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Timecodes:
2:35 - The Plot
9:13 - The Lack of Conflict
13:01 - The Flop
15:05 - The Uncanny Valley
17:57 - Why Was This Made?
20:04 - Celebs
22:05 - The Music
Sources:
Atlantic Tom Hooper Interview: www.theatlantic.com/entertain...
Box Office: www.boxofficemojo.com/release...
Cats Behind the Scenes #1: • Cats First Look! Go Be...
Cats Behind the Scenes #2: • Cats the Musical Behin...
Cats Behind the Scenes #3: • CATS - Behind the Scenes
Cats Behind the Scenes #4: • CATS - A Look Inside
Cats' Cast FULL Interview With TODAY's Hoda Kotb | TODAY: • Cats' Cast FULL Interv...
Cat School Skit: • 'Cats' School w/ Taylo...
Jennifer Hudson on The Voice: • Video
Judi Dench Interview: • CATS - Judi Dench Inte...
Independent Article: www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...\
Litter-ally terrifying: is Cats the creepiest film of the year? Guardian Article
www.theguardian.com/film/2019...
Rebel Wilson & James Corden Found Making Cats Very Comfortable: • Rebel Wilson & James C...
Tom Hooper Interview: • Director Tom Hooper In...
Vulture Tom Hooper Interview: www.vulture.com/2019/12/cats-...
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Watching Rebel Wilson casually eat that human roach person was the most horrifying thing I've ever seen. No horror movie can ever top that scene
Have you seen the playmobil movie?
@@Evayasi Oh God No. What happens in that movie?
@@Doctor-Infinite just... I can't... it's a sin to mention what happened in that movie.
@@Evayasi please, God will forgive you, bestow us your knowledge
I believe it made less then a million dollars on release, I think that explains it all
this didn’t appeal to the theatre community.
this didn’t appeal to the film community.
this didn’t appeal to the art community.
this didn’t appeal to the furry community.
the twenty one million dollar question: how did this get past test screenings?
If furries had designed the characters they would at least look fuckable
kids.
doesn't even have to be sexual. i'd consult with the furry community just because why wouldn't i given this production.
@@merkules6 zootopia managed to appeal to all the above catagories.
@@merkules6 hey you got to use the F word! just like a real junior high kid!
They were too busy wondering "could we?" They never asked "should we?"
Your scientists were too preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should
-Jeff Goldblum
I just want to defend the Beowulf movie haha..
It's awesome, I love it
It's definitely got a bizarre look but it's a solid, fun movie and definitely isn't cringey like this
Same with the CGI in the Lion King remake tbh.
There was a good version of this joke on twitter back when the trailer first came out, something like, "They were too busy wondering if jellicles can and jellicles do, they never asked if jellicles should."
And now *table slap* you're selling it *table slap* you're selling it
It seems that almost EVERYONE, even Disney, have decided that there can never be another original 2D movie ever made again. For gods' sakes, Moana was originally going to be 2-D, but was changed to 3-D CGI for no real reason. YES, 2-D is difficult and tedious to make (frame by frame), But it looks AMAZING when it all works out.
So you're saying that Hollywood is currently sabotaging 2D animation in general. That sounds way too much sense.
Meanwhile Chinese companies realised that the kids love anime and all of the east is quickly becoming a powerhouse of 2D animation. Hollywood has killed off one of the west's most interesting creative outlets all because the boomers didn't get it.
3D is reaaaaally tedious to make too actually, if you animate 2D by computer it's arguably easier - or at least not more difficult. 3D is just "in".
@@amaeliss7827
3D has been “In” for 20 years. It’s starting to get dull. There are pros and cons to both 2D and 3D. 3D allows for a real camera so animators don’t have to painstakingly draw 360 shots and can have more dramatic angles and lighting can be easily controlled. 2D allows for more vibrant color and when it done well it ages like fine wine while 3D ages like milk most of the time.
@@ejm1225
Not currently. 2D has been out for two decades. It’s just studios don’t seem to think 2D is marketable when that is far from the truth. There have been successful 2D films in recent years, it’s just that Disney and other larger animation companies don’t want to take the risk.
Imagine a world where cats was a quality 2D animated film.
SMARTART Now I really wish the Spielberg version happened.
Easy, there's a Multiverse so there's a Universe where the Humans on that Earth decided to make an animation instead of an ugly CGI fest.
Nah I wouldn't want it any other way than this glorious mess
A universe where Hollywood isn't stupid?
Would they draw buttholes?
Idris Elba: Marvel movies are too degrading to make.
Also Idris Elba: *makes Cats*
and after making cats; contracted Coronavirus and blamed people's treatment of earth for the disease.
The man is on a roll ;-)
@@Moodymongul well he's not wrong about how we treat mother nature..
@@Moodymongul In his defence, someone did eat an undercooked bat.
@Macaco Macabra And/or pangolin, one of the most trafficked animals in the world. It was only a matter of time before the bushmeat caught up with us.
