• Bombastic, high fructose attempt to realize on set what was never meant to be more than a bedtime story illustration.

    Pretty far removed from the tone of the original book, there is so much padding that the whole thing becomes rather risible. it's all fun in a grotesque way but you have to be in the mood to laugh at the lame CGI gorged jokes as well as with them.

    Mike Myers makes a pretty vivid Cat who can be a little annoying and more than a little terrifying.

    It's stupid, but sometimes stupid things are bizarrely distracting.