THB Review: Seeing Catwoman after months of speculation is like, well, putting out a fire with gasoline.

Roger Ebert: Catwoman" is a movie about Halle Berry's beauty, sex appeal, figure, eyes, lips and costume design. It gets those right. Everything else is secondary, except for the plot, which is tertiary.

Lou Lumenick: Given the feeble script — attributed to four writers — and the inept direction by a Frenchman who understandably resorts to the pseudonym of Pitof, it’s small wonder that Warner Bros. divorced Catwoman from the Batman franchise, and Nicole Kidman wisely turned the role down.

CHUD: Plenty of people are going to hate Catwoman for endlessly good reasons. The worst thing about the film is that its badness never transcends to truly glorious dimensions, robbing the viewer of the pleasure of basking in the kind of transcendent awfulness we get in the person of Kyle MacLachlan’s Zack, or the every breath of Elizabeth Berkley’s Nomi

IGN FilmForce: Catwoman's one saving grace is camp value. If you walk into the movie and lower your expectations, and I mean really, really lower them, you can have a good time. If the filmmakers had realized and accepted what a turkey they had on their hands, they could have turned up the camp and made the movie more fun.

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Catwoman Thru The Years
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Some Other Catwoman Appearances

The story of shy, sensitive artist Patience Philips, a woman who can’t seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer 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 finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What happens next changes Patience forever. In a mystical twist of fate, she is transformed into a woman with the strength, speed, agility and ultra-keen senses of a cat. With her newfound prowess and feline intuition, Patience becomes Catwoman, a sleek and stealthy creature balancing on the thin line between good and bad. Like any wildcat, she’s dangerous, elusive and untamed. Her adventures are complicated by a burgeoning relationship with Tom Lone, a cop who has fallen for Patience but cannot shake his fascination with the mysterious Catwoman, who appears to be responsible for a string of crime sprees plaguing the city.

Halle Berry .... Patience Price
Benjamin Bratt .... Tom Lone
Sharon Stone .... Laurel
Lambert Wilson .... Georges

Screenplay
John D. Brancato
Michael Ferris
Mike Ferris
John Rogers

Produced by:
Denise Di Novi, Edward McDonnell

Catwoman Thru The Years
DC Comics
Some Other Catwoman Appearances