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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50MTV NewsAmy NicholsonMTV NewsAmy NicholsonYes, Nine Lives is dumb. Yes, it’s for very young kids. Yes, Lil Bub has a cameo. And yes, I giggled anyway.
- 30TheWrapDave WhiteTheWrapDave WhiteIn addition to listless direction from Sonnenfeld, and an overall feeling of cheapness and carelessness, Nine Lives also suffers from incoherence.
- 25IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichCats may have nine lives, but you only get one, and it’s too precious to waste on this drivel.
- 25The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyBoasting no less than five credited screenwriters, the film is like an exquisite-corpse exercise in kiddie-movie plotting.
- 20VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanNine Lives is a lot like a cat: It occasionally bestirs itself, and it would like to be stroked with love, but mostly it just sits there. It’s a pet farce so flat it makes you long for the Lubitsch touch of the “Alvin” comedies.
- Watching these videos of actual cats, all of whom have racked up countless views on YouTube, just serves to underscore how unfunny and neutered Nine Lives actually is.
- 10The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThis is a family movie about cats? Please, somebody tell the three separate teams of screenwriters credited with penning this thing.
- 10The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe film, derivative (see “The Shaggy Dog” of 2006) and devoid of wit, is about that tiredest of kid-movie clichés, the parent who is too busy for his children and must be taught a lesson.
- 0Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversAt 87 torturous, laugh-free minutes, the film could change the most avid cat fancier into a kitty hater.
- 0RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaRogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaLet’s just say I have been to wakes that have elicited more laughs.