"Cat in the Hat" Animated Movie (Pre-Release News and Discussion)

[MatthewP]

this is a very daft observation, i know, but it’s kinda crazy how the grinch and cat keep contrasting each other in the animation landscape

like, in the first animated outings of the two, the grinch was given this stylistic makeover by chuck jones while the cat was a lot more accurate to the OG books:

…and now their most recent animated outings have it be the other way around, with the grinch having a really accurate design while the cat is more stylized:

 

[harry580]

well, at least mike Myers is not reprising his role as cat in the hat

 

[Daikun]

A Looney Tunes short will be attached to the movie.

That’s Not Quite All Folks: A Looney Tunes Podcast (@thatlooney.bsky.social)

WB Animation's The Cat In The Hat will, supposedly, according to this Linkedin Report (What a world right?), have a brand new Looney Tunes short attached to it. Welcome back 2010's era WB Family Films mentality, hopefully this film is more tolerable than Happy Feet Two.

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EDIT: Here's the full-size image, since it looks teeny-tiny in the embedded post.

EDIT #2: It's from Troy Collins' LinkedIn.

 

[RoyalRubble]

The release date was changed to November 6.

 

[Surreal Kangaroo]

The release date was changed to November 6.

It’s probably for the best. The late February/early March range was pretty crowded with Hoppers and GOAT.

 

[RoyalRubble]

09/17/2025:
There will be a panel for the movie at LightBox Expo on October 25.

03/02/2026:
A few days old now, but a new trailer was released.

 

[Frontier]

Well, it looks like it might be a hit with its target audience. I hope .

 

[Daikun]

03/02/2026:
A few days old now, but a new trailer was released.

How is this any different from the previous trailer? It looks practically the same.

 

[RoyalRubble]

My bad. I only saw AWN post an article about it with a trailer last week so I thought it would be something new and not the same stuff from nearly 8 months ago.

06/09:
Official Trailer 3. This one should be new.

 

[Tommypezmaster]

After seeing the new trailer, I'm still excited for this release. We can both agree this trailer is better than the first.

 

[Mandouga]

After seeing the new trailer, I'm still excited for this release. We can both agree this trailer is better than the first.

Irrelevent either way; it doesn't change the fact that this is essentially the live-action movie all over again: a tribute/parody that doesn't know what it's talking about that focuses more on grossing out the viewers, and overall doesn't even bother trying.

It could have been a fitting tribute
To the one and only Dr. Seuss
Instead it focuses more on
That which comes from one's caboose

You see how stupid this is?! Furthermore, I would like to remind everyone that THIS is what Zaslav's "double-you bee dee" canceled the Batgirl movie, the Scoob! sequel, The Day the Earth Blew Up AND Coyote vs. Acme for (along with Bye Bye Bunny, which unlike the others was "cancelled" cancelled)! Not only that...

The people behind this film
Have clearly made their choice
I would not be surprised at a gag
Based on how "Seuss" is really "Soyce"

(sigh) The live action movie was the reason his estate said that future adaptations of his books; any of his books, had to be animated, which further disappoints me, since the "Exact Words" trope clearly got involved at some point, though whether the trope was used by either the estate, or the makers of the movie, or both, that I'm not sure of...

 

[Surreal Kangaroo]

The new trailer actually had me interested. I’m not sure if I will see it in theaters, but I’m certainly considering it at this point.

 

[Daikun]

That new trailer is a BIG improvement. The previous trailer set my expectations super-low, like we were getting a retread of Illumination's overused bag of tropes.

Will I still see it? Maybe not, but I'm glad to see a trailer that shows the movie standing on its own two legs and not trying to make the kids laugh at "toot fart."

 

[Frontier]

Definitely seems like the movie picks up when they start going into the different worlds...

 

[DeanBurrito25]

Between the Minecraft movie and this, it'd be amusing if Matt Berry became WB/WB Animation's John Ratzenberger.

 

[Pooky]

I like some of the art direction, but the humour, emotional drive and dimension-hopping plot all feels a bit rote. I imagine many won't mind.

 

[cheril59]

That new trailer is a BIG improvement. The previous trailer set my expectations super-low, like we were getting a retread of Illumination's overused bag of tropes.

Will I still see it? Maybe not, but I'm glad to see a trailer that shows the movie standing on its own two legs and not trying to make the kids laugh at "toot fart."

Yeah that "toot fart" bit disgusts me.

 

[awinger24]

Expect this on Paramount+ because David Ellison now owns WBD. The DOJ approved the merger.

 

[RoyalRubble]

Via Animation Magazine.

Saved for last was the first film in the studio’s slate: The Cat in the Hat, which is set to release in theaters in November 2026. Written and directed by Alessandro Carloni and Erica Rivinoja, based on the book by Dr. Seuss, and produced by Daniela Mazzucato, the idea of Warner Bros. Pictures Animation as a studio not tied down by any one art style did feel represented in this piece. It’s split visually between three worlds: the real world which embraces a sense of emotional realism, “Seuss World,” a stylized land where all characters speak in rhyming couplets, and the “Boxes World,” which feels a little more open and boundless as it’s built from the memories of children who have recently moved home.