Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Critic Reviews

So good it breaks your heart for not being better. It is kept from brilliance by a soggy climax and a clumsy central narrative device.Read the full review

It's another overwrought clunker like "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," all effects and stunts and CGI and prosthetics, with no room for lightness and joy.Read the full review

Long on visual dazzle but short on warmth, and the humor is excessively raunchy for a family film.Read the full review

Attractively designed, energetically performed and, above all, blessedly concise, this adaptation of one of the most popular American kids' books of all time walks the safe side of surrealism with its fur-flying shenanigans. The younger the viewers, the better reactions are bound to be.Read the full review

It's moderately engaging for the first half-hour, somewhat trying during the second half hour, and virtually unbearable over the final twenty minutes. It's a marginally recommendable film for kids, but not necessarily for parents.Read the full review

Emerges as a lackluster and nearly charmless affair.Read the full review

Very young children, it should be said, probably won't have any problem with the movie. It's bright and perky on the surface. But for anyone mature enough to pay closer attention, it's going to fall short of expectations.Read the full review

It is an embarrassment and an insult to a character that has been beloved by kids for 45 years.Read the full review

Talk about your quick-buck exploitation.Read the full review