Critics didn’t like anything about Cats, Tom Hooper’s movie adaptation of the award winning musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” a book of poems about cats. Some said they found it to be an ‘obscene’ and ‘overtly sexual’ adaptation of the hit Broadway show.
The visual design of the movie, the singing and even and the choreography and cinematography all drew bad reviews from top critics.
Even the star studded cast which includes Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, Idris Elba, James Corden, Jason Derulo, Ian McKellen and many more from Hollywood’s A list couldn’t save the film.
The ‘Cats’ movie is currently sitting at a dismal 17% “Rotten” score on review site Rotten Tomatoes from 101 reviews, and its Metacritic score at a very low 31, signaling “generally unfavorable reviews.”
“They Dance, They Sing, They Lick Their Digital Fur,” New York Times critic Manohla Dargis wrote, “The bobbing butts have their obvious appeal. But Hooper’s mistake is that he’s tried to class up the joint. What a blunder! In feline terms, this is a movie without epic hairballs, without rear-end sniffing, without a deep, wounding scratch.”
Taylor Swift in new Cats movie
Goldberg said, “Cats always feels like it’s two seconds away from turning into a furry orgy in a dumpster. That’s the energy you have to sit with for almost two hours.”
Stuart Heritage from The Guardian said the movie was, “the most disturbing thing you or I have ever seen.”
The best reviews seems to come from Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic, who said, “I didn’t hate it.”
“I mean, I expected to,” Lengel’s review said in the Arizona Republic. “I tried to,” Lengel said.
“What I didn’t expect, though, was just how weird ‘Cats’ is. It’s surreal, hallucinatory, and mostly in a good way, I finally decided. Despite the backlash over director Tom Hooper’s use of “digital fur” when the trailer came out, the CGI-enhanced costumes work pretty well, and there’s a real ‘Alice in Wonderland’ feel to the oversize sets (from fancy Victorian sitting rooms to the trash-filled alley).
Naked hairy part human cat, James Corden, licking his own hand in an overtly sexual way
The film is scheduled to appear in theaters on Dec. 20.
Watch the official Cats trailer here:
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