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Posted: 2024-08-16T21:23:03Z | Updated: 2024-08-16T21:23:03Z

Halle Berry is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Catwoman with admirable poise.

Though the 2004 comic book movie drew horrid reviews and earned Berry a Razzie Award for worst actress, she argued Thursday on The Tonight Show that its found a whole new audience these days and she disagreed with critics.

I loved it, Berry told Jimmy Fallon . I mean, it got panned. You know, the critics said it sucked balls. Thats not that bad; Ive gotten worse reviews and balls arent that bad.

Though audience members and social media users alike have surely used those words to describe the film before, professional critics were slightly more eloquent in their reviews and slammed the cartoonish depiction of Batman s off-and-on ally as a very poor effort.

Catwomans director, a visual-effects specialist named [Jean-Cristophe] Pitof [Comar], is not contained by the rules of filmmaking, wrote Wall Street Journal critic Joe Morgenstern in 2004 . Scenes that make sense? Nonsense. Characters with inner lives? Utterly pass.

Berry admirably leaned into those reactions almost immediately and accepted her Razzie Award in person becoming the most famous celebrity to ever do so and recently posed topless with several cats to commemorate the films 20th birthday.

The Oscar winner (in 2001 for Monsters Ball) even claimed to have noticed newfound appreciation for the film, which grossed only $82 million worldwide on a budget of $100 million, and she used the viral title of Charli XCXs latest album, Brat, to describe her transformed perception as the films star.

What Im happy about is that the children have found it now on the internet, and they love it, Berry told Fallon. So its so vindicating. Because now theyre saying its cool and what the heck was everybodys problem with it, so Im like, Im so brat now.