the baffling film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular stage musical, an astonishing misfire on every other conceivable level. Forget worst movie of the year: "Cats" is the biggest disaster of the decade, and possibly thus far in the millennium
it all just feels so wrong; No more than the original show, the film has no plot, other than the cats competing in characterfulness to win this inexplicable talent contest
I found it all exhausting; While the desired effect seems to be one of enchanting artifice, like the original "Mary Poppins", the visuals have a harsh quality that points up the heavy reliance on CGI components throughout
for the most part, "Cats" is both a horror and an endurance test, a dispatch from some neon-drenched netherworld where the ghastly is inextricable from the tedious
destined to be an instant guilty pleasure, "Cats" is an insane musical experiment gone wrong. It is truly like nothing cinema has ever seen. The question is, is it something cinema actually wanted?
a marvelously bonkers movie adaptation; "Cats" brings Webber's Broadway sensation to life as an audaciously bizarre spectacle sure to delight and divide as much as the original musical does
a bunch of well-known celebrities get turned into singing, scenery-chewing digital kitties in the utterly absurd yet oddly charming movie musical version of the Broadway hit
"Cats" may flop but it will be found by a like-minded audience, maybe the same one that rescued "The Greatest Showman". Don't be the sourpuss to tell these people they're wrong
"Cats" is a special kind of terrible, though; It's gripping in the most delightfully horrible way and easily one of the worst movies of the decade, by leaps and bounds. It's such a unique and confident brand of awful..
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