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“The worst thing about Cats — and I was forced to see two cat burglars sensually drape a string of pearls around the scruff of Haywars in the obvious foray to a cat threesome — is that it was made in the first place,” wrote Globe and Mail critic Chandler Levack.
The Wall Street Journal’s John Anderson wrote, “Artistically, it’s a hairball. There’s no story to speak of, Mr. Webber’s music Newport 100s Box is immediately forgettable and, like a cat standing at an open door, it takes forever to get where it’s going.”Mary Elizabeth Williams disagreed, writing, “There’s something uniquely fun about seeing the likes of Ian McKellen and Jennifer Hudson fully committing to their down-on-their-paws Cheap Newport 100s cigarettes characters, a spirited sense of shared strangeness.”
FilmWeek’s Amy Nicholson also enjoyed the film, writing, “I spent most of Cats with my hands over my mouth, going ‘What is happening?’ … I had a ton of fun with this.”