After what everyone has said on this board, i expected the cat thing to be graphic. It wasn't, in fact it was tastefully done. They could have shown the rats eating it but they didn't. Yes it was swarmed by the rats but that was it. You never saw the cat get devoured (which would have been cruel and very disturbing to watch), nor did you see the remains of the cat left on the floor of the cellar (if they were planning on shocking the audience, they would have done). It was obvious that the rats would have attacked the cat so i was prepared for that after the cat was let into the house. The one gripe i had about this movie was that Ben was made to be a evil rat. In the original, Ben wasn't that bad, otherwise they would have never made the sequel called Ben and Michael Jackson certainly wouldn't have sung the song. In the remake I didn't fell sorry for Ben at all. They made him too evil. How he just sat there and watched Socrates get murdered by Martin, was just despicable. It was like Ben wanted it to happen because he wanted to be (pardon the expression) Top Dog of the rats. I mean did you see the look on his face when socrates died, it was like he was happy.
Yes i was shocked when the Cat died, ut i was expecting it. A cat against that many rats would not have survived if they had chose to attack it. It would be like a bunch of Piranha let loose on a wounded animal.
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VelvetTigress
12 years ago
I wouldn't say Ben was evil, but he was definitely really jealous of Socrates. I would say it was Willard's fault. Ben wasn't acting that way before Willard made a point of praising Socrates with his voice full of love, stroking him, letting him sleep in his bed - and then immediately after, look over at Ben and tell him all of the things that made him inferior to Socrates, call him names, kick him, throw him in the basement. Willard abused Ben pretty badly, so I'm sure Ben started wondering how things would be if Socrates weren't around. I think it was Willard's love he wanted more than to be Top Dog. He didn't try to become Top Dog until he realized Willard would never treat him any better, and got fed up.
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