The Cat in the Hat

I have sat through worse movies, but I don’t think I have ever experienced one as blatantly disrespectful to its source material as . It pains me to say this, because I think Mike Myers is a talented and funny man, but he pissed all over the grave of Dr Seuss.

The first 15 minutes or so of the film was pretty good. Then Myers showed up. The best part turned out to be the very beginning, where they replaced the standard studio logos with Seussian versions, all animated and three-D. I was very impressed. Then, things started to go wrong. The town looked like a cheap version of something out of Edward Scissorhands":http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0099487/ – the cars were ordinary Fords – but I’m not going to waste any more time on this piece of festering shit. First time director. Sigh. He watched too much Chris Columbus and not enough Tim Burton.