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Okay, I may not see the thing itself, but this review is solid gold and a welcome break from the usual "my word is law" reviews of late(okay, maybe the last decade or two)...
Saw it tonight with my wife and my brother and his wife. I’ll try to convey some of my thoughts in a random, pointless scatter in honor of the film, but first off I’ll say that I laughed harder at some scenes than I have in a movie theater in years. I laughed till I cry-snotted like Jennifer Hudson. My face hurt after the film.
It was good that I saw it with my brother, who has a similar sense of humor—if I had seen it with just my wife, I probably would have had to leave early on. She was freaking out pretty hard for the first half of the movie. At least four times she exclaimed, “What the feth?! What the feth?! Just what the feth?! Why???” There is some serious nightmare fuel in this movie for sensitive people.
The color palette and camera work make it feel like a horror movie. Many shots are too close, too shaky, or cut too quick for the audience to be comfortable. For anyone who is interested in that kind of thing, this film is hilarious in its ineptitude.
Judy Dench looks creepily “off” in every shot she’s in. This is not helped by her singing or acting choices.
Ian McKellan fething rocks in this movie. He knows what film he’s in and he steals it. The only character who even comes close to competing with him for sheer ability to captivate the audience is Jennifer Hudson’s snot trail.
The sets were surreal and beautiful. The lighting was great. The production value was there on the screen.
The music was good, and the choreography straddled the line between exciting and creepy. It was enough to make me wish the director, camera man and editor had made better choices.
There were a lot of parts, especially in the second half, that were legitimately good. I was never bored during the whole show.
So, do you think it will become a "singalong" cult sensation outside of the Furry community in the next 15-20 years? Or...sadly I guess it could become the Rocky Horror Picture Show FOR the Furry community....christ I already feel bad for the theaters if that becomes a thing.
The people behind us were singing along for a number of the songs, especially Skimbleshanks’. We also weren’t the only ones laughing.
I think the film could attain the same kind of cult status as The Room, a film you can throw on at parties for everyone to laugh at. There are many, many bafflingly bad decisions in the film that really make one wonder how and why did they decide to do that? I could see it as a conversation starter.
Not ever seen it so looking forward to seeing the film.
Plus cat girls and Ian McKellan - how can than not be good?
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BobtheInquisitor wrote: Saw it tonight with my wife and my brother and his wife. I’ll try to convey some of my thoughts in a random, pointless scatter in honor of the film, but first off I’ll say that I laughed harder at some scenes than I have in a movie theater in years. I laughed till I cry-snotted like Jennifer Hudson. My face hurt after the film.
It was good that I saw it with my brother, who has a similar sense of humor—if I had seen it with just my wife, I probably would have had to leave early on. She was freaking out pretty hard for the first half of the movie. At least four times she exclaimed, “What the feth?! What the feth?! Just what the feth?! Why???” There is some serious nightmare fuel in this movie for sensitive people.
The color palette and camera work make it feel like a horror movie. Many shots are too close, too shaky, or cut too quick for the audience to be comfortable. For anyone who is interested in that kind of thing, this film is hilarious in its ineptitude.
Judy Dench looks creepily “off” in every shot she’s in. This is not helped by her singing or acting choices.
Ian McKellan fething rocks in this movie. He knows what film he’s in and he steals it. The only character who even comes close to competing with him for sheer ability to captivate the audience is Jennifer Hudson’s snot trail.
The sets were surreal and beautiful. The lighting was great. The production value was there on the screen.
The music was good, and the choreography straddled the line between exciting and creepy. It was enough to make me wish the director, camera man and editor had made better choices.
There were a lot of parts, especially in the second half, that were legitimately good. I was never bored during the whole show.
... gak, now I kind of want to see it.
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Anyone who has seen the movie, is it really this bad?
I saw it. Yes.
The movie has one good song in the middle when Taylor swift sings the only song where I could understand all of the words and the plot of 2 characters is kind of moved forward during the song. Every other song is basically unintelligible nonsense. After the first incredibly bizarre song they mention a point that cats have 3 names. 1) the name people give them. The word they say most often around the cats. 2) Their true name. The name of themselves that they spend time contemplating and figuring out. 3) never mentioned again. I don't know why they didn't just say they have 2 names. Seriously, I could understand maybe 1 in 5-7 words in any other song and had to pick up wtf was happening in context clues. Idris Alba plays the Cat Devil whos trying to win the Right of Suicide via balloon from Cat Jesus (Judi Dench) which the gellical cat cult believes is followed by reincarnation. Mostly the movie is made up of cats singing the songs of themselves which again are mostly unintelligible and you just go from scene to scene watching that happen while everyone else silently emotes around them or suddenly breaks into support singing. For 2 days now me and my roommate that I saw this with have been having this hot garbage stuck in our heads.
I am convinced this play is actually a deal Andrew Loyd Webber made with Satan to spread his name. Mr. Mephistopheles.
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