Product Details

• Actors: Halle Berry, Sharon Stone, Benjamin Bratt, Lambert Wilson, Frances Conroy
• Directors: Pitof
• Writers: Bob Kane, John D. Brancato, John Rogers, Michael Ferris, Theresa Rebeck
• Producers: Alison Greenspan, Benjamin Melniker
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: January 18, 2005
• Run Time: 104 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (373 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00064MW6U
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #25,612 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

For a certain segment of the population, the vision of Halle Berry in shredded skin-tight leather is reason enough to see Catwoman. As Patience Philips, Berry plays a mousy graphic designer for a cosmetics company who learns a little too much about her employer's new beauty cream and gets flushed down a waste-disposal pipe. A supernatural cat brings Patience back to life and brings up a new persona from the depths of her psyche; soon she's bounding around fire escapes, cracking a whip, and getting framed for a couple of murders by a villainous ex-supermodel (Sharon Stone, Total Recall, Basic Instinct). If you're hoping for a Catwoman with bite, this is not your movie--this Catwoman rescues children from malfunctioning ferris wheels and apologizes for stealing jewels. The movie's script and visual style are as fresh as used kitty litter. Also featuring Benjamin Bratt (Miss Congeniality), and Frances Conroy (Six Feet Under). --Bret Fetzer

From The New Yorker

Halle Berry stars in this would-be romp, inspired by the comic book, which rejects the intriguing duality of the original character in favor of simple-minded flirtatiousness and leather-and-lip-gloss heroics. Berry physically throws herself into her performance, but an overreliance on special effects undercuts her kittenish body language. Another hundred million dollars down the drain. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This movie was terrible..., October 15, 2004

By	PJM (Poughkeepsie, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CATWOMAN (2004/DVD/WS 2.40 A/DOLBY SURROUND 5.1/ENG-FR-SP-SUB/OS)NLA (DVD)

...and I loved every minute of it.

I went into this movie as a not expecting much - but hoping to be entertained and I was. The movie was bright, colorful and camp as Christmas.

Like the other reviewers said - it has nothing to do with the comic lore - but if you can get past that and want to see a cheesy super "hero" movie - then go for it.

I had a good time and sometimes that's all you want from a movie.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Better than its reputation, April 13, 2007

By	Ben Dover - See all my reviews

This review is from: Catwoman (Widescreen Edition) (DVD)

It was a good, entertaining comic-book movie. Maybe comic-book flicks are supposed to be really deep nowadays, but this definitely isn't. It is entertaining and silly, though. It didn't deserve to get raked over the coals - its actually not bad.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Goofy, safe action movie, January 23, 2005

By	wiredweird "wiredweird" (Earth, or somewhere nearby) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

This review is from: CATWOMAN (2004/DVD/WS 2.40 A/DOLBY SURROUND 5.1/ENG-FR-SP-SUB/OS)NLA (DVD)

It has Halle Berry displaying a lot of Halle Berry. If you're a fourteen year old boy, or were one, that's probably enough. She doesn't display too much though - mothers of those boys need not worry.

The action is strong and bloodless, the minor romantic themes are chaste, and Berry defeats the evil empress of the beauty products empire. (I did say this was a comic book, right?) Some of the "cat" scenes are laugh-out-loud funny, like falling off the shelf.

The effects are generally good, and the CGI cats are surprisingly good. It's competent and well made, of its sort, but probably not one for the ages. Well, they don't all have to be. It's a great popcorn movie.

//wiredweird