota Fanning (nice name!) in particular made my skin crawl !! Alec Baldwin was a little hammy and Kelly Preston gave the impression that she was just there to make the numbers up.

In short, a very good Hollywood interpretation of an endearing classic. I have sat through some right old tosh with my kids (shudders at the thought of those accursed Pokemon movies!), but this film had enough to keep a fairly undemanding male like me perfectly entertained.

So leave your brain at the door, eat a bagful of blue Smarties and prepare yourself for a chucklefest!!!

[Highly rated reviewer]

The kids watched it, I feel asleep

I watched twenty minutes in sheer dissbelief. The cartoon effect of real actors playing in a plasticky set with dialogue I wouldn't spit at the cat, well maybe this particular cat I would. Mike Myers has too much rope and has strangled himself with it. I can only hope the middle bit (where I fell asleep) didn't erode too many of my kid's brain cells. Banal, stupid, Yank, Mistake. (I know Myers is Canadian, but this smakcs of Hollywood syrup).