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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1674365" data-attributes="member: 3649">I went to see Catwoman this weekend despite having said I would not come within ten feet of the thing. I had a free ticket from the Batman Animated DVD set, as did a friend, and he wanted to go, I go I did.  It wasn't a steaming pile of poo, mainly because it has not one single thing to do with the comics Catwoman. Not seeing a comics legend dragged through the mud was a plus. No references to Gotham, the Bat, no Selina Kyle, nothing. Much like a Bond film, the only resemblence to the literary work is the name and the weapon. Of course this probably means we won;t get to see a movie about the real Catwoman anytime soon. This would have been a better film if there had been some way to completely divorce it from the Batman mythos and just make a film about a woman with cat-based super powers.  No movie is totally terrible. Some good things: (1) I liked the first part a great deal: I liked Berry as the ditzy artist. She was cute and beleivable. Her insane co-workers were cool, too.  (2) I like the way and means she gets her powers, and what it means in the larger context. Like so many things, it's a very good idea very poorly executed. The origin hangs together. It's good. I'll rip it off for a superhero game in a second. I like the claws on the costume. Heck, the costume itself is not that bad.  Then we get to the bad parts which is, well, everything else. [SPOILER]The villain is mildly interesting up until the point where she pulls super powers out off her butt at the last minute. [/SPOILER] That's pretty much the bad part and what brings down the entire film: the villain, or lack of one. I can see where they were going with the entire thing: image change, image not being what it is under the surface, how things look the same but are different on the inside.. I get all that, but it's done so cumsily and pooly that it's just.. bad.  Berry herself becomes much much less interesting when she adopts the Catwoman persona and discards the funny woman who is finding out what happened to her and what is happening still. Again the idea is a good one, just pooly executed.  [SPOILER] And I like the crazy cat lady. [/SPOILER]</blockquote>

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