Cats
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tsumichimai It's been so long since there's been a theatrical, big budget disaster of this magnitude, but Cats manages to disappoint, disturb, and confuse at every single turn. As best I can tell, Cats revolves around a young kitten abandoned on the street who meets a variety of other cats before some big ball where one cat is named as the ultimate jellicle cat. This is really all there is to the film and it mostly consists of people you sort of know showing up, mugging for the camera, doing a song and dance, and then never being heard from again. There's also Idris Elba as an evil cat who wants to kill (or just magically transport them to another location? all the runners up for the big award. Why? No one knows. Are some cats just born bad? Was he abused one too many times? Cats doesn't offer any answers of nuance and almost feels like you're watching a 3 hour movie that's had all the important character development and plot points scissored out, leaving us with a movie that doesn't make a lick of sense.
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tsumichimai Pretty much every actor makes a fool of themselves multiple times throughout and you wonder what made them sign on to this mess in the first place. I will give director Tom Hooper one thing - it looks better and less claustrophobic than his Les Miserables with wider shots and a bevvy of colors swirling around the characters in an attempt to mimic the inner city night life. Sadly, visuals aren't enough to keep one's interest in a story that makes no sense and featuring characters who are this one dimensional and flat.
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tsumichimai I'm afraid it's not even fun on a campy "what were they thinking? kind of level like The Room or Showgirls.