This movie is literally nightmare fuel. I still can’t even believe someone sat in the editing room, watched this thing, and thought “Ah, yes. This is quality. Let’s release it to the public” 😂
If it makes you feel better, you didn't miss anything. There is almost no actual plot to this. I grew up mildly enjoying the soundtrack, and I saw it once on stage. It's literally just a bunch of songs about how cats are, sprinkled with that tiny story thread. The most puzzling thing about this is that they took the songs, which are the most famous part, and fucked them all up. The magician cat song is my favorite and they just...bent it over and assaulted it.
As someone who has seen the excruciating full length cut of this, I had to immediately come here and see what you managed to make out of it. And I'll be damned if you didn't make the video of the year. Credit where it's due, my man, I salute you.
Ugh I remember this coming out around the holidays and my family (who should know in my big age that I despise musicals) chose for all of us to go see it. I intentionally made myself sleep through the whole thing. What I did see of it, I wish I had never seen. No one needed this 😂
I love Cats the 1998 version and seen it many many times. It's my all-time favourite stage musical. I've also seen the West-End European touring production of Cats four times. However, I've only seen this 2019 film once and decided to never see it again. I was able to see some good aspects in it, but overall it was a big mess unfortunately.
I remember when the trailer came out. As soon as I saw uncanny valley Victoria, I knew it couldn’t end well. They took a musical that is successful for not having a main character/ensemble cast and said “This one cat is the MC now.” I will be content with just having the 1998 video and pretending 2019 Cats never existed
@@spaceface320 I agree with you completely. They should not have made Victoria a main character. They tried way too hard to add a more elaborate storyline. I already had my reservations when the production of the film was announced. Especially when I heard they wanted to make it more realistic. I never understood why you would want to make dancing and singing cats realistic. Though I tried to be optimistic. But....yes, I also pretend 2019 version doesn't exist.
@@RivalReacts The stage version is SO much better. There's still not much in the way of plot; it's mostly just an excuse to have a bunch of song-and-dance numbers about cats. But the songs and dances are performed beautifully. They have so much character and energy that just got lost in the movie. Also, the cat costumes in the stage version look a lot better than the creepy, uncanny valley CGI they used in the movie. If you just want to see how different the style and energy is try watching the stage version of "Mr. Mistoffelees" and compare it to the same song in the movie: th-cam.com/video/9Cou1WoNe0Y/w-d-xo.html
As someone who was a competitive tap dancer & theatre kid who saw this movie in theaters, I can say the only part of this movie I actually genuinely enjoyed was Skimbleshanks’ number because of the tapping alone.
I saw this movie in theaters (because I love watching really awful movies, I usually find them hilarious) and there was some guy in the front cry laughing the whole time, and it made it so much better.
With Cats being a favorite musical of mine (I've seen the theater stage version) they did it so dirty in this movie :/ it works way better with costumes rather than this cgi crap they did. They even changed how some of the songs are composed, just ruins it even more. Gumbie cat is ment to be caring not whatever nightmare this is 😭 and they did my boy Tugger so dirty
The saddest part is that they still didn't do him as dirty as Andrew Lloyd Webber, who apparently saw a rapper busking in London, REALLY liked it, and rewrote the part of Rum Tum Tugger to be a 'cool' street cat that wears a backwards hat, raps his song while airhorns blare in the background, and spins on his head during the dance break. Webber thought that would be cool and hip with the kids. In 2015. Like, this is NOT good, but I've heard the poor bastard that played Radical Tum Tugger share stories about having to frantically negotiate with the costuming department to walk his costume back from being alarmingly close to outright blackface. This version of Rum Tum Tugger is mediocre at best, but it's still a step above that travesty.
I like the stage version of Cats but the movie version is awful 😭! But if you two would still be up to reacting to musicals in the future (especially after watching this cat-astrophe) then you two should define react to Hamilton, it’s really good!!
This musical is based upon the poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Each song is just a poem from the collection, that's why it doesn't make much sense and there's basically no plot
rival how do you not know the song memory (that's what Jennifer Hudson was singing) it honestly is such a good song and it came out wayyyy before cats did pretty sure it came out in 1981
it was taken out but when I googled why they despise her, in the play, they hate her for leaving the group to be famous and be with Mccavity. They all knew Mccavity was bad so on top of her leaving the group to sing with Mccavity, they are mad that she chose to go with Mccavity when they all told her he was a horrible person.
I will never forgive this movie for butchering most of these songs, actually how some characters are meant to be portrayed, and the awful choice of CGI for the cats. There were so many good options to still be able to use the actors, but they chose the worse one. Fully animated wouldn't have worked if they wanted to honor to original production with the amazing dancing, but really we already have that in a movie version. I actually would have preferred and animated version now, because I just slowly dislike this movie more each reaction I watch of it.
