andrea campoy yes for sure. Dan Murrels explanation of a spectacular disaster was hilarious. Plus he can’t wait to go see it again. Just for other people’s reactions haha.
"I feel that I was watching a video game that was really weird... or The Cats Musical version of a video game, but then while that was happening... I couldn't stop looking but I was also terrified at the same time kinda like ... my brain was being eaten by a parasite." -Review of Cats: Movie
"I feel that I was watching a video game that was really weird... or The Cats Musical version of a video game, but then while that was happening... I couldn't stop looking but I was also terrified at the same time kinda like ... my brain was being eaten by a parasite." -Review of Cats: Movie
100% agree with the criticism of Les Mis. I was so disappointed in that movie. I've now watched two reviews for this movie and both said Ian McKellen was the only one who knew what movie he was in.
...but mccavity is the villain in the stage show, too, he steals old deuteronomy and mr. Mistoffoles magics O.D. back. I can't believe that's a sentence that makes sense to me.
Tbh, why don't they make a horror movie like this? Like a dark fantasty Cats world. So much paint by numbers horror out there. This would have been amazing!!! I don't get why this type of horror movie isn't already out?? Ive always said there needs to be a Lord of the rings style big scope horror out there. Instead we get the usual boring ghost/possession stuff which ive seen 1000 times already!!!
every day, my love for this movie increases. i have never seen a movie produce so many mixed reactions, myself included. me and my sister grew up with the original cats, and it was mandatory that we see this together. it's like five days later and she's STILL traumatized. I have given myself to the madness and seen it 5 times. it's possible that i've gone mad.
The movie should've been the exact same, except have the actors in regular street clothes with different cat ear headbands and whiskers painted on their cheeks. I would pay to see that instead.
It's simple really. It's blurring the line too well. The tech being used makes them look like actual Human Cat hybrids which triggers your brain to respond with eww. . This is why the cats in the play weren't unsettling. . Nor were the Na'avi in Cameron's Avatar. . They were similar to humans but still distinct. . But these kitties, just took it that one step too far. . 🤣
I think this movie was made for the purpose to be laugh at intentionally. I've heard from certain critics that they were given free unlimited access to foods and drinks as much as possible during viewing cats because the studios knews it's a bad one from start to finish. Which rarely happens at a press screening. Lol.
Jellicle Cats are black and white, Jellicle Cats are rather small; Jellicle Cats are merry and bright, And pleasant to hear when they caterwaul. Jellicle Cats have cheerful faces, Jellicle Cats have bright black eyes; They like to practice their airs and graces And wait for the Jellicle Moon to rise.
I saw it today. You should really watch the 1998 musical performance first - it is mainly Cats 'virgins' who seem to be perplexed. Many Cats fans, I think, will rate it at least 2 or 3 out of 5. Note that critics are very undecided amongst themselves as to what the good and not so good parts are. The good and not so good to me: NOT SO GOOD: Taylor Swift's Bombalurina. Very short role compared to the stage musical and she can't really sing this type of style well. Plus she doesn't espouse enough sexiness. Idris Elba's Macavity. Sometimes reserved, sometimes extravagantly raspy, he seemed that he wanted to shake loose and might have been better cast as Rum Tum Tugger - or not cast at all. Laurie Davidson's Mr Mistofelees - decent voice, overdoes the shyness - not precocious or 'pizzazz' enough compared to magical stage performers. Jason Derula's The Rum Tum Tugger - not a patch on British actor John Partridge's 1998 version. The two thief cats are not a patch on the 1998 stage musical. James Corden's singing voice. Rebel Wilson's singing voice and costumes. Dame Judi's ending 'what have you learnt today?" imploration to the audience feels forced and over-dramatised/over-metaphorised as they sit on a London stone lion. Dame Judi's voice isn't amazing. The director's fondness for closeups seems like compensation for not adding much to what the musical did, scriptwise. But one of the advantages of the stage musical was seeing loads of performers all at once. Are the acrobatics and performer athleticism in the same league as the stage musical? The stage musical is about a gang of cats. The movie doesn't instil the warmth of them being a gang as well. GOOD: The fur technology on the human faces is not creepy, just a bit undercooked on the mice and cockroaches. Moving between the parts of the set was organic and it has good lighting and very good design, if a bit American neon for some tastes I bet. Some comedy parts from Rebel and James are decent. The word 'Jellicle' doesn't seem as repeated ad finitum as on the stage musical. Jennifer Hudson does 'mean' it (but milks it towards the end). The railway sequence is very good. Cats the movie is, ironically, more timeless looking in set design than Lloyd Webber's feted, if divisive, thoroughly early 1980s-style stage musical. However, the director's Les Miserables was fortunate, by virtue of selling well, to get as many awards as it did. The false confidence that instilled in not having the best SINGERS has made Cats more middling than it should have been and I do not relish the prospect of more Oscar bait looks to camera.
