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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Wendy Ide

Nine Lives review – a feline comedy with no claws

Basket case: Melina Weissman, Kevin Spacey and Christopher Walken star in Nine Lives.
Basket case: Melina Weissman, Kevin Spacey and Christopher Walken star in Nine Lives.

Tom Brand (Kevin Spacey) is unrepentantly unpleasant and impossibly wealthy. He’s more interested in the progress of his new building – think a Trump Tower-style priapic monument to ego – than he is in his family. Then an encounter with Christopher Walken, clad in a leprechaun-green suit, sees Tom imprisoned in the body of an adorable feline named Mr Fuzzypants. Tom must learn a few valuable life lessons if he ever wants to regain his human form. Like a bargain-basement version of Freaky Friday crossed with a cat meme, the comedy here is inert, despite the efforts of a psychotically chipper musical score.

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