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Is Taylor Swift-starring ‘Cats’ Really As Awful As It Looks? Reviews: It’s Far, Far Worse.

John Bickley
Is Taylor Swift-starring ‘Cats’ Really As Awful As It Looks? Reviews: It’s Far, Far Worse.
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Taylor Swift is experiencing even more than her usual degree of media coverage these days. Along with being engaged in an ugly, ongoing public feud with producers that control the rights to her old songs, the popular performer is starring in a new film: an adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s famous broadway hit “Cats” — trailers for which have gone viral for all the wrong reasons.

With the upcoming film’s trailers still thoroughly creeping out would-be viewers, some critics have gotten a chance to see the film in advance — and the early reactions are downright brutal. Reviewers for Variety and The Hollywood Reporter absolutely savage the film. The degree of scorn for the film is so great, that one outlet has even tried to figure out what exactly is fueling the hatred for this potentially epic box office bomb.

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