Maddox Reviews: The Cat In The Hat (2003)

Plot
Oh gosh... the plot, the plot is loosely based on the book, key word, LOOSELY, where the parents go out, leaving the kids bored home alone, until the Cat arrives, except, instead of a nice playful cat, we have a raunchy, innuendo-spurting one.

Comedy
The comedy is complete garbage, every other joke is a sexual innuendo, inappropriate for a Dr. Seuss film, like when the kids asked where the Cat came from, instead of saying "Through the window" or something like that, he tries to tell them the birds and the bees before being interrupted by Conrad, there are also non-sexual innuendos thrown too, like where the Cat shows off a car he called S.L.O.W., but then says the original name was "Super Hydraulic Instantaneous Transporter".

Holding Up
This movie does NOT hold up, while the book is pretty timeless, other than the fact the kids would just play on their iPads or some crap, the movie isn't, there's a few racist jokes that won't fly today, even by Dr. Seuss standards, one of them has the Chinese babysitter watch the Taiwanese Parliament, which turns into a fight, in which the babysitter says "No more big government!", stereotyping all Chinese people as communists, when they really are not all communists, and then the Cat becomes a Rastafarian (although, it's maybe not racist, as it IS a religion, not a race) as a disguise to get the dog back. There's also the non-racial stuff, like Paris Hilton as a cameo, Sally holding what seems to be some early cellphone, and quite a few of Mike Myers' ad-libs.