Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever

I stumbled upon the 2014 movie "Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever" and were surprised that they even made a movie with this cat. My son wanted to watch the movie, so I ended up sitting down with my son to watch this 2014 movie.

Oddly enough, I will say that the movie was actually entertaining enough. Sure, this was by no means an award-winning movie in any way, but the movie was just strangle entertaining in a way; mostly because of the cat, of course. I must say, at the same time though, that the storyline was fairly simplistic, so you shouldn't be expecting a grand cinematic masterpiece from "Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever".

It was a shame that they had opted for Aubrey Plaza to voice the Grumpy Cat, because her performance was just bland and monotonous. It just felt like the cat had zero energy and spunk. If Aubrey Plaza had gone for a more varied voice performance, the movie would have been all the more enjoyable.

"Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever" is a movie that is aimed for the younger audience, no doubt about it. And yeah, you can sit down as a family and enjoy this movie.

But if you look at the movie objectively and get past the movie being made for the sole purpose of the Grumpy Cat, then this movie was bland. I am rating it a mediocre five out of ten stars.

Grumpy Cat (voice Aubrey Plaza) is hopelessly unsellable in the shopping mall pet store. She's very grumpy. The pet store is close to being closed but then they get a million $ dog. Mall Santa gives little girl Chyrstal a wish and she asks for a friend. She helps out at the pet store and discovers that she can hear Grumpy. A couple of idiots try to dognap after the mall closes. Chyrstal goes back to the pet store after hours. Grumpy reluctantly helps Chyrstal thwart the dognapping.

Aubrey Plaza is the perfect sarcastic voice for Grumpy Cat. The movie works whenever she's doing Grumpy Cat. She gets to break down the fourth wall. She's great. The problem is the lame story surrounding Grumpy and the bad acting. The characters range from bland to annoying. Zack and Donny are really important comic characters like the Wet Bandits in Home Alone. But the actors are pretty bad. It's a Grumpy Cat movie that needs more Grumpy Cat, anything to keep the movie away from all the bad acting.

I started watching it with extremely low expectations, just because I think Tardar Sauce is a cute cat and I enjoy the Grumpy Cat memes.

But I actually enjoyed it. Sure, it's corny, but it doesn't take itself seriously and isn't afraid to laugh at itself.

Case in point - one of the scene transitions is from the old batman show, with Grumpy's picture instead of Batman's in front of a whirling background. The transitions to commercials are half the reason to watch the movie.

The rest of it is a silly feel-good movie that manages not to cross the line into stupid. Just a fun laugh with an adorable furry star. The kid is good, too.

Giving Grump Cat top billing feels a little like giving "Mufasa" top billing in a live action Lion King movie.

This is a light innocuous movie perfect to have in the background while your entire family is decorating the Christmas tree. But not much more.

The movie has a cute young teen protagonist chased by inept bad guys - in a Home Alone-ish kind of way - yet not nearly as clever or inventive.

The movie I imagine has a plot but this is a movie where thinking is not requested or demanded - it's entirely sufficient to watch sarcastic banter and grown men shooting themselves with arrows, and random things being crashed into one another.

Aubrey Plaza is perfectly cast, and we're never asked to take this movie seriously - in fact Grumpy Cat (Plaza) graciously breaks the fourth wall mercilessly to implore us NOT to take the movie seriously.

It's a movie that's immediately forgettable, and the movie title suggests this yet another movie in the Grumpy Cat "franchise"?

To be fair, Grumpy Cat was more sour and cynical than "grumpy"... but that would be nit-picking a movie that does not warrant nit-picking. Go enjoy this movie with your preteens.

Tardar Sauce better known as Grumpy Cat in her very own Worst Christmas (Movie) Ever! That's right the film pride's itself on being awful - it is bad yet it's a fun movie! I will say I enjoyed this.

The one thing I didn't care for was Grumpy's voice. I'm sure Aubrey Plaza is fine in other films but I didn't care for her Grumpy Cat voice - not nearly grumpy enough. Otherwise this a really good bad film - if you are into that sorta thing.

R. I. P Tadar Sauce/Grumpy Cat

8/10.