"I feel that I was watching a video game that was really weird... or The Cats Musical version of a video game, but then while that was happening... I couldn't stop looking but I was also terrified at the same time kinda like ... my brain was being eaten by a parasite." -Review of Cats: Movie
Luckily, there is a youtube video of Jennifer Hudson singing Memory, without looking like a CGI monster, so nobody needs to go see this train wreck. It's not the ultimate version of "Memory", but it's definitely number two on the list for me. I'm sorry, but nobody can touch Elaine Paige's version. Hudson captures the emotion of the song just as well as Paige, but the fragile tone in Paige's version is what seals the deal for me.
Can't understand why everybody keeps ranting about this movie. I found it cute and touching. And Francesca looks really hot. Only the proportions of some scenes do not match, eg the scene where the cats walk on the railroad track. There the cats are as small as rats while inside the rail car they are as big as dogs. Also in the jumps scenes you can easily tell that the actors were supported by hidden wires. Other than that, I really liked the film and will surely watch it again in the next days.
"I feel that I was watching a video game that was really weird... or The Cats Musical version of a video game, but then while that was happening... I couldn't stop looking but I was also terrified at the same time kinda like ... my brain was being eaten by a parasite." -Review of Cats: Movie
@@BoydofZINJ Why are people saying they're terrified? You probably had no problem with Avatar so why is THIS bugging you. Instead of giant blue aliens cats it's humanoid house and alley cats. Or are you afraid people will call you a furry if you say you like it? 😂
So what of the choreography? That was the highlight of the show really, i get that the CGI ruffled a few feathers but it's seems to have coloured your entire opinion.
The choreography was great. It wasn't as in depth as the musicals where a lot of the story is told through the dances but it was fun dancing. Especially Skimbleshanks.
Well hedonist, no the choreography and music (given it's an adaptation of a dance centric musical) should be focused upon, I got more info from theyungcity23 and marchese - thanks to them I have an actual idea what the the content of the film is like compared to all the reviews I'm seeing on youtube. So get off your high horse.
They nailed it with this review. Not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination but if you get a chance to see it with a group of people like I did, it's so strange and bat-shit crazy that it makes for a unique and hysterical movie-going experience. No one will remember it as good but then no one will be able to forget it either.
Cats was amazing! Every 10 mins my jaw would drop even lower. Plus it moved along pretty quickly. It’s not to long. But the money spent and the actors commitment to the madness makes this a A+ best of the worst movie.
Interesting! I've also seen the interpretation of "Jellicle" as a sort of playful, baby-talk version of "dear little", and "Pollicle" (the term for the dogs) as "poor little". Like someone stroking their pet and talking nonsense to them "Who's a jellicle cat? Who's a pollicle dog? Yes you are!"
Very early in the movie I was like why the F did they leave the human hands (??) that helps negate the fluid humanoid cat animation effect.. couldn't they have fitted the actors with green or blue gloves and then animated paws ? I then realized there's no obvious storyline.. I'm not a fan of musical theatre so the songs are well executed but I don't personally like them except for an old version of "Memory"... I literally walked out after the first Jennifer Hudson song (nothing against her, she's phenomenal).. I was curious to see Judy Dench and other actors but I just couldn't sit through the whole film (the last movie I walked out on was Addams Family). Fortunately I have a Regal theatres pass that lets me watch multiple movies a day if I wanted, so the cost averages out.. I'd be pissed if I'd paid $13 for this theatrical litterbox.. it blows my mind that we have neither a ThunderCats nor a Voltron movie, but instead.. a studio is willing to throw away millions on Cats..🤦🏽♂️
I saw the film yesterday. I saw the Broadway play many years ago. I throughly enjoyed both. Truly...i do not understand many of the criticisms that have been directed at this production. The physicality of the cat figures.....goodness...if one could accept the appearance of the cast on the stage of the Winter Garden theater, one wonders why there are criticisms of the film. One reviewer carried on about sexuality....did she see that same movie that I did? OK,,,,we have a cast of (mostly) attractive, fit young people in tight cat costumes....they are pleasant to watch. That is about as far as it goes. Another reviewer referred to the onerous task of having to sit through “boring” scenes. That person has no soul. Confusing, nonsensical?...maybe so but No more so than T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats”.... Cats is a fine film, made by talented people. Go see it. Enjoy.
