Starring Halle Berry, Sharon Stone, Benjamin Bratt

Rated PG-13

            I went into the theatre for “Catwoman” not exactly expecting anything great, and that’s just what I got. It’s an action/ superhero movie that serves no real purpose; where “Spiderman 2” got everything right, “Catwoman” is dead wrong.

            Halle Berry, returning after her recent flop “Gothika,” plays Patience Phillips, a wanna-be artist who works as a designer for Hedare Beauty company, run by George (Lambert Wilson) and Laurel (Sharon Stone) Hedare. One night, she hears something she shouldn’t have and is killed by Laurel’s goons. Cats find her body, and magically she is brought back to life and has been transformed to move, think, and see like a cat – or something like that – it’s all explained by one of those mysterious cat ladies

            Soon she becomes Catwoman, but for what purpose? To stop a little crime? To find her killer? Or maybe to impress her new cop boyfriend, Tom Lone (Benjamin Bratt)! I don’t know, but it sounds more like the only real reason she has become this “hero” is so Berry can show her body off as much as a PG-13 rating will allow.

            Alas, the movie is pointless. That’s not to say it isn’t occasionally fun; there were times when I found myself entertained slightly. But overall, Berry’s Catwoman isn’t near as fun as Michelle Pfeiffer’s. Maybe the problem is that this movie doesn’t have Danny Devito or Christopher Walken in it.

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