Over the break I watched the Cats movie with my family. This movie, if you didn’t already know, is a movie adaptation of the classic Andrew Lloyd Weber musical from the eighties. Starting off, I did enjoy the movie. However, the CGI (computer generated images) and the plot was very weird to me. I feel like my current obsession with Broadway was definitely a factor that increased my enjoyment. Another factor that made me enjoy the movie was the stacked cast. Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, Rebel Wilson, James Corden, Jason Derulo, and more. In my opinion, Jennifer Hudson and Taylor Swift definitely stole the show. Jennifer sang the popular show stopping song “Memory” and absolutely killed it. Taylor’s song “Macavity” was theatrical and not what I expected, but I still enjoyed it. She also wrote an original song for the movie with Andrew Lloyd Webber, titled “Beautiful Ghosts”, which was sung by Francesca Hayward, who played the main cat Victoria. I truly can’t imagine the story without this song - it is sung after Memory which makes complete sense with the plot.
Moving on, the plot was another part that surprised me. Throughout the whole film, the main cats are basically introducing themselves, and further auditioning or competing to become the “Jellicle Choice.” The chosen cat then ascends to heaven at the Jellicle Ball. The cats are basically auditioning to die, and I found this a little morbid. I’m not going to spoil which cat won, but I was satisfied with the end.
A cat that I liked was the magical Mr. Mistofelees (the cats names are so weird). He is the magician cat, and he is very entertaining. Easily one of the weirdest parts of the whole movie was the two separate times where Rebel Wilson’s character unzipped her SKIN, and the one time she ate live dancing and singing cockroaches. Taylor’s five minute scene, as Bombalurina, was honestly my favourite part of the whole movie. Also, James Corden’s scenes were pretty funny.
In conclusion, I did enjoy watching the movie, even if it was pretty weird and a little disturbing. I don’t think I would watch it again. I give it a 7/10 stars.