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75For 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.
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70Not 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.
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67I 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.
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50The 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.
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50Much like a cat, the movie is a superfluous gob of fluff with an attitude ranging from idiotic to nasty.
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Berry has no character to play, but Sharon Stone's an over-the-top hoot.
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40Overall, though, the film drags at 91 minutes, filled with dead air that should be crackling with pulp energy.
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40If "Spider-Man 2" is this summer's main comic-book-movie course, Catwoman is clearly the leftovers.
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40The 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.
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40The 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.
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40Qualifies as top-grade catnip for connoisseurs of trashy camp.
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38A 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?
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38Catwoman, 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.
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38Hisses for Catwoman. Unfortunately for Oscar winner Halle Berry, this movie belongs in the litter box.
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38Watching [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.
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38Catwoman 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.
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30What 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.
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30Like the action movies of yore (you know, the 1980s), Catwoman is simultaneously overstuffed and undernourished.
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30A howlingly silly, moderately diverting exercise in high, pointless style.
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30It goes down (and comes back up) like a hairball.
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30Dragged down by a paper-thin story, the predictable number of fight scenes executed at equally predictable intervals and stock, unmemorable characters.
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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.
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25Not to be catty about it, but the stench of the litter pan is all over this big-screen $90 million disaster-in-waiting.
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25The 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.
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25The "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."
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25Cartoonish effects and overacting make this more corn than catnip.
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25Silly, tedious, inept disaster.
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25Catwoman is pretty well summed up by Hedare: “This is a disaster. It’s a total bloody disaster.”
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25A catastrophe. This motion picture is an embarrassment to all involved.
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25Berry 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!
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25Pitof 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.
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20The 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.
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A cinematic cat-astrophe.
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12[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.
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0Utterly devoid of merit, fantastic or otherwise, a more exasperating descent into the feline world is difficult to imagine.
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