Aria Wolff

I've watched the musical live countless times and I've watched the movie. Do I even need to say how much I like it, cause the amount of stars speaks for itself. It's absolute garbage. The music is gorgeous as usual - although I can't say much about how the movie's added a couple new beats and instruments/sounds into the songs to give it a modern touch because it's not painfully noticeable and where it is. It's not the greatest thing I've ever heard, but it takes that nostalgic feel away from those songs. Like a punch to the face. With a brass knuckle ring. On the other hand, the cgi has actually given me nightmares. I don't know about you, but my cats don't shed their entire skin. They have human features where it shouldn't be so human. I like the tails being one with them instead of belts, but the cgi fur and the cgi everything else really takes from it. I preferred the over-the-top neck furs, leg warmers, and hair (on their heads) because it gave character. Added that oomph so the actors wouldn't look like people in latex suits. I didn't come to watch spider-man do twirls. I came to watch avant-garde cat people pirouette around my screen. I actually couldn't tell which cat was Munkustrap, which was Victoria, and who was my favourite girl Cassandra. And what's worse is how because of the cgi, the dancing looked just wrong. They have no shadows when they land, and they float as they drop (or rather float) to the ground. The dancing cats looked like a) dance circles from shoddy kids dance or singing movies, and b) like they weren't actually there. I felt like I was watching Barbie and the 12 Dancing Princesses, where the princess didn't look like they were actually dancing in that space - but like they were edited into that image by some expert memers. I just couldn't with this movie. It could have been amazing had they not changed all the things people liked about it. Also btw, it's a hybrid-conceptual musical - if you don't know what a conceptual musical is, search it up. This musical was never supposed to make sense. They should've watched the documentary of the behind the scenes of the filming of 'Cat's' (1998), where Andrew Lloyd Webber said that when asking T. S. Eliot for the rights to make this musical, T. S. Eliot said he had refused Disney the rights to make Cat's because he 'didn't want it to be turned into cartoon pussycats'. Yeah. That message never got passed on huh? If I could give this 1/58th of a star, I would.