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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 7883102" data-attributes="member: 57383">To each their own, I just saw Cats last night and found it great fun, nor did I see the CGI cat suits as being "uncanny valley" creepy. It was basically the stage musical with some computer-generated costuming and background added and if one's OK with that it's fine.Indeed I enjoyed it more than Rise of Skywalker, maybe because I found myself "taken out of the picture" by questioning what was going on on screen a lot less. Which is a bit bizarre if you think about it.If I were to make a few constructive criticism it's that I though Idris Elba (Macavity) was somewhat miscast / miscostumed. Just compare the way they're described in the songs and how they appear in the film.Elba's Macavity (who's basically feline <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Moriarty" target="_blank">Professor Moriarty</a>) is a hunky chocolate-furred cross between a pimp and a drug lord, he doesn't give the vibe of being an intellectual mastercriminal nor does he match the character's description IN THE MOVIE of being very thin, ginger furred, and swaying his head from side-to-side like a snake.I wasn't that fond of the version of Mister Mistoffelees in the movie, but that's just a matter of personal preference. I'd have preferred someone confident in their magical abilities (as the "original conjuring cat") with a rather androgenous appearance (to riff on the most probable reason how a "Mister" could make seven kittens appear out of a hat). I'd have also preferred him (her?) to be an all-black cat like in the poem but will accept that he's a tuxedo-cat like in the musical.Oh, and for the CGI fur suits I thought they were fine except they looked too coarse. There were a couple of ads before the movie with real cats in them just to rub it in that the CGI fur should have been much finer. Similarly, their ears seemed a bit thick and "canvasy" in texture, the edges should have looked more delicate. Also thought their CGI appendages were too over-animated, which is a common fault with creature special effects. Real animals tend to only move their tails and ears WHEN THEY NEED TO, not constantly to give the animators something to do. The tails were worse than the ears. They kept on curling up the ends as if they were chameleons or something - I've never seen a cat do that!</blockquote>

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