So thanks to the Show Must Go On, one weekend only streaming of Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals earlier in the year, I finally saw a stage production of Cats. That left me kind of confused....'that' was the original blockbuster Broadway musical? It's really odd
So now big budget movie and not limited by the stage and perhaps not for the best by merely costumes and makeup.
Side note and related, when I first saw the Phantom of the Opera movie with Rossum and Butler, my disappointment was that it didn't seemingly take advantage of the cinematic possibilities, like it wasn't big enough...except when there was strange things like horse riding and graveyards that weren't part of the stage production.
Cats does not have that issue. There's big sets, big CGI extended vistas, there's CGI tails and ears and oh boy, maybe too much movie.
Though I think real strangeness is that what I guess worked on a stage where it is performers in catsuits, on a stylized set, becomes too weird when technology is used to make performers in catsuits seem to be more 'realistically' cats by having moving ears and tails.
And there was the severe discomfort of watching Taylor Swift's Bombalurina. I'd never thought about Taylor Swift in a catsuit and then there she was. Well, sort of... That's kind of interesting but it looks like your ears are in a different plane...but it it Taylor in a catsuit...and it looks like her face is pasted in....