An all-new version of the ILX code is being developed. You can test and comment at sandbox.ilxor.com.

The Cat in the Hat: Jumping the Goldfish?

Message Bookmarked
Bookmark Removed
Admittedly, I've been lukewarm/skeptical since as far back as the start of the Austin Powers era--but the glimpse of trailer I caught today looked truly, truly spoooooky.

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Monday, 27 October 2003 23:49 (twenty-three years ago)

The Jim Carrey version of The Grinch was beyond dreadful and missed the point of the book, I'd be very surprised if this was any better.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 27 October 2003 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Was prolly the buzz from the beer;> Since it has Mike Myers in, I can hope tis funny. However, studios have a habit of shredding creativity

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 27 October 2003 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I couldn't see the TV well, but he looked sort of like a Teenage Werewolf/Captain Kangaroo hybrid ...

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 00:11 (twenty-three years ago)

it's a very odd, unsettling story. i just can't see hollywood making it as freaky as it needs to be. maybe tim burton should have made it.

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 00:22 (twenty-three years ago)

yuck I gotta say yuck

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images.usatoday.com/life/_photos/2002/10-07-cat-inside.jpg

I'll swallow your SOUL.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 00:57 (twenty-three years ago)

If the Aphex Twin and Chris Cunningham did The Cat in the Hat, it would be the greatest thing ever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 01:50 (twenty-three years ago)

but then the Cat would have tits & a bad moustache, and all the children would cry.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:58 (twenty-three years ago)

And how is this different from the Mike Meyers version?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Aphex Twin's tits would be bigger, shoot psychedelic milk, and throb in time with the soundtrack.

mike myers' would just sag there, and occaisonally talk to each other.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:15 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.memorabletv.com/images/hrpufnstuf.gif
"As Mayor of Drugachussetts, I declare this pizza to be--AWESOME!"

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:48 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...
WTF WAS MIKE MYERS THINKING!!@?!?!?!?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

twasn't funny? ;>

― 3, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

this is on HBO right now. it is so awful.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

myers must have wanted to make it awful or something?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

studios have a habit of shredding creativity

― 3, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, that must be it.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

why did anyone ever think a dr seuss live-action movie was a good idea?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Personally, I thought it was good. You know, for kids?

― , Thursday, 1 September 2005 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, but do kids think so?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 1 September 2005 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

My nephews did, dunno about any others

― , Thursday, 1 September 2005 07:28 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

I saw this, and it was terrifyingly bad. It was shocking how bad this movie was. I liked The Grinch but this was the kind of movie that makes you feel ashamed the whole time you are watching it. I think it has potential to be one of the Worst Movies Of All Time. My favorite joke:

Sally: Like being in the circus!
The Cat: Yeah, but without those tortured animals or drunken clowns that have hepatitis.

By the time the Cat in the Hat brings the kids to a rave for a cameo from Paris Hilton it had crossed the line from grotesque surrealism into a pure unadulterated nightmare.

― Adam Bruneau, Saturday, 4 July 2009 23:57 (seventeen years ago)

wut

― this desiring-machine kills fascists (bernard snowy), Sunday, 5 July 2009 00:19 (seventeen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7M8kTjmi-M&feature=related

― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:08 (seventeen years ago)

Lots of really funny negative reviews of this movie. The most accurate ones likened him to an alcoholic clown at a children's birthday party.

― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:12 (seventeen years ago)

who thought this movie was a good idea

― this desiring-machine kills fascists (bernard snowy), Sunday, 5 July 2009 16:32 (seventeen years ago)

Apparently when MM backed out of doing the Sprockets movie the studios sued him and stuff and I think this was the result of whatever litigation all the parties went through.

― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 5 July 2009 23:47 (seventeen years ago)

dirty hoe o_0

― the shock will be coupled with the need to dance (jim), Sunday, 5 July 2009 23:50 (seventeen years ago)

hoe-tm

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 6 July 2009 07:02 (seventeen years ago)

After the first Shrek, dude has been on an unbelievable shit-streak

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 6 July 2009 07:02 (seventeen years ago)

MM backed out of doing the Sprockets movie

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

― PHOENIX HOOS aka the ashesrider (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 6 July 2009 07:09 (seventeen years ago)

The film contains a number of adult themes, such as:

* The Cat begins to explain to the children where babies come from before being cut off by Conrad.

* The Cat sings a song about a cat back home where he was bred who never listened to his mother and was finally taken to a vet and was neutered. He sings the line as "...to cut off both his ba... ba... ba..." and cuts off by saying "Boy!". (In a deleted verse, which is included on the film's soundtrack, the Cat sang about a know-it-all cat who liked to be the "teacher's pet" and sings the line "...it took a ton of TNT to kill the bug up her a...a...a..." and cuts off by saying "Ask me...".)

* When Lawrence is at home relaxing on the pile of messes, on TV, he is watching what appears to be a stripper dancing until the TV is repossessed.

* When the Cat spots the photo of Joan he unfurls it centerfold-style, gets excited saying "hubbata hubbata" and his hat extends. It is revealed in a deleted scene that the photo of Joan featured her in her underwear.

* When the Cat cuts his tail off he yells out "SON OF A BI..." before it's bleeped out and the broadcast is terminated, followed by a cat on a rope with a whistle version of "The Girl from Ipanema".

* After the Cat unsuccessfully tries to capture Nevins he 'talks' to the hoe he is holding, calling it a "dirty hoe" and then apologizing with "I'm sorry baby, I love you", finally proceeding to lick it.

* The acronym of the Cat's car's former name is S.H.I.T. (Super Hydraulic Instantaneous Transporter) which Conrad is about to say before the Cat cuts him off, saying "Oh! Quick to the SLOW!"

* When the children are passing the fire-breathing toilet on Mrs. Kwan, the Cat states "Something like that really burns my--" before being drowned out by Conrad and Sally's screaming.

― bENBBag (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 6 July 2009 15:04 (seventeen years ago)

Beloved children's book improved by fire breathing toilets and whore jokes

― bENBBag (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 6 July 2009 15:05 (seventeen years ago)

wau

― he is substituite by Crime Club (HI DERE), Monday, 6 July 2009 15:08 (seventeen years ago)

* The acronym of the Cat's car's former name is S.H.I.T. (Super Hydraulic Instantaneous Transporter) which Conrad is about to say before the Cat cuts him off, saying "Oh! Quick to the SLOW!"

― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 July 2009 15:09 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Cats/Cat-Hat-Stamp.jpg
"My car is called the S.H.I.T.

― bENBBag (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 6 July 2009 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

^ I like what you've done there bENBBag

― some american borad (ENBB), Monday, 6 July 2009 15:13 (seventeen years ago)

Many jokes are crude and kid-unfriendly, but the entire character of the Cat plays like Robin Williams' Genie tripping on ecstasy while watching bad early 90s SNL skits.

― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:20 (seventeen years ago)

I meant to say this film is offensive on a multitude of levels apart from the crude jokes.

― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:21 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

"....this Cat should be tied up in a sack and drowned"

- A.O. Scott, The New York Times

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 23 May 2014 20:23 (twelve years ago)

the old cartoon with allan sherman as the cat is pretty awesome.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 23 May 2014 20:27 (twelve years ago)


You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.