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The Cat in the Hat

Universal Pictures

DreamWorks Pictures

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Brian Grazer Productions

United States of America

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Mike Myers

Dakota Fanning

Spencer Breslin

Kelly Preston

Alec Baldwin

Amy Hill

Sean Hayes

Danielle C. Ryan

Taylor Rice

Brittany Oaks

Talia-Lynn Prairie

Dan Castellaneta

Victor Brandt

Daran Norris

Frank Welker

Clint Howard

Paige Hurd

Steven Anthony Lawrence

Paris Hilton

Candace Brown

Stephen Hibbert

Roger W. Morrissey

Norman Fessler

Danny Nero

Brian George

Boyd Banks

Bo Welch

Brian Grazer

Karen Kehela Sherwood

Eric McLeod

Maureen Peyrot

Gregg Taylor

David Newman

Emmanuel Lubezki

Don Zimmerman

Rita Ryack

Dr. Seuss

Alec Berg

David Mandel

Jeff Schaffer

Tyler Allison

Aldric La'Auli Porter

Arlene Kehela

Gary Archer

Dan O'Connell

John T. Cucci

James Ashwill

Kenny Endoso

Darrin Prescott

Anne Kuljian

Amy L. Disarro

Melanie Hughes

Bart Barbuscia

Karen E. Burnett

J. André Chaintreuil

Clovis Chamberet

Luke Freeborn

Victor James Martinez

Sam Page

Richard Reynolds

Hugo Santiago

Easton Michael Smith

Louis Terry

Brian Basham

Lance Brown

Richard Dwan Jr.

Erich Gann

David Grimaldi

Randall Guth

Beau Hilkene

Michael Hilkene

Ken J. Johnson

Ai-Ling Lee

Steve Maslow

Charles Maynes

Bruce Tanis

Bernard Weiser

Andre Bustanoby

Lisa Clarity

Anders Ericson

Mark Freund

Wensen Ho

Ian Hunter

Michael Kowalski

Ryan Lastimosa

Philippe Leprince

Allan Magled

Richard Malzahn

Rodney Montague

Patrick Phillips

Rebecca Ramsey

David Sanger

Erika Wangberg Burton

Edward T. Hanley

Nancy McArdle

Kacie Borrowman

Dean Zimmerman

Nancy Thurston

Andy Gill

Jack Gill

Dave Foley

Jay Kogen

Melinda Sue Gordon

Alex McDowell

Alec Hammond

Sean Haworth

François Audouy

Maya Shimoguchi

Luc Desmarchelier

Jaremy Aiello

Darlene Ava Williams

Jane Oshita

Conor O'Gorman

Billy Bryan

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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.

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.

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