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"Catwoman doesn't belong on the big screen. It belongs in the litter box or to be scraped off the bottom of our shoes as we head quickly for another theater."
-- Connie Ogle, MIAMI HERALD

"Despite its feline pretensions, Catwoman belongs to another animal family -- it's either a dog or a turkey. Take your pick."
-- James Berardinelli, REELVIEWS

"A movie needs more than a few sexual innuendos and throaty purrs to keep us from taking a catnap."
-- Jami Bernard, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

"Over-the-top and mostly preposterous, Catwoman just might be the Mommie Dearest of comic-book-based movies."
-- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

"Tired and dated."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

"The Showgirls of superhero movies."
-- Robert K. Elder, CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"Most of the movie has the cruddy lighting and generic, death-by-franchise atmosphere of a third-rate spectacle that's been worked over by too many hacks."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

"Get out the kitty litter."
-- Peter Goddard, TORONTO STAR

"Every odorous frame before and after [the 'outfit'] can be safely consigned to the litter box."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL

"You'd never know Berry is an Oscar-winning actress -- her performance as Patience is downright amateurish."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE

"This plodding, by-the-numbers superhero flick has all the feline grace of a walleyed mastiff."
-- Mark Holcomb, VILLAGE VOICE

"[A] sloppy, dull, brain-dead waste of a movie."
-- Phoebe Flowers, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL

"Arguably the worst superhero film ever made."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL

"Catwoman has all the appeal of a hairball."
-- Jeffrey Bruner, DES MOINES REGISTER

"Swordfish; Gothika; this howler. Best Actress winner Halle Berry is getting dangerously close to exhausting her nine Hollywood lives."
-- Larry Carroll, FILMSTEW.COM

"Law & Order: Feline Investigations Unit."
-- Sarah Chauncey, REEL.COM

"Cheesy special effects, under drawn characters, simplistic writing (by a committee of scribes) and music video direction will likely draw the attention-deficit crowd"
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS

"This is one of the strangest and most fearsome of big-budget summer movie blockbuster wannabes: a film without an audience. "
-- Rick Curnutte, THEFILMJOURNAL.COM (OHIO)

"To cattily paraphrase from the Superman tagline - 'You won't believe a woman can purr!'"
-- Michael Elliott, MOVIE PARABLES

"A stinky hairball on the soiled rug of the summer blockbuster schedule, gruesome enough to have been ejected from the esophagus of Bill the Cat..."
-- John Beifuss, COMMERCIAL APPEAL (MEMPHIS, TN)

"Here's a movie that has nothing going for it except good bone structure."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE

"So much talent wasted. So much money squandered. So much opportunity missed."
-- Winda Benedetti, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER

"Catwoman should be a fantasy fest enjoyed by every fetishist and dominatrix in the country. "
-- Bob Bloom, JOURNAL AND COURIER (LAFAYETTE, IN)

"So bad that I actually recommend you see it. It's the movie you and your friends will rip on all summer long."
-- James Brundage, FILMCRITIC.COM

"Catwoman is not destined to have nine lives."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH

"Catwoman has nothing on its mind but random movement and the airing of every lipstick shade from Revlon's Fall collection"
-- Jeannette Catsoulis, LAS VEGAS MERCURY

"It's bad enough that not only are careers over, but somebody should be slapped."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL

"Me-ouch! This is going to hurt Halle Berry's reputation as a serious actress."
-- Linda Cook, QUAD CITY TIMES (DAVENPORT, IA)

"The result may appeal to Berry's fans but is Catwoman in name only."
-- Duane Dudek, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL

"Halle just hacked a hairball all over the summer boxoffice. And it ain’t pretty."
-- David Foucher, EDGE BOSTON

"Spayed and declawed update of the oft-told DC Comics tale."
-- Scott Foundas, L.A. WEEKLY

"Most respectable comic-book plots rely on a genius scientist gone insane, an alien invader or the like as villainous foil. In Catwoman, the bad guy is a cosmetics company."
-- Ted Fry, SEATTLE TIMES