I, too, saw the film and, I, too, do not understand the many criticism of this movie. (I never saw the stage production). I wonder if if I saw the same movie as the so called critics. I thought it was very entertaining and I loved the musical numbers. Yes, some of the edits of the dance could be more sustained instead of cutting away too much. But it doesn't bother me too much.
If The Greatest Showman and Phantom of the Opera are simply horrible and are considered as the worst musicals, then Cats are considered as the worst musical of all time.
The show surprised me with amazing dances & it's is those professionals I feel sorry for as they were dancing with no idea how the end movie would look. I think operators of green screens need to pass some test as just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Way too many stills of the escapees from the Island of Doctor Moreau, oops I mean actors from CATS at the beginning of this review. I had to bail to audio only (until @3:50) as I was getting a bit nauseous. That being said, the array of reviews on this movie are immensely entertaining. I have seen a production of the stage musical CATS. There is NO plot. There are a lot of cosplayers who dance and sing quite well, but that is it. They should have gone with the Steven Spielberg proposal, not this version. That being said, I am so having a party with this movie streaming as the sole entertainment.
Sounds like trying to watch Rocky Horror Picture Show without the audience participation. Maybe in the future there will be people going to a midnight matinee dressed up as cats with dancers in the aisles.
Could someone please take the lead in your conversation, and care for a discussion that's not so chaotic as this one? You all seem so eager to talk about what you find funny that nice, funny or interesting moments for the audience get ruined all the time.
There was no "shared movie experience" joy in the theater I was in. The first quarter of the movie they had the sound too loud so not only was it painful but you couldn't understand anything that was said/sung. Then halfway through the AC started blasting - we're talking mid-December & in the 30s outside - not a pleasant experience. And there was one obnoxious old woman who wanted to sing with every female number. Except for her, I couldn't see anyone enjoying the movie. I was just waiting for it to be over. God awful.
Well, that was catty. I'm going to see it anyways. I remember how critics were so staunchly against people going to see "Joker" and "Professor Marston", I saw them, and the films were great.
I feel like if the critics have such big issues with photorealism for anthropomorphic cats, they would HATE a live action Thundercats movie. They're acting like Cats was the only example of anthropomorphic felines.
Well did you enjoy the trailer? Cause that's what they think will be the best clips to get you to go watch.... after that it's probably downhill unfortunately.
@@starnesser83 Loved the trailer. It's like a slice of life vignetter series of naked Thundercats. Big fan of the musical too (something else that gets a lot of flack from people).
I saw it. If you like the play then you'll like this movie. You can watch the play for free (I really don't get all of these RUclips reviewers saying they havent seen the play. It's free on the official channel ... Smh). But the cg is really bad. Not the faces or any of the things that you hear people mindlessly parroting but the feet. They just didn't finish digitally removing the performers human shoes and you will see an afterimage of shoes underneath cat feet. When I wasn't looking down I enjoyed it a lot.
@@Theyungcity23 Seeing a play is mainly about the experience of seeing it live. Few theaters do that entirely for free. There's nothing wrong with seeing people get the opportunity to go from dressing as anthropomorphic cats to applying a Hollywood budget and making it not look like there are humans underneath. "Cats" had never been about presenting anthropomorphic cats and emphasizing "These are just people dressed up as cats.".
OH SHIT one of them said the exact same thing Jeremy John's said. It's like watching a clip of the Republicans all spouting the days taking points. The fix is in people! They're tanking Cats on purpose. And the reason OD is staring at Griz like that is because she's taken aback by how beautiful her singing is. Everyone is. I didn't like Victoria touching Griz early since that was such a big thing in the play.
I finally saw it and it was quite an experience. Theater was losing it, I wish there were more people, but all six of us were having a party. As bad and cringy as it was, I actually liked a couple scenes, maybe my expectations were just so ridiculously low lol. But yeah besides most of the movie, every time Deuteronomy shows up its a giggle fest, and rebel wilson unzipping her fur wtf!?
After the first trailer we all knew this movie was going to bomb! I didn't know it was going to tank as badly as it did. No movie was going to prosper coming out the same weekend as Star Wars but not even 10mil is BAD! Every one who has seen this movie says the exact same thing verbatim to each other! Out of 15 reviews I've watched so far, only one liked the movie. You will never be high or drunk enough to enjoy this movie! It was only playing on 1 screen opening weekend at my local 20 screen theater! That's how bad theaters knew this was going to fail. I feel so bad for the actors because they gave it their best! Unfortunately, they were all in a different movie than their costars. 😥
One problem is the dancers feet. In the original show the dancers wore dancing shoes. The show was a hit for years. So how was wearing proper shoes a problem?
