Me-Yow! 'Cats' movie trailer draws catty reactions

Shirley McMarlin
Friday, July 19, 2019 9:42 a.m. | Friday, July 19, 2019 9:42 a.m.

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The first trailer is out for “Cats,” the movie based on one of the most successful musicals of all time, and the internet is not happy about it.

“Cats,” one of the most successful musicals of all time, will hit the big screen Dec. 20 as a live-action movie. The first trailer has dropped and the internet has opinions — from “unsettling” to “nightmarish.”

Let’s take a look, shall we?

CNN has this to say: “There’s a good chance your coworkers are all watching the ‘Cats’ trailer, and there’s a very good chance they’re all horrified by it.”

OK, then.

You don’t know fear until you’ve seen the #CatsTrailer

— mr iced tea returns (@EmmettHanly) July 18, 2019

I just watched the #CatsTrailer ... a terrible musical now stuffed with a bunch of nightmare fuel..So many furry cat boobs..I will never unsee Jason Derulo as a mutant catman pic.twitter.com/HhurGwEzhw

— Kate Robinson (@_thatmoviechick) July 19, 2019

Based on Andrew Lloyd Webbers’ musical (based on T.S. Eliot’s whimsical poems), the movie’s star-studded cast includes real-life cat lover Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, James Corden, Rebel Wilson, Idris Elba, Jason Derulo, Dame Judi Dench and Ian McKellen. All decked out in slinky cat suits — or what the producers call “digital fur technology.”

It’s an image you can’t unsee.

Reminds me of a wacked out nightmare I had while plugged into a week-long Fentanyl epidural. In fact, #CatsTrailer might be worse. pic.twitter.com/AWjZklqdSn

— Vicki Pang (@vickicpang) July 19, 2019

I was joking when I said I’d have nightmares. Woken up at 3am in a cold sweat thinking about Dame Judi Dench’s cat face with Jellical Cats stuck in my head. #CatsTrailer pic.twitter.com/KMa65bUg7l

— Hailey ? (@TruthAndAdare) July 19, 2019

They’re the Jellicle Cats preparing for the Jellicle Ball, a yearly event at which Old Deuteronomy (Dench), the tribe’s leader picks the most deserving cat to ascend to a sort of cat heaven to be reborn and return for a new life.

This tribe of Jellicles prowls and leaps about on super-sized furniture and other settings to make them look realistically cat-sized.

why do they look like that#cats #CatsTrailer pic.twitter.com/ccnO0CIa9q

— Shiny (@ScalieBait) July 18, 2019

Not surprisingly, Swift was all about donning the cat suit:

I am a cat now and somehow that was everything #CatsMovie pic.twitter.com/80gZHpvzMW

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) July 18, 2019

But how did everyone else feel about it?

Nobody told me Garfield was a horror movie #CatsTrailer pic.twitter.com/kw1fRvtibO

— Kenza? (@mskenzabntm) July 19, 2019

Or about some of the other characters?

This is why Idris Elba couldn't be the new James Bond.#CatsTrailer pic.twitter.com/k9ZWya0sti

— Filthy Hippie in a Loincloth (@droctopu5) July 18, 2019

Director is Tom Hooper, best known for his work on “The King’s Speech” and “Les Misérables.” As Grizabella, Hudson sings the blockbuster hit song ”Memory” — but you might have to close your eyes to enjoy it.

I...I mean, I'm so excited to hear Jennifer Hudson sing Memory, but the animation is so terrifying??? pic.twitter.com/bfjGRvfQYr

— Megan Hash (@and_meggy) July 18, 2019