Recent reviews have canned this movie.Well I saw it today and the reviews were spot on.
IT SUCKED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I suppose every top actor makes at least one turkey of a movie in their career.This is Mike Myers turkey of a movie.
BTW,I only went because my neice wanted to see it ;)
choc_a_holic
10 Apr 2004, 21:25
Sureee ;)
There are a few good actors in it hey?
Jim Boy
11 Apr 2004, 04:21
Some of the reviews:-
"An abomination, impure and simple."
Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal
"Like being run over by a garbage truck that backs up and dumps its load on top of you. It's a sloppy and vulgar burlesque, one of the most repulsive kiddie movies ever... aggressively unpleasant... With his genius comic radar, Myers must have sensed the slant was wrong but couldn't turn back. Even under all that hair you can detect the expression of someone flapping his arms to keep a lead balloon aloft... The movie's grim subtext is the wreck of [co-star Alec] Baldwin's career - how puffy he looks, and how he never manages to rise above his material."
David Edelstein, Slate
"If the producers had dug up Ted Geisel's [Dr Seuss's] body and hung it from a tree, they couldn't have desecrated the man any more."
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
"Charmless, pointless and all but witless adaptation, with even less charisma than that flesh-eating virus of holiday films, 2000's How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Take someone you hate... Perhaps the worst holiday movie ever made."
John Anderson, Newsday
"'It is fun to have fun,' the Cat famously warned, 'but you have to know how.' This movie... is a remarkably thorough demonstration of how not to... A squad of frantic screenwriters throw in disparate elements out of sheer laziness, concocting a gruelling, chaotic stew of forced whimsy that utterly lacks imaginative integrity or visual spark... I am tempted to say that this Cat should be tied up in a sack and drowned, but I wouldn't want to condone cruelty to animals, even metaphorically. Cruelty to classic works of children's literature is bad enough."
AO Scott, New York Times
"The Cat in the Hat comes scarily close to being the most unendurable Hollywood creation of the last dozen years... The jokes, even the shit-dick-puke-balls bits aimed at titillating teens, are mortifyingly witless... Thanks to [director Brian] Grazer's evil-genius demographic scheme, The Cat in the Hat isn't fit for preteens, and it isn't digestible to adults. Teens, it needn't be said, should have better things - drugs, humping, Matrix sequels - on which to squander their weekends."
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
"They might as well have skipped the hassle of securing licensing rights and simply called this mess Mike Myers: Asshole in Fur."
Gregory Weinkauf, Dallas Observer
The Old Dark Navy's
11 Apr 2004, 10:18
LMAO, gotta love those reviews! Great stuff. I will wait for the DVD and only then because my 8 year old daughter wants to see it.
TheWackedYak
11 Apr 2004, 20:24
Probably not true to the book either.
I'll get the cartoon version
If jokes/phrases like "he drinks where he pees ahahaha" isn't enough to steer you in the ads, then something's wrong!
choc_a_holic
12 Apr 2004, 19:08
Originally posted by Watto
If jokes/phrases like "he drinks where he pees ahahaha" isn't enough to steer you in the ads, then something's wrong!
Hehehe yeh that's a good one! ;)
Contra Mundum
12 Apr 2004, 23:09
Saw it today with the kids - it is utterly incomprehensible and a abomination to the memory of Doctor Seuss.
Docker_Brat
13 Apr 2004, 01:27
If you paid money to see it you got what you deserved. Even the trailer sucked.