You sir are spot on in reviewing this movie and how much of a waste it was. I knew it was awful from the first trailer, nobody I knew was going to see it, so I went to the show. I slapped the money down and said: 'CATS!' Then the ticket taker saw my ticket and looked at me funny. I went to the concessions and got popcorn and a soda. Concession person asked: 'What are you seeing?' I replied: 'CATS! I know it's going to suck but have to see it on the big screen.' They laughed and said: 'Good luck!' I walked in, sat down, and it started. Already within 20 minutes, the half-sized theater was vacated by audience members. Only about four of us were left. And we were dying laughing at how ridiculous it was. When it was over, a person said, 'God, that sucked!' I left the theater happy while drinking an oversize coke. Worst movie I saw in the theater in my life. Good times. XD
I remember the old vhs tape that broadway sold of cats. The reason people love cats is not for the plot but seeing the somgs and dancing live and in person.
Seeing something that's half animal & half human creeps me tf out. Nightmare fuel. Don't even get me started with the mice with human faces and cockroaches 😱
This shows you how thin the line is between kitsch and art. Everything you described in the film was in the live show I saw on Broadway, but somehow in a small theatre with a great and talented cast dancing through the audience, it's magic and in this film...not.
Here is the one good thing this movie is (indirectly) responsible for. I was hanging out with a group of friends and one of them really wanted to see this movie because she wanted to see how bad it truly was. I got dragged along and two other friends kept hanging out together. They used to date and used that time alone to start up dating again. And now they are married. So...thanks "Cats"?
*ThunderCats* would just be makeup and costuming, since the characters are meant to be humanoids. It wouldn't require actual CGI on the leads. As for this...animation would have made much more sense.
This is 100% the laugh I've needed for a while!!!! You are the best!!!! Added: "This movie is over but the cat people won't shut the fuck up! WHY WON'T THIS MOVIE END?!?!" **slowest of claps** **loudest of laughs**
The original poetry was absolute nonsense for children, and the stage play doesn't try to do much to link things together or explain what T.S. Eliot was on about...as that would be f--king impossible. It's one of those things that revels in the unreality of the stage and musicals. So Tom Hooper said in an interview that he wanted to ground his version in reality. What a righteously stupid decision, which only succeeded in making things unreal and creepy and leaving us with very uncomfortable questions that should never been asked by sane people. That they were fully committed at one point to feline buttholes says a lot.
Your timing is perfect: “this is the worst song yet( hold for slight pause) …and we still have an hour and a half! (I should not have taken a drink of Coke at that precise moment)😂😂
I watched this a few years ago as a joke and I honestly suppressed the memory of everything from it. Much more entertaining seeing you recount the events lol
My partner was curious and looked up the origin of the Broadway musical Cats and it's basically an accident that it even happened. The writer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, wanted to see if he could create and write music from pre-existing lyrics. The words are all just poems from T. S. Elliott's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", which explains why there's no story. Then there was a whole mess of other things that led to it being the second longest running Broadway musical somehow
I actually saw this in a theater, sitting in the Third row Craning my neck as the soundtrack blasted my eardrums. I nearly left early because I hated it so much. It wasn’t even fun to hate watch- it was truly grating, idiotic and embarrassing to watch. Seeing Idris Elba gyrating in a furry cat suit was truly not something I’d wish on anyone, but then there was James Cordon’s belly, too hat and spats… they didn’t even make him look cuddly so much as slovenly. And then dancing cockroaches. Aye yi yi yi yi…so many levels of awful. Something tells me the A-list cast had NO idea what they were in for. Cats wearing shoes with human rumps to make them “sexy” is so wrong… the amount of hubris involved in this production is staggering….i think you nailed it perfectly and you almost made having watched it worthwhile…😂
I have the Rifftrax commentary of Cats and I left thirty minutes in and have never tried to return yet. It seems incomprehensibly awful. I might finish it, then rewatched this review.
“This is the worst song in the movie, so far” 😂 The second time you said it, I thought; “You said that already”.. But then you said it again, and again, and again and so on. At last I got the message 🤣 Late to the party here, but this was fun! 🤗
I went to see "Cats" at Alamo Drafthouse. Armed with some nachos and beers, we all cheered as the Alamo employee came down and announced that this screening would be the last before the updated, a-hem, "visual effects." (aka BUTTHOLE cut). I have never laughed harder in my life. If only they had marketed it as a comedy. Alas. Also, Rebel Wilson falls off a table.
I'm surprised you were able to watch this whole movie. I could only make it five minutes before I had to turn it off. This was a hilarious review, great job.
