Cats is a 2019 musical fantasy film based on the stage musical of the same name by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The movie is about a bunch of felines called Jellicle cats.
The movie has a stellar star cast, including Idris Elba, Taylor Swift, James Corden, Jason Derulo, Ian McKellen, Jennifer Hudson, and many more. But apparently, it could not save the film.
The Cats movie remains at 17% on Rotten Tomatoes, and its Metacritic score is also not better, at a very low 31. The press has given their reviews about the same and it shows how terrible the movie is.
“Cats Review: I Have Seen Sights No Human Should See” — Gizmodo
“I witnessed an entire man, knit cap and coat, just standing in a scene among a gathering of cats,” wrote Alex Cranz. “I saw a terrifying gray statue looming over a character, only for it to blink and realize it’s a woman who is a cat, but they colored her and then forgot to add fur.”
Cranz later added: “The fur breasts that distracted us in the trailers are at least subdued. Everyone’s digitally androgynous, as if baby’s first Photoshopper had a little too much fun with the smoothing tool, though some are smoother than others.”
“Cats Review: They Dance, They Sing, They Lick Their Digital Fur” — The New York Times
“Part of the pleasure of theater (if you’re a partisan) is this human factor; but without the presence of hard-working troupers in fun fur in this Cats, all that’s left are canned images of fit-looking people meowing and raising their rumps high in the air,” wrote critic Manohla Dargis.
“The bobbing butts have their obvious appeal,” Dargis said. “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.”
“Cats Is What You’d See if Your Third Eye Suddenly Opened” — Polygon
“The facts are these: Cats undermines itself in both editing and musical arrangement, barely has a plot to hang its hat on, and is CGI-ed into oblivion,” wrote Karen Han. “Yet there’s something weirdly wonderful about just how committed Hooper is to his vision, which feels like it should have been audience-tested into something less phantasmagorical.”
“Watching Cats Is Like a Descent Into Madness” — Collider
“But if it wasn’t enough to make the cats horny (why are they so horny), Hooper also feels the need to make it gross by having them dig through trash and play up their animal instincts,” wrote Matt Goldberg. “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.”
“Yes, Cats Is as Bad as It Looks” — AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky wrote: “Many of these effects appear unfinished, with noticeable differences in resolution and animation between principals and background characters and at least one instance in which a rendering error appears to have made it into the release version of the film.”
Vishnevetsky highlighted a weird visual effects moment in the movie, where Dench, 85, “is at one point depicted stretching an unconvincing digital leg behind her head.”
“The moment is the film in a nutshell: misguided in concept and a failure in execution,” Vishnevetsky said.
So there you have it! Some of the reviews from the movie.
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