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Catwoman (2004)

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10

Average Rating: 3.1/10
Reviews Counted: 178
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 161

Halle Berry is the lone bright spot, but even she can't save this laughable action thriller.

10

Average Rating: 3.3/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 35

Halle Berry is the lone bright spot, but even she can't save this laughable action thriller.

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34

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Average Rating: 2.2/5
User Ratings: 253,262

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Movie Info

Patience Philips (Halle Berry) seems destined to spend her life apologizing for taking up space. Despite her artistic ability -- she has a more than respectable career as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a Goliath cosmetics company -- Patience is excruciatingly shy, quick to take blame, and, not surprisingly, more than a little depressed at the end of the day. This comes to somewhat of a screeching halt when Patience not only inadvertently lands herself in the middle of a corporate

Jan 18, 2005

$40.2M

Warner Bros. Pictures

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All Critics (179) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (166) | DVD (34)

Obviously, no one involved in this disaster cares anything at all about Catwoman.

July 30, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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When is a cat a dog? When it's Catwoman.

July 29, 2004 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comment
TIME Magazine
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The kind of movie that almost guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points.

July 29, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comment
New York Observer
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This is barely a film -- it's more like a music video-slash- TV-commercial- slash-computer game.

July 26, 2004 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment (1)
Ebert & Roeper
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Instead of basking in the considerable charms Berry has to offer, the director, Pitof ... treats them like accessories to the picture's flashy, senseless cutting and overused special effects.

July 24, 2004 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Salon.com
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Catwoman is dragged down by a paper-thin story, the predictable number of fight scenes executed at equally predictable intervals and stock, unmemorable characters.

July 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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This movie is kitty litter.

December 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

From the looks of French director Pitof's poorly realized effort of bringing DC Comics' "Catwoman to the big screen, it seems unlikely that a sequel for the feline superhero/villain.

February 28, 2010 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

Widely considered a terrible movie, but if you enjoy the camp genre, it's a must-see. It is, in fact, camp on a catnip high.

September 12, 2009 Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | Comment
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

There is NOTHING redeeming about this film.

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
Cinema Crazed

Hide this Catwoman on a hot tin roof -- or anywhere else no one is likely to see it.

November 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | Comment
Hollywood.com

Rated NFD (Not For the Discerning).

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

Where is Batman when you really need him?

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
Sacramento News & Review

An almost unmitigated disaster, this major studio production with a major star in the lead (the Oscar-winning Halle Berry) comes across like a direct-to-video production, complete with ultra lame computer-generated effects and clueless direction ...

July 4, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter | Comment
ESplatter

I'm pretty sure an actual cat could have made a better film.

December 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | Comment (1)
Big Picture Big Sound

Much better than it had to be and a lot better than many Internet critics, eager to hate it, wanted it to be.

September 24, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comments (10)
eFilmCritic.com

You're left with flashes of mis-spent promise: the feline mysticism; the cosmetics-industry intrigue; the idea of electrocuting Lambert Wilson's unctious corporate cad.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

One life down, eight to go.

July 5, 2005 Full Review Source: Bullz-Eye.com | Comment (1)
Bullz-Eye.com

An avalanche of de-clawed idiocy.

May 3, 2005 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comment
Lessons of Darkness

'Claro ejemplo de la forma en que no se debe gastar el dinero en caprichos de productores a los que les importa un comino la inteligencia de la audiencia'

April 4, 2005 Comment

The main question to ask is why did we need this project?

April 2, 2005 Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | Comment
Dark Horizons

Unfortunately, Catwoman gets all too quickly buried by kitty litter.

February 1, 2005 Full Review Source: Now Playing Magazine | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Catwoman

I find it sad the original story the character was told with in 1992's BATMAN RETURNS (unless you go all the way back to 1966's TV spinoff BATMAN: THE MOVIE) is absolutely shot down for this 2004 litter box of a movie. Instead, we have a premise like the one you would find watching ultra-violent superhero flick THE

July 8, 2011
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Alexander Diminiano

Super Reviewer

Catwoman doesn't deserve all the interrogation and outmost hate that it gets. Halle Berry shows dedication in this roll like any other movie she's been in. Yes, some scenes are laughable and there are reasonable flaws to dislike it. But there's no reason to despise it. That's coming from someone who doesn't like super

November 1, 2011
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    1. Patience Philips/Catwoman: You know; Lassie would've brought me a key.
    – Submitted by Roxane L (44 days ago)
    1. Patience Philips/Catwoman: Time to accessorize.
    – Submitted by Roxane L (44 days ago)
    1. Patience Philips/Catwoman: Ok Sal, waht do you think? [hold up to different dresses]
    2. Sally: I don't know. You going to a church or a Playboy mansion?
    – Submitted by Nhia T (4 months ago)
    1. Laurel Hedare: No. My advice to you, George, quit the self-tanning. Stop eating Viagra like they're vitamins. Resist the urge to date children born the same day they invented the cell phone. For once, in you miserable like, George, [kicks him] be a man!
    – Submitted by Nhia T (4 months ago)
    1. Sally: Beau-lean is magic in a bottle.
    – Submitted by Nhia T (4 months ago)

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