One of the reasons that version was torn apart was because it was peppered with raunchy humor, some of which I’m frankly shocked was considered suitable for a PG rating.
Although Illumination Entertainment has had great success in recent years through its Despicable Me movies, The Secret Life of Pets and Sing, the lack of updates for years about The Cat in the Hat suggested that the project was dead.
So ideally this animated Cat in the Hat movie will a more faithful adaptation, though obviously some creative liberties will need to be taken in order for it to fit least a 90-100 minute running time.
It definitely won’t take much to ensure that this Cat in the Hat movie is better than the live action one, as that ranks at a depressing 10% on Rotten Tomatoes and bombed at the box office.