A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.

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Film Cast:

• Victoria: Francesca Hayward
• Old Deuteronomy: Judi Dench
• Macavity: Idris Elba
• Rum Tum Tugger: Jason Derulo
• Grizabella: Jennifer Hudson
• Bustopher Jones: James Corden
• Gus, the Theatre Cat: Ian McKellen
• Bombalurina: Taylor Swift
• Jennyanydots: Rebel Wilson
• Growltiger: Ray Winstone
• Plato: Larry Bourgeois
• Socrates: Laurent Bourgeois
• Mr. Mistoffelees: Laurie Davidson
• Munkustrap: Robert Fairchild
• Mungojerrie: Danny Collins
• Rumpleteazer: Naoimh Morgan
• Skimbleshanks, the Railway Cat: Steven McRae
• Cassandra: Mette
• Demeter: Daniela Norman
• Coricopat: Jaih Betote
• Syllabub: Jonadette Carpio
• Tantomile: Zizi Strallen
• Jellylorum: Freya Rowley
• Alonzo: Bluey Robinson
• Admetus: Eric Underwood
• Electra: Ida Saki
• Maitre D’: Cory English
• Griddlebone: Melissa Madden-Gray
• Chorus: Ponciano Almeida
• Chorus: Aaron Jenkins
• Chorus: Shay Barclay
• Chorus: Samuel Baxter
• Chorus: Nicole Bondzie
• Chorus: Chrissy Brooke
• Chorus: Sharifa Butterfly
• Chorus: Jon-Scott Clark
• Chorus: Tom Clark
• Chorus: Yasmin Cogan
• Chorus: Olivia Cowley
• Chorus: Tommy Franzen
• Chorus: Yasmin Harrison
• Chorus: Kalene Jeans
• Chorus: Jaron Johnson
• Chorus: Lynn Jung
• Chorus: Kolton Krouse
• Chorus: Rufus Lacey
• Chorus: Gabrielle Lewis-Dodson
• Chorus: Benjamin Milan
• Chorus: Roxanne Milliner
• Chorus: Katie Moreton-Hughes
• Chorus: Muti Musafiri
• Chorus: Redmand Rance
• Chorus: Zhanè Samuels
• Chorus: Corey Snide
• Chorus: Clemmie Sveaas
• Chorus: Po-Lin Tung
• Chorus: Kie Willis
• Woman in Car: Maggie Daniels
• Mouse Sister: Olivia Brooks
• Mouse Sister: Chase Collard
• Mouse Sister: Meesha Garbett
• Mouse Sister: Harriet Turnbull
• Mouse Band: Jamal Ahmed
• Mouse Band: Leonardo Feng
• Mouse Band: Gregory Mann
• Mouse Band: Temba Mliswa
• Mouse Band: Joel Swedensky
• Cockroach: Erica-Jayne Alden
• Cockroach: Hannah Amin
• Cockroach: Emma Caffrey
• Cockroach: Selina Hamilton
• Cockroach: Abigayle Honeywill
• Cockroach: Bethany Huckle
• Cockroach: Ella Martine
• Cockroach: Jazz Peters
• Macavity Girl: Jade Albertson
• Macavity Girl: Sophie Carmen-Jones
• Macavity Girl: Chelsea Hogg
• Macavity Girl: Hannah Faith-Marram

Film Crew:

