This film is iconic. I don't care what anyone says. His wheezing kills me every time. I'm very glad to be watching this as my 300th movie of 2023, and also during October - it is my favourite horror movie after all!

I love Hank Humberfloob. I'd watch a prequel movie about him.

"Babysitters don't leave, they sit."

For years, people have left comments on my YouTube videos asking if I'm the kid from The Cat in the Hat movie. Sadly, I am not.

I have watched this movie so many times, but it was not until this most recent watch that I realised that Sally is played by Dakota Fanning.

I wish I could add a voice clip to this review because I do a fantastic impression of the cat - specifically his wheezing.

"You pay this woman to sit on babies? That's disgusting... I do it for nothing."

His musical number is iconic.

I want a Kupkake-Inator for Christmas. I want to make cupcakes out of anything.

I'd let Thing 1 and Thing 2 do my laundry.

Mrs Kwan is my hero.

I always get so mad when the kids stop the cat from getting revenge on that little shit who hit him between the legs with that bat. He deserved a blood payment.

I really want to ride the Kwan and get that little paper that says "I survived the Kwan!"

I'd die happy if we got a Cat in the Hat x Grinch crossover movie.

It's not hard to see where they borrowed inspiration. The colorful town, the rhymes, the ridiculous gadgets and gizmos, and the main character in a full-fledged furry outfit and makeup-heavy face is a well-known comedian. This was all borrowed inspiration from The Grinch yet doesn't work so well in this movie as I somewhat remember it doing - and the main reason comes down to concept. I'm all for creative liberties, as long as the movie actually makes it clear what liberties were taken. The book was really good at showing how miserable the kids were, and how much they really, truly needed this Cat in the Hat to enjoy life to view it in a different light. This movie...not so much. The spirit and idea of the book is missing in the film, and nothing replaces it. Instead, what we have is a Cat in the Hat that shows up unannounced to a family that's really not super miserable...and he just does his thing anyway. For no real reason. They refrain from presenting any point to why this character is in their home.

It's like this...the filmmakers wanted to make more money off of the fans of the Grinch movie that they gave us a movie without any real plot or substance. Sure, there's a Cat in a Hat that's doing a bunch of random, weird crap which is the epitome of physical humor - but again, no real reason as to why he's doing anything. I felt as if the Cat in the Hat was high on Crack...and maybe so was I. That's too bad. There's a reason the book exists and why it's so popular, it teaches kids a meaningful lesson - and it would be easy for a movie to do the same...it was just too lazy to even try.

I'm not entirely sure Mike Meyers was the right choice for this either. He is a comedian, yes, but a comedian that's rather known to joke about inappropriate things that kids shouldn't hear - and he was doing the same thing here...maybe to make parents laugh while watching with their kids, but it wasn't subtle and kids aren't dumb - they should have picked a different actor for him.

I sort of remember liking The Cat in the Hat, but the only parts of this film that I actually remember was maybe the first half hour - because that was the closest to matching the book - at least the actual things that happen in both. The rest of the movie was a tedious mess. Regardless of the fact that this movie is only 80 minutes long, I wanted to claw my brain out of my skull. This is a movie that should be long forgotten.

lifechanging, thank you so much the guy from shrek and the white mask man who kills. You did a good job creating a masterpeice Xx.

Decent watch, might watch again, and can recommend, but more for older audiences.

While "The Cat in the Hat" is a famous children's book, this is clearly just aimed at the folks that might have read it when they were children. That mixes the nostalgia factor with the slew of adult oriented jokes (like infomercials) and the unnecessary addition of mother being single and dating. Kids aren't going to find humor in those situations.

The material that is closer to the original book is much more charming and I imagine that kids will relate to it more as the kids are much more involved, or even the focus of the scenes.

The Cat in the Hat, even though he is the title character, is a support character to the two kids, played by Dakota Fanning and Spencer Breslin, who both do all they can with the writing to balance out Mike Myers as the Cat. I don't feel like Mike Myers understands the idea of being a supporting character: he gives me a very Tom Cruise / Jimmy Fallon vibe where if there was a pause, then would just center himself in the camera and do something to draw attention. "Oh yeah!" is a good example for this movie, a repeated, unnecessary line that doesn't once help the scene let alone the movie.

One would think after Jim Carey's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (2000) there would be a formula for how to adapt Dr. Seuss books (20 pages) to full length feature films, and someone clearly figured it out later in "The Lorax" (2012) and "The Grinch" (2018), so I'm....gonna blame Mike Myers.

Him aside, the movie has a lot of charm to it, and Alec Baldwin manages to work an unnecessary part to at least be a believable antagonist, though the best acting in the world can't make a bad part good.

If you're just really into Dr. Seuss, then give it a watch, but you're not going to miss anything special if you skip it.

My family bought "The Cat In the Hat" on DVD when it was first released. I suppose my kids were about 5 and 9 years old at the time. We watched it together but none of us liked it. The kids were bored. My wife and I were bored. We may or may not have even finished watching it. The only thing I recall for certain is that I threw it in a drawer. At the time, I recall asking my wife, "This is Dr. Seuss?!?"

Now, some 10+ years later...tonight, I dug out the old DVD. Why? What compelled me to watch this? After over a decade gone by. With almost 200 movies cued up in my watchlist that I want to see. With countless cable channels with movies and TV series available with a simple click of a remote control...why now? What mysterious force brought me to this movie? Tonight. Why tonight?

This movie is not right. There's something...off, about it. Oh sure. There's some bad jokes, some actors sleeping their way through their roles. But it's just the strangeness of it. The look of the movie is odd. Everyone looks empty. There's so much conformity. The houses and the cars. The yards and trees.

Mike Meyers as the Cat looks sick and I don't mean got-a-cold sick. His makeup and costume look wrong. And then there's the violence emanating from the Cat. It's disturbing. The Cat ogles a picture of the children's mother and dances suggestively with a woman in a nightclub. It has a fondness for dirty language and innuendo. It threatens to "end" someone and "make it look like a bloody accident". It wields a cleaver.

The Cat brings with it the unknown and perhaps even unconstrained evil when it unleashes the chaotic forces that are Thing 1 and Thing 2. It opens a portal to another dimension. What is going on? And why, with all this insanity, was I laughing?

I don't know how to rate this. I don't understand if I've witnessed something strange or wicked. Something good or bad? Why "The Cat In the Hat"? Why tonight? Why now...