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Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Despite bad reviews, 'The Cat in the Hat' came in No. 1
Critics were cat-haters but "Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat" had families purring. Starring Mike Myers as the whiskered trickster of Dr. Seuss' children's book, "The Cat in the Hat" overcame scathing reviews to debut as the No. 1 weekend movie with ticket sales of $38.3 million.
Halle Berry's supernatural thriller "Gothika" premiered in second place with $19.3 million while the previous weekend's top movie, "Elf," slipped to No. 3 with $18.7 million.
Critics were even more unkind to "The Cat in the Hat" than they were to the earlier live-action Dr. Seuss adaptation, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
That movie had a $55.1 million debut weekend and survived bad reviews to become 2000's top-grossing flick with $260 million.
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