New Regency Pictures
Starring: Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Beverly Polcyn
Directed by: Aaron Seltzer

Cat Out of the Bag Alert!  This review contains some spoilers for this film!

Synopsis: A no-holds-barred and often tasteless spoof of romantic movies.

Kitty Cameos: At the beginning of the film, a heavy-set girl named Julia Jones (Alyson Hannigan) is writing in her diary. She is determined not to grow old alone and become a cat lady. She looks out the window at the neighboring house where an elderly woman (Beverly Polcyn) is sitting with her numerous cats.

As she watches several cats go flying back and forth across the window. Stuffed cats were obviously used for the flying cats.

Featured Feline:  Many of the scenes parody the films from the Meet the Parents series, only here the Himalayan cat is named Jinxers instead of Mr. Jinx. As in the original film, Jinxers has been trained to use the toilet. He is is seen having a very lengthy and noisy bowel movement. A cat puppet was understandably used for most of Jinxers scenes.

The second scene parodied is the one in which an urn is broken and falls to the ground. Only in this version the mummified remains of a grandmother are inside. A real Himalayan cat is seen here, moving towards the corpse.

The cat climbs on the corpse and starts licking the dead woman’s tongue. Baby food was apparently used to get the cat actor to lick the prop.

The puppet then returns to do some more nasty stuff to the corpse which we won’t go into here.

Jinxers is also seen drinking and falling over at the end of the rehearsal dinner.

Kitty Cameo:  Later in the film Julia is alone and prepares to make a frozen dinner. She then spots a gray cat sitting on the windowsill.

Julia picks up the cat and hugs it.

She then looks across to the cat lady and is shocked to see the woman is having a romantic dinner with Jinxers (again played by the puppet).

Apparently Jinxers and the cat lady become a couple and even attend the climactic wedding.

Final Mewsings: We assume that even the cat puppet protested being in this tasteless film.

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