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I think the thing with Cats is that it's totally OK if a broadway musical has no plot and doesn't make sense, you're going for the experience.
Film has a history of narrative and you just can't drop in a word like "jellicle" and expect to get away with it.
OTOH complaining about jellicle in Cats would be a lot like walking out of a Smurfs movie complaining about "Man, they sure do say 'Smurf' a lot."
As a lover of musicals, HELL no! Cats is probably the worst musical I've ever seen and that's INCLUDING every amateur production. Yes, school play originals too.
Apart from the not making sense, it has ONE great song (the others ranging from awful to meh), which it repeats so many times that you're on the verge of getting tired of it by the time the Elder Kitty reveals that cats aren't dogs.
-10/10, would force Trump, Musk, Putin, and Netanyahu to watch on repeat until they die as punishment for their crimes against humanity.
~~Only~~ ESPECIALLY if it's "the butthole version". :)
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/04/cats-butthole-cut-vfx-editor?srsltid=AfmBOoqF8lqcUU1Dy32or7wP2ZSUXhJOGRSE_DcZi8F2CrF1Bd0cUvUU
Thing is, there's a lot about the source material that, if you're not there for it, then you shouldn't even be in the theatre. No plot, sexy cat monsters, absurd lyrics, that's all there from the beginning. No, the 2019 movie is fucked up in ways that have nothing to do with T. S. Eliot or Andrew Lloyd Webber.