The cat that's a dog

This competed with Gigli as America's worst film of 2003 at the Razzies, which single out films that went plop.

Mike Myers plays Dr Seuss's famous Cat, a childish, crazed, indiscriminately troublesome creature with a hat the shape and stripes of an enormous boiled sweet. He arrives to teach a few lessons at the house of two warring children (Spencer Breslin and Dakota Fanning - why don't we ever have British actors with names that fruity?).

Directed by Bo Welch, the production designer behind Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, it looks like a cross between Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands (primary colours, 1950s values and hairdos).

Myers, to borrow Paul McGann's phrase in Withnail and I, "prances like a prat" all the way through - mugging, falling over, jumping up and down. He does, however, do an uncannily spot-on south Manchester accent when required (inexplicably, for about two minutes). That aside, The Cat in the Hat is dog food.