"this would have been so much better as a Broadway play than a movie" I don't know if you're joking or not lol "What is a jelicle cat?" Oh, you weren't So this travesty is based off a Broadway musical which was based off the works of T.S.Elliot. I forget if he invented the word or if his child did, but the word jelicle is from the original poems.
This movie would've been so much better if they made cgi cats that looked like ACUTAL cats instead of having humans to act as the cats, you know kind of like how peter rabbit used cgi animals or the "live action" lion king
I couldn't get more than ten minutes into this movie. The stage play was amazing, but this adaption of it is just horrible. There was a direct to video film released in 1998 that was the stage play but minus the audience, done just for the video and it was amazing. If you want to see it how it was meant to be seen, then watch that one instead. The lyrics all come from a poetic sort of book called "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by T.S. Elliot. If you ever see the movie "Logan's Run," there is a man who recites a lot of poetry from it that you will have heard in the lyrics to the songs in Cats.
This movie is so bad that not even Taylor was able to save them. We,Swifties,collectively agreed to forget that it existed and not talk about it again. The movie may be a disaster but at least we have "Beautiful Ghosts" and the iconic Golden Globe night that gave us rare and adorable Taylor&Joe content😻
7:13 OH MY GOD, that was my brother's exact reaction but it was at the scene that looks like an or*y! And the roaches are the most cursed thing I've seen in my life, if roaches weren't disgusting enough. I actually feel kind of offended on behalf of real roaches, and they are my worst nightmare. I'm still convinced covid was a punishment for this movie.
Okay so background ig cause theatre kids are getting all the blame 😆 Cats is based on a book of poems by TS Elliot. Jellicle cats is his creation. All of the songs are based on his cat poem (sans like one and a half). Andrew Lloyd Webber (Satan) challenged himself to write songs based on the poems, then he had people perform them at a concert. TS Elliot’s widow liked it so much she approved for it to be turned into a musical. That shit became the longest running musical on Broadway until Phantom of the Opera beat it a few years ago. EDIT: also the director sucks ass he’s a terrible person and a terrible director. And Judi Dench said yes to this because she was supposed to play Grizabella in the original production but tore her Achilles heel.
The thing is that the musical itself had no plot and was confusing and the costumes and bad and they tried to make it a movie with all the worst parts of the original and just shoved famous people in it
I haven't watched the movie and now I'm struggling whether should i watch it lmao 🤣 Thanks for the reaction Rival !! Although u two look like you're in pain
In most (if not all) of the reactions I've watched of Cats, theyve been in pain. You might not wanna watch it lol. Not for fun anyway, maybe while drinking with friends cuz suffering together can be fun lol
Listen, the CGI is horrifying, but some of the musical arrangements are great, not as good as the 90s musical but something is something, but we can all agree James Corden has no place in it... anywhere for that matter
I'd love to see you guys watch a musical like Sweeney Todd with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter (also has Grindelwald, Wormtail, and Snape in it too from harry potter :p). They sing the whole time...but with discernable plot. That discernable plot, let me tell ya, it really makes a story. Lol. But I think you guys might like a musical better if it was one like Sweeney Todd that had so much talent in it and, ya know, death, people pie, gore, guts, the whole bit :p If Saw and High School Musical made a movie baby with Tim Burton as the movie baby father.
What's another insane movie we should watch together?
After
I'd say Meet the Feebles but you can't find that anywhere.
Hamilton! It’s also a musical and it’s REALLY good, like insanely good!
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Everything Everywhere All at Once. Please watch that movie together. That video will be awesome.
I still can’t sleep at night
Rightfully so
Watching it at night 🤞
That is why this movie still masterpiece
This movie is literally nightmare fuel. I still can’t even believe someone sat in the editing room, watched this thing, and thought “Ah, yes. This is quality. Let’s release it to the public” 😂
Blows my mind! TH-camrs made better content, let's be honest. 😂
This aint a movie, this is straight up kinky softcore hyper-realistic furry porn
at no point during production did somebody think to stop this movie from being made. should be a crime LOL
If it makes you feel better, you didn't miss anything. There is almost no actual plot to this. I grew up mildly enjoying the soundtrack, and I saw it once on stage. It's literally just a bunch of songs about how cats are, sprinkled with that tiny story thread. The most puzzling thing about this is that they took the songs, which are the most famous part, and fucked them all up. The magician cat song is my favorite and they just...bent it over and assaulted it.
That and the uncanny valley look of the Cats.
