Atom User Reviews for Cats

Had a lovely time forcing my friends to endure this nightmarish purgatory on opening night. Absolutely whimsical experience, I will cherish their screams of terror forever.

I left 30 mins after it started

This was a train wreak. Five Stars

Worst film I’ve seen and I’m a Broadway and Cats fan!

Only thing good was JHudson

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my friend was snooring

a Waste of talented people

Pretty bad

we all cryed when she sang

I gave it 5 stars because the cast, and dancing was great! I saw Cats on Broadway when I was a child, i am 32 now so it was nice taking my mom to see it in the theater. Broadway will always be better!

I loved the singing & dancing & their costumes. It was cute that their ears & tails moved. Very realistic & I loved how they captured the essence & personality of their roll as a cat. Especially since I am a cat lover I thought that was important.

Should have went straight to tv as a lifetime movie

So boring...the characters and makeup were very gonna d but i couldn’t wait for this movie to end. Very disappointing

This movie was one weird movie. The plot was very vague and made no sense. Great music but not worth the money

do yourself a favor and skip this movie, it was just plain awful, even the actors said it sucked, and if you look at the cats feet you will see the worst cgi ever where they failed to bring the ground up high enough to touch the characters limbs, most of the dances the actors are floating about 1-3inches off the ground which was very annoying

Worst movie ever!!!! Totally wasted money and time! Very disappointing

Very interesting and moving. Jennifer Hudson's solo brought me to tears.

The studio obviously never heard of test screenings. It needed a few more months in the editing room. Lots of it did not work.

I don’t know what to say about what I just saw - very different kind of movie. Jennifer Hudson was amazing and the dancing was great - the CG was distracting tho

I left halfway through. Bored out of my mind

Talented ensemble at their best. Makes me wish I had seen the live performance. I would have likes to see a trailer after the movie that identified who played each role could only identify about five actors.

Amazing.

Bad luck

great movie

One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen! Kinda compared to a high school play! Pull it!

What did just watch? Terrible special effects. Awful.

And experience that must be thing to believed

Better than most reviews say. if you enjoy the original play you'll probably enjoy this too.

I loved it

I now appreciate cats.

Loved! Loved! Loved! I will see this many more times! I was moved to tears!

Not my favorite. Good effects but it was very slow and felt more like slugging through it than enjoying a real world distraction.

This movie is slept on. It’s AMAZING. Stop reading the bad reviews and you be the judge. Don’t let people’s opinions rob you of a beautiful experience!

this is the 1st time ever that I walked out a movie. horrible horrible movie

Left early didn’t translate to big screen. Can never get that time back.

The rotten tomatoes say it all! It had so much potential for it to be Broadway like but could not even keep Activision CGI correct! Bravo J Hud belting out Memories!

It's literally just the musical made into a movie. If you know what you're getting yourself into, you won't be disappointed.

Pretty boring

I typically do not leave comments and I understand to each their own but this was one of the worst film I've wasted money on by far. I can' t even say I wish o could unsee it because I started reading a book about 15 minutes into the film. Would have left but had to stick around waiting for family.

Liked was glad I saw it, would not go again.

Helps to see the theater production first

if you’ve never seen the broadway musical then you’re not going to get it. I loved it! it brought me back to my eleventh birthday when i went to see it before they left NY

I love all things Broadway and cat related things but that was the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Such a great cast but such a poor performance. Do not recommend.

Weird movie, great music. See it with an open, and thats the only way you will like it! It is art...

Not sure why this is one of the longest running musicals ever. Judy Dench, Did you not have ANY other options? Jennifer Hudson was good, though, so two stars for that.

Although the movies has a lot of great actors and actresses , it was the worst. Not worth the money

Slow starting! End was good. A one time watch

Weird but I knew that going into it

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It’s 80-year-old Ian McKellen who can best answer that last question, having the most fun of anyone as Gus the Theater Cat, lapping out of saucers and rubbing up against corners like the true thespian he is. And really, for all its flaws, what more could you possibly ask for from Cats?

Marissa Martinelli

Slate

Badly cast, broadly directed, and hampered by a book that hasn’t aged well since the musical’s 1981 West End debut, it’s hard to imagine just who this film’s target audience is.

It's almost unfathomable that this one made it through all the preliminary production meetings without someone sensibly calling a halt to the process by saying, Wait a minute, those kitties are damn creepy!

David Rooney

The Hollywood Reporter