Elaine Page, Elaine Paige, Jacob Brent

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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Directed by: David Mallet

Release Date: October 27, 1998

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DVD Release Date: September 12, 2000

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  • June 19, 2008
    If not the greatest musical of all times
  • 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 more)ybe 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 more)Cats". Highly enjoyable.
  • November 7, 2006
    LOVE IT SO MUCH!
  • October 23, 2006
    Eat my head i did, didn't hurt half as much as this
  • 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 more)diculous! 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".
  • September 7, 2009
    Who doesn't love Cats?? Great film and one i can watch over and over again and never get bored off.
  • August 24, 2009
    Used to love this. Untill I saw it onstage. Now can't watch it at all, despite the PURRFECT cast. A dream cast. Almost.
  • August 20, 2009
    MY FAVOURITE MUSICALS
  • August 19, 2009
    watched this for the first time when I was 8. I still remember all the dances.

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  • mrbicklethepickle
    April 25, 2009
    I so bought this the other day!!! LOL!
  • singer4jesus2013
    December 31, 2008
    i love this musical so much that when i first seen is a memorized the cast character names and their real names but my parents got sick of it so i had to put it away for a while but now for my b-day i seen cats live and i'm getting in to it again!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • brittany1992381
    May 29, 2008
    I love this musical !!!!!!!!!!
  • japanafisqueaky
    March 9, 2008
    *The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat!* we just saw the musical live a couple dayz ago and we got sixth row/center seats and it was AmAzInG!! ^^
  • Gx7
    February 20, 2008
    Oh! Well I never! Was there ever
    A cat so clever as magical Mr. Mistoffelees!

  • thehellbitch
    January 20, 2008
    John Partridge played Tugger

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173714/
  • jsfan101
    December 4, 2007
    DOes anyone know who plays Tugger? I swear he looks like Tim Curry from Rocky Horror Picture Show. Does anyone know?
  • daddysspoiltlittlede
    July 11, 2007
    heya
    it b samara i lov it iv loved it from wen i was 2-3 its fucken awlsome i went tu the concebt and it rocked im a huge fan and i havnt missed any off ur videos etc and i will aways like u ill make mi children wen im older watch it and im sure they will love it

    xxxxx
    samara xxxxxx
    xxxxxx :):):):(:(:(:):):):P:P:P:P:Phahahahahahahahahaha
    and im 14
  • wildchildw
    March 17, 2007
    Haven't seen the movie but the stage production is AMAZING and ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! can't compliment it enough so i'll leave it simply at that! BRILLIANT!!!
  • carolrulz93
    February 4, 2007
    Love it! ;)

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