If you're going to watch it to laugh at it then please take note of the feet. So many instances it looks like they are floating because they didn't finish the shadows properly. This is basic cg stuff. They were really rushing. There are some instances where they literally weren't able to digitally remove the sneakers from underneath the bare cat feet. (I'm not confused. I knows cats are wearing sneakers and they look fine) you get this insanely bad after image of the performers foot trailing behind the cg cat characters paw. I first noticed it in the fat cats song right at the beginning on the cats on the right side.
Cats the musical was a hit for a reason. If it ain't broke don't fix it, and I mean by adding CGI to make the preformers look like cats. Too bad they didn't follow the lead of the Sonic movie's creators, who remade Sonic after so many said he looked creepy.
They did do a lot of changes since the initial reaction. They're a lot fluffier which makes it look less like the costumes. People don't know what they want.
@@Theyungcity23I sincerely appreciate your response! I did not know that, and I do hope that the hard work the crew put in will come across for everyone watching on the big screen.
I loved Cat’s... if you didn’t, what in the hell do you think you were going to see⁉️ the name, and the Broadway reviews, should have given you an idea... Well! Each to their own! Opinions!
Who else is on a Cats movie review watching spree 😂😂😂 So entertaining!!
Don Faustino 🙋🏼♂️
Exactly! I have so much work to do and I just can't stop watching these reviews. :D
i haven't even watched the movie or the musical but these are too funny 😂
I am...I Am✋✋✋
Bouncing from one video to another
I can’t stop watching Cats reviews. People’s reactions have to be better than the movie.
Exactly! I have so much work to do and I just can't stop watching these reviews. :D
Same 😂
once i did watch the trailer a month ago and the way i found it weird and ridiculous i didn't stop waiting the reviews to have fun
Screen junkies is the funniest so fae
andrea campoy yes for sure. Dan Murrels explanation of a spectacular disaster was hilarious. Plus he can’t wait to go see it again. Just for other people’s reactions haha.
"The problem with this film is that it shouldn't exist" - Kermode
ha ha - gotta love mark
"I feel that I was watching a video game that was really weird... or The Cats Musical version of a video game, but then while that was happening... I couldn't stop looking but I was also terrified at the same time kinda like ... my brain was being eaten by a parasite."
-Review of Cats: Movie
This is the most ridiculous thing I've seen in a while, just hearing you talking about this movie is hysterical
Talking over each other
Cats is just like Rent a 50/50 musical . Either you love it or hate it.
“Video game furries” LOL
"I feel that I was watching a video game that was really weird... or The Cats Musical version of a video game, but then while that was happening... I couldn't stop looking but I was also terrified at the same time kinda like ... my brain was being eaten by a parasite."
-Review of Cats: Movie
100% agree with the criticism of Les Mis. I was so disappointed in that movie.
I've now watched two reviews for this movie and both said Ian McKellen was the only one who knew what movie he was in.
...but mccavity is the villain in the stage show, too, he steals old deuteronomy and mr. Mistoffoles magics O.D. back.
I can't believe that's a sentence that makes sense to me.
Emma’s pure joy from Perri’s confusion is the best part of this lol
🤣
It's illegal to watch this movie sober. I haven't had that much fun in a while!
@Luke yeet lfmao
Can confirm.
This is hand's down the best review of Cats I've watched, and I've watched a lot of them. How did I miss this last December?
Jellicle cat was the childish way T.S. Eliot's toddler niece pronounced "dear little cats." Pollicle dogs was her way of saying "poor little dogs."
If you’ve seen this movie, please don’t kill your cat if you’re home!
This is my most favorite review that has ever reviewed.
Communal laughter? Maybe Tom Hooper just made the next Rocky Horror
Who gave 90 million for this?
madmaxmel cats made 6.6 million dollars opening weekend. Meouch
*95
madmaxmel theyre currently job hunting.
"They were one rewrite away from the best horror movie of the decade" - somebody else's comment on a different video
Tbh, why don't they make a horror movie like this? Like a dark fantasty Cats world. So much paint by numbers horror out there. This would have been amazing!!! I don't get why this type of horror movie isn't already out?? Ive always said there needs to be a Lord of the rings style big scope horror out there. Instead we get the usual boring ghost/possession stuff which ive seen 1000 times already!!!
Would have given good old Freddy Kruger nightmares. Maybe still does. At least FBI and CIA can use it as interrogation/torture tool.
every day, my love for this movie increases. i have never seen a movie produce so many mixed reactions, myself included. me and my sister grew up with the original cats, and it was mandatory that we see this together. it's like five days later and she's STILL traumatized. I have given myself to the madness and seen it 5 times. it's possible that i've gone mad.
