I find it contrived and cliche beyond any reasonable measure. But perhaps that’s what raises it to the level of fairy tale, in a different category from “film.” I personally don’t ever need to see it again, and I don’t consider it one of my “teaching films,” that watch with friends imttrying to convert to cinephiles. But I don’t feel the need to share The Cat in the Hat, masterpiece that it is. I think of it, when I think of it, as a Socialist parable.