“…downstairs by the furnace, while birdies are cheeping.” Even in the eighties, people knew “Cats” was a cheesy, nonsensical mess. To this day, I still can’t believe they spent $100M to make it into a feature film.
I saw the play in the big Apple and it was not fun. The songs were alright I guess. I don’t really remember. But the plot just didn’t exist. I still don’t know what a Jericho Cat is and I don’t ever really want to know.
I watched this awful movie for the first time a few weeks ago and I don't remember that show of them walking on the railroad tracks, at all, lol. I thought this movie was never going to end. Watching this movie is a real-life episode of Black Mirror. I rate it 3/10.
This movie was shitty but in her defense it helped me understand the original play better😂, the only redeemable part was the memories song she did a great rendition sadly the rest of the movie was a stinker
Sparing Idris Elba, Judy Dench and Sir Ian Mckellen, every one else who acted in this movie should be blacklisted from Hollywood for at least 20 years and especially the director for coming up with these ideas.
I love this review so much, I could have it for breakfast. Not sure that makes sense, but the point is that this review is the cat's meow. You're welcome.
It's a film I never intend to see, that is universally loathed....so much so that wouldn't it make a great video if you actually found sincere reviews that LIKED or LOVED this movie, and comment on them?
OMG, Adam, I’m so sorry you had to go through the Cats experience!!! ….you have my sympathies, friend. Boy, those Mithra ? members-they’re really testing the limits of your movie -loving resolve. You may need therapy after this🤔
You say they edited out the a-holes, but I still saw James Cordon in there
You got me pretty good there. I have to stop reading comments while I'm eating in public
I know I'm late but i love your comment so much. He's such a little b*tch
This movie not only embarrassed the actors and the makers but also the audience and the original musical. Probably humanity as a whole.
this is the worst thing that happened to CATS, since DOGS
- Ricky Gervais
As a black man, I love it when a white person isn't scared to make jokes about black stereotypes. 😅
As a Black woman I do too Adam.
This review may have been the best thing that ever happened to the CATS movie, a purrfect endeavor.
The Now Playing review is also AMAZING. Jakob’s song at the end had me dying on the floor 😂.
“ This is the worst song in the movie so far” cracks me up every single time😂😂😂😂😂
This is the worst song in the movie so far, LMAO, so glad I never saw this!
When someone told me this movie was wall to wall p*ssy, I was totally misled. ;)
You sir are spot on in reviewing this movie and how much of a waste it was. I knew it was awful from the first trailer, nobody I knew was going to see it, so I went to the show. I slapped the money down and said: 'CATS!' Then the ticket taker saw my ticket and looked at me funny. I went to the concessions and got popcorn and a soda. Concession person asked: 'What are you seeing?' I replied: 'CATS! I know it's going to suck but have to see it on the big screen.' They laughed and said: 'Good luck!' I walked in, sat down, and it started. Already within 20 minutes, the half-sized theater was vacated by audience members. Only about four of us were left. And we were dying laughing at how ridiculous it was. When it was over, a person said, 'God, that sucked!' I left the theater happy while drinking an oversize coke. Worst movie I saw in the theater in my life. Good times. XD
I remember the old vhs tape that broadway sold of cats. The reason people love cats is not for the plot but seeing the somgs and dancing live and in person.
Seeing something that's half animal & half human creeps me tf out. Nightmare fuel. Don't even get me started with the mice with human faces and cockroaches 😱
Missed a great pun here lol - Judy dench = doodie stench…
"THIS HAS TO BE THE WORST THING TO HAPPEN TO CATS SINCE DOGS "? "QUOTE BY THE GREAT RICKY GERVAIS ".
“This is the worst song so far” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I’m fricken crying!!!!!!!!!!!
Memory is actually a great song. The rest do suck, though. How it ever ran for almost 30 years on broadway I will never understand.
This shows you how thin the line is between kitsch and art. Everything you described in the film was in the live show I saw on Broadway, but somehow in a small theatre with a great and talented cast dancing through the audience, it's magic and in this film...not.
Here is the one good thing this movie is (indirectly) responsible for.
I was hanging out with a group of friends and one of them really wanted to see this movie because she wanted to see how bad it truly was. I got dragged along and two other friends kept hanging out together. They used to date and used that time alone to start up dating again. And now they are married. So...thanks "Cats"?
Wait... was every song the "worst song in the movie so far"? 🤣🤣
😂❤
It's the goal. Outshit the last: "end", cycle, repeat.
Honestly watching this slightly tipsy with my brothers at 2am tearing the plot to shreds was some of the most fun I've had.
hahhah
When I imagine Taylor Swift dressed up in a catsuit, this isn't what I had in mind.
