| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
D+ |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bob Longino |
"This one stars a guy named Mike. This one only kids will like." more... |
C- |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"The big-screen Cat represents everything corrupt, bloated, and wrong with mainstream Hollywood movies." more... |
D- |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"It's another overwrought clunker..." more... |
C |
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro |
"You shouldn't have to add burps, farts and dog pee to Dr. Seuss." more... |
D+ |
| E! Online |
"We crossed our fingers/Our hopes were high/But oh, how quickly this flick went awry." more... |
D |
filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell |
"All in all, this Cat is a dog." more... |
D |
New York Post
Megan Lehmann |
"...a nauseating splat of gaudy production design with a distasteful central performance by Mike Myers..." more... |
F |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
"...a vulgar, uninspired lump of poisoned eye candy..." more... |
D- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"Myers sprinkles in some 'mature' humor to provide a few laughs for the older folk in the audience, but it barely keeps the tedium at bay." more... |
C |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"It all smacks of exhausted inspiration." more... |
D |
San Francisco Chronicle
C.W. Nevius |
"It is an embarrassment and an insult to a character that has been beloved by kids for 45 years." more... |
D |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...a violent, incessantly gross and grotesquely overproduced monstrosity of a movie." more... |
D |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...The Cat in the Hat is long on visual dazzle but short on warmth..." more... |
C |
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