• Screenplay: Tom Hooper
• Screenplay: Lee Hall
• Lyricist: T.S. Eliot
• Producer: Tim Bevan
• Unit Production Manager: Jo Burn
• Producer: Eric Fellner
• Producer: Debra Hayward
• Director of Photography: Christopher Ross
• Songs: Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Executive Producer: Angela Morrison
• Editor: Melanie Oliver
• Production Design: Eve Stewart
• Art Direction: Matt Sharp
• Art Direction: Ketan Waikar
• Supervising Art Director: Tom Weaving
• Assistant Set Decoration: Rebecca Pilkington
• Hairstylist: Uxue Laguardia
• Lyricist: Taylor Swift
• Lyricist: Trevor Nunn
• Costume Coordinator: Rebecca Tredget
• Digital Compositor: Vladyslav Driuchyn
• Gaffer: Mark Clayton
• Unit Production Manager: Nick Fulton
• Co-Producer: Ben Howarth
• Co-Producer: Sarah-Jane Robinson
• Casting: Lucy Bevan
• Executive Producer: Liza Chasin
• Costume Design: Paco Delgado
• Production Sound Mixer: Simon Hayes
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Jason Billington
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Phil Brennan
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Kirstin Hall
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Matt Jacobs
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Jessica Norman
• Music Supervisor: Becky Bentham
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Minkler
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Mike Dowson
• Stunt Coordinator: Jo McLaren
• Visual Effects Producer: Rupert Smith
• Associate Editor: Alex Anstey
• Supervising Music Editor: John Warhurst
• Assistant Art Director: Susannah Brough
• Assistant Art Director: Greg Bradlaugh
• Standby Art Director: Joanne Ridler
• Set Decoration: Michael Standish
• Property Master: Craig Price
• “B” Camera Operator: Iain Mackay
• “C” Camera Operator: Oliver Loncraine
• First Assistant “A” Camera: Emiliano Topai
• Second Assistant “A” Camera: Esther Venanzi
• First Assistant “B” Camera: Ben Brown
• Second Assistant “B” Camera: Alex Finlayson
• First Assistant “C” Camera: Max Glickman
• Key Grip: Warwick Drucker
• Special Effects Supervisor: Paul Dimmer
• Costume Supervisor: Kate O’Farrell
• Assistant Costume Designer: Debbie Scott
• Makeup Designer: Sharon Martin
• Script Supervisor: Paula Casarin
• Makeup Artist: Niamh O’Loan
• Makeup Artist: Nuria Mbomio
• Hairstylist: Sharon Day
• Makeup Artist: Sara Menitra
• Makeup Artist: Lesley Hooper
• Makeup Artist: Magdalena Janusinska-Surma
• Makeup Artist: Charlotte Hayward
• Makeup Artist: Carmel Jackson
• Production Coordinator: Vicky Bishop
• Production Secretary: Freya Evans
• Still Photographer: Giles Keyte
• Casting Associate: Emily Brockmann
• Casting Assistant: Olivia Grant
• Casting Assistant: Catherine Bensley
• Transportation Captain: Paula Hind
• Music Editor: Victor Chaga
• Music Editor: Cecile Tournesac
• Sound Designer: Jed Loughran
• Sound Effects Editor: Luke Gentry
• Sound Effects Editor: David Mackie
• ADR Mixer: Mark Appleby
• Foley Editor: Sophia Hardman
• Foley Editor: Ben Chick
• Assistant Sound Editor: Victoria Freund
• Assistant Sound Editor: James Shirley
• Foley Artist: Sue Harding
• Foley Artist: Oliver Ferris
• Dialect Coach: Jane Karen
• VFX Artist: Kutay Cengil
• VFX Artist: Prakash Goyal
• Art Department Assistant: Sami Fendall
• 3D Artist: Reetu Aggarwal

Movie Reviews:

• SWITCH.: I was always excited for ‘Cats’, and to learn about it as a musical fan. The first trailer made me more excited, because seeing those god-awful effects only made me want to see it more. I always get excited for big-budget musicals because it means we could get more, but ‘Cats’ just fails on every level. It’s a boring musical with forgettable songs and uninteresting choreography… and then it also fails as a bad film, since it offers no batshit fun. Poking fun at the CGI is all well and good, but you can do that from the trailer, so there’s no point being bored for two hours during this holiday season.
• Meow, that hurt indeed.
  – Chris dos Santos

• Read Chris’ full article…
  https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-cats-no-bad-kitty-no-one-is-the-jellicle-cat

• Luis_989: Theatrical plays or musicals will not always translate well into filmic language, that’s well known and will not change, because both media are very different by nature. To question it is to deceive yourself.
• Personally I’ve never believed that Cats is a great musical but perhaps its success says something else but even so a film adaptation in my view just could not work. I didn’t see how, especially considering the costumes but it was being made so the question now was how it was going to look.
• I know there’s already a ”movie” but that’s basically a recording of the play.
• Then the trailers appeared and what they showed looked weird, off putting and scary, but the visual work is not always everything in a movie, yet something decisive was being played here.
  Eventually the defeat was inevitable.