@@spooplegeist5260 For quite a time bushmeat / undercooked meat is commonly thought to have been the starting point for many past diseases (etc). That includes Aids, originally a Chimp flu that (probably) transferred via undercooked chimpanzee bush meat.
Its one reason why (in modern times) we have been taught to make sure we cook our food well. However, the taste of raw/undercooked meat has a long history in Human culture (for a number of reasons), and so it's hard for many to give it up (or, to get that education to where it is needed most). I think Ebola will have the same root of transfer too (given the massive increase in the bush meat trade over time).
I feel so bad for the actor who played Skimbleshanks, he's a genuinely amazing ballet dancer and THIS is how they made him look in what might be his only movie role? He was super excited for the role too, and the movie is just utter garbo
That's what you get for being excited to bring such a horrible travesty into existence. You don't get to do this and then get another chance. You lose. Good day sir!
Same with Francesca Howard, I've been a fan of her long before this, shes a beautiful dancer and would have been perfect to play victoria in a BROADWAY production of cats. But then this happens. I'm genuinely angry.
@Sidharth Rao SAME she didn't fucking deserve it. And we cant even blame her for accepting the role, who wouldn't accept a part for a supposed movie production of one of the most successful musicals of all time??? Hopefully she gets better opportunities
Oh boo hoo, the rich people didn't have everything go perfectly their way for once. Give me a break
@@noodlebrains2689 just so you know, ballet dancers generally are not wealthy at all. The median salary for ballet dancers is like 20-30k a year. for the amount of body-destroying physical labor they have to do and the hours they work, that's a pittance. Being a principle dancer at the Royal Ballet would get you more money than average dancers, but that means you'd have to be top of the top of the top. And even at this prestigious level, so she'd get some more money than the average dancer but even dancers at that prestigious level would be making like 200k a year unless they find outside contracts or other hustles. Considering that ballet dancing is so strenuouz to your body, and that your professional career at the top levels basically ends at around 30-40 years of age, you're really not looking at an amazing salary. And, again, these are the TOP dancers of the TOP dancers in the world. Basically, don't lump professional ballet dancers in with people like James Corden and Rebel Wilson, who have very little talent but massive incomes.
The best Lovecraftian horror film ever made.
Underrated comment
More like the best comment.
Fun fact: Lovecraft was historically insane about cats, to the point of whipping up these utterly embarassing musings about why dogs suck and cats are the animals of the gods or whatever the fuck. He would probably sing this piece of shit high praise for whatever worth it has just because.
He was a cat person
This comment is even funnier when you remember 1. Lovecraft was a cat lover and 2. one of his cats went missing and he was really distraught about it. I can absolutely see Lovecraft writing this shit to cope while drunk, waking up, and going, "OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE?!"
I'm waiting for a full CGI - Charles Styles: Mystery Diners - movie. They will use all the budget to remove his mustache.
A post credit scene will reveal that he has in fact RELEASED THE DRONE to solve some very Shush Concerns that if not resolved, could compromise the whole Sting!
"Charles Styles mystery diners."
@@Vele_ hi Charles!
Oh god charles dont say it...
Charles c'mon man they already know who you are!
"Charles styles, mystery diners."
Patch notes
*REMOVED CHARLES' STUPID FACE
And then release the shitty cut to make the fanbase demanding another shitty cut with some hashtag lmao.
Those mice and roaches… Jesus Christ the CGI looks horrendous. Who 👌🏼 this? I wanna talk.
darkprince56 it looks like something out of Ratatoing
darkprince56 It was even worse in theaters. Just look up "Cats cockroach scene" on UA-cam and there’s a video of the old cgi
Reminds me of the hell scenes in Spawn 1997
I know the girl who plays the cockroach at 5:44 😂 she’s so nice and laughs about how she’s now a meme 😂
Captain obvious
a cat is not a dog
- cats 2019
Oh I used to watch your ytps
True Poetry
It’s actually T.S. Eliot. I’m shocked ALW could legally collect money for writing the lyrics when they’re all lifted from Eliot and the lead song’s melody is from Ravel.
@@lookbovine it’s probably licensed or something; ALW had to get permission from TS Eliot’s widow to make the show. Also ALW writes the music and usually other people write the lyrics
I hate that they deliver it so unironically - Old Deuteronomy is super wise and old but gives this stupid reminder that obviously everyone is aware of BECAUSE it's a joke-ish line in a kids book
I saw the unpatched version in cinemas and I'm so glad I did. Some of the mistakes included:
Cats feet clipping down under the floor.
James Corden's character turns transparent at one point so you can see the cobblestone texture behind him.
The barge cats clothes kept clipping into his legs and neck.
There was an actor who's fur wasn't included in that version of the film.
Clothing in general, collars etc looked like they were floating around the characters moving in illogical ways.
You could see a movement difference between the actors forehead and the actual cat heads.
So basically they pulled an NBA 2K and released an unfinished product only for it to have to be patched a week in.
The most unsettling thing is when the faces are trying to catch up to the 3d model. My monkey brain just rejects it.
