this film is actually very good.
its modern
colourful
and mike myers is frankly brillant.
i dont understand why this is considered so "bad".
most of the jokes are aimed at teenagers and above
This movie is absolutely hilarious. I like it very much.
I am in love with Dakota Fanning and I hope she will be my future wife.
i hope you are in the ages between 8 and 12!!!
The first time that I watched this, I was expecting a rendition similar to the book, and I was bewildered. But recently my kids have started watching it (over and over and over) and it really is not that bad, if taken as a work unto itself. Myers is very funny (although the "oh yeah"s are annoying. I wonder if he copped that from a Toronto jewelery store owner with annoying Loan Arranger ads from a few years ago?). It's funny, I had the same reaction to the Jim Carrey Grinch film, where I grew to love it. I only hope that Mike Myers and Bo Welch don't let their self-imposed moratorium continue for much longer. According to the IMDb, neither has really done anything since.
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Actually, the first two times I watched it, I thought this movie was absolutely horrid. However, strangely enough, I ended up watching it a third time because my girlfriends son at the time got the movie so I decided to see if it'd be a struggle again. Surprisingly, no such thing occurred. I dawned on me how wonderfully funny it actually is. It's got a lot of dry humor and subtle cliche *beep* that doesn't really strike you as being funny unless you let your cultural hangups go and just realize how batty it actually is. I'm a long time favorite of Dr. Seuss and although I do agree this doesn't really seem to follow into the footstep of his works, it's still good. It has a lot of the erratic and eccentric behavior of the Seuss books. I have a bad feeling most people that watched this movie didn't really get to much out of the books either due to lack of personal depth and imagination.
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What kind of teen would want to watch that, it's a kid's movie!
Montreal isin't the French New-York, NY is the english Montreal...Mntrl was there first.
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If by 'underated', you mean 'quite possibly the worst piece of crap to ever grace my TV screen'... then sure.
shareIt is actually underrated. The jokes are pretty funny if you stop trying to link the damn thing so strongly to the book.
share"What kind of teen would watch this?" The target audience named by one poster of 8-12 seems pretty pointless as 90% of the jokes in the film, no child with a normal upbringing would understand, as most of the jokes in the film are aimed at teens & adults (disguised to be dirty yet be completely oblivious to kids watching). Cat in the Hat has to be the mother of all kids movies with "double-entendres" in it, and by far the dirtiest kids movie I've ever seen. Kinda hard to catch them all in one viewing, but check it out again. Apparently some people are a little too thick-headed or too content in everything was kiddie jokes to notice how dirty most of the jokes actually are in this. In fact my pointing out a lot of this has caused several parents I know who thought it was a wonderful kid's movie to suddenly realize it's not and threw out their DVDs (sorry Universal), but on the other hand have turned lots of stoners onto this movie.
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