This is a horrible, horrible film, but still intriguingly watchable, because Christopher Walken plays a human cat.
The story follows the old fairy tale. An old miller is sick and gives his possessions away to his sons. To his oldest he leaves the mill, to the second he leaves his horse, and to the third he leaves his cat. The boy eventually learns that the cat can speak… and in this version, turn into human who acts like a cat, and the cat asks for boots. The boy works hard to buy his magical cat boots, and then the cat manipulates the king and his court to ultimately marry the princess to the miller’s son through a series of tricks.
As I said in the intro, the reason I watched this film in the first place, and the thing that kept me watching, was the fact that Christopher Walken prances around like a cat. And he sings. It’s horrible! The funny thing is that he actually pulls it off. Creepy, scary Christopher Walken is a tricky, sneaky, dancing, prancing, singing, bounce-in-his-step, cat personified. It’s comical. I would not recommend that anyone actually sit and watch this unless you are seriously in the mood for cheese. The songs are quite bad and the acting is atrocious. This is more of a film that you can bring up as a little known fact as cocktail parties, if anyone has those any more. I know you’re tempted, but seriously, don’t watch it.
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