The movie should've been the exact same, except have the actors in regular street clothes with different cat ear headbands and whiskers painted on their cheeks. I would pay to see that instead.
FFS stop talking over each other
Females....
You realize that because of your review of not to take this movie seriously people will now go see it, just for the laughs.
Of course people are going to see this, this is the new 'The Room'. It's also fascinating to see how miserable this movie is.
Zoe K. How do you make a sequel to Cats? Is there a dangling thread at the end that could be expanded in a sequel?
@Zoe K. It's made barely $10M. It's a financial disaster, you can sleep well. :)
u guys r talking at the same time ~it’s like watching the view!
The practical makeup and costumes from the stage play looks so much better.
It's simple really. It's blurring the line too well. The tech being used makes them look like actual Human Cat hybrids which triggers your brain to respond with eww. . This is why the cats in the play weren't unsettling. . Nor were the Na'avi in Cameron's Avatar. . They were similar to humans but still distinct. . But these kitties, just took it that one step too far. . 🤣
I think this movie was made for the purpose to be laugh at intentionally.
I've heard from certain critics that they were given free unlimited access to foods and drinks as much as possible during viewing cats because the studios knews it's a bad one from start to finish. Which rarely happens at a press screening. Lol.
So this is the Mommie Dearest of Musical films
Macavity IS the antagonist. In the play he kidnapped Old Doteranomy just like he does in the movie.
Jellicle Cats are black and white,
Jellicle Cats are rather small;
Jellicle Cats are merry and bright,
And pleasant to hear when they caterwaul.
Jellicle Cats have cheerful faces,
Jellicle Cats have bright black eyes;
They like to practice their airs and graces
And wait for the Jellicle Moon to rise.
I love how nearly traumatized every single reviewer on my cats-review-spree is. This must be like bath salts but as a movie...
This has been done before, remember John Candy in "Spaceballs"
I thank the movie gods that this movie exist just because of the amazing reviews, they're fucking hilarious.
I can see this replacing the Rocky horror picture show as a new midnite cult favorite.
If you listen closely you can almost hear Tom Hooper and Andrew Lloyd Webber whispering “Dear God, what have we done?”
Those stills look worse then the play
I saw it today. You should really watch the 1998 musical performance first - it is mainly Cats 'virgins' who seem to be perplexed. Many Cats fans, I think, will rate it at least 2 or 3 out of 5. Note that critics are very undecided amongst themselves as to what the good and not so good parts are. The good and not so good to me:
NOT SO GOOD:
Taylor Swift's Bombalurina. Very short role compared to the stage musical and she can't really sing this type of style well. Plus she doesn't espouse enough sexiness.
Idris Elba's Macavity. Sometimes reserved, sometimes extravagantly raspy, he seemed that he wanted to shake loose and might have been better cast as Rum Tum Tugger - or not cast at all.
Laurie Davidson's Mr Mistofelees - decent voice, overdoes the shyness - not precocious or 'pizzazz' enough compared to magical stage performers.
Jason Derula's The Rum Tum Tugger - not a patch on British actor John Partridge's 1998 version.
The two thief cats are not a patch on the 1998 stage musical.
James Corden's singing voice.
Rebel Wilson's singing voice and costumes.
Dame Judi's ending 'what have you learnt today?" imploration to the audience feels forced and over-dramatised/over-metaphorised as they sit on a London stone lion.
Dame Judi's voice isn't amazing.
The director's fondness for closeups seems like compensation for not adding much to what the musical did, scriptwise. But one of the advantages of the stage musical was seeing loads of performers all at once.
Are the acrobatics and performer athleticism in the same league as the stage musical?
The stage musical is about a gang of cats. The movie doesn't instil the warmth of them being a gang as well.
GOOD:
The fur technology on the human faces is not creepy, just a bit undercooked on the mice and cockroaches.
Moving between the parts of the set was organic and it has good lighting and very good design, if a bit American neon for some tastes I bet.
Some comedy parts from Rebel and James are decent.
The word 'Jellicle' doesn't seem as repeated ad finitum as on the stage musical.
Jennifer Hudson does 'mean' it (but milks it towards the end).
The railway sequence is very good.
Cats the movie is, ironically, more timeless looking in set design than Lloyd Webber's feted, if divisive, thoroughly early 1980s-style stage musical. However, the director's Les Miserables was fortunate, by virtue of selling well, to get as many awards as it did. The false confidence that instilled in not having the best SINGERS has made Cats more middling than it should have been and I do not relish the prospect of more Oscar bait looks to camera.
Why does it sound like you guys are talking in a bath room? Fix your audio
That King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard shirt!!
