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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 33391
Released: January 18, 2005 |
| Our Price: $1.91 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Catwoman is the story of meek, mild-mannered artist Patience Philips, who works for Hedare Beauty, a mammoth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she is attacked and killed. But Patience is given a second chance - a second life in which someone not quite human resides. Someone with the strength, speed, agility and ultra-keen senses of a cat. With her newfound power, Patience becomes Catwoman, and sets out to stop Hedare's callous plan to unleash an appallingly dangerous product into the world.
Description of Catwoman (Widescreen Edition):
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
Catwoman (Widescreen Edition) Reviews:
The greatest movie experience ever 
2009-11-28 - Halle Berry cements herself as a world class actor with this oscar winning performance as a woman transformed into a cat, or, in other words, a cat-woman.
There can be no doubt, furries will love this interspecies love story about a young girl raised on a farm and then lost in a big city.
wow, I laughed, I cried, a masterpiece of epic proportions.
Catwoman - won't give you hairballs 
2009-11-20 - Perhaps the weak plot, the hackneyed characters and the stiff dialogue were factors in the common opinion that this was one of the worst superhero movies of its time but 'Catwoman' is not without its selling points either. Here are some:
1. Halle Berry looks good in a tight cat suit.
2. Lambert Wilson gets to play a snooty and unscrupulous executive...which is a bit of a stretch for him, right? Right? ...oh.
3. The DVD makes a good drink coaster so you won't get rings on your coffee table.
4. If you ever get stranded at sea, the reflective DVD can be used to signal passing ships.
5. If you don't own a protractor, the DVD can be used to trace a perfect circle.
6. For the price of one penny, "Catwoman" is an affordable purchase in todays tough economy.
7. Too few superhero movies have any appeal to cat lovers but not THIS one.
8. Provides proof for the theory that Sharon Stone can only be killed by falling off a skyscraper.
9. Willy Wonka might have hidden a "Golden Ticket" in the Catwoman DVD you buy.
10. Halle Berry looks good in a tight cat suit.
Amazing !
2009-11-07 - Totally underrated movie. Watch it on bluray on a 90 inches screen, it's looks fantastic ! The effects are awesome, Halle Berry superb and super good looking, and the story holds all the way for that kind of movie. Furthermore pretty funny also.. I think people totally misundestand this movie and don't take it for what it is. I was sitting back with a feeling of I'd really like to see a sequel but I guess thats not gonna happen since it's gotten all this bad critics.. If you have a good large HD screen, or like Halle Berry a little bit don't hesitate to buy it on bluray, it's amazing !
Blu Ray is good
2009-11-01 - I would give the original DVD 2 stars at best, this is a pretty ordinary super hero movie, but the blu ray version looks great. Halle Berry looks great in the catsuit, the photography and some of the shots are great. All in all, a nice guilty pleasure if you like comic book superhero movies.
Entertaining, but not for hardcore Super-hero fans 
2009-10-18 - Yes, I like this movie.
No point here for me to defend the story/acting as it's personal taste. But I like very much how Pitof moves the camera, mostly during wide shots where the movement is quite eerie and gives nice display of the town by night ; he also has good ideas to switch from one scene to another (ex : the broken glass in the jewelry switching to the stolen jewels on Patience's bed).
Picture quality : 4.5/5
The colors are incredibly strong for a movie mostly shot at night. They're not bleeding and look very life like. Movement (sometimes very fast) seems fluid, light to dark scenes looks natural. Some CGIs (the cat resurrecting Prudence) seem a bit awkward, but it doesn't come from the trasfer, but from the film itself (didn't recognise any other CGI so they're not that bad.
Audio quality : 3/5
I'm not impressed by the audio quality, of course no explosions, roars of motors, elaborate music so it's quite difficult to judge only everiday life sounds. They feel realistic enough, but there's not much 3D dimension to sound.
Bonus features : 3/5
Deleted scenes, featurettes, trailers, quite the usual.
