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Elaine Page, Elaine Paige, Jacob Brent, John Mills, Ken Page ... see more see more... , Rosemarie Ford

For the first time ever, an Andrew Lloyd Webber show has been filmed and made available on video. With a star cast including Elaine Paige and Sir John Mills, Cats will no doubt set a new standard for ... read more read more...the filming of all future musicals.

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G, 2 hr. 1 min.

Directed by: David Mallet

Release Date: October 27, 1998

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DVD Release Date: September 12, 2000

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  • February 16, 2008
    I never saw the broadway plays so I have nothing to compare it to. I could never really understand the WHOLE story of this, i mean, I get the main message, but there were parts that I thought were just fillers on the story. Well, like I said, I could never get the whole thing, ma... read moreybe I just need to watch it again.
  • July 7, 2007
    A great filming of the "Cats" Broadway musical. It's a damn shame they edited out the "Growltiger's Last Stand" musical number in its entirety. Some of the accents were hard to understand. I liked the dynamic angles and special effects, making it like my own personal viewing of "... read moreCats". Highly enjoyable.
  • November 7, 2006
    LOVE IT SO MUCH!
  • March 29, 2008
    Poop. Everyone made it out to be this incredible thing and when I saw it I was very disappointed.
  • February 18, 2009
    I couldn't care less about Cats.
  • August 12, 2006
    I love musicals and i love mr.mistafolees
  • April 4, 2011
    It doesn't have a story. It's just a big, beautiful piece of art, with a phenominal cast. Unforgettable performances by Elaine Paige, Ken Page and Michael Gruber. Beautiful dancing by Jacob Brent and Phyllida Crowley Smith. Really, beautiful dancing by all of them. My only negati... read moreve is the awkward transition from song to song. Keep in mind that this is probably a movie for only musical lovers!
  • March 16, 2010
    the worst musical I had ever seen in my life I me what was andre loyd webber thinking very boring made me fall asleep
  • January 2, 2010
    I love this so much. I love the songs and the dancing. The costumes are wonderful too. My favorite cat is Mungojerrie.
  • September 10, 2009
    With all the furor over this thing over the years, I expected it to at least be okay. I enjoyed Eliot's original poems from Old Possum's Book, the ones I read at least. But not only is the production and filming pretty terrible, the play itself is pointless, weird, boring and ri... read morediculous! And this is coming from a guy who has found worth and value in a good number of pointless, weird, boring, ridiculous movies and plays.

    Half the time I couldn't even understand what the actors were saying or singing about because the sound was that terrible, and as is typical for filmed versions of plays the stage/audience chemistry was missing. There didn't seem to be any semblance of a story, just an endless parade of cat characters being introduced. The music and lyrics weren't that great. By the time I turned it off, about 30 minutes into it, I was ready to smack the next person who used the word "Jellicle", since it got said about twelve times in every song but was never well explained, leaving it meaningless and annoying.

    I suppose extreme cat fanatics might like this DVD just because it's about cats... thought my six-year-old daughter, who LOVES cats and anything cat-related, thought it was just "okay".

Critic Reviews


Widgett Walls
March 11, 2003
Widgett Walls, Needcoffee.com

Sure it might be barely plotless fluff, but it's well executed barely plotless fluff, and doesn't try to pretend to be anything else.

Michael Dequina
December 23, 2006
Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com

No review available.

Emanuel Levy
July 21, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

No review available.

Walter Chaw
June 6, 2003
Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central

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Ryan Cracknell
April 18, 2002
Ryan Cracknell, Apollo Guide

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