I didn’t see the Broadway Musical! But I loved this musical, Cats! The performances were wonderful, including singing and dancing! The costumes were fantastic, that they really looked like real cats to me! The makeup artists did an amazing job! The tails and ears of the cats were remarkable with great emotion, whether happy, sad or scared! The facial expressions were wonderful! The ballet performances and choreography was stupendous! I loved seeing long time stars in this that I actually knew, rather than some unknown or relatively new!
I would never compare a film musical to a stage musical production and have never seen Cats on New York Stage, so I can’t compare! Stage is better than film, undoubtedly! But, critics say there is nothing good about it! I don’t care if the storyline seemed implausible to some! The plots in musicals don’t always have to be great scripts, but the singing, dancing and ballet can be what makes a musical great! To me, at 70, I was entertained from beginning to end, and didn’t want it to end at all! I was mesmerized throughout the film! I loved the music of Andrew Lloyd Weber! I miss the MGM musicals I used to watch with my Mom as a child! Some of them make have been corny to critics today! But we need more musicals on film, for pure enjoyment and entertainment that don’t have sex, profanity and violence, which seems to be the norm these days!
After what is happening in the news everyday, day after day, non stop, we need some enjoyment and fantasy!
So critics and film goers can condemn the Cats film all they want! I would invite everyone who loves music, ballet and singing to see this and don’t compare it to Cats on Broadway! So go, see and give the film Cats a chance despite critics and invite your adult family and friends and children to escape into another world! You won’t regret that you did!