A hangover makes theater

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Movie
German title A hangover makes theater
Original title The Cat in the Hat
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length 82 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 6
Rod
Director Bo Welch
script Alec Berg , David Mandel , Jeff Schaffer
production Brian Grazer
music David Newman
camera Emmanuel Lubezki
cut Don Zimmerman
occupation

Cat in the Hat ( The Cat in the Hat ) is an American adventure comedy from the year 2003 . Directed by Bo Welch , the script was written by Alec Berg , David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer based on the children's book Der Kater mit Hut (original title: The Cat in the Hat ) by Dr. Seuss .

action

Single real estate agent Joan Walden has two children, Sally and Conrad. She meets with her neighbor, Lawrence Quinn, whom she plans to marry. Quinn plans to send his future stepson to military school.

The children sit alone in their house and are bored. You are visited by a talking tomcat that is the size of a human. The tomcat ignores the children's fish trying to address him and presents a contract that the children enjoy.

Together with the cat and his helpers Ding 1 and Ding 2 the children experience numerous adventures in a fantasy world. They ravage their home and expose Quinn as having weak character. In the end, the house rules are restored before Joan returns.

Joan realizes Quinn is not who she thought he was and turns him away.

The full story is told by an anonymous narrator who, as you find out in the end, is the cat.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on November 21, 2003 that the production design of the film was good, but the film was disappointing. He is another overwrought failure (" overwrought clunker ") like The Grinch .

Cinema magazine wrote that the film had experienced “ immoderate malice from almost all American film critics ”, but that the children's book adaptation was “ much, much better than its miserable reputation ”. It is one of the "most imaginative and entertaining toddler films in recent years "; a " brightly colored, rousing happening ". One can " enjoy the rapid pace, the disrespectful gags and the surreal imagery ". The conclusion of the editors: " Toxic, funny and a visual feast ".

Awards

Dakota Fanning was nominated for the Young Artist Award in 2004. Mike Myers was nominated for the Kids' Choice Award in 2004. The film was nominated in three categories for the Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award in 2004. David Newman won the 2004 BMI Film Music Award .

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

The film received the Golden Raspberry Award in 2004 as the worst replacement for a real film - only concept, no content . It was nominated for a Golden Raspberry in seven other categories, including Worst Picture , for Bo Welch, Mike Myers, Alec Baldwin and Kelly Preston. In 2005 he was nominated for the Golden Raspberry as the worst "comedy" of the quarter century . The film was named Worst Picture by the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association in 2004 .

backgrounds

Template author Theodor Seuss Geisel with his book The Cat in the Hat

The film was shot in Los Angeles and several other California locations as well as in Longleaf ( Florida turned). Its production amounted to an estimated 109 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 100.4 million in US cinemas.

Trivia

Dr. Seuss' widow Audrey Geisel was so disappointed with this film that from now on she will see all real film adaptations of Dr. Seuss' works has banned.

The image of the hangover with a baseball bat has become a widespread internet phenomenon. Often the cat is portrayed as an assassin .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for a hangover makes theater . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ^ Film review by Roger Ebert, accessed September 5, 2007
  3. ^ Cinema, accessed September 5, 2007
  4. ^ Filming locations for The Cat in the Hat, accessed September 5, 2007
  5. ^ Box office / business for The Cat in the Hat, accessed September 5, 2007
  6. ↑ Audrey Geisel in IMDb, accessed June 29, 2013