Mel Valentin
5 min readJan 3, 2020

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Cats’ Delivers One of the Most Misguided, Misconceived Wannabe Blockbusters in Recent Memory

It only gets weirder and weirder from here.

Calling Cats, Oscar-stealing director Tom Hooper’s (The Danish Girl, Les Miserables, The King’s Speech) big-screen, $100 million adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long-running Broadway/West End stage musical, an abomination, a blight, a plague against cinema that signals the end times — aside, of course, from the White House squatter’s daily depredations on the American public…