A Talking Cat

"A Talking Cat!?!" is an astonishing movie from David DeCoteau that's both more mainstream than much of his work, but still is cheaply filmed largely in a huge mansion (if you've seen some of his other films, you'll know exactly what I mean). Here he gets some bigger names to participate, with the biggest being Eric Roberts as the voice of Duffy the cat. Duffy (who speaks with a hilarious animation effect) spends his time dispensing wisdom to a father (Phil; Johnny "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters" Whitaker) and his very unlikeable son in a giant mansion. Side note: the sound quality of the Eric Roberts voiceover parts is distractingly terrible.I won't go into the plot because it largely doesn't matter, but I will say there's lots of Z-grade drama and a conclusion involving a magical cat collar that leads everyone to Zenlike interpersonal understanding and joyousness at the end. In other words, it is highly ridiculous, but I'm sure B-movie fans will be totally unsurprised.In truth, I had no idea how to rate this film: I settled on three stars, not because it's a passably good movie (it isn't), but because it entirely depends on your frame of reference approaching it. If you want a hilariously bad movie, it most definitely is that, but if you wanted a decent family movie tangentially involving a cat, it is not that. I found it intermittently painful to get through, but hearing Eric Roberts play a cat was golden.

A talking cat?! What a wild, unexplored topic! Eric Roberts is at his bravest on account of his liquid courage carrying him through a script with enough padding to be bullet-proof. Squeaky is such a well trained cat, the robot Bruce at the Jaws ride in Universal Studios Orlando is the only better trained animal actor. Johnny Whitaker is a powerhouse, perfectly portraying the schlubby divorced grandpa desperately grasping at straws trying to convince his son that liking girls is the way to get ahead in life. Kristen Bell brings out her greatest character Kristen D. Bell, a cheese puff obsessed escaped mental patient and mother of two who sure is there. When Johnny Whitaker's gay son has trouble convincing the surprisingly horny teenage girl that he really does like girls, a cat wanders into the movie while the voice of God, drunk off the tap water wine Jesus set out for a party, informs us that to be white and rich is really the plight of the downtrodden. Meanwhile Kristen DeBell, playing a mother of two making nondescript business meetings involving cheese puffs baked with copious amounts of methamphetamines has trouble because her kids are sooooooo dull the only thing left to do is be hit on by the guy Green Day kicked out of the band for gaining too much weight, and obsess about everyone's favorite anything, and there's a cat! Trouble strikes when a burst of sound effects leaves poor Squeaky wrapped in toilet paper, Whitaker and his son get into relationships with the Debell's in a situation that will surely make for a delightfully awkward Thanksgiving movie inspired by the events of Wrong Turn. A slog to surely make families appreciate the quiet subtleties of watching paint dry while your drunk uncle explains the covert ways Obamacare is linked to Five-G and that's why he has a club foot.

Eric Roberts does an amazing job voicing Duffy the cat. That, along with the incredible acting and graphics, will truly have you believing the cat is actually speaking!!

Absolutely the worst movie I've ever seen. Holes in the logic of the talking cat, the cgi/editing to move his mouth, the actors were terrible. But it was a $2 laugh, and I'll remember it for a long time. 3/5 :)

Have you ever seen a movie so terrible it's amazing? Sort of like two negatives make a positive but in cinematic form? That's this movie. The cat is just being lead by treats and a laser pointer that are visable in many shots, I'm pretty sure one of the leading roles is a former porn star, the audio for the cat sounds like it was shot in a bathroom by a homeless man they paid in beer. The plot is developed so poorly that for half the movie I thought two characters were the same person, the script is bad, the acting worse, there's terrible inconsistencies in the geographical location (one minute they're at a dessert mansion, then there's the same shot of a tropical beach they use repeatedly, then they're in the woods). When the cat talks it looks like the animation was done on Microsoft paint and to top it all off they could clearly only afford to make one song so the same bad song is used repeatedly throughout the movie just at different volumes and starting at different points. This movie changed my life. The perfect stocking stuffer or gift for a coworker you don't really know (or you don't like.... or you really like). Your kid been bad this year but you still have to get them something for their birthday? Get them this. Why? Because it proves that anyone can make a movie. 'A Talking Cat!?!' speaks to my soul.

The title of my review is also the opening line. Pretty spot on. A Talking Cat?1 is a pretty good bad movie. It hits all the major marks on the bad movie checklist.Terrible acting - check.Gratuitous use of the same stock footage over and over again - check.Tenuous at best plot structure - check.Superfluous dialogue and scenes that have no impact on the story - check.Johnny Whitaker looks like a poor man's Rodney Dangerfield. You can see cat treats and laser pointers in at least half of the scenes with the cat. And apparently this takes places on a tropical island with deciduous forest. Anyway if you are looking for a movie to point and laugh at with friends while have a few dozen adult beverages, you could do worse than A Talking Cat. I mean it's no The Room or Neil Breen film but it'll do. The final dramatic scene with the cat was worth the wait alone, at least for me.

Reminds me my late tabby cat Nugget. I've seen this movie 30 times. Don't tell lol.

This movie is so bad that it's good! It became our favorite family movie, we don't tire of watching it again and again. The low budget, the poor acting, the talking cat, the horrible generic music, the ridiculous story line, it's just priceless! For 7$, we had hours of laughter. I highly recommend. Maybe buy it to a depressed friend, this movie would cheer anyone up.

BEST MOVIE EVER MADE, IT HAD DRAMA, IT HAD LOVE, HATE AND OF COURSE A SHOCKING TWIST AT THE END 99999999999999999999999999999999999999/ 10 WOULD RECOMMEND.