Great Film overall

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Awesome Movie

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Much like Orpheus walked into the dark depths of Hades, I myself peered into the fiery brimstone and ashen realm of Hell to find a movie so bad, so detestable, that it makes everything else ever produced in this world look like The Godfather. A movie so utterly terrible that even Michael Bay would cringe at the mere sight of it. I am, of course, talking about A Talking Cat!?! By David DeCoteau.Yes, I did not add those punctuation marks. The legitimate title of this movie is: A Talking Cat!?! It seems even the film itself is confused to how anybody allowed it to be produced. This movie was created in 2013. Unsurprisingly, it was a Direct-To- DVD release. That means that this abomination was not shown off in theaters, which is a relief, as the poor children who watched it would have had their eyeballs burned to oblivion.The only redeemable quality in this film is how laughably bad it is. It makes for good entertainment if you just want to lie around, feel like absolute garbage, and riff a children's movie about a talking cat who speaks with his lips MS- Painted on. No, really, that's how the beast talks. His mouth is digitally painted black to represent an open mouth, but instead resembles an unending void of chaos and despair, hoping to leech away at this mortal coil.Before we discuss the plot, let's talk about production. This movie had a budget of one-million dollars. One. Million. Dollars. I can only assume that a hundred bucks went into the actual movie, and the rest of the money went into all the crazy drugs they used while creating this flick. You know what else had a budget of one million dollars? Rocky. Rocky was a pretty good film. That proves that it was not the budget that decided the quality of this movie. The reason A Talking Cat!?! is so bad is because Mr. DeCoteau was probably too busy tripping to be worried about, oh, I don't know, how good his film is!But I digress. The film revolves around a….wait for it….talking cat. What a shock. He is voiced by Eric Roberts. Do you know who that is? Neither do I. The gruff-voice for the tiny cat is pretty surprising, but even more surprising then that is that Roberts spent 15 minutes recording dialogue for this film in his living room. Only 15 minutes. For a professional voice actor, and the main character, that is not enough time.The cat protagonist, named Duffy, is a magical talking cat. Okay. I can believe that. But what I can't believe is that this talking is limited so that he can only speak to a person once, and just once. What kind of a lame power is that? If you're only going to have one line for each character in the movie (note: 6 characters in the movie) then why call this movie A Talking Cat!?! if said talking cat barely even talks?We get to see how the cat helps people with their problems. Specifically, a father named Phil, played by Johnny Whitaker, who is like if that one scientist from Jurassic Park became twice as eccentric and three times as obnoxious. Who are the other characters, you ask? Who cares? They barely deserve any recognition. I looked up the four other actors, and it says a lot that their most prominent work is A Talking Cat!?! This movie is like a plague. If you are in any way involved in it, you've dug your own grave.Let's get into the conflict of the movie. Phil's son, WhatsHisFace, is mean to his father. Why? I don't even know. The father, even though he decorates the inside of his house with trees and weird statues, doesn't seem like a bad guy. So why's the son hostile to him? To drive the plot. That's all this movie is. An awful talking cat and a bunch of things that only exist to drive the plot. The rest of the story is just nonsense. Half of it's not even story. At least a third of the movie are establishing shots of forests and characters slowly walking up stairs or empty hallways. This movie makes me physically ill to watch. It's almost as if somebody crafted this piece just to torture me for all of eternity. If you get to buy one DVD this year, don't buy A Talking Cat!?! Wait, no. Better idea. Buy the DVD and then burn it. Burn it to the ground. The satisfaction that you will get from destroying this film will be worth the money.

So this was for real made in 2013? When I was in my early teens in the 90's I was able to produce more realistic visual effects with no skills whatsoever.I mean, really, in this day and age it takes literally zero skill to buy CrazyTalk or similar software to easily make your cat "talk" and not embarrass yourself and all the people involved in this... uh... movie...Why in the world do people with no movie knowledge and skills whatsoever chose to do movies? Find something you're GOOD at, and do that.And no, I don't recommend watching this because only just a few scenes are joyfully laughable, because they're utterly ridiculous, the rest is boring and makes no sense. Just watch the JonTron review of the movie for the highlights or something.The fact that "movies" like this actually exist is fascinating. It shows that we failed as a species.

The opening scene and the 1st few minutes of getting used to the voice over feel awkward but just wait. The film becomes MUCH better and somehow the voice begins to fit the cat's personality. So cute. It left me feeling happy at the end. I wasn't bored and it is a great story for kids but I really enjoyed it too. Rare find for a G rating film.I am so glad that they went with real people and a real cat instead of computer animation like most kids films because that is what makes this movie so special. I also REALLY enjoyed not having to suffer through random song breaks throughout the movie. Most kids films are spent with characters singing songs that are so horrible it is embarrassing to have the volume on.---------------------------- ANDThis is for the negative reviewers that are complaining about the actors in this film having been in pornographic films in their past. 1. You seem to have enjoyed those past films enough to watch them and recognize the people in them. Before you judge them like they are sick perverts, look in the mirror because you have been watching their porn. I had no idea who either of them were and neither will your kids.2. Why does the actor's past bother you? It is completely irrelevant. Whether or not you enjoyed their pornos has nothing to do with rating this movie. I say good for both of them for trying to break away from that. It makes me sad that people are so negative about them trying to better themselves.

I recently watched this "film" for my podcast, where we solely review awful movies. I painstakingly sat through it twice with a stopwatch and timed all of the runtime of the movie spent on establishing shots (there are FIFTY-SEVEN OF THEM), credits, and shots of the cat lying or waddling around. This sums up the movie better than anything:Between the credits, establishing shots, and shots of the cat, those all take up THIRTY PERCENT OF THE 83-MINUTE RUNTIME. I have never seen a movie that so blatantly pads its runtime with scenery. And what's scarier than that is that there are literally dozens of instances (that I didn't time with the stopwatch) where the human characters are shown doing nothing but sitting and looking at things for several minutes at a time, or walking up stairs, or standing and looking at random objects. It is pathetic how poorly edited and shot this movie is.Literally nothing happens in this movie. If you don't believe me, go see it. You'll go cross-eyed before you ever find anything resembling a plot. If this thing was competently made just from a sheer editing standpoint, it would be 4 minutes long...if that.