"Feels as if it’s been pieced together from a dozen or so Ally McBeal parodies posing as hip-hop videos."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE

"Those looking for anything approximating a storyline along with their jigglefest will just have to keep dreaming."
-- Edward Havens, FILMJERK.COM

"Catwoman is stillborn in this resurrection, no matter how sweet the Berry."
-- Bruce Kirkland, JAM! MOVIES

"...makes me long for the quiet dignity of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s performance in "Batman and Robin.""
-- Jeffrey Lyles, GAZETTE (MD)

"Not even the sight of Halle Berry brandishing a whip while wearing a barely-there black leather catsuit is enough to excuse this campy exercise in bad filmmaking."
-- Sean McBride, SEAN THE MOVIE GUY

"The complete absence of a distinct visual style robs Catwoman of its imagination and wonder. It looks and feels utterly flat, which is the kiss of death in this genre"
-- Mike McGranaghan, AISLE SEAT

"The best thing that I can say about it is that at least Halle Berry has an Oscar and will probably survive this act of poor judgment."
-- Mervius, FANTASTICA DAILY

"Big-budget cheesiness built around the idea of getting Halle Berry into a sexy outfit"
-- Scott Nash, THREE MOVIE BUFFS

"...a repeat viewing of Spider-Man 2 would undoubtedly be a better idea..."
-- David Nusair, REEL FILM REVIEWS

"Catwoman should never have been made."
-- Stefan Halley, HERO REALM

"Catwoman mixes its messages, but it mixes them with style."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS

"Yes, this is a movie about killer cosmetics. Once you stop laughing at that, there's much more nonsense to endure. "
-- Daniel M. Kimmel, WORCESTER TELEGRAM & GAZETTE

"If Halle Berry keeps this up, she's going to have to give that Oscar back."
-- Loey Lockerby, KANSAS CITY STAR

"Leave this kitty cat in the alley where it belongs."
-- Jeffrey Lyles, GAZETTE (MD)

"The film drags at 91 minutes, filled with dead air that should be crackling with pulp energy."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE

"When you have Berry in a Catwoman costume and Stone in a catsuit, and you can't even stage a decent catfight, why make a Catwoman movie at all?"
-- Sean Means, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

""Catwoman" is kitty litter."
-- Nell Minow, MOVIE MOM AT YAHOO! MOVIES

"French director Pitof exhibits an approach to filmmaking as one-dimensional and pretentious as his own name."
-- Jon Niccum, LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD

"You gotta be kidding me."
-- Austin O'Connor, LOWELL SUN

"Seems destined to join Showgirls and its ilk as a fast-starting and even faster-fading theatrical release that could enjoy an afterlife as a midnight movie and video/DVD item where viewers supply alternate dialogue."
-- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"Catwoman is dragged down by a paper-thin story, the predictable number of fight scenes executed at equally predictable intervals and stock, unmemorable characters."
-- Ann Hornaday, WASHINGTON POST

"[A] laughable disaster."
-- Lisa Kennedy, DENVER POST

"There isn't an original bone in its body, but that isn't even the problem: no one in the production had any idea how to rip off better films with any degree of competence."
-- Eugene Novikov, FILM BLATHER

"If one good thing can come out of this film, it's that this should provide an everlasting blueprint for what not to do with a comic book film."
-- Jeff Otto, IGN FILMFORCE

"Catwoman is fully as terrible as you guessed it might be."
-- Tom Long, DETROIT NEWS

"It's not even campy enough for a good laugh."
-- Bob Longino, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

"A purr-fectly ridiculous and boring cat-astrophe."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST

"Watching [Halle Berry] run around in that getup I felt embarrassed, the way I do for people who put on makeup before climbing a StairMaster -- it's too much."
-- Wesley Morris, BOSTON GLOBE

