Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Critic Reviews

If the producers had dug up Ted Geisel's body and hung it from a tree, they couldn't have desecrated the man more.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

Someone (Myers?) came up with the bright idea of turning the Cat in the Hat into the worst Vegas nightclub spritzer of 1958. He's become a furry version of Rip Taylor: a walking, talking vaudeville idiot box.Read the full review

Critics are paid to suffer bad art, no matter how icky it is from the start. So all we could do was to Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! And we did not like it. Not one little bit.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

Talk about your quick-buck exploitation.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

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 made.Read the full review

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