It was in fact several months ago when I first saw the trailer for this film. Little did I know then I would in fact venture out of my dark home to go and see it for my very small brother's 7th birthday party. So, at first I had no intentions of wanting to see it especially, and thought little of it, other than the fact that it looked quite funny as it had Mike Myers in it. Obviously you have to be a Mike Myers fan if you are ever to see this movie and generally you have to have some sort of likening to the Austin Powers humour, and luckily I was able to meet that criteria. Now this was not a film that really fits the adult market too well, as it is one of those films that kids will adore and adults will grin and bear, but half way through this as I watched with grumpy eyes I began to think that this was actually quite funny.

The film is obviously about the Cat in the Hat, a book created by the infamous Doctor Seuss. The book itself however, is rather different and the plot in the film is clearly an extended version of the book, although I've been told the resemblance between the two is far from similar. In fact, the book and the film should be classed quite possibly as different entities all together. The book is short and tells of quite a different story to the film, as the film is very intent on creating as much jokes as it can in the time limit imposed upon it.

The basic plot is this. A single mother has two children, Conrad and Sally. Conrad is a terrible trouble maker and Sally is a good as gold girl who likes to spill the beans on her brother at every opportunity. There is one man who I mentioned called Lawrence, mockingly called 'Larry' by Conrad who is the evil lover of estate agent single mother Joan who wants to pack Conrad off to Military School. Then when the children are left alone told that if they ruin the living room Conrad is off to military school, as his mother has to cater for a party that night. So they are left with an overweight Asian babysitter who falls asleep immediately. Then the Cat in the Hat comes and tells them they can have fun with nothing going wrong. And so the whole story leads to them having to stop Larry from delivering the lost dog to Joan as proof that Conrad is mucking around, as the Cat in the Hat begins to cause havoc.

THE CAT - Mike Myers
LAWRENCE QUINN - Alec Baldwin
THE FISH - Sean Hayes
SALLY - Dakota Fanning
CONRAD - Spencer Breslin
JOAN - Kelly Preston
MR. HUMBERFLOOB - Sean Hayes
MRS. KWAN - Amy Hill