Who ever thought that would be a good idea?!?? I want what they had 'cos it was obviously a trip to remember
I guess you could say the monkey side won over the cat side
It's not your monkey brain . It's quite unsettling and hard to process.
"Instinctual disgust" is probably how I would describe my reaction to a lot of the characters, and I'm not even that sensitive to uncanny valley stuff. But those mice. What the fuck!
It's like a broken Snapchat filter.
I watched Cats with my friend in theaters and halfway through Memory the alarms went off and we were evacuated out of the theater and we still don't know why. i considered it divine intervention
good story, thank you
another audience member snuck out after enough was enough and made the decision to save all of your psyches
Bullshit alert! Critical Bullshit Level reached
Brainbot Jezebel I’m really not interested in arguing, so I’m saying this without malice-but do you not think you’re being excessively cynical? The story isn’t that preposterous. I’m admittedly pretty gullible, but still
I would have called it bullshit if everyone clapped afterwards. But seeing the movie now... it wouldn't make sense if you DIDNT clap and got to leave
Sure the cats, mice and roaches look absolutely horrendous with the human faces being placed on the CGI models, but... just imagine if they had to do the same thing with horses.
...
Adum from yms would love that
Yeah, I bet.
*DON'T GIVE THEM ANY FUCKING IDEAS*
look up Ludwig the accursed from bloodborne. that's your answer
What really gets me is the use of clothes. I mean the whole movie is a visual disaster, but when some cats wear clothes, and some cats don’t? When some cats have clothes in some scenes and then turn up with none later?? That reads as naked. You can barely focus on ANYTHING else.
Yeah Idris Elba goes from being the least terrifying to the most terrifying cat the second they take away his clothes. When you put a character in clothes and then remove said clothes that can only be read as naked, like honestly what were they thinking
Judi Dench´s cat is wearing a fur coat made out of cat-fur,over her actual cat-fur.
My question: did she shaved off her own fur and they knit her an cat-fur coat or did they skin some other poor cat for it?
Tom was working on this up to last minute - yeah it has editing mistakes. Its funny people went nuts about TLJ and still do and insult Rian when there are just a FEW editing mistakes. Everything is edited badly here and people are like ... whatever
@@doublep1980 ...Now I can't get the picture of half shaven Cat-Judi-Dench knitting her own fur into a furry coat while singing to herself in that old lady voice out of my head.
@@chuckbatman5 and it's so weird since edris elba is muscular you can see his muscles even through the fur¿¿ And it's just so weird... and the fat characters just look even worse, like they've been wrapped in something very tight
Ralph is dressed like he is being sat down in front of his parents to tell him they are getting a divorce.
"But you're adopted anyway, so you shouldn't care that much."
That's true
In Lovecraftian lore, there is a play called 'The King in Yellow' the play connects you directly to the Old One Hastur. No showing of the play has ever been done with the actors and audiences sanity intact.
I believe that is what Cats is.
Have you seen the yellow sign?
Him who eats time... Rejoice! Death is not the end!
There's an SCP (SCP-701) with a very similar concept, too. Almost certainly based on The King In Yellow, but an interesting read nonetheless
@@toaster9922 You sir should unmask
Carcosa..
James cordon: this technology they used for the CG is groundbreaking and new and it’s blowing my mind!
The actual technology: **basic cgi equipment and normal mocap suits**
With wires!, don’t forget the wire work!
but the fur! it definitely doesn't look like ordinary video game hair!
You mean mocat suits? It’s not groundbreaking tech but it is furbreaking.
actual technology: *uncanny Valley*
Mike Myers’ Cat in the Hat, but everyone looks like Mike Myers as Cat in the Hat: The Musical: The Movie
I don't know good names
Fucking SOOOOMEHOW the director of Cats was able to create a more nightmare inducing, weirdly sexual horrorshow with creepy fucking characters and a nonesense story that added unneeded bullshit from a beloved and famous property than Cat in the fucking Hat
And both Cats and Cat in the Hat were from Universal
@@willandwillstudios Universal: Nightmares on an industrial scale!
@@juanpablomontalvo4715 At least The Cat in the Hat was actually funny, this just looks awkward
@@darwincity They never stopped making horror films
The entire musical is about cats singing about why they should die
Can I get a summary of each musical then?
the musical is really something you need to try and see be performed on stage, because the whole charm of it is the actors doing improv and trying to recreate how fucking weird and funny cats are despite being humans just wearing cat makeup and wigs that vaguely resemble ears. The dancing is good too, but the real charm of it imo is the actors doing their best to recreate the experience of your pet cat just STARING at you and never breaking eye contact like they know all the secrets of the universe before abruptly running up a wall onto a ledge and beginning to bathe themselves. The whole point of cats is to imagine what cats think of themselves and their own behavior since so many people have no idea how to even begin to understand why cats behave the way that they do. The poems by TS Elliot did this to begin with, though on a lesser scale, and the only reason we even got a musical was because the poems could be adapted into songs rather easily and become bops.
*Monica and Chandler sit in the living room, eating breakfast when they hear something like bagpipes coming from the other side of the street*
Monica: What is that?
