In fact, I have a hard time thinking of any movie that pushes it to 11 in the visual department like this one. I have The Cat in the Hat book, and I’ve read it several times, both as a child and as an adult, and in no way, shape, or form is it as explosively colorful as this movie. In fact, the movie might be going overboard a little bit. However, The Cat in the Hat takes it to a whole other level with the vibrant colors, the bizarre architecture, and just the overall look of everything. Seuss book, what with all the strange hairstyles and whatnot. That said, one nice thing that I can say about that film is that it does look like a Dr. If I’m being completely honest, though, I find that movie to be torture! I don’t find Carrey’s mugging for the camera to be funny in the slightest (which I’ll get back to later), and I also just really don’t like the story in the first place, so I always balk whenever we have to watch it. My mother-in-law really loves Jim Carrey’s version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and we watch it almost every year. (Image credit: Universal Pictures) It Really Does Visually Look Like A Dr. As long as my kids don’t actually get them, I’m kind of okay with that. These are jokes that are skipping the kids altogether, and just going straight for the adults. The fact is, these aren’t the kinds of jokes that you’d typically find in movies like Shrek or Kung Fu Panda (though Lord Farquaad is pushing it).
Or, what about the infomercial where Myers is playing two separate cat variations, and says that the other one is stupid and that his mom is ugly? In this scene, the cat threatens to kill the other, blond-haired version of himself, and says that he’ll make it look like an accident. When my kids asked, “What? Why’d you get all excited?” I of course shrugged it off and said, “Oh, nothing, nothing,” but I damn well made sure to pay closer attention to the rest of the movie after that. However, when I heard Myers say, “Dirty ho!”, I instantly looked up and exclaimed, “What’d he just say?” The visual didn’t help, either, as I found him in a cat suit petting a garden hoe and getting ready to lick it, all set to some seemingly bow-chicka-wow-wow music.
For instance, the first time my kids were watching it, I was kind of paying attention, but also kind of on my phone.
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