Me-ow. Critics aren't holding back on their criticism for the all-star musical Cats.
adding that the classic musical numbers are"twisted into campy, awards-grubbing cameos for big-name stars in bad-CG cat drag."
"Sadly, this uneven eyesore turns out to be every bit the Jellicle catastrophe the haters anticipated, a half-digested hairball of a movie in which Hooper spends too much energy worrying about whether the technology is ready to accommodate his vision and not enough focusing on what millions love about the musical in the first place," Debruge adds.
Eric Kohn agreed, adding that the cast was"so keen on upstaging one another with excessive song-and-dance numbers they may as well be competing for a Heaviside Layer of their own," a feline heaven in the film where cats are reborn.Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney couldn't get over the"generally off-putting appearance of the cats," a common critique among critics, especially Elba's overtly nude Macavity.
"If you recoiled… at the sight of British acting royalty with their faces stuck onto little furry bodies, or even just the jarring image of cats with human breasts, chances are you'll still be covering your eyes and peering in a profoundly disturbed state through the gaps between your fingers at the finished film," Rooney says. "At least until boredom sets in."
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