The Cat in the Hat (film) with some critics, stating that it should have instead been rated PG-13 in relation to its high amount of adult content. Leonard Maltin in his Movie Guide gave it one and a half stars out of four saying that the "Brightly colored adaptation of the beloved rhyming book for young children is a betrayal of everything Dr. Seuss ever stood for, injecting potty humor and adult (wink-wink) jokes into a mixture of heavy-handed slapstick and silliness." Maltin also said that the film's official title which included "Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat" was "an official insult". Conversely, "Variety" praised
Jock (cartoonist) Jock (cartoonist) Mark Simpson, known by the pen name Jock, is a British cartoonist, best known for his work in "2000 AD", "The Losers", and more recently "Batman" and "Wolverine". Jock began his professional career at British comics magazine "2000 AD", on series including "Judge Dredd" and "Lenny Zero", the latter with writer Andy Diggle. It was with Diggle that he got his big break in the American comic book market at DC Comics and their Vertigo imprint, working on "The Losers" and "". Also at Vertigo and with Mike Carey, another former "2000 AD" writer, Jock worked on an