Rating: 
Summary: How bad can it get...
Review: I have never seen a botch job on a book to movie this bad.
There were very few rhymes and none of the attempts at
humor made me laugh. There was little resemblance to the
beloved classic that one assumes was the inspiration for
the movie. Save your money.
Rating: 
Summary: Not a Real Good Try
Review: The Cat in the Hat is a good attempt at bringing a book of only a few hundred words to a 90-minute movie. In order to fill the time the director, producer and writers had to improvise add and change things. That being said, the attempt was good but the result leaves a bit to be desired. Some parts are down right unnecessary. For example, the kids and the cat at a rave (adult nightclub) and they decided to include an obnoxious purple suit-wearing neighbor who is trying to woo the kids' Mom. Of course, they couldn't leave the kids alone at home as Suess could do in his book when it came out in the 1950's. That problem was solved by including a near sighted, narcoleptic, elderly baby sitter. The big problem with this film is that they fill it with sexual double entendres and other stuff not appropriate for kids.
Rating:
Summary: LET'S HOPE IT'S THE LAST¿
Review: The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to play.
So we went to the movies
On that cold, cold, wet day.The Cat in the Hat
Was the movie we watched,
With a nightmarish Cat
In a role that was botched. Like the Grinch, this sad movie
Was doomed from the start,
With script far too long
For the story at heart. Yes, all the producers
Worked hard, it is true,
To stretch this short tale
To an hour or two But, no matter their efforts,
The result was quite bad
Leaving true Doc Seuss fans
Feeling tired and sad. The book's famous story
Was twisted and bleary,
With rampant ad libbing
And a Cat far too eerie. Why can't we accept
That it just isn't groovy
For every kids' story
To become a live movie? Seuss's quaint drawings,
So lithe and elastic,
When applied to us humans
Become something quite spastic! It's time to accept
That they don't translate well
To the dimensions of people.
It's a jump that won't sell! The fish was the one thing
This movie could boast.
Against which the live actors
Quite simply were toast! Why not make a movie,
Like old Monsters, Inc.?
Like the Toy Story flicks?
It would fly, I should think. Then the Cat and the Grinch,
Like the fish in this show,
Could just be themselves.
It would work, I just know! This movie, let's hope,
With its garbed human actors,
Is the last one we'll see
For the above-mentioned factors. Let's hope beyond hope
It's the last of abuses
To beloved childhood memories
And these stories of Seuss's. So if it's the Cat in the Hat
That you crave,
Just stick to the book.
There, I've finished this rave. Douglas McAllister
Rating:
Summary: The Cat in the Hat needs a bit more grooming.
Review: After seeing Jim Carrey bring to life such an iconic character as THE GRINCH with such celebratory ease, you would expect much of the same from the comic genius of Mike Myers. However, from the moment THE CAT IN THE HAT first appears, I constantly felt that I was watching "Ausin Powers" in a school play as the Cowardly Lion in THE WIZARD OF OZ. Just slap the lion's accent on Austin and there you have it. Same gestures, same jokes, except now they feel more forced. I got the feeling that many of the ideas that were abandoned in HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS were resurrected and reworked for CAT. Not that the film isn't without several comedic moments. I just got the feeling that this movie could have been much more and instead turned out to be just your average kids-movie-with-adult-themed-innuendo-jokes. That being said, the kids in the audience couldn't stop laughing and the comments from the audience ranged from "awesome" to "great" with only a couple "so-so's" mixed in. It's a children's book, and that's your audience. Parents will at least be pleased that there are plenty of jokes aimed directly toward them, as well. My primary problem is that I can't separate it from THE GRINCH. It's a separate film and should be rated as such. Therefore, I rate it slightly better than average. Most likely however, you will rate it higher.
Rating:
Summary: Crap in the Hat
Review: Plot description: Mike Myers in a cat outfit runs around like a depraved lunatic.
Review: I remember the Cat from the book being a friendly, playful carecter, mischevious but harmless. But this Cat is nothing like it. Rude and crude. I do not remember the cat cursing in the book. This is not fun for the whole family. It is not fun for anyone. As for the visuals, i would definitely not recomend this movie to anyone who is photosensitive. It nearly gave me seizures. The art directer must have been sugar high at the time. Mike Myers is simply awful in this movie and the script is simply miserable. Humor is based on farts etc. and other crap. The two child actors are pretty good and dont deserve to be in this horrble movie. We must take a gun and kill this cat before it spawns sequels!
Rating:
Summary: The Crap in the Hat
Review: Sucks. The cat will scare anyone under the age of six. It didn't follow the book at all and insulted Dr. Seuss. He never tried to frighten little kids in his books! Nice try Mike, but stick to the Austin Powers movies.
Rating:
Summary: oh Jeepers cripes people!!!
Review: I hate this extremely kweer movie it is a total disgrace if I was you I would buy it just to burn it! I'm giving this movie 2 thumbs down and a fart!
