Monster Crap: The Cat In The Hat

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Well, you all wanted me to do this movie and well, here it is in all it's stupidity. Pretty much every bad thing you have heard about this film is true.

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[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Really surprised no one commented on this one yet.

[Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie]

only seen it once, but i thought it was fun and daft
and we all need that in our lives

[lionheart21]

You put yourself through this? You have my condolences

[Paul]

I saw it in the theater. sigh.

[tms]

I saw Jim Carrey's Grinch movie and it was the drizzling shits. I can't even fathom how a movie could be worse than that so I wouldn't watch this if you paid me.

[Paul]

Apr 28, 2019 21:46:37 GMT -5 tms said:

I saw Jim Carrey's Grinch movie and it was the drizzling shits. I can't even fathom how a movie could be worse than that so I wouldn't watch this if you paid me.

Grinch is a little better by comparison. Stay far, far away from The Cat In The Hat.

[Fauxnaki]

Apr 28, 2019 21:44:35 GMT -5 Paul said:

I saw it in the theater. sigh.

Me too both that and the Grinch as I kid and I still hated them both

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Apr 28, 2019 18:15:45 GMT -5 Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie said:

only seen it once, but i thought it was fun and daft
and we all need that in our lives

That's okay...….we've all had that movie that we find fun and daft that is really terrible to most

[Paul]

If I had been like 6 or 7 I think the movie would have terrified me. I'm not exaggerating.

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

....Seed 2 is going to be the last one you're forced to review, isn't it.

[CMWaters]

So now we know why Morticia was REALLY against reading that to Pubert in "Addams Family Values".

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Apr 30, 2019 22:05:12 GMT -5 Gus Richlen Was Wrong said:

....Seed 2 is going to be the last one you're forced to review, isn't it.

Was the plan, but it looks like unless I find someone to donate me a DVD copy (not Blu-Ray copy) of the film, I may have to go with a backup choice as I do have those.

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Apr 30, 2019 3:24:15 GMT -5 Paul said:

If I had been like 6 or 7 I think the movie would have terrified me. I'm not exaggerating.

Hey, like I said, Tim Allen was also terrified of the cat so you are not alone in that regard

[Paul]

May 1, 2019 22:31:27 GMT -5 Seth Drakin of Monster Crap said:

Apr 30, 2019 3:24:15 GMT -5 Paul said:

If I had been like 6 or 7 I think the movie would have terrified me. I'm not exaggerating.

Hey, like I said, Tim Allen was also terrified of the cat so you are not alone in that regard

Well, I mean just because of the freaky camera angle choices and the awful makeup/costume on Mike. The book wouldn't have scared me.

[Rave]

Years upon years ago, I used to babysit my ex-sister-in-law's sister's kids. The younger kid absolutely loved this movie and would watch it on a regular basis. I have seen it more times than I ever wanted to and I never want to see it again.

Every bad thing is absolutely true.

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

May 2, 2019 1:58:12 GMT -5 Paul said:

May 1, 2019 22:31:27 GMT -5 Seth Drakin of Monster Crap said:

Hey, like I said, Tim Allen was also terrified of the cat so you are not alone in that regard

Well, I mean just because of the freaky camera angle choices and the awful makeup/costume on Mike. The book wouldn't have scared me.

Yeah, they did a much better job on the Grinch makeup for Jim Carrey. Here it looks like they stuck Myers in a cat costume, cut the face out, and painted his face instead of giving him any fake fur. It's really jarring.

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

May 2, 2019 23:05:47 GMT -5 Gus Richlen Was Wrong said:

May 2, 2019 1:58:12 GMT -5 Paul said:

Well, I mean just because of the freaky camera angle choices and the awful makeup/costume on Mike. The book wouldn't have scared me.

Yeah, they did a much better job on the Grinch makeup for Jim Carrey. Here it looks like they stuck Myers in a cat costume, cut the face out, and painted his face instead of giving him any fake fur. It's really jarring.

The reason they probably didn't do the makeup effects for the Cat is how much torture it was to wear.

[Deleted]

The Things are the unholiest of unholy abominations, followed by Fish.

Anything that involved CGI in this film turns out badly due to what seemed like a poor understanding of how to "flesh out" the book from a short story into a full feature film, which was often a fatal flaw when children's books were adapted into movies. The only ones that, from what I seen, that avoided this and pulled it off were "Shrek", which said "Ah, screw the source material!" and decided to spend 2 hours openly mocking the established Disney formula at a time where it was fun (and profitable) to kick Disney when they were down and the original "Jumanji" that looked at its book and felt that it was too tame (other than the lion) and decided that real stakes had to be at play, which was where they added all the crazy shit about how the game affected the real world.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

The real problem with this movie more than anything is the lack of any emotional sincerity. Myers doesn’t ever feel like the Cat In The Hat, or even as if he really cares about these kids aside from amusing himself for a few hours.

I’ll admit I laughed at the “scream and run” line, but outside of that he’s just kinda doing an uninspired stand up bit with some props.