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
Only thing good was JHudson
Worst film I’ve seen and I’m a Broadway and Cats fan!
my friend was snooring
meowmeowmeow
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.
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
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
Very interesting and moving. Jennifer Hudson's solo brought me to tears.
Worst movie ever!!!! Totally wasted money and time! Very disappointing
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.
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
Amazing.
I left halfway through. Bored out of my mind
too much CGI
This was the most terrifying and god awful movie I’ve seen in my life. The animation and CGI was horrendous, the music was never ending, the plot was non existent, the cats were very sexually suggestive. There’s cats drugging each other, making weird gestures towards each other, and for some reason we have pirate cats in the mix as well. Please save yourself from seeing this incredibly awful and unwatchable pile of horse crap.
I loved it
Sooooooooo slow and boring I literally fell asleep and I am a lifelong CATS fan...it was really disappointing because we went for our Christmas movie and it was extremely underwhelming. It doesn’t translate well from stage to screen for me.
Too much fun but it is not what I expected
Horrible movie! Worst I've seen in a long time. I almost got up and left halfway through. There was absolutely no point to this movie.
Worst movie I have seen! People Walked out of theater during first 1/2 hour. The only good thing about this movie was Jennifer Hudson’s performance and the costumes. Could they not see how bad it was while filming????
I literally left it in the first 15mins and went and watch Frozen 11. I had more fun watching that. Honestly
Nothing special. If you've experienced Cats before, there's really no need to watch this version.
It was horrible
And experience that must be thing to believed
Costumes, cast, talent, singing, and dancing where phenomenal. The storyline (or lack thereof) and how “slow” it was ruined it for me. Very strange movie...
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Best movie of all time. Seeing again and again. Loved fat Amy’s role. Only complaint not enough tay yay for me.
The edits make it much better.
given the caliber of cast, I expected something..anything. this film is a total flop. possibly ruined some of the actors careers. I would prefer to read president Trumps tweets than to ever endure this film again
I was one of 3 in the theater. In the last row was a very young boy and his aunt. He was not happy. I heard him running back and forth throughout the entire movie. He was asking if it was almost over 15 minutes in. Towards the end he yells. Why do they like singing so much? the world may never know. I enjoyed it but it was unnecessary to have 2 “comedic” crotch shot jokes. It was as if they were trying to appeal to children as well as fans of the musical and failed to please anyone.
Utterly dull.
Despite the bad reviews, we enjoyed CATS, good costumes and stage production. The big stars didnt help the plots but they were still fun to watch. The dazzling costumes didnt help carry on some of the boring songs. Though the 'memory song' seems always to get applauds. It is still a steal deal compare to attend the CATS Broadway show. The audiences can see clear all the facial expressions of all the characters and no obstructions of stage views at any angles!!!
One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen! Kinda compared to a high school play! Pull it!
A beautiful disaster of a masterpiece
I really enjoyed the movie and cast. I enjoyed the message it left. Great movie.
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.
this movie really wasn't my cup of tea I went because my daughter wanted to see it the main character was gorgeous so I will give her that
A wonderful movie, great singing, acting and costuming!
Loved! Loved! Loved! I will see this many more times! I was moved to tears!
Couldn't understand lyrics in some songs. It was a bit hard to follow what was happening
Metacritic
The real issue is the distracting and disturbing “digital fur technology”. Every time Cats settles into an admittedly avant-garde shape, an ear twitches or a tail flicks and you’re back thinking about how ghastly the actual cats look.
Cats undermines itself in both editing and musical arrangement, barely has a plot to hang its hat on, and is CGI-ed into oblivion. 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.
Whether you think the imagery is beautiful or nightmarish, this is a film that demands to be looked at. If nothing else, I can confirm it’s the most Jellicle experience I’ve had all year.