"This wretched film is nothing but an excuse to show [Halle Berry] wearing that skimpy leather suit."
-- Bill Muller, ARIZONA REPUBLIC

"The summer that gave us what is arguably the best comic book movie of all time—Spider-Man 2—has now choked up what is arguably the worst. "
-- Jeffrey Overstreet, CHRISTIANITY TODAY

"Halle Berry is doing herself no favours with a screenplay so routine it seems to be trying to go unnoticed."
-- Mark Palermo, COAST (HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA)

"After Gothika and now her turn in this Catwoman, it seems like Berry's career may be headed toward the litter box."
-- Mary F. Pols, CONTRA COSTA TIMES

"Overtly bad (and unintentionally funny) enough to become a camp classic."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM

"Watching claws being scraped against a chalkboard apparently isn’t any more enjoyable than listening to it."
-- Kevin A. Ranson, MOVIECRYPT.COM

"Catwoman meows, purrs, and hisses, but mostly just sucks."
-- Alex Sandell, JUICY CEREBELLUM

"A cynical and taxing trip through a thoroughly artificial world of obnoxious action, empowerment cliches, R&B cross-marketing and teeth-gnashing asides."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY

"I've never cared much for cats anyway, but this clinches it. Next time I see one, I'm going to kick it into the river."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM

"Cartoonish effects and overacting make this more corn than catnip."
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

"Less like a comic-book movie than a feature-length S&M video...Let's just hope Warner Bros. gets this feline spayed to prevent a sequel."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION

"Another phony story of female empowerment."
-- Bruce Newman, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS

"The screenplay is flat and predictable, and bad dialogue prevails."
-- Claudia Puig, USA TODAY

"Awful adaptation of the comic-book character created by Batman's Bob Kane."
-- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

"Plays like a Lifetime movie on estrogen overdose, barely held together by a script that should have been tossed out with the kitty litter."
-- David Rooney, VARIETY

"A clawless cross-breed of comic book movie cliches."
-- Lisa Rose, NEWARK STAR-LEDGER

"Directed by a Frenchman with the single, not uncatlike name of Pitof, Catwoman is a howlingly silly, moderately diverting exercise in high, pointless style."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES

"The movie suffers from the opposite of a syndrome affecting most comic-book spin-offs."
-- Jeff Strickler, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE

"Benjamin 'Box Office Ebola' Bratt is in this movie. The last time Ben was in a star vehicle it was Julia Roberts' Cadillac Escalade."
-- Mark Ramsey, MOVIEJUICE!

"A dopey, confused production."
-- M.E. Russell, OREGONIAN

"The haphazardly cut-together action scenes have been 'enhanced' with laughably bad digital effects; you could find screen savers with better animation."
-- James Sanford, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE

"A beyond-awful movie destined for any theater still running 'midnight movie' nights."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®

"It is just, for the most part, another run-of-the-mill craptacular destined to be forgotten in a couple of weeks..."
-- Peter Sobczynski, CRITIC DOCTOR

"The cinematic equivalent of a cat box."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS

"Catwoman is almost unbelievably dumb."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS

"Catwoman is destined not for a Mystery Science Theater 3000 fate but for immortality as one of the subtlest, most thorough parodies I've ever seen."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER

"This Catwoman's super power is dressing up Halle Berry in a sexy leather number and still leaving audiences snoozing."
-- Christian Toto, WASHINGTON TIMES

"The worst superhero movie to date."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY

"She can do everything a Spider-Man can, but worse. Much, much, much, much worse."
-- Willie Waffle, WAFFLEMOVIES.COM

"Worst of all is how it never defines Catwoman – is she fighting for good and balancing that with cattish outbursts of bad, or just looking for an open can of tuna?"
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE

"Catwoman looks and feels like something culled together by a committee of greedy and inexperienced first-time producers. And horny 14-year-olds."
-- Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM

"The stench of the litter pan is all over this big-screen $90 million disaster-in-waiting."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE

"Any way you look at it, Catwoman disappoints."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS

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