Good. At least after this, we recieved an actually good Dr. Seuss theatrical film involving one of his first characters Horton the Elephant.

Lisa Plambeck yeah I totally understand that

Mitchel Anhalt “good” is a bit of strong word. Ok? Yeah. Good? Mherh

Thank God she did

Even life-action Grinch movie wasn't that cringe.

brandon roberts oh...oh my god you’re right.

@brandon roberts I-I think I found some porn. Dear god what have I done

Well, it's certainly the scariest HORROR movie I've seen to date.

I bet you need your room has turned into smoking lounge after seeing such horror

@brandon roberts There are 42 image results tagged with The_Cat_in_the_Hat on rule 34. Although the majority of them are in the art style of the original book, and not focused on the live action trash film.

and its one of the most quotable films in history

Same. Watched it non-stop as a kid

Some movies are bad then some are legendarily bad, so bad that all bad movies must be compared to them. Bad sequel? Highlander 2: The Quickening Bad indie drama? The Room Bad children’s movie? The Cat in the Hat

This was the shit when I was a kid. Hilarious, fast-paced, nonsensical and just a wonderful kind of “WTF?” laughter the whole way through. It’s always a little tough to watch critics tear it apart when you remember it so fondly.

Madi Stapleton mmmm yeah you’re right 😅

Aww!

r/mademesmile

I... ACTUALLY DIDN'T KNOW THAT!! THANK YOU FOR THE INFO! =D

The duality of man.

He was friends with Chuck Jones AND Stan Lee!? Dr. Seuss was awesome!

*Game over*

Actually now that I think about it maybe I can agree with LS Mark and say: *You probably can't kill the Cat.* This is the very creature that's strong enough to endure a harsh car crash like nothing having consistently treating abuse like sick amusement, fast enough to vanish from people's line of sight and appear right next to them multiple times making a blur in the process that one time he did the whole S.L.O.W and S.H.I.T vehicular joke, can throw off people in more ways then one flawlessly even going by to plan out the whole thing and pretty much does anarchy to the our normalities doing anything he wants for the fun of it... And unlike the seemingly pacifistic version of the original THIS version of the Cat In The Hat is not afraid to fight dirty *(Remembers the Cat with a Bat Meme as an example.)* So if he wanted to he can kill us all is the scary part as he is clearly unbound by our rules.

The marine did kill em

I heard that before I saw it and wanted a movie made of it. The image that went with it made me want a movie to allready exist so I can put it on repeat

what this comment is basically saying is even more scarier that what it proposes

*cough* _cats 2019_ *cough*

But have you seen Felidae. Yes, the cats are normal cats, but theres murder, cults, experimenting (lethally), and sex.

Can people stop making humanized cats in movies they clearly haven't gotten any better

Uhhhh, meow?

I can't say I blame them.

Shame we got some hit-and-miss cgi films from frickin illumination. Thankfully, Green Eggs and Ham is excellent. Now if they can do the same justice to the other Seuss titles.

@@battlion507 Green Eggs and Ham is actually done by Warner Bros. and not Illumination though. I think the problem is that Illumination just doesn’t understand what made Dr. Suess’s work so great.

But that requires eeeeeeffort

That's more effort than the writers put into that spot. Good work.

@@roadbreach thanks. And if they didn't want to rhyme, maybe have it annoy the kids so he'd drop it

@@michaeliv284 how about "super fundiferous top-hatted feline" so that the rhyme would flow better.

Which it is kinda funny as he was terrified of children

MadameTamma I still have green eggs and ham😆

His name is close to mine :)

The nostalgia critic already did it.

I still don't understand how the drastic the makeup quality is between those to films. The Grinch in that movie looked amazing. Dare I say it looks like there isn't even a person under the makeup. Meanwhile the Cat looks literally like just a guy in a suit.

@@metademetra bigger budget maybe?

@@christiancrusader9374 Nah, I think they just cared more about the Grinch, for whatever reason. Maybe they thought they owed it to the season to try.

@@metademetra I think one of the reasons is that The Grinch makeup had hair going past Jim's cheek bones and was designed with wrinkles on top of natural wrinkles in the face, allowing exaggerated expressions through otherwise restrictive rubber and plastic. The Cat uses a similar makeup style, but not the method. In their attempt to make whiskers, they halted the fur at the cheeks and applied a prosthetic nose. This would be passable with a decent palette choices for the face, but they applied the same heavy plastic without wrinkles. So Myers looks like he was in a cutout more than looking like an actual character.

