'Cats': Seriously, WTF? | The Big Picture

The Big Picture

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Tv & Film

4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ ? minutes

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Tom Hooper's adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash musical hit has finally come to movie theaters and … well … yikes. Sean and Amanda break down the history of Webber's show and its enormous impact on Broadway. Then they take a closer look at the characters, the confounding production design and costumes, and just generally have a meltdown about the absurdity of this enterprise. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:04.8	Over the holidays and into the new year, we'll still be publishing new shows to keep you
0:08.6	up to speed with the NFL Playoff race, the NBA and award season.
0:13.6	We've published some great episodes in the month of December, including two rewatchables
0:17.3	on Happy Gilmore and the Godfather Part II.
0:20.1	Chris interviewed Watchman Showrunner Damon Lindelof on the watch, and the Ringer NBA show
0:24.8	ranked the top 25 players of the 2019-2020 season so far.
0:29.5	Lastly, Happy Holidays from the Ringer.
0:51.6	I'm Sean Fennese.
0:52.6	I'm Amanda Dobbins.
0:53.4	And this is the big picture a conversation show about these motherfucking cats.
0:58.1	That's right, it's time to talk about one of the last and certainly one of the most bizarre
1:01.1	releases of 2019.
1:03.1	Tom Hooper's cat is here.
1:05.1	And boy oh boy, is this a dog baby of a movie, Amanda?
1:07.9	We had a sense that this was going to be at least a peculiar film.
1:12.0	I think it turned out to be certainly worse and a little bit more even confounding than
1:17.0	we expected.
1:18.0	Let's just give me some quick emotional reaction to the movie cats before we give you the
1:23.2	long arc of the movie cats.
1:25.6	What and why?
1:27.8	And how and why me?
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