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Catwoman

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 35 critic reviews
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Based on 78 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Adventure | Crime | Fantasy
Written by:
John D. Brancato (also story),
Michael Ferris (also story),
John Rogers, Theresa Rebeck (story),
Bob Kane (characters)
Directed by: Pitof
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 23, 2004
DVD: January 18, 2005
Running Time: 97 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for action violence and some sensuality
Starring Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt, Sharon Stone, Lambert Wilson, Frances Conroy, Alex Borstein, Michael Massee, and Byron Mann
Sleek, mysterious, dangerous and sexy, Catwoman has never had any trouble captivating fans...or making enemies. A sometime defender of the underdog, she isn't above breaking the law to achieve her own ends. Free to walk in both the dark and the light, she is superhero and arch-villain all rolled into one. (Warner Bros.)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
For Friday night this will do just fine. It's definitely a good matchup -- Stone's cynical bravado versus Berry's resilient spunkiness in a world-class cat fight.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Not everybody will be able to swallow its heady romanticism, yet its French director, Pitof, has brought sophistication to a comic book sensibility, which helps some purple patches of dialogue along with other absurdities.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
I wouldn't call Catwoman incompetent, yet it has no visual grandeur, and very little surprise; you can tick off the story beats as if they'd been graphed.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf
Much like a cat, the movie is a superfluous gob of fluff with an attitude ranging from idiotic to nasty.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
The result is not the train wreck one might anticipate from surfing the Net. The catfights, overacting and Berry's swagger in a skimpy, tight, leather outfit that would be right at home at a Hookers Ball make for campy fun.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
Berry has no character to play, but Sharon Stone's an over-the-top hoot.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
The frustrating thing about Catwoman is that Berry does her damnedest to make the character work. Some of her physical moves are astonishing: Her offhanded grace is exceedingly catlike.
Read Full Review >Empire Roberto Sadovski
If "Spider-Man 2" is this summer's main comic-book-movie course, Catwoman is clearly the leftovers.
Read Full Review >Variety David Rooney
The lure of Halle Berry as the leather-clad feline should help this mangy misfire claw out a decent opening before a quick slink to DVD.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Overall, though, the film drags at 91 minutes, filled with dead air that should be crackling with pulp energy.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Qualifies as top-grade catnip for connoisseurs of trashy camp.
USA Today Claudia Puig
Hisses for Catwoman. Unfortunately for Oscar winner Halle Berry, this movie belongs in the litter box.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Catwoman, which talks about the "duality" inside all women (wild vs. docile, rapacious vs. cuddly), does have its guilty pleasures. Most of these come courtesy of ice queen Stone.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
A movie needs more than a few sexual innuendos and throaty purrs to keep us from taking a catnap. How about a strong story and credible characters?
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Catwoman is a mess, there's really no other way to describe it... It doesn't work as high art, and it's too ponderous to be truly high camp. As a fashion shoot for the pin-up crowd, however, it's the cat's meow.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Watching [Berry] run around in that getup I felt embarrassed, the way I do for people who put on makeup before climbing a StairMaster -- it's too much.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Dragged down by a paper-thin story, the predictable number of fight scenes executed at equally predictable intervals and stock, unmemorable characters.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
Cinematographer Thierry Arbogast is the real superhero; his homage to noir thrillers compensates for the spotty CGI and rescues the movie from sex-kitten kitsch.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Mark Holcomb
Like the action movies of yore (you know, the 1980s), Catwoman is simultaneously overstuffed and undernourished.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
A howlingly silly, moderately diverting exercise in high, pointless style.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
What the movie needs is a director, and what it gets instead is Pitof, a French visual-effects maestro so much fonder of technological wizardry than of human flesh that he manages to turn even his slinky, sinuous star attraction into a digitized synthespian frolicking about endless CGI cityscapes.
Read Full Review >Premiere Peter Debruge
Berry is giving a performance much too earnest to have been intentionally campy, setting herself up as a veritable shoo-in for this year's "Worst Actress" Razzie. Me-ouch!
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The director, whose name is Pitof, was probably issued with two names at birth and would be wise to use the other one on his next project.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Pitof can be blamed for the 89-cent digitized sets, the jerky or rubbery special effects, some clunky performances and more continuity errors than I could count.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Cartoonish effects and overacting make this more corn than catnip.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
A catastrophe. This motion picture is an embarrassment to all involved.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder
The "Showgirls" of superhero movies. This is not a compliment. A vacuous lingerie show posing as feminism, it's the biggest movie hairball this side of "Garfield."
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Catwoman is pretty well summed up by Hedare: This is a disaster. Its a total bloody disaster.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Not to be catty about it, but the stench of the litter pan is all over this big-screen $90 million disaster-in-waiting.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
The film could have turned out worse, but only via the addition of a Tom Green cameo, or an accident in which the actors caught on fire.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
[Pitof's] managed to create an entire digitalized city that has all the allure of an underground parking garage. And his action, it's cluttered; his editing, it's confused. The result: blandness butchered, hamburger chopped, kitty littered.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Utterly devoid of merit, fantastic or otherwise, a more exasperating descent into the feline world is difficult to imagine.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 3.8 (out of 10) based on 78 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Tanner J gave it a0:
I can't believe Halle Berry decided to be in this. A disaster in every way possible. So over the top/overdone. What a joke.
Okami A gave it a2:
Halle Berry is nice is leather, but....that's really the only plus. Even the people who gave this a 9 only seem able to cite that as a positive. i found myself cracking up at the sheer stupidity and absurdity of the movie...which I don't think it was going for. I'd give this a one, were it not for the unintentional laughs scored. Oh, and despite all its absurdity, it is extremely cliche. If you like kitties, leather, an Berry, then give this a glimpse. If not--stay far far away.
[Anonymous] gave it a3:
The only reason to see this is for the fights and to check out Halle Berry.
Isamu O. gave it a0:
Halle Berry's worst carnival - "z class" junk movie party of the century.
Anson G. gave it a1:
Oh my, where do I begin? Well Ii could tell you that this is a well made action movie, but obviously I would be lying my head off. So instead, I want to tell you the truth. Are you ready? Here it comes........"DONT SEE THIS MOVIE" Let me tell you why. If you see this movie and are over the age of 16, you will end up hating yourself for letting yourself rot for 104 minutes without getting back, except an increased feeling of wanting to get revenge on Hollywood. They say that it is very hard to get your script into a movie. Well, after seing this movie, I think a one legged monkey could write a better script without either pen or paper. The fact that Halle Berry even uses a male stunt double, makes me lose all respect for both her and this movie. Besides the stunt double, the movie still sucks. The dialog sucks, the acting is not even present and the action looks sloppy and poorly thought through. This movie actually made me like The Core better, which is pretty much impossible.
christian t gave it a1:
Halle Berry looks fantastic as always, but the movie itself is HORRID. The CGI and special effects look cheap, the acting is robot-like, the plot is ludicrous and the execution is even worse. Don't bother with this piece of trash people. AVOID IT unless you wanna laugh your butt off at Berry's ridiculous costume.
Theresa S. gave it a10:
Lighten up, people. This movie is great fun and a totally unique take on the Catwoman myth.
