Catwoman
Warner Home Video | Release Date: July 23, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
27
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
8
Negative:
24
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
For Friday night this will do just fine. It's definitely a good matchup -- Stone's cynical bravado versus Berry's resilient spunkiness in a world-class cat fight. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Not everybody will be able to swallow its heady romanticism, yet its French director, Pitof, has brought sophistication to a comic book sensibility, which helps some purple patches of dialogue along with other absurdities. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
I wouldn't call Catwoman incompetent, yet it has no visual grandeur, and very little surprise; you can tick off the story beats as if they'd been graphed. Read full review
50
Dallas ObserverGregory Weinkauf
Much like a cat, the movie is a superfluous gob of fluff with an attitude ranging from idiotic to nasty. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The result is not the train wreck one might anticipate from surfing the Net. The catfights, overacting and Berry's swagger in a skimpy, tight, leather outfit that would be right at home at a Hookers Ball make for campy fun. Read full review
42
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
Berry has no character to play, but Sharon Stone's an over-the-top hoot. Read full review
40
VarietyDavid Rooney
The lure of Halle Berry as the leather-clad feline should help this mangy misfire claw out a decent opening before a quick slink to DVD. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Overall, though, the film drags at 91 minutes, filled with dead air that should be crackling with pulp energy. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Qualifies as top-grade catnip for connoisseurs of trashy camp.
40
SalonStephanie Zacharek
The frustrating thing about Catwoman is that Berry does her damnedest to make the character work. Some of her physical moves are astonishing: Her offhanded grace is exceedingly catlike. Read full review
40
EmpireRoberto Sadovski
If "Spider-Man 2" is this summer's main comic-book-movie course, Catwoman is clearly the leftovers. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Catwoman, which talks about the "duality" inside all women (wild vs. docile, rapacious vs. cuddly), does have its guilty pleasures. Most of these come courtesy of ice queen Stone. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Hisses for Catwoman. Unfortunately for Oscar winner Halle Berry, this movie belongs in the litter box. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
A movie needs more than a few sexual innuendos and throaty purrs to keep us from taking a catnap. How about a strong story and credible characters? Read full review
38
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Catwoman is a mess, there's really no other way to describe it... It doesn't work as high art, and it's too ponderous to be truly high camp. As a fashion shoot for the pin-up crowd, however, it's the cat's meow. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Watching [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. Read full review
30
Village VoiceMark Holcomb
Like the action movies of yore (you know, the 1980s), Catwoman is simultaneously overstuffed and undernourished. Read full review
30
The New York TimesDana Stevens
A howlingly silly, moderately diverting exercise in high, pointless style. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
What the movie needs is a director, and what it gets instead is Pitof, a French visual-effects maestro so much fonder of technological wizardry than of human flesh that he manages to turn even his slinky, sinuous star attraction into a digitized synthespian frolicking about endless CGI cityscapes. Read full review
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
It goes down (and comes back up) like a hairball. Read full review
30
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Dragged down by a paper-thin story, the predictable number of fight scenes executed at equally predictable intervals and stock, unmemorable characters. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
Cinematographer Thierry Arbogast is the real superhero; his homage to noir thrillers compensates for the spotty CGI and rescues the movie from sex-kitten kitsch. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneRobert K. Elder
The "Showgirls" of superhero movies. This is not a compliment. A vacuous lingerie show posing as feminism, it's the biggest movie hairball this side of "Garfield." Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
A catastrophe. This motion picture is an embarrassment to all involved. Read full review
25
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Pitof can be blamed for the 89-cent digitized sets, the jerky or rubbery special effects, some clunky performances and more continuity errors than I could count. Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Cartoonish effects and overacting make this more corn than catnip. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Silly, tedious, inept disaster. Read full review
25
PremierePeter Debruge
Berry is giving a performance much too earnest to have been intentionally campy, setting herself up as a veritable shoo-in for this year's "Worst Actress" Razzie. Me-ouch! Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
Catwoman is pretty well summed up by Hedare: “This is a disaster. It’s a total bloody disaster.” Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The director, whose name is Pitof, was probably issued with two names at birth and would be wise to use the other one on his next project. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Not to be catty about it, but the stench of the litter pan is all over this big-screen $90 million disaster-in-waiting. Read full review
20
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
The film could have turned out worse, but only via the addition of a Tom Green cameo, or an accident in which the actors caught on fire. Read full review
16
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWinda Benedetti
A cinematic cat-astrophe. Read full review
12
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
[Pitof's] managed to create an entire digitalized city that has all the allure of an underground parking garage. And his action, it's cluttered; his editing, it's confused. The result: blandness butchered, hamburger chopped, kitty littered. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Utterly devoid of merit, fantastic or otherwise, a more exasperating descent into the feline world is difficult to imagine. Read full review
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