Chandler: I think its the dying cat parade
*They go over to the window and see Ross in his living room, watching Cats*
I mean the whole thing is about a cult
This is a common feature of death cults. Whenever ISIS plan a terror attack they have a talent contest where the best singer and dancer is selected to be the perpetrator.
"They were so preoccupied with whether you could, that they never stopped to think about whether they should"
- Dr. Ian Malcolm
This is applicable to most modern movies
The normally animated Spielberg version looked quite interesting. Too bad Hollywood backed this CGI dumpster fires instead.
Spielberg produced this you idiot
Its just like how Sony cancelled the Popeye movie inorder to make the Emoji movie instead
@@amanms1999 I was so close to forgetting that
Aman M S you do know there was another reason right
R B1229 the studio making cats shut down on the early 2000s i believe. to what i know, they weren’t aware of spielberg’s idea at all.
Tom Hooper was under the impression that the play was about actual cat people instead of people interpreting cats.
Hal, it's about cats...
I like your profile pic.
Tom Hooper is a deeply, deeply stupid man
Jason Derulo didn’t introduce himself as Jason Derulo once in this film. 0/10
Jason derulo does not do what Jason derulo does for Jason derulo, Jason derulo does what Jason derulo does because Jason derulo, is Jason derulo.
Now I want to rewatch Todd in the shadows’ Derulo reviews
Agreed! Rum Tum Tugger's song would have been so much better if he dropped a "JAsoOOOonnn DeRuUuUulO" in there at some point
This movie is worse than cheating on the cheeseie’s challenge
Charles styles, mystery cats
🤣🤣🤣🤣
NINE WINNERS???
D A N G I T !
Sara, what about you? Why are you crying?
The catnip dealer bit gets me every single fucking time. Amazing.
This is arguably one of THE kindest reviews of the film.
"If Dante had seen this movie he would have written an 8th Hell." Cannot remember who said this quote but yup sums it up well
Emperor of Mankind it’s tenth, and I’m pretty sure it’s Chris Stuckmann
@@plasmasnake4774 ye it was chris
My boi Chris Stuckmann, a cousin to the Sardonicast family
@@WiloPolis03 I wonder if Adum finds it offensive his cousin Chris tore this movie to shreds. I mean, he is a furry after all.
“Cats makes Dragonball: Evolution tolerable...” ~Chris Stuckmann
I don’t like the implications of a cat wearing a fur coat
Non-leather-wearing vegan?
And it even looks like cat fur too
I do ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
You're right. It's like Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Silence of the Lambs.... Wearing the skin of your own kind is fucked up.
@@jim191185 Who says it's their own kind? Are there no other animals around with fur? And are cats not predators, just like people?
If I meet someone wearing leather I don't automatically assume they're Buffalo Bill from _Silence of the Lambs._
I really wish the 2D animated one was made instead, it pains me to see those cool conceptual artworks that nothing was done with
I know how you feel. Weep for all of the original, fresh, just-plain-NEW story concepts that have been shelved and/or abandoned in the pursuit of.... abominations like CATS (2019).
@@TacoEX1 pursuit, more like fursuit
I mean, I'm torn. The 2D project sounds cool but also... This is a musical which strength is the dancing and spectacle. If there are no real people dancing you loose a lot of the appeal. Sure, that film'd be better than what we HAD- but idk if it'd be the best option for an adaptation overall
James Corden: I was in a big fat suit!
Doubt.
Right? Does he think we can't see him?
Lmao
James corden IS a big fat suit
_I was fat in a big suit_
That's gratuitously fatshamy, I don't like the guy but there's so much to make fun of without going the weight route
A project like this wasn’t going to be animated. It’s thirsty Oscarbait that was stacked with big name celebrities with gigantic egos. Animation would’ve hidden their precious faces and shut them out of categories like Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director, and others that they were delusional enough to think they had a shot at.
hwoarangthedoorbell that sounds just about right 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Holy crap you just nailed it
To be fair, I think T.S. Eliot said they never wanted an animated version. He didn't want it to be too childish.
Ouch, you hit the warhead right on the button
@@SharonVeeLee
I doubt anyone involved with this cared about the original vision.
Cas. They got T.
This film was suppose to be an easy grab.
@@brownwater6212 IT AIN'T NO EASY GRAB THEY GOT T(totally destroyed in the box office)
T-virus.
Cats working at Charles Stiles Mystery Diners live on Scorch's PFG TV presented by Turkish Airlines. A Mark Region film.
This comment section is my favorite big foot show
We could've had a cool animated Cats movie directed by Steven Spielberg but instead we get *THIS*
Like a Secret of NIMH or Cats of Gay Purr-ee. Yeah, I wish.
No joke, this would be a perfect musical version of Gay Purr-ee.
“They said it was gonna be an easy grab!”
“Well it ain’t no easy grab, they got Old Deut!”
Edit- just came back to rewatch after a year, thanks for the likes everyone
Yawn.
Damnit you beat me by 6 months, good work sir
Deep
As much as we all pick on furrys,
Just one of them on the design team would've made this a whole different story.
