Myeo Myeo

A friend of mine said this film was good. I heard nothing but bad reviews and thought I would check it out. It had all the elements that I would typically enjoy in a film, transformation, superheroes, empowering role model......action..etc. Sometimes the critics are wrong......sometimes they are right. The film is not that good........this time they were right....yuk! The worst aspects is dialogue and chemistry. The people who worked on this project forgot to add great dialogue and character chemistry. It was rather flat and that is too bad because the whole story of the comic heroine, Cat Woman is worth a movie. One thing I can say however, is for those who are interested in cat mythology and the history of the character Cat Woman will find the special features a treat. This short feature has interviews of Eartha Kitt, Julie Newmar, Michelle Pfeiffer, Lee Meriweather, and Halle Berry. It also takes a look at the original Cat Woman in the comics and how her appearance has changed since say the 1950's. The film does cover cat totemic interests passively. This part was done well. The first divine images of cats are found in ancient Nubia. Later the cat goddess image was adopted by Egypt, who conquered Nubia by 2500 BC. In Egypt, she was called appropriately, "Myeo" or Mau, sounds remarkably similar to Meow. The Egyptians fell in love with the dark feline goddess. Her icons were rapidly adopted and spread throughout the kingdom. She is thought to be the guardian of temples, the moon, fertility, love and wisdom. Many "cat goddesses" appear in Egypt including Mafdet, Sekhmet, and Bast. Bast and Myeo are thought to be domesticated cats, where the others are large, undomesticated creatures of the wild. There are many cat women in Egyptian and African mythology. More about them and their extraordinary abilities can be found in my book, The First Book of the Dark Goddess. Below are some interesting Cat Woman sites I found online.