HA

I’ll tell you WHY he was legally forced to star in this movie. He had gotten in trouble with Universal and Imagine Entertainment for trying to cancel a proposed movie based on his SNL sketch “Sprockets”…..so part of the deal with them in the end was that Myers had to work on a different movie for them.

@@trev358 I agree. It just shouldn't have been *_THIS_* movie. EDIT: before anyone says another thing, I mean the _studio_ shouldn't have picked _The Cat in the Hat._

We were ungrateful

still better than The Lion King remake

And that is scary.

I disagree. I think a lot of people are watching the trailer and expecting something they shouldn't. Cats is a Broadway musical first and foremost, and Broadway fans are going to be their first concern. No, just listening to the Hamilton soundtrack doesn't count as making someone a fan. Every person I know seriously into the theater is looking forward to this movie. We can see the stage influence. Non-theater people are expecting a movie where the cats look like real cats. They don't onstage since they are humans in cat costumes. And since this is an adaptation of that, the overall appearance is something that won't change. It would be like making Christine Daeé (most theater people think that movie is bad, because it is, but I digress) into a 25-year-old woman who is very mature and has short blonde hair. The whiplash would throw the audience who know the source material the best. (This is also why Victoria, the white cat, is still white despite being played by a half-white-half-black dancer--she's meant to stand out on stage as the only white cat, an innocent kitten who dances instead of sings.) I can't wait for the movie.

@@authoralysmarchand4737 you know what would make the musical fans like it... not haveing a bunch of Hollywood stars do a Broadway Show use actual costumes instead of CGI at least get actors who can sing you know... like a Broadway fan would like

I wouldn't allow my children go nearby that creature.

Oh, the story of how Suess wrote the Cat in the Hat is an awesome one. It actually started when someone wrote an article that called out the Dick and Jane books for being boring and the reason the U.S. was performing terribly in language arts compared to the rest of the developed world (The books were boring so kids didn't want to learn how to read) and then out right called out Dr Suess daring him to write a better one. Suess at the time wrote books for 7-8 year olds and never wrote a book for early readers (5-6). He took on the project thinking it would be easy but had major issues when he realized the limited vocabulary he was bound by (the only 100 or so words a 5/6 year old could be expected to read) made it nearly impossible to write a coherent story with an actual plot. It took him a year and a half (Hell, the first Twilight book was shitted out in three months), and it completely revolutionized children's literature. It was literally the first of it's kind. No early reader book before told an actual story. They were literally all like the Dick and Jane books, just random sentences (See the red ball, the ball is red, red red red, etc.)

Lol, nice. XD

@@KrimsonRogue Thank you xD

I shouldn't have read that aloud before drinking my coffee (it's wondrous lmao)

Dr.Suess died in 1991...

I think it’s really enjoyable for any kids that watched it when they are little because it becomes nostalgic

Kit Naoki I don’t even know why I liked this movie as a kid

The grinch is fun, but this movie was terrible for me even as a kid

The Grinch was fine for what it did. But this one...I don't even.

The fish looks weird, but is well modeled to resemble the book art.

Some might have wanted to put an original spin on it, but the hire ups really wanted to make money, not adapt the book.

Kings Advisor this is my exact thought

I'd love to see a movie about Dr. Seuss himself. The guy had a very interesting career. He wrote his first book on a whim because he was taking a cruse and liked the rhythm of the boat engine, so came up with a rhyming story to go with it, and the ONLY reason he was able to get it published was because he literally bumped into an old friend walking down the street who just happened to have just started a job at a publishing company. And that's just the start of his career. The story of how the Cat in the Hat came to be is also fascinating and probably worthy of it's own movie just for that.

@@Vannabee13 Like the movie "Walt Before Mickey" but for Dr Suess.

MsWickedWolf that’s a terrible idea. This movie made him shoot himself TWICE. God only knows what he’ll do if he reviews the Lorax.

Onceler oncecest. The fandom alone. Is. Just. Um. I don't even know man.

Whereas the original book is a retread of Captain Planet, the movie dives more into what's known as neo-libertarianism.

