Halle Berry Addresses ‘Catwoman’ Criticism That It ‘Sucked Balls’: ‘Balls Aren’t That Bad’

The 2004 comic book movie famously landed to horrid reviews and disastrous box office earnings but has since become a treasured memory for Berry.

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 it’s 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. That’s not that bad; I’ve gotten worse reviews — and balls aren’t 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.”

“Catwoman’s 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 passé.”