JUST ONE FURRY.
It could've been animated or at least not as creepy
It should have been a scalie instead because dragons are way better than cats.
#Just1Furry
@@liquidsandwich1052 one word: shadowwolfess.
Your argument is invalid
@A Random Grammar Communist way to expose yourself
the catnip dealer is the best character in the ralph cinematic universe
Are we just gonna ignore how Ralph’s joke about his tap-dancing Catnip dealer lasted like 5 seconds?
Coming This summer:
We put the 'gross' in 'terrible box office gross'
"You can make anything into a good movie."
A "THE *[REDACTED]* " MOVIE
Nooooo please no
IT'S THE [REDACTED]
WAIT A MINUTE
Scp?
Vid Varga I think it wasn't a copyright claim, I think it was UA-cam because the name was inappropriate.
I want Andrew Lloyd Webber to turn The *[REDACTED]* into a West End musical extravaganza
Just a small correction, the Sonic design was the actual design. It wasn’t “oh it’ll be improved by release,” that was actually how he was supposed to look. They had a plushie stand in and he looked just like it during shooting. The actors also complained about his design initially too.
No sane person would look at that abomination and think "ah yes this looks great". It has to be done intentionall. Maybe they hoped it would become a meme and give the film some publicity?
@@ant7517 There's no way that they would waste millions of dollars on an intentionally terrible design.
Don Freecs they wasted millions on intentionally terrible Star Wars movies
@@christucker7655 Again, that was hilarious incompetence. There's no reason to intentionally make bad Star Wars movies.
@@ant7517 There was merch in production using the old design that they had to cancel because of the redesign, and on the Blu-Ray there's a deleted scene of baby Sonic where the design is based on the old one, so no, the old design wasn't on purpose. I suppose execs would think it was great because they picture things in marketing terms--I could picture them going "bright colors for the kids with realism to attract the adults, it's perfect".
With Tom Hooper's insistence on "Digital fur technology", it feels like this movie was solely made so Tom Hooper can fulfill his furry fantasy
As a dude who digs furry porn, nope. This movie is horrendous. There's no way this is a furry fetish thing. There's so muchhh... human in it. And it's nasty
@@CrudeConduct666 As a fan of content that enters into the same category, tastes and styles do differ. :P Maybe this _was_ a furry fantasy the way the director happened to envision it and it just happens to be one that turns off everybody else 😂
@@mihaelkYeah
They differ yeah, but it's usually either full furry or anime catgirl. This is an unholy middleground that nobody should like.
The lack of a three act structure is WHY this worked well in theatre and not in a movie, any fan of the musical will tell you this is embarrasing, and half the cast throwing the VFX team under the bus just makes me even more pissed.
The catnip dealer scene is the hardest I’ve laughed in weeks
Mysterious Jojo lmao me too
It’s the highlight of the week.
10:21 for future reference
Saw this opening night with Star Wars as a double feature. It's a night I'll never forget.
Two terrible movies
- "Who are you?
"
-
"I'm Rey."
- "Rey who?"
- "Rey Rum-Tum-Tugger."
Star Wars 9 was fantastic and would see again
I'm so sorry
@@dexterguth5459 At least cats what somewhat enjoyable.
"The atom bomb was a technical achievement."
You know is a Bad movie when someone compares it to a nuclear weapon
It also looks pretty cool.
This movie made more money at the box office than Scott Pilgrim. Let that sink in.
this movie still flopped though
Scott Pilgrim has made tons of money on dvd sales. This one will be bought only by "So Bad It's Good" fans or grandmas
@J A True.
Errr... Advertising?
Scott pilgrim ruined a generation of women
Eagerly awaiting Cats 2: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.
Cats 2: Return of Perkins
Cats 2: Pussy Aplenty
Funny enough, that film has the better soundtrack.
Jake C O H G O D O H F U C K
Brainwave 101 that’s why i call my store “Perkins”
Ah yes Ian McKellen’s most sacred role, old dumplesteen.
Old Dumplesteen the Grey.
I actually tried to sit through this in the theater, when Ian McKellan waltzed out with his "MROW MROW MROW" I actually got up and left
There is one perfect way to describe Cats, it's like that rape scene from Clockwork Orange but they didn't intend to make it this freaky and oddly sexual
Barney’s Great adventure used to have a Cats: The musical trailer on the VHS and I would cry every time because of how scary they looked. Bet you can imagine when I saw the trailer to the movie I shit bricks
THIS thank you it horrified me too
I fucking remember that too. You just triggered that memory. Wtf.
Oh god, I remember when the Richard Scary VHS trailer came on, I would start getting nervous because I knew the Cats trailer was next and it freaked me out 😭
Holy shit I remember now. We had that same tape
Oh my God YES
If they would have went full anthro, it would have been less creepy.
The Disney version was what it should have been.
I mean yeah, it would've looked way better. But then we'd have a zootopia like situation going on.