Wolf Tower there is no planet B ...Melon introduced me that great band 🤘
Saurav Mehra nonagon infinity is a great record too
Sounds like Hollywood cats is to Broadway what Hollywood Super Mario Brothers is to video games
"I feel that I was watching a video game that was really weird... or The Cats Musical version of a video game, but then while that was happening... I couldn't stop looking but I was also terrified at the same time kinda like ... my brain was being eaten by a parasite."
-Review of Cats: Movie
DAAAAAAAAAAMN
letting 3 people talk about a movie at the same time is a mistake. I stopped watching because i cant stand hearing them talk over each other
Notice they all talk over each other the whole time .
Yes very irritating
Phillip Almaraz - so annoying! Watching this because of cats, but would never watch this channel again.
Yo these CATS reviews dead got me super weeeak!!! Lmaoooo
Luckily, there is a youtube video of Jennifer Hudson singing Memory, without looking like a CGI monster, so nobody needs to go see this train wreck.
It's not the ultimate version of "Memory", but it's definitely number two on the list for me. I'm sorry, but nobody can touch Elaine Paige's version.
Hudson captures the emotion of the song just as well as Paige, but the fragile tone in Paige's version is what seals the deal for me.
Why don't anyone mention the music?
This movie is an abomination.
"it was like a parasite eating my brain"
Can't understand why everybody keeps ranting about this movie. I found it cute and touching. And Francesca looks really hot. Only the proportions of some scenes do not match, eg the scene where the cats walk on the railroad track. There the cats are as small as rats while inside the rail car they are as big as dogs. Also in the jumps scenes you can easily tell that the actors were supported by hidden wires. Other than that, I really liked the film and will surely watch it again in the next days.
I saw Rebel Wilson as a Cat. I wish I could unsee it. WTF. This works better on Stage
So basically the trailers were totally accurate
"I feel that I was watching a video game that was really weird... or The Cats Musical version of a video game, but then while that was happening... I couldn't stop looking but I was also terrified at the same time kinda like ... my brain was being eaten by a parasite."
-Review of Cats: Movie
@@BoydofZINJ They need to put that on all the posters and Blu Ray covers
@@BoydofZINJ Why are people saying they're terrified? You probably had no problem with Avatar so why is THIS bugging you. Instead of giant blue aliens cats it's humanoid house and alley cats. Or are you afraid people will call you a furry if you say you like it? 😂
I wanna go to that movie.... But I don't wanna watch it, I wanna watch Perri, Dorina, and Emma trying to get through it.
So it’s a so bad it’s good movie? I definitely see viewing parties for this movie like for the room.
the interruption at 6:04 mins is the best illustration of how hideous this review is. Endless cross-talking resulted in me moving on, i'm afraid
So what of the choreography? That was the highlight of the show really, i get that the CGI ruffled a few feathers but it's seems to have coloured your entire opinion.
The choreography was great. It wasn't as in depth as the musicals where a lot of the story is told through the dances but it was fun dancing. Especially Skimbleshanks.
Well hedonist, no the choreography and music (given it's an adaptation of a dance centric musical) should be focused upon, I got more info from theyungcity23 and marchese - thanks to them I have an actual idea what the the content of the film is like compared to all the reviews I'm seeing on youtube. So get off your high horse.
They nailed it with this review. Not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination but if you get a chance to see it with a group of people like I did, it's so strange and bat-shit crazy that it makes for a unique and hysterical movie-going experience. No one will remember it as good but then no one will be able to forget it either.
CAN YOU PLEASE NOT TALK OVER EACH OTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cats was amazing! Every 10 mins my jaw would drop even lower. Plus it moved along pretty quickly. It’s not to long. But the money spent and the actors commitment to the madness makes this a A+ best of the worst movie.
I think "Jellicle" is supposed to be a cats' rendition of the word "angelical," but I could be wrong.
That's brilliant! I have no idea whether that was Eliot's intention, but it's now my head canon.
Interesting! I've also seen the interpretation of "Jellicle" as a sort of playful, baby-talk version of "dear little", and "Pollicle" (the term for the dogs) as "poor little". Like someone stroking their pet and talking nonsense to them "Who's a jellicle cat? Who's a pollicle dog? Yes you are!"
The stage show is beautifully designed and pleasing to look at. The same can't be said for the movie.
Tom Hooper's movie version of Les Miserables is dreadful too. He shouldn't be allowed to touch live musicals.
Rob Marshall is better with musicals
His version of Les Mis at least has Anne Hathaway's number which is one of the finest singing pieces in film history.
