Yes, the Cats movie is exactly as bad as it looks
of it in July. Nailed it. Dead on. Haven’t seen such a good call made since the trailer for Roland Emmerich’s eventual bombmocking turns out to be entirely justified. The extent of the travesty at hand was immediately absorbed and expressed. This much is clear after sitting through all 110 minutes of the thing, wishing I could wriggle out of my seat in the movie theater like an actual cat does from the arms of its overbearing owner.
She needs all the help she can get. She plays outcast Grizabella with such sniveling pathos, it’s as if she had no sense of how cartoonish this entire affair, featuring actors overlaid with digital cat features, would come off by design. Jason Derulo practically mumbles through “Rum Tum Tugger.” Rebel Wilson and James Corden simply will not be contained by the ears and fur and turn in particularly charmless versions of roles they’ve already played, or perhaps themselves.
Forget about nine lives; try finding a single convincing one in this writhing pile of excess and celebrity. Its cast of actual humans makes the miserable, expressionless animals of Disney’s CGIMost detrimentally,fails at world-building. Despite the heavy graphical enhancements, it has the cavernous feel of being shot on a sound stage.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
All the Deranged Ways the Cats Cast Has Described Portraying CatsWhile the rest of the Jezebel staff was suffering through a Cats screening in Times Square, I was chained to a sofa in California, my brain slowly melting out of my brain while live-blogging last night’s democratic debate. And because I don’t plan on sitting through this movie any time soon—I’d rather torture myself with the definitely terrible Star Wars IX—my only knowledge of the film comes from some deranged press interviews with the many actors and singers and dancers leaping about in Cats.
Read more »
The 'Cats' Movie Is Finally In Theaters, So Here Are All Of The Funniest ReactionsMeow. Hiss. *Knocks movie off of counter.*
Read more »
26 Questions I Had While Watching 'Cats'1: Did everyone else in the theater also turn to their movie companion and whisper 'Those are the cats' when the cats first came onscreen?
Read more »
Inside the Very Real Anthropomorphic Struggles of the ‘Cats’ CastWhether you find the titular characters in Tom Hooper’s live action adaptation of “Cats” adorable or horrifying, the truth is that a lot of work went into the singing and dancing creatu…
Read more »
The Look and Scale of Cats, Explained“There’s limited logic,' production designer Eve Stewart says of the CatsMovie universe. 'But I completely take my hat off and celebrate the nonlogic”
Read more »
Taylor Swift Explains Her ‘Cats’ Transformation: Hissing, Barefoot Crawling and Jellicle SchoolTaylor Swift attended “cat school” to learn what Jellicles can and Jellicles do. To prepare for “Cats,” the big-screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1981 musical…
Read more »