The Cat in the Hat Review

 

The Cat in the Hat Review.

Or as I call the Crap in the Hat LOL.

So heres my review of the film and its because of this film we don't get live action adaptions of Dr. Seuss. Which is good by the way after this garbage film. The Cat in the Hat staring Mike Myers who is one of my favourite actors by the way and I'm a big fan of the Austin Powers films, Wayne's World films, and the Shrek films. When I was a kid when I saw this film I liked it but as I got older this film aged so badly and its just bad to watch. 

Apparently Mike was a huge diva on set.

This is one of the worse adaptions of a book I've ever seen. Cat in the Hat is just cringe worthy to watch. The cast is not that good and their characters are not relatable their bland and don't have much to them. Also Mike Myers looked really bad in that make up because he didn't have enough express himself. Like Jim Carrey who played the Grinch had more to express he had more emotional on his face despite the painful make up. Also the story is really bad like the book was simple a Cat in a Hat comes to the house and he shows the kids how to have fun. He teaches them its fun to have fun but you got to know how. This film tries to do that but it fails like the cat was annoying and they added new characters in the story that were bad like Mr. Humberfloot, Ms. Kwan, and Larry the villain of the film. Like Alec Baldwin plays Larry he's just awful like his career would have gone down the drain if not for the Spongebob film he did back in 2004 a year after this film. 

Alec lowest point in his career. Good thing he did 30 Rock after.

This movie is just so bad, but there is one good thing that came out of this film and that was Dr. Seuss's widow Audrey Geisel. She went to the studios and told them to never make another live action adaption of her husband's work. She found this film insulting to his work and that's why she credit and praise by Dr. Seuss fans because she stopped these live action adaptions from ever happening again. Now we get animated adaptions of Dr. Seuss's work.

She did the world a kindness and say what you will about these animated adaptions but they are still better than live action. Hell, WB is working an animated reboot film of Cat in the Hat. Hopefully it will be better. There are just somethings you can't adapt in live action form its better to do animated adaptions of it. 

I give this film a solid F and 2 out of 10. Don't waste your time with this film, just read the book.

Seriously the book is really good.