If they had just published that scene without the cat it would be perfect

Sounds like what Mike Myers said to his career upon involvement with this movie

No i don't want to fight. Let's be friends. Also, _The Book _*_Wasn't_*_ Better, The Sequel: Girl, Interrupted_

I think most people wouldn’t argue that the movie version is actually far better. The direction, acting, cinematography & screenplay really fleshed out the novel’s characters and made us even more invested. Even Thomas Harris was impressed

He tried really hard, and I have to give him points for that. They're the only points this movie's getting though.

Cut everything except the cupcake scene out and that's all you really can salvage, tbh.

Michael Lamere don’t worry I didn’t get all of the adult jokes😅

Michael Lamere i didn’t even get it was one to begin with

Kitty Grimm how many movies would that clip apply to

Now I wonder how the reading sessions of that book went in universe in the Addams household???

Jer Gross darn it why didn’t they keep that in

This movie is so padded, they should have kept that. It's not like "cut for time" is a valid reason here.

Actually wait isn’t military school mentioned by the mother at one point

@@gracekim25 It is mentioned in the final cut of the movie, but it was still Larry that originally suggested it. The deleted scene just explains why he wanted to get rid of Conrad.

@@inkmaster5480ah ok

@brandon roberts Sounds like the explanations for Don Bluth's body of work.

Best case scenario: Dr. Seuss and Homestar Runner. Worst case scenario: Dreamworks.

It got imported into HOP! (an isreali kids tv channel) where it I think it did will.

The show was awesome! and conveniently it came on right as I had to leave for school, so it was a great alarm.

kingofmonsters14 I put most of the blame for that movie’s failure on Sony. Apparently the version that ended up in theaters and on home video was heavily edited about a month before its release (basically half of the movie was cut).

I agree. It's actually pretty not that bad..even I liked it.

Both are equally horrifying

Jessica Carter Better. Not that much better, but at least I can look at Myers without wanting to puke.

Given that the butthole version of CATS is supposedly a thing Imma have to say this one is better.

I'd say Myers' is better. They're both garbage, but at least Cat In The Hat has a reason for looking like trash. CATS had the resources to make its CGI look good, or even just do makeup (nobody was complaining about the original costumes), but they didn't. Cat In The Hat didn't even have the technology to do the required effects

Um at least i can handle looking at the cat 😅 cats not so much 😳

Well at least I'm not the only one who was psycholotic enough to watch it more than once as a child..

And here I was afraid that I was the only one who grew up more familiar with this movie than one ever needed to be. Solidarity.

Thats a yikes from me

This is probably moot to comment on something as old as this; but I wanted add that they were also considering using CGI for the background and special effects for The Grinch, but decided sticking to practical effects and sets.

@@littlegiantj8761Jonny The film already had a lot of cgi backgrounds, the world felt much more immerversive because of the practical sets.

Same bro! Krim, if you're reading this, I loved the story parts of your reviews.

The Robertsons Random the story line stuff in the review itself is pretty cool

He would hate it

Glad to hear it! Happy birthday! :D

🎂🥳🐱

Eh. It's my own fault anyway. :P

We can only wonder how many times Dr. Seuss rolls in his grave with stuff like this

I'm actually writing the script to the I Am Number Four script now.

Thank u

KrimsonRogue I just realised something. I Am Number Four is your fourth Alex Pettifer movie.

yeah I remember really liking the live-action grinch( which is good, it has some bad elements, but its good and I will defend that movie) and I remember going to my local drive-in to see this, and yeah it was terrible it was one of the first movies I remember not liking at the time I thought it was okay, but as I've gone along, it's been terrible to revist.

Hell yeah, Star-Bellied Sneetches!

I’m ashamed I used to like it as a kid.

I think it's because Jim Carrey's Chaotic acting style kinda fits right in with Seuss' stories. Mike Myers is a bit more reserved, and his attempts to be over the top happen in all the wrong places.

That scene was hilarious

I like it because it is plain stupid and funny at the same time.

Its gets better knowing he, Stan Lee, and Tokien worked together in the army in WWII

@@zom8979 They did? That is totally amazing. Thank you for sharing that

If anything good childrens media is harder to make, because they are usually more netpicky about it and pay more attention. There is a reason why avater is still popular and other popult childrens cult shows, they know they shouldnt treat kids as dumb.

Correction, Kids have less tolerance for dull storytelling and will be less forgivable, they also have to get them since the start and get the storytelling basics right. Good childrens media is a genuine piece of art.