1 /10

Warning: Spoilers

Cool Cat Saves the Kids is unequivocally the worst commercially sold film I have ever seen. Everything about this movie reeks of a production with an inept amateur at its helm. And considering Derek Savage writes, directs, stars, and produced this piece of crap, it's pretty clear that's exactly what was going on. I'm not really sure what the plot of this movie is supposed to be. It's just sort of a series of scenes involving a creepy 6 foot talking cat hanging out with children and sometimes dealing with a bully, all half-haphazardly tied together with the loosest semblance of storytelling one can imagine. There's some contrived bit of the bully finding a gun wherein it becomes the gun safety movie for a while, but it comes out of nowhere and is just...weird. The acting is abysmal too. I'm almost certain nobody in this movie is an actual actor. They're just people the director knew and he suckered them into being in this terrible movie. Well, there are two exceptions. Somehow, Derek Savage roped Erik Estrada and Vivica A. Fox into this mess, and even in the awesome quagmire of awful films they've been a part of in recent years, this takes the cake as the worst thing they have ever done.



The videography on hand for this one is pretty poor as well. It's clear that whomever was behind the camera (likely another position taken up by Derek Savage when he isn't "acting") doesn't know what they're doing. Frequently you can see the shadow or reflection of the camera operator in the shot. But honestly that's the least egregious thing this movie does wrong. The editing is shoddily executed, the music is lame at best and offensively bad at worst, and the overall product is absolutely cringe worthy. I've seen some bad films, but I've never seen a movie that so profoundly fails at being a movie quite like this one. I usually enjoy bad films, especially when they have an unintentionally humorous quality or charm about them. But this isn't like that. Cool Cat Saves the Kids doesn't have any humorous quality, it doesn't have any charm. It's just bad, and awkward, and it makes you feel embarrassed to watch it. It's like watching a little fat kid get up on stage at a talent show and say he's going to sing, and you almost want him to do well because it would make you feel good to see an underdog succeed. Then he belts out "Oops I did it again" unironically at an entire octave lower than it should be sung. The feeling you get from watching that? That's Cool Cat saves the Kids.