Now, the way it got made, we can all make fun of it and can all agree that: 'Damn, this is sooo bad, even the furries hated it'
See, i believe this was inevitable. If they didn't make it in 2019, we would've gotten a maybe good, maybe average animated film, but then an abomination like this a few years later. Mistakes have to be made. If we're lucky, hollywood learn from their mistakes. Or more likely learn from their lost box office money.
Maybe I'm just to baked and quarantine is making me question every gratuitous little piece of media I consume... eh. whatever.
The dancing would have looked weird. Think Aristocats trying to dance like humans. Movie shouldn't have been made at all.
@Omara Oliver Over here assuming everyone' first language is english and that this is a proof-read publication and not some random ass youtube comment.
uhuhuhuaaa
terrifying
TRICLO or they called the grammar terrifying, looks like you're the one making assumptions tbh
"to make the characters appear cat sized" IDK about you, but my cats are bigger than eating utensils.
if i had a cat smaller then a kitchen knife that better be a newborn kitten or something is very wrong.
@@EpicRenegade777 these cats are like the size of a fork it's very weird. Their size is also super inconsistent.
@@choklatecheeseburger yeah they are the size of a fork in one scene but like 2/3 the size of a trash can in the next.
So are these cats.
The perspective in this movie was atrocious, and maybe my favorite part. We were playing a drinking game where we drank every time the cats changed sizes between shots.
I’m sad that the Cats movie was the first experience with cats the musical that many people had
i think the most uncomfortable part of the whole movie was when Macavity came back without his jacket or fedora on and he just looked like himself naked with a barbie doll crotch. i felt like i was in a porn theater all of a sudden it was so unnerving.
i am urging everyone to go watch the pro shot of the stage show, it is leagues above this and every character is so much more likable.
lmao i die every time someone doing press for a movie talks about how cgi is a brand new technology that has never been used before
Never been used before and will never be used again
@@vwgames49 CGI can be great if used well, like in Infinity War or the Star Wars sequels (say what you want about them, they had great visual effects)
Wilo Polis the new Star Wars look amazing
Pandora is also a beautiful movie, even if the plot is always great, the world was amazing and that super old CGI!
@@WiloPolis03 current marvel movies cgi its fucking terrible, if you cant see that you need glasses, sure theres points where it looks good but its only at the points where theres no real life comparison to draw from and thus they look "realistic" because theres nothing to compare to, however the moment you look at the suits, the enemies, the backgrounds, it looks like a god damn game cutscene.
Why tf wasn’t this movie animated the concept art actually looks pretty cool
Amblimation shut down
Animation is for kids
@@SeqZZ tell that to hentai
@@SeqZZ uh oh stinky, hentai, gore animations, gory animes stinky poop
It could have been like Cats Dont Dance if it was animated.
The mice and roaches literally look like a snapchatflilter
Bruh took the words right out of my mouth
10:17
"I can't wait to see where this joke goes"
I don't know why but that got me more than anything I've seen in like the past month
The thing we all needed during this quarantine. Thank you, Ralph.
Wtf this comment is from six days ago
@@tay2944 patreon
KingAsgar oh now I feel goofy, thanks guys
I figured that’s how they commented so early.
This guy is a god.
He posted this six days ago.
All hail Jinx The Minx
I literally cannot look at Jennifer Hudson in this movie. When she's on screen I have to avert my eyes. It's like I'm watching a SAW movie.
I honestly thought that was a guy when seeing her in the trailer. 😂
She is a tragic character, but, come on...!
Same with idris Elba😟😔
So much snot on her face. Like girl, wipe your nose.
All this research they claim they've made and the one calico cat is male.
We stan a trans icon
To be fair, the original had that too.
"The atom bomb was a technical accomplishment too" yeah I'm gonna steal this
Finally a true masterpiece that can compete against Gotti.
Time to insert a random quote "they got T! RELEASE THE DRONE"
Only compete, never beat.
The only thing that could compete with Gotti was if they got T
@@J242D GotT
I know that this is such low hanging fruit for a critic but it’s still gonna be hilarious hearing ralph tear this movie a new asshole.
You may like this review, it more interesting than basic snark on the movie, but a tear down of TS Elliot crap writing
ua-cam.com/video/6tYcPuVYDHw/v-deo.html
@@Tacom4ster except Ralph didn't provide basic snark either, which is what your comment is insinuating
@@HappyLarry. eh maybe I'm just more interesting in broken use of themes of media than just technical issues, I'm waiting for Lindsay Ellis to talk about Cats
@@Tacom4ster it isn't technical issues, he spends a large portion of his time pointing out how they failed to properly translate the musical to the movie, it's not just on how they look. You also seem to conveniently forget the fact that the biggest issue with the film WAS how they looked. He then points out the bad writing, the changes to the source material, the music, and everything in-between.
@@HappyLarry. but the poems were kinda already broken, TS Elliot was a crap writer
When you put 'dead' near Tom Hanks I almost had a heart attack.
