"Congratulations to dogs"
There's one thing that people around the globe are bonding over today. We refer not to Donald Trump's impeachment, but the movie 'Cats'.
'Cats' hits cinemas this Friday but there was an embargo on reviews for the film. Until now.
In our review of the movie, we describe it as leaving us with "consistent discomfort". It's "disturbingly weird" with an "over-zealous chorus" that "move around in a slithering mass akin to the monster of a horror film." It's not only "baffling" but "unbelievably boring" and "just doesn’t need to exist."
Fellow reviewers and others who saw the film had much to say about it too. Here are some of our favourite responses from Twitter:
The reviews for #CatsMovie has inspired new levels of creativity for reviewers and I could not be more here for it pic.twitter.com/F1kq2v1eJj
— River Wells (@riverhwells) December 19, 2019
Reviews of “Cats” are out...
I think this movie might be bad pic.twitter.com/toCHIW6Rbl— Brian Fraser (@brianpfraser) December 19, 2019
I would pay to read a book of just Cats reviews. pic.twitter.com/3HTHxHH9Zf
— Joseph S. Pete (@nwi_jsp) December 19, 2019
amazon prime and netflix waiting to see who gets the streaming rights to cats (2019) so they can shitpost professionally pic.twitter.com/FKlNHuYJMP
— lucy ford 🍊 (@lucyj_ford) December 19, 2019
Cats review – a purr-fectly dreadful hairball of woe | Peter Bradshaw's film of the week https://t.co/HtUcBaGwFJ
— The Guardian (@guardian) December 19, 2019
Can’t stop reading Cats reviews can’t stop reading Cats reviews can’t stop reading Cats reviews can’t stop reading Cats reviews can’t stop r pic.twitter.com/ac0BjcCWj7
— SpitLip (@spitlip) December 19, 2019
Tom Hooper's #CATS is getting panned by critics
17% - Rotten Tomatoes
31 - Metacritic
'the worst thing to happen to cats since dogs' pic.twitter.com/Ff0eCYPyOG— ScreenTime (@screentime) December 19, 2019
from @JustinCChang's review of CATS:
"strange"
"tiny human-faced cockroaches"
"disquieting"
"both a horror and an endurance test"
"ghastly"
"tedious"
"disturbingly humanoid"
"unnervingly human"
"nightmarish anatomy lesson"
"flat, undifferentiated crotches"https://t.co/1Rj1va6sCI— Matt Pearce 🦅🇺🇸 (@mattdpearce) December 19, 2019
True story: I got home after seeing CATS and couldn’t look my own cat in the face for a good hour or two
— jen yamato (@jenyamato) December 19, 2019
How wild is CATS? At one point, the colleague I sat next to literally leaned back in their seat and moaned “Stooooop! Stoooooop!”
CATS had broken their mind, now and forever.— Matt Singer / mattsinger.bsky.social (@mattsinger) December 19, 2019
"Cats" is currently receiving a lot of negative reviews from critics
the critics : pic.twitter.com/ljYvpemory— vito (@certaspessoa) December 19, 2019