YMMV / Nine Lives (2016)

• Audience-Alienating Premise: Kevin Spacey trapped in a cat’s body in a clichéd talking pet movie with a lot of corporate board room scenes. This premise didn’t endear the movie much to audiences and, along with getting savaged in reviews, lead to the movie’s box office failure.
• Cliché Storm: The film hits all the beats of a talking pet movie — the dad who's distant from his family and needs to redeem himself in their eyes after being turned into a cat, quite a few instances of Toilet Humor, A-list actors, etc.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The film has Christopher Walken and Kevin Spacey, who were coincidentally in two separate CGI-animated movies back in '98.
• Memetic Mutation: After Kevin Spacey getting hit with accusations of sexual harassment of a young actor (along with several other people) came out over a year after this movie's release, quite a few people have made jokes about Kevin Spacey taking the role in order to get close to children, or alternatively that this movie is now no longer his worst crime, or that he was blackmailed using said incidents into starring in this film (which Chris Stuckmann suspected earlier).
• Moment of Awesome: Once Tom got used to his cat body, he got pretty adept at climbing up and down buildings with the agility of, well, a cat.
• Narm: Many, many scenes in the movie (like CG-Tom diving several stories onto an awning and bouncing back unscathed, or CG-Tom dancing on his legs with his daughter) though the climax is especially noteworthy. Tom believes his son, David, is about to commit suicide so he follows him when he jumps off the roof of a tower. The audience is treated to the bizarre visual of an adult man and a CGI cat free-falling down a CGI building to their impending doom, and in the middle of what's supposed to be a tense scene, David turns and utters "Mr. Fuzzypants?" with an entirely straight face. Tom reminds David of his parachute and David pulls the ripcord, leaving Mr. Fuzzypants, the beloved family pet, to drop to his death with nary a care in the world.
• Questionable Casting: Quite a few people wondered why Kevin Spacey was starring in a movie like this, with speculation being that he needed the money.
• Retroactive Recognition: The actress for Rebecca Brand, Malina Weissman, goes on to star as Violet Baudelaire in A Series of Unfortunate Events in 2017.
• Special Effect Failure:
  • The scene where Tom starts doing chin ups to try to show he's human is very obviously looped.
  • There are several scenes in the movie where you can clearly tell that Tom's cat form is CGI.
• Tainted by the Preview: Several people, upon watching the trailer, hoped that it was a joke (due to its use of narration, and also the fact that it describes a guy getting turned into a cat).
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: This film is rated PG and contains a scene where one character believes another has decided to commit suicide.

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