I like the 1998 version better guys be nice to the broadway thie 2019 is creepy I love 1998 version
Yoo, loving the King Gizzard shirt ♥️
I agree the movie has a wider screen.
Very early in the movie I was like why the F did they leave the human hands (??) that helps negate the fluid humanoid cat animation effect.. couldn't they have fitted the actors with green or blue gloves and then animated paws ? I then realized there's no obvious storyline.. I'm not a fan of musical theatre so the songs are well executed but I don't personally like them except for an old version of "Memory"... I literally walked out after the first Jennifer Hudson song (nothing against her, she's phenomenal).. I was curious to see Judy Dench and other actors but I just couldn't sit through the whole film (the last movie I walked out on was Addams Family). Fortunately I have a Regal theatres pass that lets me watch multiple movies a day if I wanted, so the cost averages out.. I'd be pissed if I'd paid $13 for this theatrical litterbox.. it blows my mind that we have neither a ThunderCats nor a Voltron movie, but instead.. a studio is willing to throw away millions on Cats..🤦🏽♂️
This movie is going to be a meme machine for the coming years, for all the wrong reasons
I've also always been creeped out by the Polar Express too! This review was so funny! I'm going to see it now, but for all the wrong reasons!
They shouldve shelved the project forever after seeing the first screen tests.
This one's on the producers/studio.
I mean the idea was shit. what the hell were they thinking..
I saw the film yesterday. I saw the Broadway play many years ago. I throughly enjoyed both.
Truly...i do not understand many of the criticisms that have been directed at this production.
The physicality of the cat figures.....goodness...if one could accept the appearance of the cast on the stage of the Winter Garden theater, one wonders why there are criticisms of the film.
One reviewer carried on about sexuality....did she see that same movie that I did? OK,,,,we have a cast of (mostly) attractive, fit young people in tight cat costumes....they are pleasant to watch. That is about as far as it goes.
Another reviewer referred to the onerous task of having to sit through “boring” scenes. That person has no soul.
Confusing, nonsensical?...maybe so but No more so than T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats”....
Cats is a fine film, made by talented people. Go see it. Enjoy.
I, too, saw the film and, I, too, do not understand the many criticism of this movie. (I never saw the stage production). I wonder if if I saw the same movie as the so called critics. I thought it was very entertaining and I loved the musical numbers. Yes, some of the edits of the dance could be more sustained instead of cutting away too much. But it doesn't bother me too much.
It’s a surrealist masterpiece.
Perri went from 1 to 20 drinks, wild
Perri is so fucking polite :"D
This review has convinced me to go to the theater and see this. LOL
If The Greatest Showman and Phantom of the Opera are simply horrible and are considered as the worst musicals, then Cats are considered as the worst musical of all time.
The show surprised me with amazing dances & it's is those professionals I feel sorry for as they were dancing with no idea how the end movie would look. I think operators of green screens need to pass some test as just because you can doesn't mean you should.
I got the CATS trailer ad for this video.
The constant yelling over each other gave me a headache
It's unwatchable, really.
Tom Hopper: He does nostrals
2019 Comedy of the Year
Got an ad for cats before this video
Way too many stills of the escapees from the Island of Doctor Moreau, oops I mean actors from CATS at the beginning of this review. I had to bail to audio only (until @3:50) as I was getting a bit nauseous. That being said, the array of reviews on this movie are immensely entertaining. I have seen a production of the stage musical CATS. There is NO plot. There are a lot of cosplayers who dance and sing quite well, but that is it. They should have gone with the Steven Spielberg proposal, not this version. That being said, I am so having a party with this movie streaming as the sole entertainment.
Sounds like trying to watch Rocky Horror Picture Show without the audience participation. Maybe in the future there will be people going to a midnight matinee dressed up as cats with dancers in the aisles.
Is this the making of a cult classic like Troll?
Could someone please take the lead in your conversation, and care for a discussion that's not so chaotic as this one? You all seem so eager to talk about what you find funny that nice, funny or interesting moments for the audience get ruined all the time.
I love this movie so much 😂 like I know it's bad but I honestly think it's one of my favorite movies of all time like c'mon 😂
How are you going to hate on the polar express
Nate Mosher I love thit movie tuu!!! Best 3D IMAX film Ev eva seen!!! En just a greet x mas movie......
There was no "shared movie experience" joy in the theater I was in. The first quarter of the movie they had the sound too loud so not only was it painful but you couldn't understand anything that was said/sung. Then halfway through the AC started blasting - we're talking mid-December & in the 30s outside - not a pleasant experience. And there was one obnoxious old woman who wanted to sing with every female number. Except for her, I couldn't see anyone enjoying the movie. I was just waiting for it to be over. God awful.