@@calebray1834 oh absolutely. There’s a very specific look to those costumes, and to make it so literal was a really dumb choice.
@@calebray1834 theres no saving the designs, they should have just released the butthole cut lmao
As someone who has seen the excruciating full length cut of this, I had to immediately come here and see what you managed to make out of it. And I'll be damned if you didn't make the video of the year. Credit where it's due, my man, I salute you.
Coming from someone who has seen the 3 hour version of this that means a lot, thanks bestie
the fact taylor swift and jason derulo AND EVEN REBEL WILSON AND MY GIRL JENNIFER HUDSON! ARE IN THIS MONSTROSITY OF A MOVIE just makes me cry 😭😭
I love the dynamic of you guys independently being thoughtful, intelligent people.... then having negative brain cells when you're together. 😂❤
The main problem with this movie is that the two of you watched it while sober. Never do that again, for your sanity.
Ugh I remember this coming out around the holidays and my family (who should know in my big age that I despise musicals) chose for all of us to go see it. I intentionally made myself sleep through the whole thing. What I did see of it, I wish I had never seen. No one needed this 😂
Two minutes in and I'm CACKLING. Thanks for putting yourselves through this nonsense, lads!
😂 as long as you enjoy
I love Cats the 1998 version and seen it many many times. It's my all-time favourite stage musical. I've also seen the West-End European touring production of Cats four times.
However, I've only seen this 2019 film once and decided to never see it again. I was able to see some good aspects in it, but overall it was a big mess unfortunately.
I remember when the trailer came out. As soon as I saw uncanny valley Victoria, I knew it couldn’t end well. They took a musical that is successful for not having a main character/ensemble cast and said “This one cat is the MC now.” I will be content with just having the 1998 video and pretending 2019 Cats never existed
@@spaceface320 I agree with you completely. They should not have made Victoria a main character. They tried way too hard to add a more elaborate storyline.
I already had my reservations when the production of the film was announced. Especially when I heard they wanted to make it more realistic. I never understood why you would want to make dancing and singing cats realistic. Though I tried to be optimistic. But....yes, I also pretend 2019 version doesn't exist.
The musical is amazing, but the movie? Not so much…. Great video btw! (As always) 😂❤
I can''t imagine giving the musical a chance now, but i trust you
@@RivalReacts The stage version is SO much better. There's still not much in the way of plot; it's mostly just an excuse to have a bunch of song-and-dance numbers about cats. But the songs and dances are performed beautifully. They have so much character and energy that just got lost in the movie. Also, the cat costumes in the stage version look a lot better than the creepy, uncanny valley CGI they used in the movie.
If you just want to see how different the style and energy is try watching the stage version of "Mr. Mistoffelees" and compare it to the same song in the movie: th-cam.com/video/9Cou1WoNe0Y/w-d-xo.html
3:30 Hybrids, the word you are looking for is “Hybrids”!
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Not this man throwing shade at the grotesque amount of celebrities that appeared in this 😂😂😂
As someone who was a competitive tap dancer & theatre kid who saw this movie in theaters, I can say the only part of this movie I actually genuinely enjoyed was Skimbleshanks’ number because of the tapping alone.
The tapping turned me from a hater to a fan so quickly 😂
The fact that this has just reached a thousand views shows how much people want to avoid *CATS*
“This would have been so much better if it were a stage musical” well buddy do I have some news for you 😂
I saw this movie in theaters (because I love watching really awful movies, I usually find them hilarious) and there was some guy in the front cry laughing the whole time, and it made it so much better.
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With Cats being a favorite musical of mine (I've seen the theater stage version) they did it so dirty in this movie :/ it works way better with costumes rather than this cgi crap they did. They even changed how some of the songs are composed, just ruins it even more. Gumbie cat is ment to be caring not whatever nightmare this is 😭 and they did my boy Tugger so dirty
Mistoffolees 😩
The saddest part is that they still didn't do him as dirty as Andrew Lloyd Webber, who apparently saw a rapper busking in London, REALLY liked it, and rewrote the part of Rum Tum Tugger to be a 'cool' street cat that wears a backwards hat, raps his song while airhorns blare in the background, and spins on his head during the dance break. Webber thought that would be cool and hip with the kids.
In 2015.
Like, this is NOT good, but I've heard the poor bastard that played Radical Tum Tugger share stories about having to frantically negotiate with the costuming department to walk his costume back from being alarmingly close to outright blackface. This version of Rum Tum Tugger is mediocre at best, but it's still a step above that travesty.
