Cats (2019)

Today we bid farewell to a musicals month where we RAISED THE CURTAIN & BELTED THE CHORUS and we might as well end it with another, infamous, Andrew Lloyd Webber selection. The stage show of “Cats” has always been the bizarre butt of jokes. Openly hated and yet consistently attended, it ran on broadway for a very long time. Today’s discussion of the Tom Hooper directed version of “CATS” from 2019 might have expanded the hatred of “Cats” to a wider audience. Post production was manic with the visual effects supposedly being tweaked up to the day it premiered in the theaters. A $75 million box office would be a solid outing for many movies but not when the budget clears $80 million. It stars a plethora of folks such as Judi Dench, Idris Elba, Jason Derulo, Jennifer Hudson, Ian McKellen, Francesca Hayward, James Corden and Rebel Wilson. At the very least this movie is strange as hell but is it as bad as they say? What works and what doesn’t? Is the singing good? Is it as obnoxious as many say that “Cats” has always been? We’ll set you straight. Sure, everybody’s wrung this rag already but now it’s our turn to see the Werecats off to the Heaviside Layer. Maybe we’ll join them.

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