Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Critic Reviews
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Based upon 16 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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It is an embarrassment and an insult to a character that has been beloved by kids for 45 years.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
A vulgar, uninspired lump of poisoned eye candy.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
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'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
An abomination, impure and simple.Read the full review
Emerges as a lackluster and nearly charmless affair.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
The ongoing cinematic desecration of Dr. Seuss' legacy continues with The Cat In The Hat, a clattering abomination that makes it depressingly likely that an entire generation of reading-averse children will know The Cat In The Hat as that obnoxious character Mike Myers played in that horrible movie.Read the full review