Rating:
Summary: stinky
Review: I'm gonna give that movie, 2 thumbs down and a fart *farts really loud*
Rating: 
Summary: This is in my Top 100 All-Time Movies
Review: This is not a Dr Suess cartoon. This is in the class of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory for overall fun and enjoyability. The jokes for adults are way over kids heads. They are just plain silly and not salacious. Even the PG rating notes double-entendres. This story teaches a valuable lesson to those parents who care to learn it. Parents are cautioned that divorce and over-emphasis on your career is bad for your children. It robs them of precious time with you, thus stripping them of their childhood. The children are uptight in the beginning. Sally is a bossy little girl without any friends and a butt-kisser to boot. Her brother Conrad (Concrete, Convex,) is a selfish brat. Enter: The Cat in the Hat I never like any of Mike Myers other movies. He is a character actor. He plays numerous characters in this movie, under the helmet better know as CAT. This journey was full of wonderfully blended physical comedy and humor, both silly for all of us, and a few double-meaning jokes intended for the adult audience. Those jokes were equally as silly, though you must be an adult to understand them. Will children fully appreciate the hillarious infomercial spoof? No, but its crazy and wacky. Its just crazy enough to entertain us all. I think that this was a PURRRfect 2003 adaptation of Dr. Suess' Cat in the Hat. If you want an animated storyboard of the book, it has existed for years, looks like it was made in 1970 and is a lovely story for all of its 30 minutes. I think you can rent it FREE at you local public Library. It was made for TV and it shows. This Edition is a motion picture. This will be a classic. This will have a cult following like the Box Office catastrophe Rocky Horror Picture Show. RHPS is also a horrible, horrible, abomination of a movie....I love it. I love the Cat in the Hat. Conrad learns that obedience to his mother is the best way of living. Sally learns that being a manipulator will not gain you friends. How can a story that begins with two sibblings that hate each other and end up best friends, respecting each others strengths and weaknesses. The low raters on this movie have obviously not learned the most valuable lesson that you can learn from a movie. Relax, and enjoy life. Do not enjoy life at the expense of others. Respect one another while having fun. Secondary lesson: Know the person who you will marry very, very well! See them right when they wake up at least once. Please, please value your children's opinions before re-marrying. Infact, stay married the first time! (ok, that last sentence was not in the movie, exactly. It was implied) I am sure that this POSITIVE review shall be favored with 3 out of 45 people feeling it helped. There will be 3 Enlightened individuals. The other 42 are people with an agenda. This movie is a 5 star to me. Ok, so thats why this review is annonymous. Its all my real feelings, but I hate it when people inaccurately rate reviews based on their bias of the movie. By general consensus of my close (adult) friends, I feel that 3.5 should be the average. Its not for everyone....until they loosen up. This is not Grapes of Wrath people. Though I guess most of the negative voters would have been quite content with Henry Fonda playing cat in the hat. Then I would have been glad that it only lasted 40 minutes! By it, used on Amazon.com! Its worth the 10 bucks. At least you can get it as a collectible, and add it to the 20th anniversary set that will be coming. This movie will not be forgotten. I wish that all movies with good moral lessons would be as fun to watch as this movie. Bad parts: (1) the RAVE was rediculous, (2) the cutting of his tail (3) stupid ho, whore, hoe joke. (4) gratuitous baseball bat to the groin, and the whole pinata thing (5) FIRED!!! see the movie Great moments (1) informercial, (2) Worlds Colliding, (3) thing 1 and Ben, (4) lawyers needed, homage to Willy Wonka? (5) Carpet Ride (6) Special Effects (7) Sally and Conrad working together (8) Dance Numbers, (9) The introduction of CAT to the kids (10) The whole visual ride Final thought from man in his thirties: Kelly Preston is mom. Kelly Preston is a hot mom. Most moms that age are attractive, and its part of life for children to see attention being paid by male role models. Nothing wrong with a little flurting. Did the kids see "mom's" cleavage for a few seconds? Yes. Did they care? No. Only the adult male did. Thats real life folks. This story teaches us that QUINN (Alec Baldwin) is NOT a good role model, and he loses in the end. Purrrrfect justice. The next perfect man to come into 'MOM's' life can very well be a gentleman, and raise the kids just the way they should be. He too will appreciate 'mom's' cleavage without the knowledge of the children. This part of the movie lasts about 10 seconds and does not detract from the story in anyway. Its not even long enough to be gratuitous. I love this movie and with the exception of Alec Baldwin and the kids, I am not a fan of any of the other adults. I am only biased by my nastalgia for childhood memories of Cat in the Hat and all of the over-the-top inventions of the Dr Suess collection. I would love to see the Lorax as a full-length motion picture, but thats just me.
Rating: 
Summary: It`s okay
Review: Me and my pally Wal Little Raymond both agree that unfortunately this otherwise SUPER DUPER movie had one large problem. It did not show Docter Suess's infinite knowledge of how he knew that strangers would break into houses in the futer. It was just not silly enough I mean I was so dissapointed, that I cry myself to sleep every night. The grinch was so silly and a beautiful green, but this man who kalls hymself the Cat in Da' hat is not worthy to bear such an honor.They should make a movie called Hobo.
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