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The Cat in the Hat (2003) -- Sally and Conrad are two bored kids whose life is turned up-side-down when a talking cat comes to visit them.
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Overview

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3.3/10   14,177 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Dr. Seuss (book)
Alec Berg (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
21 November 2003 (USA) more
Tagline:
Don't mess with the hat. more
Plot:
Sally and Conrad are two bored kids whose life is turned up-side-down when a talking cat comes to visit them. full summary | full synopsis
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3 wins & 13 nominations more
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Also Known As:
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (USA) (complete title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for mild crude humor and some double-entendres.
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82 min
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Trivia:
Mike Myers said that the Cat's personality is a composite of director/producer Bruce Paltrow, his "Saturday Night Live" character "Linda Richman", and actor Charles Nelson Reilly. more
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Continuity: At about 10:30am we see the babysitter is watching a "live" broadcast of an incident that happened during a Government meeting in Taiwan. When it is 10:30 am in Los Angeles, it would be 12:30am at night in Taiwan. more
Quotes:
The Cat: [as the cook] Delicious cupcakes are just minutes away.
The Cat: [as a cooking show host] Did you just say "minutes away"? That's impossible!
The Cat: [as the cook] You're not just wrong, you're stupid.
The Cat: [as a cooking show host] Now, wait just a minute...
The Cat: [as the cook] And you're ugly, just like your mum.
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References "Dragnet" (1951) more
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For People Who Don't Get Dr. Seuss, 14 March 2005
2/10
Author: (lizryan@worldwit.org) from Boulder, Colorado US

This movie was physically painful to sit through, maybe because (like many people my age, and younger) I grew up with Dr. Seuss and loved his books - funny, clever, whimsical and subversive at the same time. "The Cat in the Hat" sucks all of the interest and spark out of the story, and Mike Myer's performance as the Cat is mostly bewildering. Why the Borscht Belt accent, the unfunny patter, the inappropriate jokes, the charmless costume? I had to go back and re-read the books to see the real problem: the books are SIMPLE. This movie is OVERBLOWN and way, way too long.

You don't expect every kids' movie to be Toy Story or The Iron Giant, but this one set a new low. How could Mike Myers need the money?

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