I’m sorry, the old Cats can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Because it’s dead.
Unless you’re a feline fanatic or Cats stan, the first look of the adaptation of the famous Broadway musical is both conceptually bewildering and unnerving.
Almost immediately after the trailer dropped on Thursday, Twitter lit up with users slamming the film for the digital technology, which transformed the actors with digital fur.
The computer-generated cat-human hybrids were shocking, to say the least.
Here’s the thing, they’re people, but they’re cats.
The star-studded cast, including Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, James Corden, Jennifer Hudson, and Judi Dench, became the center of a flurry of memes.
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Social media users couldn’t stop talk about the cast’s unsettlingly furry faces, including Get Out’s director Jordan Peele.
“I put the song from Us onto the Cats trailer and I think it fits better,” comedian Ian Abramson tweeted.
The acclaimed horror film responded with a seal of approval saying, “Yes.”
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Beyond teasing the fictional felines’ movements, many raised questions about cat nudity and if it had a plot.
First thing’s first, you’ve got to watch the trailer that launched thousands of tweets.
And, if you think you’re ready for this, you’re probably not.
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Taylor, who will play Bombalurina on the big-screen, wasn’t kidding around when she dropped hints about spending time in cat school.
“I just fully committed and threw myself into the process and had the most fun,” Swift previously told E. “We had this thing called ‘cat school’ that was a class where you could learn about how to create the motions of cats, how to think like they think, how to sense things the way that they do, carry yourself the way a cat would. I learned a lot.”
Gushing over her experience isn’t a new thing for the “ME!” singer, who also made headlines learning to behave like a cat in a video interview with Time last month.
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Here are the best Tweets about the insane film.
This simple statement.
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This disturbing image.
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Good news, if you’re confused AF.
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Offices everywhere stopped for 2 minutes and 23 seconds.
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“Pure, straight-up nightmare fuel,” anyone?
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Who did this.
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This curse.
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Does it always have to be about humans?
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When Anna Kendrick stepped in.
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When Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt revealed the hidden secret behind Cats.
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The world has been forever changed.
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This man, who is already imagining trying to explain this to his child.
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I’m scared.
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We can’t unplay it either.
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Trigger warning?
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Hilarious.
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Every theater kid right now.
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Expectations vs. reality.
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This kid that thought it was a “bit scary.”
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