It was supposed to be an animated movie directed by Steven Spielberg in the 1990s. But then his animation studio got shut down. . . I guess?? IDK
@@maybeimacat3183 Totally agree 👍💯
I like the stage version of Cats but the movie version is awful 😭! But if you two would still be up to reacting to musicals in the future (especially after watching this cat-astrophe) then you two should define react to Hamilton, it’s really good!!
This musical is based upon the poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Each song is just a poem from the collection, that's why it doesn't make much sense and there's basically no plot
rival how do you not know the song memory (that's what Jennifer Hudson was singing) it honestly is such a good song and it came out wayyyy before cats did pretty sure it came out in 1981
Memory was written for the original stage production of Cats
21:26 I don't think Welchy is okay 😀😀
Anyways, this is cursed. Periodt.
it was taken out but when I googled why they despise her, in the play, they hate her for leaving the group to be famous and be with Mccavity. They all knew Mccavity was bad so on top of her leaving the group to sing with Mccavity, they are mad that she chose to go with Mccavity when they all told her he was a horrible person.
12 year old me watching this video:
This should be 18+
PLEASE watch the Cats pitch meeting! Jellicle Jellicle Jellicle!
I have never been afraid of Rats in all my life. Now i am.
The fact that they dragged Dame Judy Dench into this is a literal crime against humanity
This movie made he catatonic for two weeks
I love Cats, I even played Etcetera and Bombalurina, but I hate this movie with a burning passion
10:35 Welchy looked so happy and proud, and it probably saved my life...
On Drawfee, this was the last film they all saw before the pandemic hit. I firmly believe the two are connected.
That's what I've been saying! covid was a punishment for this movie.
Because once a year the group, they call themselves angelical cats, get together. the dancing is wow, so good to see you guys again.
Lmao how does this movie commentary have more sexual innuendos than their 50 Shades one?! 😭
Maybe because of the catgirl vibes?😕 Plus the fact that they are all mean't to look naked (thank gods they actually aren't)
"There's not enough death in this movie" - the critics' review tagline 'Cats' deserved, but never got.
Y'all's chemistry is honestly unmatched 🙌🏼
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And now I know where Rio 2 got that song from...
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I will never forgive this movie for butchering most of these songs, actually how some characters are meant to be portrayed, and the awful choice of CGI for the cats. There were so many good options to still be able to use the actors, but they chose the worse one. Fully animated wouldn't have worked if they wanted to honor to original production with the amazing dancing, but really we already have that in a movie version. I actually would have preferred and animated version now, because I just slowly dislike this movie more each reaction I watch of it.
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you realize that a movie is really bad when you're having a hard time watching even a reaction to it😅
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This movie is even worse than the Avatar: The last Airbender live action movie 💀
You might be right at least with The last Airbender you can laugh at the terrible acting and fight scenes this is just disturbing
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My Gf at the time dragged me to this movie and i knew the true meaning of suffering
Did they put sound effects in post or do they all spund that high pitched in the film!?!?!?
I usually don't watch reactions to movies I haven't seen but your reaction worths to break this habit of mine
This is the most wholesome comment 🥲
@@RivalReacts you can react to anything together and I will watch that for sure😆
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Omggg could you watch Hamilton? It’s a musical too and it’s REALLY good, like insanely good!
the song she sings is called daylight. The song is huge for broadway fans. Regarded by many fans of Broadway as the best song ever composed.
Y’all gave me another reason to never watch this movie. Respect that y’all watched the whole thing.
"this would have been so much better as a Broadway play than a movie"
I don't know if you're joking or not lol
"What is a jelicle cat?"
Oh, you weren't
So this travesty is based off a Broadway musical which was based off the works of T.S.Elliot. I forget if he invented the word or if his child did, but the word jelicle is from the original poems.
The lip sync at 10:34 has me dead 💀
It’s actually him 😂
But that's him😅
He nailed it
Idk why it looks so fake to me 😂
I definitely believe he can do it but the mouth movement looks so unnatural and late
I can confirm it was indeed him 😂
This movie would've been so much better if they made cgi cats that looked like ACUTAL cats instead of having humans to act as the cats, you know kind of like how peter rabbit used cgi animals or the "live action" lion king
I dare you two to watch the alvin and the chipmunks movies
This... this is intense 😂
@@RivalReacts so yes? Please
I still can’t believe my gran took me to the cinema to watch this that shit shows up in my dreams to this day
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Imagine they drank everytime they saw a cat lmaooo
0:28 Hey! Some of us have more respect for ourselves than THIS movie does!😤 (granted you can find cringy members in any community, ours included)
An episode of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt explained Cats best, the one where her GBF figured how to become a cast member.