That Steven Spielberg animated version looks like it had a really neat style too. Kind of Art Deco
I would've rather have watched Spielberg's cartoon adaptation.
honestly the style of the cartoon adaptation in the storyboards looked REEEALLY good. Plus it would've been overall cheaper to use drawn animation instead of heavy CGI. honestly sometimes i wish movies would try and go back for the hand drawn style of animation
@@StardustLegend 2d animation is one of my favorite things. It's too bad that you hardly see it anywhere anymore except from Japan. And that's pretty niche
Legitimately made me disappointed seeing there was supposed to be a cartoon version. I could've seen myself watching that over this turd.
We all would've.
Everyone would have
That catnip dealer bit was delivered perfectly. I was like, "oh no he's gonna sing" and then he fell off the table. Delightful
Just everything was completely terrible. James Corden was cripplingly awful but that's nothing particularly surprising
the gandolf meow at 7:07 is actually incredible, good catch man LOL
This is what H.P Lovecraft dreamed up when he created the Cthulhu mythos, it’s too horrible to even comprehend.
And there is no stretch of imagination when I describe the sight of those creatures, so I do not make any sense of exaggeration when I see their humanlike faces juxtaposed in fur whiskers. My gosh, those whiskers!
I find it weird the “cats” are the sizes of rats.
The problem is, they're upright, so you have to make a compromise between making them the size of cats standing on their hind legs or cats standing on all fours. Also of course a human head is much smaller in relation to the body than a cat's. As far as I'm concerned the proportions were fine.
OolTube02 I was referring to the size of the cats to the town backdrops, I understand the body proportions (I mean cmon look at them) aren’t going to be right but it’s another thing to have them too small.
@@sowohs I almost feel like measuring the Eros statue on Piccadilly Circus now in order to see whether the "cats" were really too big or small in relation to it when they were all clinging to it. I think it's about 5 meters tall. I think the "cats" were roughly the right size in relation to its head and body.
The lion in Trafalgar Square, same thing. I don't think the size was off, really...
OolTube02 a cat can fit on a chair cushion yet the “cats” here are too small look at the chair prop and they’re smaller than the marble steps (ending scene) I don’t even need to measure it. They could’ve made them bigger by reducing the set size but I think the prop people worked hard on it.
Again I wasn’t making an argument, I was just pointing out an observation. You can’t expect anything else from them but I just found it weird especially with the uncanny valley stuff.
i agree
Man it's painful listening to James Corden and Rebel Wilson speak
My mom pointed out that every frame of this movie looks like a hidden object game and I think she's dead on. There are lots of colors, and there is a mood, and there are these weird warping animations, but it's like...not going in any kind of direction at all. It's just art mashed together. But at least in a HOG you get the enjoyment of, you know, playing a game.
Wow Ralph was so bored during quarantine he actually uploaded
You could have called each one of the cats something absolutely made up like “Mrs. Sminkledorf” and I would have completely believed it
The thing is. They say it as if this was the most advanced tech ever. "WOW, HOW COULD WE PUT FACES ON A CAT'S BODY!"
Then you remember videogames put actors faces ON AN INTERACTIVE SCENARIO ALL THE TIME.
THEY MADE THANOS THAT SAME YEAR FOR GODS SAKE
Ralph In first minute on Academy Award Winning Joker: "I'm annoyed I have to watch this movie." *goes on to mock film*
Ralph in first minute of Cats: "I appreciate people cared, I liked how bizarre it was and the dedication. The sets were kind good and I even liked some of the choreography."
Ah because Achedemy Award winning means good automatically. In the last four years Suicide Squad and Green Book won Achedemy Awards. Ralph likes to play devil's advocate is all.
The key difference being Joker being universally praised while Cats being universally panned.
@@rorybarber5076 The green book was a great film though. What's wrong with it?
@@TotalNegan Too green.
@@rorybarber5076 Regardless of whether it's good or not... That review was pretty shit. He can do better.
“Cats” was a smash hit stage musical written by Andrew Lloyd Weber, and ran for 21 years in London’s West End, almost 9000 performances. It was wonderful as a stage show, and whoever thought it would work as a movie should have realised that it was not adaptable to a movie without losing a lot of its character. Other musicals have adapted well, such as “Little shop of horrors” and “Rocky horror show”, but this wasnt one of them.
But what makes it so unadaptable?
eightgateslee20 imho, the decision to use cgi costumes for the actors instead of the original costumes, wasted an existing resource and took away some of the charm.
Little shop of horrors did not use cgi, neither did rocky horror.
eightgateslee20 probably because some of things Ralph mentioned as issues with the movie are issues within the original musical itself that are only amplified through a different medium. There isn’t like, any plot in the original. It’s just singing and dancing. It’s a live spectacle, where all of the music is just character introductions. In movie format, that’s just like sitting down to watch a bunch of interconnected music videos...which is boring. Therefore you must invent a plot and either cut a ton of the music or squish it all in. It’ll be either a decent movie that doesn’t feel like Cats, or a bad movie with all the elements of Cats that don’t translate well to a screen.
Queen Jorge great comment, yes the original show was a sequence of vignettes each a “story” about a different character, and as such it was disjointed. I am not a playwright or a screenwriter, so how to segue from story to story without breaking the mood... no idea.
