These are not news “Cats” is a bad movieAreas Directed by Tom Hooper (A Man Who, Between This Disaster and His 2012 Big-Screen Adaptation of “Les Misérables,” Should Be Required to Return His Directing Oscar for “The King’s Speech” to the Academy), The Movie Uses Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Webber Mostly Plotless Broadway Musical as Its Source Material, and to Say It’s Jarring, Bizarre, and Outtright Terrible is an underestimated. It also has Taylor Swift.
Let me retreat for a moment and say: Broadway musical “Cat” is not my personal tea cup, but I’m not here to search it all. It’s one of the highest musicals in history and to be absolutely honest bad thing. (To be really blunt, executive time consists of various cats that introduce themselves to one of them is allowed to die.) However, making it a movie, it was obviously a terrible idea, and I say that without proper respect Hooper … and unfortunately Swift and her co-star Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McCellen, Oskar-Winner Jenner Hudson. Uh, James CordenIt is part of their creative history now.
So who does Swift play in this movie on a cat -oriented failure? It would be a bombalurina, a “Femme Fatale” cat, who is the evil kitten Macavity (Idris Elba) Akolite. She sings one song in the movie – “Macavity: The Mystery Cat” – and never visible after Jellicle ball with the drugs with the drugs with drugs. (Swift somehow avoided any further performance, although she filmed an original song with Webber called “Beautiful Ghosts” performed by Francesco’s Heivard’s “Lead” Cat Victoria)
“Cats” were an indisputable cash register and critical failure, not to mention the very public issues related to the visual effects when it first came out in December 2019. (Needless to say, there is a reason why the movie has made 100 lower middle between 100 between 100 IMDB Lowest Rated Movies.) So what does critics mean, and did they even mention Swift’s performance?
Cats are bad – but it’s not always the fault of Taylor Swift
Again Taylor Swift is barely in cats; She probably has the smallest screen time for any of the big stars of the movie, so she’s lucky for her … Because the stinking of the movie wasn’t really enough for her. Critics absolutely lame a movie – it has 19% rating Rotten tomatoesWhat’s just terrible to everyone’s standards – but her name didn’t really come, so … good for her!
As for these critics, some like Jake Cole Sloping magazinenoted that the musical does not necessarily have to be customized: “This adaptation comes directly to the center of the material, which is, in principle, a two -hour stray cat that introduces themselves.” Near PackingRobert Abele was slightly cutter and more directly, writing: “The worrying dream of Tom Hooper about the glass of glasses is like something that fled from the Laboratory of Dr. Moreeau’s creature, the intact physical and digital valley hybrid, which does not contain and crashes much more often than it will be fascinated.” Writing Los Angeles TimesJustin Chang also went to the yoke: “With his choice of grotesque design and a borrowed metonomic editing,” cats “are as uncomfortable in the eyes as there may be Hollywood’s eyeglass, which comes into a shameless valley between Mania’s realism and dystopic art.”
After someone who saw “cats” in the theaters as a bit (I), the funniest and most accurate reviews can be cooked until a clear one line. “Oh God, my eyes,” Ty Burr wrote Boston globeIn the area “I all seemed tiring,” David Rune wrote Hollywood reporterAll this can be compiled in the area, but Alissa Wilkinson Vox: “It’s literally incredible. I hope I will never see it again.”
She may have starred in cats but don’t worry about Taylor Swift too much
These days, Taylor Swift no longer works so much (what is with most proper respect, a good thing for the most part). Why? She is busy! From March 2023 to December 2024, Swift launched her Globe-Spanning Eras tour, which for three and a half hours presented her musical “era” once (a kind) and executed an incredibly $ 149, reaching $ 2 billion. (Context: Swift had sang her 10 -minute version of “too good” 25 hours At the time the tour ended.) Svift’s high -level relationship with footballer Travis Kelce has also attracted international attention, but even without her permanent tour, Swift is still at the top of her game; Her 12th album is rumored, and at the end of May 2025, Swift announced that after several years of fight to recover them from bad actors, such as scooter Brown and Scott Borchetta, she’s redeemed all her bad actors like scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta. (It was obviously absorbed by someone like Swift, who is proud of his creative work, but it was a fan blessed because we got a re -recording “Taylor version”, so everything is fine that well ends.) Also, too, too, She did not appears in one of the last episodes, “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Swift can be one of the most famous “cat ladies” in the world – she has three – but with that in mind, you might wonder how she feels “cats”. As the singer “two weeks” told Diversity She doesn’t do it in 2020. “I’m glad to be here, I’m happy to be nominated, and I had a really great time working on this strange movie,” she said about the Golden Globe nomination, “Beautiful Ghosts”, shortly before her documentary “Miss Americana” that year took place. “I will not want to decide on a return date that this is not the best experience. I would never have met Andrew Loyd Weber or I have been seeing how he works and now he is my friend. I had to work with the worst dancers and performers. No complaints.” However, for Swift fans and also good films, this was a known unsatisfactory product worldwide.
I’ll just say it. “Cats” is the last movie I saw before the Covid-19 pandemic hit; The Eras Tour was my first concert after a quarter. There are many ups and some significant falls in the SWIFT career, and we are settling for things like “cats” to be rewarded with a three -hour career retrospective. As the songwriter says in one “reputation” path, “That’s what happens”.
