Following the successful venture titled
How the Grinch Stole Christmas, another Dr. Seuss book has come to life, this
one being
The Cat in the Hat. Unlike the previous film, this movie gives little, if any, reason to see it, pay to see it, or be paid to see it.
The Cat in the Hat massacres the book upon which it is based, to the point where Ted Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss), if he were still alive today, would gouge out his own eyes, cut off his ears and then lower himself slowly into a vat of fire. It''s colorful, chaotic and worst of all, incredibly annoying, with much thanks going to the star of the show, Mike Meyers.
Meyers, who is usually funny in most things he is in, is absolutely dreadful here. Though he is surely under some direction of Bo Welch (who can share in the blame of this tragic film), Meyers is nauseating just to watch, as he prances around and does all kinds of idiotic stuff that didn''t even make the little children in the audience laugh. Meyers, who spends the entire movie talking in some strange accents, does try to vary it up quite a bit with various accents that sound exactly like Fat Bastard and Dr. Evil. He is hardly ever funny, and the few times he is are purely by chance.