How unintentionally bad is it? 8
How entertainingly bad is it? 2
I, for one, hated the live-action "The Grinch," and everyone who has seen both that and this film say that this is worse. That it is. This is all Mike Myers as the Cat, and he's less funny here than he was in "Inglorious Basterds." A book that took me 4 minutes to read as a child is padded relentlessly with unfunny schtick that's inappropriate for children of the age that would enjoy the book. The design of the film is such that it looks great and it's all very professionally done, with a good backing cast of Alec Baldwin, Kelly Preston, Dakota Fanning, Spencer Breslin, Sean Hayes and Dan Castellaneta; perhaps more telling is the presence of Clint Howard and Paris Hilton. Plot: mother needs a house to be spotless and anarchic menace ruins it. There is a small cult that believes that this is a genius take on... something and an even smaller group that thinks this is so terrible that it becomes enjoyable. It does not.
It's offensively bad. A film that is meant to be for children and instead it has things that are just too inappropriate. The brief presence of Paris Hilton alone is just too obscene for them.
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