When the first trailer for Cats leapt onto screens back in July, everyone was left with the unsettling feeling that we’d watched something that should never have been seen.

The film stars Taylor Swift, James Corden, Jennifer Hudson, Dame Judy Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, and Idris Elba, amongst others. You’ll be able to tell who is who because the faces on the cats are bizarrely humanoid.

Also if you were hoping that the Twitter outrage that followed the release of the trailer would spark a redesign as it did with Sonic the Hedgehog, I’m afraid you’re going to be sorely disappointed.

Mashable does a good job of summing things up:

Cats the musical is hard to spoil because at the absolute core of the show, barely anything happens. Buncha cats show up, they introduce themselves, and at the end one of them gets the delightful privilege of dying.

“Milk!” bellows one cat, after Idris Elba turns up looking like a sex pest in furry clothing. “Yeah!” moans Jason Derulo in what appears to be a neon nightclub sequence filled with felines.

This is fine. Everything’s normal and fine.

Everything is not normal and fine:

This adaptation of the classic stage musical will probably draw a massive audience – for all the wrong reasons.

Watch it for the nightmare fuel, in cinemas on December 20.

[source:mashable]