I couldn't get more than ten minutes into this movie. The stage play was amazing, but this adaption of it is just horrible. There was a direct to video film released in 1998 that was the stage play but minus the audience, done just for the video and it was amazing. If you want to see it how it was meant to be seen, then watch that one instead.
The lyrics all come from a poetic sort of book called "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by T.S. Elliot. If you ever see the movie "Logan's Run," there is a man who recites a lot of poetry from it that you will have heard in the lyrics to the songs in Cats.
It 6/9 Golden Raspberry awards or Razzies, including Worst Picture of the year.
This movie is so bad that not even Taylor was able to save them. We,Swifties,collectively agreed to forget that it existed and not talk about it again. The movie may be a disaster but at least we have "Beautiful Ghosts" and the iconic Golden Globe night that gave us rare and adorable Taylor&Joe content😻
Oh god.
I went on a premiere with a friend couple years back and we got out of there traumatised. Im kinda reliving it rn and I wanna die.
Whoever made humanoid sonic made these.
Edit: You two together is fun.
23:30 this killed me💀💀💀💀😭😭😭😭
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This movie was…..um….something
what the..
7:13 OH MY GOD, that was my brother's exact reaction but it was at the scene that looks like an or*y! And the roaches are the most cursed thing I've seen in my life, if roaches weren't disgusting enough. I actually feel kind of offended on behalf of real roaches, and they are my worst nightmare. I'm still convinced covid was a punishment for this movie.
❤ love y’all’s reactions
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When I saw this movie it triggered some primal instinct and I couldn’t stop laughing throughout the entire movie just like these two at the end
Just because jellicles can and jellicles do does not mean that jellicles should
furskin had me HOWLING 😂
Okay so background ig cause theatre kids are getting all the blame 😆
Cats is based on a book of poems by TS Elliot. Jellicle cats is his creation. All of the songs are based on his cat poem (sans like one and a half). Andrew Lloyd Webber (Satan) challenged himself to write songs based on the poems, then he had people perform them at a concert. TS Elliot’s widow liked it so much she approved for it to be turned into a musical. That shit became the longest running musical on Broadway until Phantom of the Opera beat it a few years ago.
EDIT: also the director sucks ass he’s a terrible person and a terrible director. And Judi Dench said yes to this because she was supposed to play Grizabella in the original production but tore her Achilles heel.
The thing is that the musical itself had no plot and was confusing and the costumes and bad and they tried to make it a movie with all the worst parts of the original and just shoved famous people in it
I haven't watched the movie and now I'm struggling whether should i watch it lmao 🤣
Thanks for the reaction Rival !!
Although u two look like you're in pain
In most (if not all) of the reactions I've watched of Cats, theyve been in pain. You might not wanna watch it lol. Not for fun anyway, maybe while drinking with friends cuz suffering together can be fun lol
agreed that this movie is a cat-astrophy
As a furry, this is extremely disturbing.
As a cat person this makes me not like cats
This movie is so bad 😭😭 🤢🤢
It is genuinely sad
Ah...I feel bad for real cats and felines in general TwT
You brave brave souls
0:00 yo shane dawson? This u?
Na this is CRAZY LMAOOO
Listen, the CGI is horrifying, but some of the musical arrangements are great, not as good as the 90s musical but something is something, but we can all agree James Corden has no place in it... anywhere for that matter
I'd love to see you guys watch a musical like Sweeney Todd with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter (also has Grindelwald, Wormtail, and Snape in it too from harry potter :p). They sing the whole time...but with discernable plot. That discernable plot, let me tell ya, it really makes a story. Lol. But I think you guys might like a musical better if it was one like Sweeney Todd that had so much talent in it and, ya know, death, people pie, gore, guts, the whole bit :p If Saw and High School Musical made a movie baby with Tim Burton as the movie baby father.
oh god…
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17:18 he’s Gandalf and Magneto
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2012 childhood Jason Derulo was fantastic and then it just got too much at some point
Watch the 1998 version 😏
FURSKIN *snort*
PWEEZE WATCH, "X" IT'S SO CRAZYYY. Also, chuu guys really chose to watch this movie, lmaoooooo. Oh noooooo
React to "Puss in boots". That movie might make you feel better after this cat-like disaster. 💯🔥
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this movie remains an absolute disgrace to the original production. now that was nightmare fuel done right.
Oh hell no 🤣
Literally anything goes
Jellical-Angelical- saying that they are graceful as angels cats
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Rival why did you see this movie it’s so cringe it’s worst than avatar last air bender
Honestly true 😂
WHY DOES THIS FILM EXIST!!?? 🤬😡💀
I like the train dance scene, and Ian makes everything good.
Not a fan of the rest