It's not news that "Cats" is a bad movie. Directed by Tom Hooper (A Man Who, Between This Disaster and His 2012 Big-Screen Adaptation of "Les Misérables," Should Be Required to Return His Directing Oscar For "The King's Speech Andrew Lloyd Webber's inscrutable and mostly plotless Broadway Musical as its Source Material, and to Say It's Jarring, Bizarre, and Outright Terrible is an an underestimation. Also, Taylor Swift is in it.

Let me go back for a moment and say this: Broadway's musical "cats" is not my personal cup of tea, but I'm not here to act all that. It is one of the highest musicals in history and to be absolutely fair, the fact that the stage version is painless is not technical bad something. (Let's be really blunt, the shelf life is made up of different cats that get to know themselves until one of them must not die.), Making it in a movie, however, was a patented terrible idea, and I say that without respect for Hawoper ... and unfortunately for Swift and its co-stars, Dame Juddi Dame McKellen, Uh, Jameses CordenIt is now part of their creative histories.

So which one plays Swift in this failure in the center of the film? It would be a bomb, a cat "Female Fatal", which is an Acle of various torment of the wicked pies (Idris Elba). She sings a song in the movie - "Macavity: The Mystery Cat" - and is never seen after a bunch of other Jellicle ball tracks with Catnip. (Swift somehow escapes from further performances, though she made an original song for the film with Webber called "Beautiful Ghosts", performed by "Lead" cat Victoria of Francesca Hayward.)

"Cats" were indisputable boxing and critical failure, to say nothing about the highly released visual effect problems when it first came out in December 2019. (Needless to say, there is a reason for the film to make the bottom 100 between Movies with the lowest rated imdb.) So what important things do critics say, and even they mentioned Swift's performance?

Once again, Taylor Swift is barely in cats; She probably has the least time on the screen of any of the big advertised stars on the film, so she is lucky for her ... because the stench of the film really didn't stick to it. Critics are absolutely lobbying the movie - it has a 19% rating Rotten tomatoesWhat's just scary to one's standards - but her name doesn't really appear, so ... good for her!

As for those critics, some, like Akeejk Cole of A weak magazineHe noted that the musical is not necessarily to adjust: "This adaptation becomes directly to the heart of the material, which is basically two hours of wandering cats that are introduced." The ThewrapRobert Abel was a little more cut and directly, writing, "the unfortunate fever of Tom Houper's spectacle dream is like something that escapes from Dr. Moro's creatures, a non-literary hybrid of physical and digital that disturbs and falls more often than it intensifies." Writing for Los Angeles TimesJustin Atin Young also went to the jugular: "With his grotesque design choices and busy, metronomal arrangement," cats "is just as uncomfortable with the eyes as the Hollywood spectacle, trembling in an unwanted valley."

In the opinion of someone who has seen the "cats" in cinemas as a kind of little (me), the funniest and most accurate examinations can be reduced to pie-one. "O God, my eyes," wrote Ty Boer in Boston Globe. "I found it all exhausting," David Rooney wrote Hollywood reporter. All this can be summarized, however, by Alice Wilkinson to take over Vox: "It's literally amazing. I hope you will never see that again."

These days, Taylor Swift no longer acts so much (that is, with The largest Home respect, good work for the most part). Why? She is busy! From March 2023 to December 2024, Swift began on her Eras tour in Eras, which unveiled her musical "epics" one by one (sight) in three and a half hours and performed a staggering 149 times, occupying $ 2 billion. (Context: Swift sang its 10 -minute version of "too good" 25 hours By the time the tour ended.) The high profile of Swift with footballer Travis Kielce has attracted international attention, but even without her constantly present tour, Swift is still at the top of his game; Her 12th album is rumored and, at the end of May 2025, Swift announced that she bought all her master shots after a year-long struggle to bring them back from bad actors like Scooter Brown and Scott Borcheta. (This apparently sucked for someone like Swift, who is proud of his creative work, but it was a boon for fans because we got the recording of the "Taylor version" so that all good that ends well.) Also also She did no They appear in one of the last episodes of "The Handmaid's Tale".

Swift can be one of the most famous "cats" in the world - she has three - but with all this in mind, you may be wondering how she feels "cats". As the singer "Two Weeks" stated Diversity In 2020, she didn't. "I am happy to be here, happy to be nominated, and I had a really great time working on that strange ass movie," she told the Golden Globe nomination for "Beautiful Ghosts", just before her documentary "Miss American" in Sundance that year. "I will not retroactively decide that it was not the best experience. I would never meet Andrew Lloyd Webber or I didn't try to see how he worked, and now he is my friend. I had to work with the most painful dancers and performers. There are no complaints." However, for Swift's fans and also good movies, this was a disappointing exit through the board.

I will just say this. "Cats" is the last film I saw before Kovid-19 hit; The Eras tour was my first post-Carantine concert. Swift's career has had very high and some significant falls, and we have prepared things like "cats" to be rewarded with retrospective in a three -hour career. As the songwriter says of a song "Reputation", "That's how it goes".