I saw Cats last night. It lives up its particular hype. CGI looks either otherwordly(more alien-like than cat-like) or just unfinished, and the sense of scale changes multiple times even within single songs. Judi Dench in particular looked totally ridiculous, Ian McKellan looked pathetic meowing and licking a bowl at 80 years old, and the Idris Elba cat looked more human than the rest so it was like he was naked lol. Jennifer Hudson ugly cries through literally every single scene she is in, also looks bad.
There isn't much of a discernible plot. Its kind of like "The Lottery" but with cats, and the winning cat flys off in a balloon at the end, but even more barebones. Generally goes: new cat shows up, they sing a song about themselves. Repeat for the first hour. There is a sort of subplot with the Idris Elba cat kidnapping(catnapping?) the other cats so it can win the contest, but it was just weird and nonsensical. He'd lure away a cat that had been singing and say "magic!" and they'd both disappear in a flash to some barge in the river. Every scene there, by the way, was like some nightmare version of the Wizard of Oz. The cats are called 'the Jellicles', and the Judi Dench cat decides the winner. At one point she declares to the evil Idris Elba cat "You'll never be my Jellicle choice!" and my theatre started laughing.
The whole movie was pretty f***ing weird to be honest with you. Like the opening scene is pretty odd, but then it slides into the Rebel Wilson scene in which the weirdness is scaled up big time. Her song begins with her scratching her crotch vigorously while making noises, then there are some strange mouse-children that are bizarre, followed by a conga line of singing cockroaches with the Rebel Wilson cat variously singing and eating the cockroaches. This song is then followed by a song from a cat who sings about being fat and eat garbage, the song ending with the cat rolling in garbage in a dump, eating it. There is also a song about a cat whose distinguishing feature was living in a railyard I think, or on a train or something. That scene was weird and bad, the CGI was super low quality, and they were all tap dancing for some reason. The movie concluded with them singing a song about how to address your cat, including a Judi Dench monologue on doing so. Add to all of this, every single scene, a ton of gyrating hips and latent horniness too.