Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat [Blu-ray]

Director: Bo Welch, Brian Grazer Bo Welch

Overview

Following up on the success of 2000's How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Imagine Entertainment presents The Cat in the Hat, their second live-action adaptation of a classic Dr. Seuss book. Starring Mike Myers, the film follows the adventures of Conrad (Spencer Breslin) and Sally Walden (Dakota Fanning), a young brother and sister who find themselves visited by the titular mischievous cat (Meyers) and his entourage when their mother (Kelly Preston) leaves them home alone. Also starring Alec Baldwin and the voice of Sean Hayes, The Cat in the Hat is the directorial debut of Oscar-nominated art director Bo Welch.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/07/2012
UPC:	0025192113987
Original Release:	2003
Rating:	PG
Source:	STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound]
Language:	English
Time:	1:22:00
Sales rank:	22,692

Special Features

Dance-along with The Cat; 16 deleted scenes; 20 outtakes; The purrrr-fect stamp; Behind-the-scenes magic:; The dirt on D.I.R.T.; Seussville U.S.A.; The mother of all messes; The music; Feature commentary with Actor Alec Baldwin and Director Bo Welch

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Mike Myers	The Cat
Alec Baldwin	Lawrence Quinn
Kelly Preston	Mom
Dakota Fanning	Sally
Spencer Breslin	Conrad
Amy Hill	Mrs. Kwan
Sean Hayes	Mr. Humberfloob/The Fish
Danielle Ryan Chuchran	Thing 1
Taylor Rice	Thing 1
Brittany Oaks	Thing 2
Talia Prarie	Thing 2
Dan Castellaneta	Voice of Thing 1 and 2,Thing One/Thing Two
Victor Brandt	Narrator,Narrator
Daran Norris	Announcer
Clint Howard	Kate the Caterer
Paige Hurd	Denise
Steven Anthony Lawrence	Dumb Schweitzer
Paris Hilton	Female Club-goer
Candace Dean Brown	Secretary,la secrétaire
Roger Morrissey	Mr. Vompatatat
Stephen Hibbert	Jim McFlinnigan
Talia-Lynn Prairie	Thing Two
Christina Kirkman	Girl at Party
Danielle C. Ryan	Thing One
Stomy Bugsy	Nevins
Jim Cummings	Nevins
David Newman	Composer

Technical Credits

Jeff Schaffer

David Mandel

Alec Berg

Bo Welch	Director
Jeff Schaffer	Screenwriter
David Mandel	Screenwriter
Alec Berg	Screenwriter
Karen Kehela	Executive Producer,Producer,Producer
Eric McLeod	Executive Producer,Producer
Maureen Peyrot	Executive Producer,Producer
Gregg Taylor	Executive Producer,Producer
Brian Grazer	Producer,Director
Juel Bestrop	Casting
Thomas L. Fisher	Special Effects
Andy Gill	Stunts,Stunts
Jeanne McCarthy	Casting
Douglas Hans Smith	Special Effects
Brian Basham	Sound Effects
Odin Benitez	Sound Effects
Bela Brozsek	Special Effects
Cameron Croughwell	Stunts
Kendrick Wallace	Producer
Mike Anderson	Key Grip
Don Selsor	Key Grip
Garrison Jackemuk	Producer
Steve Johnson	Key Grip
Michael Rifkin	Special Effects
Lee Berger	Executive Producer
Cheryl Bainum	Executive Producer
Patrick Romano	Stunts
Christian Fletcher	Stunts
Jonathan Valera	Stunts
Sonny Tipton	Stunts
Troy Wood	Stunts
Jesse Tipton	Stunts
Dan Flannigan	Stunts
Rob Mars	Stunts
Jane Oshita	Stunts
Robert Pellerin	Stunts
Richard Epper	Stunts
Larry Nicholas	Stunts
Darren Prescott	Stunts
Jonathan Eusebio	Stunts
Eddie Fiola	Stunts
Laura Dash	Stunts
Jared S. Eddo	Stunts
Joshua Croughwell	Stunts
Wyatt Tipton	Stunts
Patrick Aguilera	Stunts
Troy Dederick	Stunts
Ajay Hateley	Stunts
Chad Mason	Stunts
David Schultz	Stunts
Cody Weselis	Stunts
Nicolette McNair	Stunts
Anthony Schmidt	Stunts
Kenny Endoso	Stunts
Bob McDougall	Stunts
Nancy Thurston	Stunts
Darlene Ava Williams	Stunts
Keenan Hateley	Stunts
Doug O'Dell	Stunts
Amberlynn Dorsey	Stunts
Danielle McNair	Stunts
Gloria O'Brien	Stunts
Aaron Walters	Stunts
Dan Lemieux	Stunts
Kacie Borrowman	Stunts
Tyler Campbell	Stunts
David Hugghins	Stunts
Rowbie Orsati	Stunts
Mike Rice	Stunts
Xuyen T. Valdivia	Stunts
Dimension Sound	Sound Editor
Kathleen Cusack	Sound Mixer
Steve Johnson	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

Give The Cat in the Hat credit: It more than lives up to the Cat's promise to deliver "pure unadulterated fun without any good sense or judgment." This extends to Mike Myers's somewhat desperate performance, as well as this DVD itself, whose bonus features include bloopers in which the adult actors swear when they flub their lines. The profanities are bleeped, but still, this is a family film, after all. Dr. Seuss' wonderful, whimsical, mischievous book is as buried as Myers under all that fur. But critics don't know what the little kids understand: The bright colors, the slapstick and mayhem, the mild profanities, and below-the-belt gags are perfectly pitched to the target adolescent audience. The Cat (voiced by Myers as equal parts Bert Lahr, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Saturday Night Live's "Coffee Talk" hostess Linda Richman), works his dubious magic on two disagreeable siblings, rule breaker Conrad (Spencer Breslin) and control freak Sally (Dakota Fanning). Oscar nominee (but certainly not for this film) Alec Baldwin is game in the thankless role of the smarmy, slimy next-door neighbor with designs on Conrad and Sally's mother (Kelly Preston). It is perhaps a coincidence that he recently vowed to a reporter that he would do no more kids' films. If only the movie was as much fun as this disc's imaginative animated menus, hosted by Breslin and Fanning. The Cat in the Hat may be, to quote the top-hatted feline, "the mother of all messes," but on the "Phunometer," it scores high with the kids who helped make it a $100 million box office hit. It will, no doubt, enjoy more than nine lives on home video.