5 Terrible Comic Book Movies That We’d Like To Forget

1) Catwoman

When it came to reviewing Catwoman on Roger Ebert’s famous film criticism show, the esteemed writer claimed that there were three good things about the movie:

1. Halle Berry’s face

2. Halle Berry’s body

3. Halle Berry’s costume.

Perhaps a little dirty-minded but right on the money regardless, Ebert at least found something to like about the pitiful adaptation of the DC comic book character, which is more than can be said for the vast majority of critics and audiences, who came out of Catwoman nonplussed after what they’d just witnessed.

Watching the movie is about as fun as coughing up a hairball, and – putting her cringe-worthy sketch in Movie 43 aside for one merciful moment – remains one of Berry’s biggest role selection mistakes in her career. In the film, she stars as Patience Philips – a demure cosmetics company employee who stumbles across an industry secret she really didn’t need to know, and is promptly killed for it. After a magical cat proceeds to lick her awake, Patience develops cat-like reflexes and before long is cracking a whip and bad puns all over the CGI-riddled city.

Painfully unfunny, laughably nonsensical, and lacking any kind of insight into a character that could so easily have been an intriguing, purring antihero, Catwoman simply shrieks and hisses for a hundred stupid minutes. This isn’t the movie that the complex character of Catwoman needs nor deserves, and remains one of the very worst comic book movies to have emerged this side of the new Millennium.