The other comments on this make me laugh. Let's not confuse this with an Academy Award nominee folks. It is after all Halle Berry in a skin tight leather cat costume. With a whip. So there's that.
Part of the rabid dislike of this movie stems from the fact that Catwoman is truly a beloved character. Michelle Pfeiffer helped jump start that with her portrayal but the character has had a prominent presence since her inception. This movie chucks all that history in the garbage and just goes through the motions. They didn't even try here. Plus it was so bad it all but killed Halle Berry's career.
to be honest, after all these years, I still do not understand what the point of this movie was. it has a reference to Batman Returns since it shows Selina Kyle, yet it seemed like maybe they were trying to do some multiverse movie.
Maybe nothing more came out of it because of how badly it did at the box office and with reviews.
When a superhero movie ignores its source material as much as Catwoman does, a thought that crosses your mind is whether it started life as a totally unrelated cat-powered character, but found itself attached to a better-known I.P. to get butts in seats. Not the case, however. Rather, Halle Berry's non-Selina Kyle Bast avatar owes its existence to several screw-ups during its stay in development hell, which might explain why Patience Phillips has an origin similar to Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman (it was meant as a Batman Returns spin-off), but not much else. It feels like an insult that this rare female-driven superhero movie (and somehow the highest-grossing until 2017's Wonder Woman, despite not even making its budget back) makes its star work on ad copy (a romcom staple) for an evil cosmetics company (Sharon Stone plays a villain who uses super-foundation to make herself superhuman!). MUST. BE. GIRLY! I'm not sure what's more embarrassing, Berry having to act like a cat, rubbing her face in catnip, etc., or that terrible S&M costume with a big helmet head. She looked cool in an earlier cat suit, but can't have her boyfriend recognize her haircut, I guess. The whole thing is shot like a music video, hiding the fact that Berry isn't doing her own action with obnoxiously frenetic editing, though usually, Catwoman's movements are covered by horrendous CG that made me yearn for Batman & Robin's inept wire work. So why IS it so off-model? I think Batman Begins was in the pipeline by this point and they wanted to put some distance between Nolan and Catwoman's Unspecified City.
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i'm a dog person now.Prof. Lumpcicle
One of my favorite comedies.Thebigernied
The other comments on this make me laugh. Let's not confuse this with an Academy Award nominee folks. It is after all Halle Berry in a skin tight leather cat costume. With a whip. So there's that.DisneyStitch
Part of the rabid dislike of this movie stems from the fact that Catwoman is truly a beloved character. Michelle Pfeiffer helped jump start that with her portrayal but the character has had a prominent presence since her inception. This movie chucks all that history in the garbage and just goes through the motions. They didn't even try here. Plus it was so bad it all but killed Halle Berry's career.howesyyyy
3.3 on IMBD is generousrobi110
This one is the biggest guilty pleasure movie ever. To be honest I loved it every single time I watched.. I regret nothing!karuss
Subversive feminist film hidden under a pulpy superhero veneer.Camille Deadpan
The Room (2003) is way better than this.And P.S. I love all the witty comments here :)
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I love comics and comic movies, but this was really painful. And I even enjoyed Ghost Rider.shinguard
Easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Easily.harposboy
Killer make-up? Really?Notelpats
Arsewater.diirtyharry67
to be honest, after all these years, I still do not understand what the point of this movie was. it has a reference to Batman Returns since it shows Selina Kyle, yet it seemed like maybe they were trying to do some multiverse movie.Maybe nothing more came out of it because of how badly it did at the box office and with reviews.
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When a superhero movie ignores its source material as much as Catwoman does, a thought that crosses your mind is whether it started life as a totally unrelated cat-powered character, but found itself attached to a better-known I.P. to get butts in seats. Not the case, however. Rather, Halle Berry's non-Selina Kyle Bast avatar owes its existence to several screw-ups during its stay in development hell, which might explain why Patience Phillips has an origin similar to Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman (it was meant as a Batman Returns spin-off), but not much else. It feels like an insult that this rare female-driven superhero movie (and somehow the highest-grossing until 2017's Wonder Woman, despite not even making its budget back) makes its star work on ad copy (a romcom staple) for an evil cosmetics company (Sharon Stone plays a villain who uses super-foundation to make herself superhuman!). MUST. BE. GIRLY! I'm not sure what's more embarrassing, Berry having to act like a cat, rubbing her face in catnip, etc., or that terrible S&M costume with a big helmet head. She looked cool in an earlier cat suit, but can't have her boyfriend recognize her haircut, I guess. The whole thing is shot like a music video, hiding the fact that Berry isn't doing her own action with obnoxiously frenetic editing, though usually, Catwoman's movements are covered by horrendous CG that made me yearn for Batman & Robin's inept wire work. So why IS it so off-model? I think Batman Begins was in the pipeline by this point and they wanted to put some distance between Nolan and Catwoman's Unspecified City.thyron
Bad CGI, but fun movie.Showing items 1 – 15 of 18