'Cats' - Review Thread

Review embargo just lifted for Cats. Apparently it's purr-ty bad. This is getting absolutely destroyed by critics. Some of these reviews are legit "worst of the year" contenders. Lots of 1/10 or 2/10 reviews. This movie just went from Oscar-hopeful to Razzies-favorite.On the bright side, there will at least be some award-winning puns/memes to come out of this. Looks like the trailer backlash was warranted after all.Rotten Tomatoes Score: 8% - 28 Reviews - 3.24 Average ScoreRotten Tomatoes Critics Consensus:N/AMetacritic Score: 32/100 - 27 Reviews - "Generally Unfavorable Reviews"ColliderCan you make a movie so bad that the Academy takes back your Best Director Oscar? Asking for a Tom Hooper.Hollywood ReporterCat-astrophic.LA Times"Cats” is both a horror and an endurance test.The BeatCats is the worst thing to happen to cats since dogs.VarietyNine may not be enough lives for some of the stars to live down their involvement in this poorly conceived and executed adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical.New York TimesIt's amazing to see what Adult Swim can accomplish with a $100 million budget. I never knew Tom Hooper was capable of making a surrealist nightmare that would rival Jodorowsky, that could baffle David Lynch, that would prompt even the dark god Cthulhu to emit an impressed eldritch shriek of “nehehehehehe”VultureTo assess Cats as good or bad feels like the entirely wrong axis on which to see it. It is, with all affection, a monstrosity.The Daily TelegraphGlad to report that Cats is everything you’d hoped for and more: a mesmerisingly ugly fiasco that makes you feel like your brain is being eaten by a parasite. A viewing experience so stressful that it honestly brought on a migraine.Den of GeekOne of the weirdest and most garish monstrosities to be birthed out of the Hollywood studio system in this century.The GuardianA purr-fectly dreadful hairball of woe. 1/5.IndiewireTom Hooper’s feline musical is an absurd and exuberant mess. This visually dense adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber hit is at once too crazy for this world, and not quite crazy enough.NewsdayFans of the stage musical may swoon, but others will be severely allergic.The WrapAndrew Lloyd Webber’s feline fantasy musical becomes a garish hairball. It’s hard to “ruin” Webber’s already strange musical, but Tom Hooper’s wrongheaded attempt certainly tries. Tom Hooper’s jarring fever dream of a spectacle is like something that escaped from Dr. Moreau’s creature laboratory instead of a poet’s and a composer’s feline (uni)verse, an un-catty valley hybrid of physical and digital that unsettles and crashes way more often than it enchants.Bleeding CoolCats is a strange beast to begin with, but the combination of strange CGI makes the translation from stage to screen even worse.SlantThis adaptation gets straight to the heart of the material, which is basically two hours of stray cats introducing themselves.Rendy ReviewsOn a scale of one to Zemeckis, Hooper's Cats boldly goes beyond the uncanny valley and creates a tier of its own.Screen JunkiesA spectacular disaster...This movie feels like a prank but I don't know on whom.The Jam ReportThe most inexplicably bizarre film of the year, it's jawdropping for all the wrong reasons.RTE IrelandFirst off, full disclosure - I am not a cat person. Second off - after watching this frankly mortifying film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, I'm not altogether sure I am a movie person anymore either.Plot:A tribe of cats must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life.Director:Tom Hooper (The King's Speech, The Danish Girl, Les Miserables)Budget:$95,000,000Release Date:December 19, 2019Starring:James CordenJudi DenchIdris ElbaIan McKellenJennifer HudsonJason DeruloRebel WilsonTaylor SwiftFrancesca HaywardRuntime:110 MinutesCompany That Probably Regrets Spending $125M+ On This Movie:Universal via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2Z70ybI