Filmmusikalen Cats når inte Sverige förrän januari nästa år, men då är det kanske värt att veta att amerikanska kritiker inte var nådiga med denna hårboll till film - överhuvudtaget. I skrivande stund sitter kattskrället på 16% hos Rotten Tomatoes och är enligt kritiker lika vansinnig som den är fruktansvärd. Här nedan kan du läsa ett par av dessa äcklade intryck, där exempelvis Comicbook-skribenten jämför den med kalkonklassikern The Room:
"Cats is a special kind of terrible, though. No matter how ridiculous it gets, the cast never once backs down. Every single one of them is all-in at every moment. It's a trainwreck from start to finish, but the sort of trainwreck that captures your attention with its audacity and never lets you go. It's gripping in the most delightfully horrible way and easily one of the worst movies of the decade, by leaps and bounds. It's such a unique and confident brand of awful, you'll probably want to watch it again.
This is the next Rocky Horror Picture Show or The Room. Years from now, theaters will hold midnight screenings of Cats where people will bring animals and sing along and throw glitter in the air when Taylor Swift appears on the screen. Cats will be a part of cult film culture forever. Because, as bad as it is, Cats is wholly and completely unforgettable."
Karen Han (Polygon) beskriver det hela som en enda stor datoranimerad feberdröm:
"Hooper's Cats defies all principles of linear time or practical storytelling. Cats is a fever dream, a hallucination, an approximation of what would happen if your third eye actually opened and you could suddenly see into the astral plane. The cats all look like larger versions of the cat Jemaine Clement turns himself into in What We Do in the Shadows — he says he "always gets the faces wrong" when he transforms, which is why he comes out as a cat with a human face superimposed on it. In the case of Cats, CGI fur, ears, and tails are superimposed on human actors, but the effect is so uncanny that it seems as though things were done the other way around. The faces have wills of their own."
Richard Lawson från Vanity Fair skriver att regissören Tom Hooper har förstört en älskad Broadway-musikal för fansen:
"The real villain here is Hooper, who has conceptualized a movie that claims to honor its performers while smothering them in digital makeup. Why even bother hiring the elastic, fluid dancers if their bodies were going to be rendered so inhuman? Or, rather, so unnatural—they're not supposed to be humans, after all. In doing so much to make the world of Cats something approaching credible, Hooper completely fails imagination, ignoring the disbelief happily suspended for decades by the millions of fans of the stage musical."
Tom Hooper försvarade filmen via Entertainment Weekly, som ändå tycks uppskatta uppmärksamheten filmen har fått:
"I didn't think it was going to be a big deal, and it was obviously much more of a big deal than I thought. Reading some of the commentary was pretty entertaining."
Är du överraskad av denna respons? Är Cats ändå något du skulle vara intresserad av, mest för att bevittna dess påstådda uselhet?
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