Nine Lives: Nine lives too short

Cast- Robbie Amell, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Garner

Rated- 6/10

If you go in for laughs, this one is not a roller-coaster even though Kevin Spacey turns into a cat pretty early in the movie and does unthinkables like puddling his ex-wife’s Bugatti bag, drinking whiskey and doodling around his name with wool strands, getting all bowed up by his daughter and wearing studded pink collars.

All this because a cat whisperer feels he needs to spend more time with his daughter and wife who have been waiting for ages to be with him. Not that he has another woman. He has something worse: Work, stardom and the obsession to be the owner of the tallest building in the northern hemisphere.

He is a jet-setter who has no time for anyone but this building, not even his son who joins his company merely to be with him, and be like him both of which he doesn’t manage to do till the climax.

The film, with all the ex-wife woes, the step-daughter angst, the cats and dogs and a company trying to get him when he is in coma (actually he is trapped in a cat) should have had more — laughs, that is. Nevertheless, it is a gentle moving, not too fleshed out, father-daughter-wife-son comedy which keeps you happy with your popcorn, cold drink and that little bit of whooziness from a grown old vintage Spacey. 

Source: 28 August, 2016