My original plan was to do an entry in this segment on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for the next review, but I just watched Cats for the first time. This movie was released on December 20th, 2019, it was panned by critics and audiences alike and it bombed at the box office, grossing $75.4 million on a $95 million budget. Cats was a movie that I initially vowed that I would never see, but because I decided to do this segment on this blog, I just said fuck it, and seeked out a Blu-ray copy and sat down in my dark room and watched it. What can I say about Cats? Cats is a very uncomfortable, awkward movie. If a movie where people literally act like cats sounds like a movie that would entertain you, well then watch Cats. If you think a movie where Rebel Wilson lays down, spreads her legs open and starts scratching her upper legs near her crotch sounds delightful to you, watch Cats. This movie has some of the worst CGI work I have ever seen in a major professional film, it's so poorly done that at times you can actually see the actor's faces move off of the CGI cat bodies. The song and dance sequences go on forever, they never end! I wouldn't care if the songs were good, but they aren't. The songs are extremely repetitive, some of them are ungodly annoying. There is one song near the end where they repeat the chorous at least 18 times. Another song before the end credits where that one old lady cat just sings very slowly, and just when you think the song is over, she starts singing even more, it just DRAGS ON! Speaking of dragging on, this entire film dragged on! It felt so much longer than it actually was. This was easily the most anger inducing film I have seen in a very long time, since Fantastic Four (2015) and Collateral Beauty, and I never thought I would ever say this, but this is worse than those. This is now the worst film of the 2010s, definitely the worst film of 2019. Cats does not deserve to be called a movie, it is an attack on the very concept of entertainment. I hated this film, it is one of the top 5 worst films I have ever seen in my life.
Grade: F
Run time: 110 min
MPAA: PG (for peril, some thematic elements and rude humor)
Studio: Universal Pictures
