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Simply put, you cannot flop.
Its not an option.
Let Black women flop.
Let us be mediocre!
Yes, the narrative is disjointed and the acting is comically bad to boot.
And yes, Roger Ebert called it one of his most hated films of all time.
If anyone has flown too close to the sun and paid the price, its Halle Berry.
At the end of the day, though,Catwomanis a B-movie with a multimillion-dollar budget.
You know, cat ladies).
The face of this beauty company is Sharon Stones Laurel Hedare.
For a superhero movie, the stakes are incredibly stupid.
Catwoman is saving the world from … a face cream?
Hedare, realizing she has company, sends security after Patience, who drowns while trying to escape.
When Patience awakes, she has mysterious cat-like powers.
Our hero is born.
Not just the elegant or super-powered aspects of her cat-like embodiment, but also the dumb things cats do.
In a now-infamous scene, Ophelia offers Patience catnip after her transformation.
She huffs it like an absolute crazy person rubbing her face in it, the whole deal.
This made me laugh until my stomach hurt.
The (underappreciated!)
earnestness with which Berry attacked this bonkers script does not fail to entertain.
Plus, Berry-as-Catwoman reaches back in time to channel a tone-perfect Eartha Kitt.
Its camp, baby!
In the end, Catwoman faces off against Hedares ultimate supervillain power: her murderous white-woman tears.
Hedare kills her husband and frames her new nemesis, calling in a death-by-cop in the process.
They have a knock-down, drag-out final fight as the police encircle them, and Hedare goes down.
AfterCatwomanbombed, Berry suffered for it.
I got a shitload of money that changed my life.
Catwomanis available tostream on Peacock, and rent onAmazon Prime Video,YouTube,iTunes, andGoogle Play.