I'll never forgive Cats for potentially making Thundercats harder to bring to the screen, despite it being perfectly possible.
*ThunderCats* would just be makeup and costuming, since the characters are meant to be humanoids. It wouldn't require actual CGI on the leads. As for this...animation would have made much more sense.
This is 100% the laugh I've needed for a while!!!! You are the best!!!!
Added: "This movie is over but the cat people won't shut the fuck up! WHY WON'T THIS MOVIE END?!?!"
**slowest of claps** **loudest of laughs**
Cats both the broadway show and this movie is probably the closest any of us will get to doing LSD
The original poetry was absolute nonsense for children, and the stage play doesn't try to do much to link things together or explain what T.S. Eliot was on about...as that would be f--king impossible. It's one of those things that revels in the unreality of the stage and musicals.
So Tom Hooper said in an interview that he wanted to ground his version in reality. What a righteously stupid decision, which only succeeded in making things unreal and creepy and leaving us with very uncomfortable questions that should never been asked by sane people. That they were fully committed at one point to feline buttholes says a lot.
I watched it during the pandemic and I have no idea what was even the plot of this movie
“And it’s the worst song in the movie so far” lmao 😂😂😂
Cats is so bad, it makes The Rise of Skywalker look like a masterpiece by comparison.
Every time he said this is the worst song so far i laughed so hard
I saw the full Rifftrax version. I still have no idea what this monstrosity was.
“Victoria?! All cats have 3 names!”
“Meet *Old Deuteronomy* …”
Your timing is perfect: “this is the worst song yet( hold for slight pause) …and we still have an hour and a half! (I should not have taken a drink of Coke at that precise moment)😂😂
I've seen this movie like 15 times. I'm obsessed with big budget over ambitious disasters.
Jesus fucking Christ… 😳
As Ricky Gervais quipped, "Critics said 'Cats' was so bad that it was the worst thing to happen to cats since DOGS." ;)
13:51 Sir Ian McKellan Gandalf Cat, "YOU...SHALL NOT...PASSSSSSSSSSSS...THAT HAIRBALL!" ;)
The movie turned me into a dog person
I watched this a few years ago as a joke and I honestly suppressed the memory of everything from it. Much more entertaining seeing you recount the events lol
I’m sitting here in tears with “Skibbleshanks” 😂
An adaptation so bad it makes me want to defend a musical I don't even like
There's just some things that better left in Broadway than to be brought in theaters
My partner was curious and looked up the origin of the Broadway musical Cats and it's basically an accident that it even happened. The writer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, wanted to see if he could create and write music from pre-existing lyrics. The words are all just poems from T. S. Elliott's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", which explains why there's no story. Then there was a whole mess of other things that led to it being the second longest running Broadway musical somehow
I actually saw this in a theater, sitting in the Third row Craning my neck as the soundtrack blasted my eardrums. I nearly left early because I hated it so much. It wasn’t even fun to hate watch- it was truly grating, idiotic and embarrassing to watch. Seeing Idris Elba gyrating in a furry cat suit was truly not something I’d wish on anyone, but then there was James Cordon’s belly, too hat and spats… they didn’t even make him look cuddly so much as slovenly. And then dancing cockroaches. Aye yi yi yi yi…so many levels of awful. Something tells me the A-list cast had NO idea what they were in for. Cats wearing shoes with human rumps to make them “sexy” is so wrong… the amount of hubris involved in this production is staggering….i think you nailed it perfectly and you almost made having watched it worthwhile…😂
"This is the worst song in the movie so far"...the movie
I pissed myself laughing the whole through this review. I f**king love this dude.
I think I’m gonna have to sign up to his Patreon!!
This movie looks like a Cat-astrophe.
The butt* cut exists according to the FX team
The studio should call that release 'The Director's BUTT'. ;)
8:45 Adam does cat call
I already imagine Adam singing *Memories" so he'll never forget this monstrosity. 🙈😁😜 The Scuttlebutt Song looking pretty dope right now. 😉
I have the Rifftrax commentary of Cats and I left thirty minutes in and have never tried to return yet. It seems incomprehensibly awful. I might finish it, then rewatched this review.
“This is the worst song in the movie, so far” 😂 The second time you said it, I thought; “You said that already”.. But then you said it again, and again, and again and so on. At last I got the message 🤣 Late to the party here, but this was fun! 🤗
I went to see "Cats" at Alamo Drafthouse. Armed with some nachos and beers, we all cheered as the Alamo employee came down and announced that this screening would be the last before the updated, a-hem, "visual effects." (aka BUTTHOLE cut). I have never laughed harder in my life. If only they had marketed it as a comedy. Alas. Also, Rebel Wilson falls off a table.