Well, that was catty.
I'm going to see it anyways. I remember how critics were so staunchly against people going to see "Joker" and "Professor Marston", I saw them, and the films were great.
I feel like if the critics have such big issues with photorealism for anthropomorphic cats, they would HATE a live action Thundercats movie. They're acting like Cats was the only example of anthropomorphic felines.
Well did you enjoy the trailer? Cause that's what they think will be the best clips to get you to go watch.... after that it's probably downhill unfortunately.
@@starnesser83 Loved the trailer. It's like a slice of life vignetter series of naked Thundercats. Big fan of the musical too (something else that gets a lot of flack from people).
I saw it. If you like the play then you'll like this movie. You can watch the play for free (I really don't get all of these RUclips reviewers saying they havent seen the play. It's free on the official channel ... Smh). But the cg is really bad. Not the faces or any of the things that you hear people mindlessly parroting but the feet. They just didn't finish digitally removing the performers human shoes and you will see an afterimage of shoes underneath cat feet. When I wasn't looking down I enjoyed it a lot.
@@Theyungcity23 Seeing a play is mainly about the experience of seeing it live. Few theaters do that entirely for free. There's nothing wrong with seeing people get the opportunity to go from dressing as anthropomorphic cats to applying a Hollywood budget and making it not look like there are humans underneath.
"Cats" had never been about presenting anthropomorphic cats and emphasizing "These are just people dressed up as cats.".
OH SHIT one of them said the exact same thing Jeremy John's said. It's like watching a clip of the Republicans all spouting the days taking points. The fix is in people! They're tanking Cats on purpose.
And the reason OD is staring at Griz like that is because she's taken aback by how beautiful her singing is. Everyone is. I didn't like Victoria touching Griz early since that was such a big thing in the play.
Maybe they should do a Mystery Science Theater commentary on this flick 😅🤣
I finally saw it and it was quite an experience. Theater was losing it, I wish there were more people, but all six of us were having a party. As bad and cringy as it was, I actually liked a couple scenes, maybe my expectations were just so ridiculously low lol. But yeah besides most of the movie, every time Deuteronomy shows up its a giggle fest, and rebel wilson unzipping her fur wtf!?
Blonde girl is just repeating what the people at "Fandom Entertainment" said.
After the first trailer we all knew this movie was going to bomb! I didn't know it was going to tank as badly as it did. No movie was going to prosper coming out the same weekend as Star Wars but not even 10mil is BAD! Every one who has seen this movie says the exact same thing verbatim to each other! Out of 15 reviews I've watched so far, only one liked the movie. You will never be high or drunk enough to enjoy this movie! It was only playing on 1 screen opening weekend at my local 20 screen theater! That's how bad theaters knew this was going to fail. I feel so bad for the actors because they gave it their best! Unfortunately, they were all in a different movie than their costars. 😥
Three talking at once
Sounds cat-astrophic!
All the critics hated it but now I want to see it.🤣😂 It will tun into a cult film. 🐱🐱🐱🐱
One problem is the dancers feet. In the original show the dancers wore dancing shoes. The show was a hit for years. So how was wearing proper shoes a problem?
If you're going to watch it to laugh at it then please take note of the feet. So many instances it looks like they are floating because they didn't finish the shadows properly. This is basic cg stuff. They were really rushing.
There are some instances where they literally weren't able to digitally remove the sneakers from underneath the bare cat feet. (I'm not confused. I knows cats are wearing sneakers and they look fine) you get this insanely bad after image of the performers foot trailing behind the cg cat characters paw. I first noticed it in the fat cats song right at the beginning on the cats on the right side.
Wow, she said the stage actors are LESS committed to being cats than the actors in the film. 😐 That says a lot. Like.. a lot a lot.
They were trying to cash in on the recent Disney live action versions of their films.
Had they just adapted the play without changing anything, it would not have flopped guaranteed
Cats the musical was a hit for a reason. If it ain't broke don't fix it, and I mean by adding CGI to make the preformers look like cats. Too bad they didn't follow the lead of the Sonic movie's creators, who remade Sonic after so many said he looked creepy.
They did do a lot of changes since the initial reaction. They're a lot fluffier which makes it look less like the costumes. People don't know what they want.
@@Theyungcity23I sincerely appreciate your response! I did not know that, and I do hope that the hard work the crew put in will come across for everyone watching on the big screen.
If you have a cat at home, please take time to apologize to it for this atrocity perpetrated by our species.
I loved Cat’s... if you didn’t, what in the hell do you think you were going to see⁉️ the name, and the Broadway reviews, should have given you an idea... Well! Each to their own! Opinions!
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