Nine Lives (2016)

Best movie ever!

An Exercise In Nonsense

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The movie has one favourite part for me: When Lara (not Lara Croft LOL XD) put Mr.Fuzzypants (Tom as a cat) in her bed and she imitated (can't spell) cat purring. Also Ian Cox got fired

Business tycoon Tom Brand is preoccupied with the imminent opening of his new skyscraper. But then, there's always some aspect of his business which occupies his every waking moment. That's why his first marriage failed (he is distanced from son David, who works for him), and his second is going the same way although he is, at least, prevailed upon to buy a cat for daughter Rebecca's birthday. Cat salesman Purrkins, however, is able to work a magical tweak to put Tom into the body of Mr Fuzzypants, there to remain until he learns his lesson or forever, whichever comes first. Factor the nefarious plans of executive Ian to take over the company in Tom's absence, and there are real problems ahead for Tom. Er, Mr Fuzzypants. Oh, whatever.This film, pitched at kids, is quite entertaining, but contains no surprises whatsoever for anyone who has watched this sort of film before. The story works well enough, but the script runs along tramlines. That said, the cat special effects are quite good (and the real life cats will be appealing to feliphiles), there are some decent jokes along the way, Christopher Walken as Purrkins is superb (playing straightfaced but with a twinkle in his eye) and young Malina Weissman as Rebecca is a delight. She is also the spitting image of Jennifer Warner, who plays her mother.Kevin Spacey disappoints: his reading of Mr Fuzzypants' lines could often have been improved upon (sez I, from the lofty heights of the Best Actor Oscar I haven't got).Purrkins joins a long string of god-machinery characters in juvenile fiction - Mary Poppins, Elliot in Pete's Dragon, Nanny McPhee - who spring from nowhere in order to provide magical resolutions for kids' problems. This is not a bad thing in a morality tale: children deserve magical solutions to problems. Because - note the key words from two paragraphs ago - "Pitched At Kids."

Another talking animal movie? Awful ending to a career. When you're so desperate for roles that you take on a movie like this, you know it's the end. Kevin Spacey has made some great films in the past but this really was a bad decision. I'll just forget this happened...

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie! Really didn't expect to but I found myself laughing throughout and when it was over I had that feel good feeling. It reminded me of the old Disney movies I grew up with. Shaggy D.A., Herbie, Apple Dumpling Gang. You have your good guys, your bad guys, the one who seems bad but really just needs to learn whats important. I think most kids would enjoy it and there's nothing bad in it that parents have to worry about. Worst thing I can think of was a castration joke, which if a kid understands what that is already they're not going to be shocked by it. If they don't know what it is then it's going to go right over their head.Full disclosure - I do love animals, and may be partial to cats so I suppose that might make me a bit biased towards this movie so I will say if you hate cats it may not be the movie for you.