“This is maniacal,” Jezebel’s fearless leader Julianne Escobedo Shepherd uttered midway through a staff viewing of Cats, with the production of the Jellicle Ball underway. But maybe she meant, “This is magical.”
intends to be something more inspiring than what it actually is. I gather that it’s supposed to be about salvation and the promise of redemption. But it’s really a cult story about a group of people who think they are cats,like cats ; and each year, per tradition under the guise of a Jellicle Ball , they sacrifice one of their cat people, who welcomes death because they believe they’ll be reborn as who they always wanted to be, with no explanation of logistics.
to the cult through the power of music, convincing her that they’re a magical, romantical, metaphorical group of cats. She believes them because she just wants to be loved and that’s how cults work. Everything the cats do seems intense and important , and many of the cats are incredibly sultry. But the focus is: Who will become the Chosen Cat?
Jennifer Hudson, in the gravest portrayal of a cat that I’ve ever seen, is in a completely different movie than everyone else.James Corden plays a fat cat who wants to be reborn as a thin cat. Jason Derulo plays a pop-locking lothario named Rum Tum Tugger. Rebel Wilson is Rebel Wilson as a cat. Ian McKellen is a really old, endearing theater cat. And Idris Elba is the villain cat who wants to become the Jellicle Choice , but he doesn’t understand that it’s notchoice.
Hudson, in the gravest portrayal of a cat that I’ve ever seen, is in a completely different movie than everyone else , and so is Judi Dench, who makes the most of her role with a show of grit. There’s really no plot, though.is a series of musical expositions, and there’s also no real narrative structure or climax, either.
A few cats were allowed to wear clothing—why? Dame Judi Dench, who is the only person in this movie who carried this shit off, played Old Deuteronomy and was, for some inexplicable reason, wearing a fur coat that was made of theSetting aside these lapses in logic, I will give credit where credit is due: Old Deuteronomy’s fur was pretty good. I hate that sentence, and I’m sorry. The other nod towards verisimilitude is the matter of the genitals.
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