The film is flat, without any of the camp, kitsch high energy that characterised the stage show, but its wrongness is never less than mesmerising.

You can't believe what you're looking at because it's so hideous to behold.

There's a digital veneer of horror and farce and glazed looks, and it just doesn't work, it's not sensibly thought about.

[Cats] just failed. It doesn't hit the mark at all.