Can I just give a special shout-out to the 2003 Cat in the Hat movie with Mike Meyers? I still genuinely can't believe that exists. It just feels like the living embodiment of soulless capitalism took The Cat in the Hat and made a raunchy movie about Mike Meyers being a goofball. Sure, it had some really neat visual design and a couple of funny scenes, but it just feels like it's profiting off of you.
There's that infamous scene where the Cat literally stops the movie to try and sell the viewer on going to the Universal Studios themepark, but there's also the merchandise. There was so much merchandise (video games, board games, plushies, blankets, I once saw a The Cat in the Hat: The Movie: The Book?!) that came out when that movie came out, and they made sure to put on a tacky "official movie merchandise" logo on all of it.
It just feels like they don't care about the source material at all and they're just milking the name for money.
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