It was dogshit just like all his other musicals. Farts in a wind tunnel is the phrase that comes to mind when I think of the fetid turds Weber has been dropping onto the public since the 80s
Ralph “I’m not a furry” Moviemaker
Adam from your movie sucks is the furry.
Furries don't even want to be associated with this surreal hellhole.
Ralph is YMS but with no furry in it.
Girl InaHat normally I’d defend furries for just being hobbyists, but YMS thinks beastiality isn’t immoral. I would avoid talking about him
@@hand13932 do you have evidence for this?
21:15 to be honest, John Oliver has been mocked as looking like a bird for a long time, so him playing Zazu was kinda like the stars aligning.
And at least he is funnier than Corden
If only he could act.
Watching just the few clips in your review is genuinely unsettling. This movie is pure nightmare fuel, it's honestly astonishing. There are bad movies and then there are movies that make you want to puke after more than 10 minutes of exposure.
I don’t really agree with you saying it’s the best movie ever made, but other than that good video Ralph.
We must have been watching a different video because he states in this video that he doesnt like this masterpiece. Definetly not the best film ever made but it's up there. Jesus maybe watch the video before commenting? I want to fuck a cat.
Melon’s comment section is leaking again
@@superheatedsaturnite I'm sorry about your aneurysm
Get this fantano comment shit out of here
This entire movie is like the orgy scene in Event Horizon.
That is so obscure yet accurate a reference, it's disgustingly brilliant.
Killbot90K What the heck! There’s an orgy scene in that movie?
@@viridianacortes9642 Yep, when they watch the video of what happened to the Event Horizon when it entered the other dimension. You can see that they're all having sex while mutilating eachother. Or at least some of them are having sex.
@@LunarPictures The director version was even more disturbing, but the studio cut it out.
@@LunarPictures Huh...you know, I bet there is someone out there who is going to read this comment and google that scene now for the wrong reasons.
I'm going to have to sue you because I almost died laughing when you did the John Oliver British accent
"These are people but they are cats and this is blowing my mind" - A tool, 2019.
ocularisabyssus
“A tool.”
I’m seizing!! 😂😂😂
at 19:53 “this doesn’t make me interested in cats, this makes me terrified of cats” is a hilarious out of context quote.
It's just celebrities smelling eachothers' farts.
“You spent so much time thinking about whether you could, you didn’t stop to think about whether you *should.”* - Ian Malcolm.
So, is the plot of Cats about religious zealot cats that sacrifices random people to clouds?
Yeah
False: there is no plot.
This is just someone's 80's fever dream used as a background/excuse to make a stage show about nothing.
theres technically no plot, its just cats singing until one of them dies
"What's wrong with your face?!?!" - Mr. Plinkett
Not to be that guy, but I clapped
“Stop Dancing!” - Also Mr. Plinkett
AIIIIIIIDSSSSSSSS
It’s so dense, every single image has so many things going on...
I love how Ralph took the piss out of the "reviewer buys drugs because movie bad skit" trope
Making cats interesting: the main character looks for the remnants of her past and ends up befriending and relating with the other cats and seek dance training and the antagonist becomes sceptical of the main character impressive moves and ends up doing anything to win the competition
What
@@Goodbutevilgenius my superior fan fiction
@@stitchedbyiron you didn't really write anything
Not a fan of the trend of making a new audience insert character on established franchise. The choice to use Victoria works as an audience surrogate, though I think it should have been the Jemima (I think) cat would have been a better choice.
Imagine if they did this with Starlight Express, the musical about anthro trains. I'm just gonna leave you with that image
“We used ground breaking technology” yeah that’s why it looks worse than lotr the two towers (a movie that came out in 2002)
But that movie still holds up in some respects, this is just . . . I don't know
@@jackburton3540 That's what he's saying. That movie still looks great despite the fact it came out in 2002, and this movie apparently used "groundbreaking technology" and looks like ass.
It helps that most of the characters in LoTR were covered with real makeup and prosthetics, i.e. what they should have done here.
bh5496 I was mainly referring to the stuff with andy serkis which was actually groundbreaking and looks amazing to this day. Although even with him the kept all his movements practical which they didn’t for this movie(you can even see the mans actual spit come out of gollums mouth)
Did you know that in this movie the cats originally had buttholes? Or at least, the suits folded in such a way that the cats appeared to have buttholes in many shots. They had to pay a guy to paint over them...so yeah, such a ground breaking technology.
This is the second live action remake of a movie involving anthropomorphic animals where Idris Elba is the villain. The first is the remake of the Jungle Book from 2016. He’s got the market cornered on this.
Jungle book didn't look bad tho thank god
Ra'shon Smith
Yeah cause the Jungle Book just used talking CGI animals. They didn’t use horrible half human half animal CGI abominations like Cats
I really like your videos alot. Sometimes Im sad and watch them and by the end I don’t remember why I was sad. You are a good person for making them and I hope you have many wishes come true in for your lifetimes.
This is the first movie to ever bring me to tears and they were tears of confusion and fear