Cats The Movie: Even Taylor Swift Couldn't Save It with Jackie Zebrowski & Sarah Cooper | 6

The Big Flop

Wondery

Society & Culture, Comedy, Business

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The 2019 movie adaptation of Cats had all the makings of a huge hit: a beloved Broadway musical, an award-winning director, and a star-studded cast including: Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, and Dame Judi Dench! Instead, it crapped the (litter) box office. Find out how a race to the Oscars pushed the visual effects team to their limits, creating a total CAT-tastrophe complete with accidental animated feline buttholes. On this episode of The Big Flop, comedians Jackie Zebrowski (Page 7) and Sarah Cooper (Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation) join Misha to dissect one of biggest movie flops in recent memory. It’s a purrfect tale of what NOT to do!

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to the Big Flop early and ad-free.
0:05.3	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:19.7	It's early 2020 and it's Oscars Night.
0:23.6	Taking the stage is James Corden dressed as a cat in a tuxedo and top hat.
0:29.3	Alongside him is Rebel Wilson wearing a ginger furry number with gold stilettos.
0:35.5	Gordon waves, Wilson swings her tail and winks.
0:39.1	As cast members of the motion picture cats.
0:45.1	Nobody more than us understands the importance of good visual effects.
0:53.0	Wilson gives a sort of snarl.
0:55.8	Corden just glares.
0:57.7	Down in the audience,
0:59.1	Antonio Banderas is hysterically laughing,
1:02.6	wiping tears from his eyes.
1:05.4	Cats had everything going for it.
1:07.9	It was the film adaptation of one of the most successful musicals in Broadway history.
1:13.9	It had a star-studded cast and acclaimed director. It had Taylor Swift. It should have been
1:21.6	winning Oscars. But instead, its own stars are openly mocking it. Why, you ask? Because every frame of its hour
1:31.4	and 50-minute runtime is an uncanny valley of monstrosity. It's official. The Cats movie is a
1:40.1	catastrophe. It's reminiscent of video game graphics from a decade ago.
1:49.1	The world got to see James Corden as a fat pussy.
1:52.8	It was also in the movie Cats, but no one saw that.
1:57.1	Lord Weber pulled no punches about the movie saying,
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