Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (2003)
Country: US
Technical: col 82m
Director: Bo Welch
Cast: Mike Myers, Spencer Breslin, Dakota Fanning, Alec Baldwin, Kelly Preston
Synopsis:
Two kids are bored at having to stay in on a rainy day while their Mom is at work, but an exciting visitor introduces them to all sorts of fun-filled mayhem, including Thing One and Thing Two�
Review:
Unfortunately the centring of this energetic rendering (of what was no more than a cleverly written reader) around the phenomenon that is Mike Myers makes for a decidedly icky and self-regarding spectacle. There is an undercurrent of menace behind the fun, not to mention an unhealthy dose of scatology, that was absent from the original and which all the mugging to the camera only underscores. Like all kids films these days it is brash, wantonly destructive and has the odd lip-smacking star turn to entertain the grown-ups, in this case Alec Baldwin.
Country: US
Technical: col 82m
Director: Bo Welch
Cast: Mike Myers, Spencer Breslin, Dakota Fanning, Alec Baldwin, Kelly Preston
Synopsis:
Two kids are bored at having to stay in on a rainy day while their Mom is at work, but an exciting visitor introduces them to all sorts of fun-filled mayhem, including Thing One and Thing Two�
Review:
Unfortunately the centring of this energetic rendering (of what was no more than a cleverly written reader) around the phenomenon that is Mike Myers makes for a decidedly icky and self-regarding spectacle. There is an undercurrent of menace behind the fun, not to mention an unhealthy dose of scatology, that was absent from the original and which all the mugging to the camera only underscores. Like all kids films these days it is brash, wantonly destructive and has the odd lip-smacking star turn to entertain the grown-ups, in this case Alec Baldwin.
Country: US
Technical: col 82m
Director: Bo Welch
Cast: Mike Myers, Spencer Breslin, Dakota Fanning, Alec Baldwin, Kelly Preston
Synopsis:
Two kids are bored at having to stay in on a rainy day while their Mom is at work, but an exciting visitor introduces them to all sorts of fun-filled mayhem, including Thing One and Thing Two�
Review:
Unfortunately the centring of this energetic rendering (of what was no more than a cleverly written reader) around the phenomenon that is Mike Myers makes for a decidedly icky and self-regarding spectacle. There is an undercurrent of menace behind the fun, not to mention an unhealthy dose of scatology, that was absent from the original and which all the mugging to the camera only underscores. Like all kids films these days it is brash, wantonly destructive and has the odd lip-smacking star turn to entertain the grown-ups, in this case Alec Baldwin.