• Cats is full of good intentions but it’s a failure, not only because of terrible work in CGI and how it makes you feel but because it never manages to immerse you in the world of the story and is a bizarre world and I can have fun in bizarre worlds, it’s only that this one is pretty misguided.
• I don’t think it’s that huge fiasco that a lot of film critics are saying it is and maybe eventually will find its niche and audience, after all worse films have become cults films, so that can surely happen but right now Cats is simply an idea that didn’t work, that it wasn’t well executed or directed and that although it’s not a monumental catastrophe, it’s indeed a gigantic disappointment.
• Louisa Moore – Screen Zealots: Sometimes a movie struts its awfulness with such glee that it becomes an enjoyably sadistic pleasure rather than a chore to watch.
• Such is the case with “Cats,” the big screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1982 musical that became one of Broadway’s longest-running shows. The stage version of “Cats” has grossed over $4 billion dollars, so of course Hollywood had to get their greedy claws in the mix and bring it to the local cineplex (where it promptly flopped). Anyone with a brain could see that all of this would prove to be a huge mistake, because when the source material is god-awful, how would you expect the film to turn out?
• Let’s start with the good: the costuming and makeup artistry are both brilliant, if creepy. At first it’s disturbing and laughable to watch humans prance around and groom themselves but it doesn’t take long until you actually start to see them as cats. (And yes, it’s precisely the type of disconcerting feeling that will provide haunting nightmares for years to come). The dancing is beautifully proficient and the choreography creative, with some lovely ballet numbers. Those who enjoy classic theater and dance will find plenty to keep them engaged.
• That’s where the positives end.
• The movie’s plot closely follows the Broadway play, which means it’s just as awful. The gist is that a tribe of street cats all gather together on the night of the Jellicle moon and perform in a feline talent show so head cat Old Deuteronomy (Judi Dench) can decide which cat is worthy to ascend to a new life. It’s a creepy story that’s made even more disturbing when you stop and think about it.
• To keep today’s idiot audiences engaged, director Tom Hooper throws in your standard issue fatty-fall-down slapstick gags and crotch hits that are sure to elicit a tornado of laughter. And although every cast member appears downright terrifying as a human/cat hybrid, the worst is the cameo from Taylor Swift as a sexed-up feline provocateur and purveyor of enchanted catnip. Yikes.
• Weber’s repetitive songs are even more grating when translated to the screen (but hey, at least there’s “Memory”). The vocal performances are second-rate too. Jennifer Hudson has become a self-parody with her overacting and oversinging. Hudson’s angsty, tear-filled, snot-flying rendition of “Memory” is hilariously awful. Rebel Wilson‘s tap dance feels like an acid trip gone wrong as she trains her army of child-faced mice to dance for her pleasure (as she gleefully bites live cockroaches with human faces in half as they scream for mercy).
• I’m not sure if anyone should see this movie of their own accord, but it absolutely could have legs as a midnight movie a’la Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room.”
• Louisa Moore – Screen Zealots: Sometimes a movie struts its awfulness with such glee that it becomes an enjoyably sadistic pleasure rather than a chore to watch.
• Such is the case with “Cats,” the big screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1982 musical that became one of Broadway’s longest-running shows. The stage version of “Cats” has grossed over $4 billion dollars, so of course Hollywood had to get their greedy claws in the mix and bring it to the local cineplex (where it promptly flopped). Anyone with a brain could see that all of this would prove to be a huge mistake, because when the source material is god-awful, how would you expect the film to turn out?
• Let’s start with the good: the costuming and makeup artistry are both brilliant, if creepy. At first it’s disturbing and laughable to watch humans prance around and groom themselves but it doesn’t take long until you actually start to see them as cats. (And yes, it’s precisely the type of disconcerting feeling that will provide haunting nightmares for years to come). The dancing is beautifully proficient and the choreography creative, with some lovely ballet numbers. Those who enjoy classic theater and dance will find plenty to keep them engaged.
• That’s where the positives end.
• The movie’s plot closely follows the Broadway play, which means it’s just as awful. The gist is that a tribe of street cats all gather together on the night of the Jellicle moon and perform in a feline talent show so head cat Old Deuteronomy (Judi Dench) can decide which cat is worthy to ascend to a new life. It’s a creepy story that’s made even more disturbing when you stop and think about it.
• To keep today’s idiot audiences engaged, director Tom Hooper throws in your standard issue fatty-fall-down slapstick gags and crotch hits that are sure to elicit a tornado of laughter. And although every cast member appears downright terrifying as a human/cat hybrid, the worst is the cameo from Taylor Swift as a sexed-up feline provocateur and purveyor of enchanted catnip. Yikes.
• Weber’s repetitive songs are even more grating when translated to the screen (but hey, at least there’s “Memory”). The vocal performances are second-rate too. Jennifer Hudson has become a self-parody with her overacting and oversinging. Hudson’s angsty, tear-filled, snot-flying rendition of “Memory” is hilariously awful. Rebel Wilson‘s tap dance feels like an acid trip gone wrong as she trains her army of child-faced mice to dance for her pleasure (as she gleefully bites live cockroaches with human faces in half as they scream for mercy).
• I’m not sure if anyone should see this movie of their own accord, but it absolutely could have legs as a midnight movie a’la Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room.”
• Martha: I don’t understand why people reviewed this so badly. Minus James Corden this was a very amusing take on a musical I have always loved. Ian McKellen shined as Gus. Jennifer Hudson made me cry as Grizabella. Idris Elba was purr-fect as Macavity. Judy Dench was the perfect choice for Old Deuteronomy. The cast was really good, save for James Corden who grossed me out eating like a pig and hitting wrong notes.
• GenerationofSwine: What?!
• I’ll be honest, I didn’t like the musical back in the 90s, I thought it was just plain awful and kind of pretentious.
• But the good news is that this is so much worse. Even Dame Judy Dench doesn’t seem to be able to find a footing, and she’s a Dame for a reason, she’s probably one of the greatest living actresses on the face of the earth… and Cats makes her look utterly incompetent.
• It’s a cringe fest from start to finish.
• And all I can say is that I am so sorry so many talented and respected people had to be in this train wreck.
• James: Ever thought you’d found the worst film in existence, well you were wrong. It’s this.