Cats - The Movie

He absolutely did. I’m pretty sure all the dancers did, it looks like they were cast for dance first and there’s several world-class dancers in the mix (including McRae who played Skimbleshanks).

I saw Cats last week with my partner. He is a fan of the stage show, and also really liked the film. I am NOT a fan of the stage show and had mixed feelings about the film.

I don’t like the stage show because I need a good plot to care about the characters. A previous poster mentioned Company and Chorus Line and I don’t really like either of those for the same reason. I also don’t find most of the songs in Cats very good. So I went in without high hopes.

The good: I REALLY liked Victoria and Munkustrap. They were easily the highlights for me. I also liked Taylor Swift and a fair amount of the second half of the film. I liked that it had a LITTLE bit more plot than the stage show, and how they used Victoria. I loved the way the ears were animated.

The bad: I didn’t like most of the first half-hour. I found Bustopher rolling in rotting food and Jennyanydots skinning herself disturbing. I didn’t mind the CGI fur, but I actually wished they’d gone all the way and furred the hands and faces too, instead of half-half. There still isn’t enough plot for me; I don’t really care about who gets to the Heavyside Layer (or understand what it’s meant to even be). Also, although I thought the dancers were excellent, I didn’t like the choreography much. I particularly disliked the staging of The Ad-dressing of Cats, which seemed staged for a theatre rather than for film.

We went to an evening show on New Year's Eve. There were 4 other people in the cinema.

IIRC it was filmed at the Adelphi because it offered more convenience. I imagine they wanted to do more than simply film a live performance from the auditorium, and using a separate set meant they could set up suitable lighting and platforms for the cameras and leave them in place overnight whereas at the New London they'd have had to spend a large part of each day setting up and clearing everything out.

Took my daughters to see this today. We really enjoyed it. Certainly not worthy of the terrible reviews. A fair 3 star film in my view, and a better narrative than the stage show. The music sounded fantastic. Glad we went - the cinema was probably 50% full.

I saw it again this afternoon, my mum's opinion was "it's still weird" (she also saw it with me the first time) and my thought was "yes, but it's beautiful". I enjoyed it just as much, if not more the second time around. I was able to notice other bits I'd missed before, such as the ears twitching.

I love the harmonies in Old Deuteronomy, and the poignancy of Beautiful Ghosts, especially when Victoria sings "all that I wanted, was to be wanted". I loved Skimbleshanks' tap dancing again, pleased to read above he did all the dancing himself.

My two local cinemas are no longer showing it, so I went to a Vue. It also still had Judi's ring (although not on her wedding finger, I noticed it on her right hand when she was in the basket judging the Jellicle Ball) so I'm also confused as to whether we saw the updated version or not. It didn't detract from my enjoyment though.

now our various knee jerk outrages have subsided, it's still a peculiar movie, and a clumsily made especially next to the masterclass that is 1917, but if you have time do look at this....

I saw this last week...the reviews were far too kind.

It's kinda interesting that the 2 people who were by far the worst in it are the only to 2 to slag it off publicly. 

Says a lot about them really.

Rebel's speech at the BAFTA's was amazing, and was subsequently widely shared on social media over the days after it aired and for me, was probably the highlight of the whole evening! Making jokes about the film bares no correlation to her as a person whatsoever. The film absolutely flopped - no one was really any good in it, so it can't be down to Wilson and Corden (if anything I’d say Ray Winston nailed the coffin shut for me 😂), they're just the only people who have taken the mic out of it, good for them. Hardly life or death!

Has she (or indeed Corden) ever proved that they were funny?

I do always laugh at the UK medias insistence that Corden is a smash hit over there when he hosts the 5th most popular late night talk show. Every time I see his success mentioned I cant help but think that an equivalent of us sending someone over to the states and them overhyping themselves would be Charlie from Casualty going to Hollywood and getting media publicity claiming he's the UK's Dr McDreamy.