Can't wait for cats 2😂
Cats? More like SHATS. 🤣
I'm surprised you were able to watch this whole movie. I could only make it five minutes before I had to turn it off. This was a hilarious review, great job.
hahah thanks
As David Letterman used to sing:
“Midnight, and the KITties are SLEE PING…..”
“…downstairs by the furnace, while birdies are cheeping.”
Even in the eighties, people knew “Cats” was a cheesy, nonsensical mess. To this day, I still can’t believe they spent $100M to make it into a feature film.
You are making sacrifices so that the rest of us don't have to. I salute you, Adam Olinger. You are a goddamn hero
hahahah well thanks
10:03 You missed a PURRfect joke, Adam. You could have said, "His song is fun because he sings it in the third PURRson." ;)
How are you not catatonic?
😂 every song in the film is the worst song in the film so far 😂
I'm working on another ""Cats" movie. I think that IT will be better then the last one.
Dead eyed Tom Hanks 😂😂😂😂
'Cats 2: Jellicle Boogaloo'. ;)
I saw the play in the big Apple and it was not fun. The songs were alright I guess. I don’t really remember. But the plot just didn’t exist. I still don’t know what a Jericho Cat is and I don’t ever really want to know.
I watched this awful movie for the first time a few weeks ago and I don't remember that show of them walking on the railroad tracks, at all, lol. I thought this movie was never going to end. Watching this movie is a real-life episode of Black Mirror. I rate it 3/10.
I am here for the fat shaming. And you do reviews as well? This channel never disappoints.
IT'S ABOUT TIME
Of course Reba Wilson would be in this horrible ass movie
This movie was shitty but in her defense it helped me understand the original play better😂, the only redeemable part was the memories song she did a great rendition sadly the rest of the movie was a stinker
Yo this video had me laughing more than I have on a while thanks Adam I needed that
hahah that's awesome you're welcome
These clips were so painful to my eyes that they made me wish I had CATARACTS. ;)
*cat shaming
*this is the worse song in the movie so far*
Brilliant
I don’t think I have ever laughed at a film review this hard in my life 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
17:50 Thanks for the great reMEW of 'Cats', Adam. See what I did there? :)
I'm convinced if they played this movie on a big screen at the southern border, our border crisis would be solved.
Cats have 3 names... well mine do😂
The musical is freaking awesome.
The movie is... disturbing.
This could be the worst movie ever made, but I've also seen "Manos the Hands of Fate".
This is also the worst comment in the comments so far.
They are just folks who identify as cats. Cat people.
this is The Worst Movie Ever Made... so far
Thank you Matt! Awesum Choice
No problem 😉
I wonder if this movie and the play is based on is some attempt to play out one of those fantasies... Sexual fantasies
Oh yeah....this movie exists.
Sparing Idris Elba, Judy Dench and Sir Ian Mckellen, every one else who acted in this movie should be blacklisted from Hollywood for at least 20 years and especially the director for coming up with these ideas.
I love this review so much, I could have it for breakfast. Not sure that makes sense, but the point is that this review is the cat's meow. You're welcome.
I assumed it was bad but good lord
I've never seen this but for sure its the worst movie ever...I don't think I could make it 10 mins
It might be just me, but I think your title would be funnier if it said, "Cats is Dogs**t!"
I agree.
Updated.
I saw the broadway version of this, havent seen the movie. I loved it. Admittedly, it is weird. But i loved it all. The song memory had me in tears.
If I could subscribe twice for fat shaming I would.😂😂 I guess just the one sub for your hilarious takes will do 👍👍
How, what, when, why. Where. How? How.
Unbelievable.
It’s a masterpiece… of sh!t.
Strong feeeeeline leads
It's a film I never intend to see, that is universally loathed....so much so that wouldn't it make a great video if you actually found sincere reviews that LIKED or LOVED this movie, and comment on them?
OMG, Adam, I’m so sorry you had to go through the Cats experience!!! ….you have my sympathies, friend. Boy, those Mithra ? members-they’re really testing the limits of your movie -loving resolve. You may need therapy after this🤔
Yes.
10:30 this is where i completely lost it hahaha, you are so got damn funny. Really tickle my funny bone.
It was the best of times; it was the PURRst of times. ;)
Dude 💀💀💀🤣 this is too good
😂😂😂😂 these actors smh wow Idris
I'm just here to find out what the worst song in the movie is. So far.
This review is the best thing going for this film lol