We’ve been anxiously awaiting Tom Hooper’s Cats for a while now. The live-action film is based on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s famous stage musical–and adapted from a T.S. Eliot poem–and is a long-running Broadway show with a Byzantine plot and a lot of songs no one remembers except, coincidentally, “Memory.” The folks behind the movie have been teasing us with tidbits about the movie for a while–namely, that it would feature humans actors with digitally enhanced fur trotting around on giant sets. We had no idea what to expect and after watching the Cats trailer…we’re still having a hard time believing this thing is real.
And we’re certainly not alone. Twitter has been blowing up since the trailer debuted. This thing is already a meme factory. Here are some of the things people are saying about Tom Hooper’s Cats.
me waiting for cats memes: pic.twitter.com/MqJfV7cyqb
— Elena Nicolaou (@elenawonders) July 18, 2019
Some compared the cats in the trailer to other pop culture cats.
Literally me at the Cats. pic.twitter.com/YGsdpNSvDg
— Courtney Enlow ➡️ SDCC (@courtenlow) July 18, 2019
This CATS movie is fucked pic.twitter.com/kVVAGr5fg2
— Alexandra West (@ScareAlex) July 18, 2019
Can’t wait pic.twitter.com/7AKC17FTPn
— Mike Ryan (@mikeryan) July 18, 2019
CATS (2019) pic.twitter.com/ymZSbatVp8
— Erin Vail (@vailerin32) July 18, 2019
I remember the time I knew what happiness was let the memory live again pic.twitter.com/JznDVv5yIy
— alwine (@freeadora) July 18, 2019
— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) July 18, 2019
CATS (2019) dir. tom hooper pic.twitter.com/L9dGS3EteP
— karen han (@karenyhan) April 3, 2019
Every cat in Cats is stuck halfway through their morph pic.twitter.com/6vOzm1xeds
— Hillary Busis (@hillibusterr) July 18, 2019
While others used classic art to make their point.
CATS (2019) pic.twitter.com/MITj8krh4g
— yeehaw (@mckellogs) July 18, 2019
CATS (2019) dir. Tom Hooper pic.twitter.com/V7Tw15ykqe
— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) July 18, 2019
A lot of people aren’t very happy about what they’ve seen.
the cats trailer is out pic.twitter.com/gxUYfPHTAP
— Shannon Purser (@shannonpurser) July 18, 2019
— Listen to @onbeliefpod Li’l ? (@karengeier) July 18, 2019
Nobody:
The Cats trailer: pic.twitter.com/FIuJZIqqe5
— IFC (@IFC) July 18, 2019
i knew they were going to be cat-sized but nothing could prepare me for this pic.twitter.com/GXR9ASepZl
— iana murray (@ianamurray) July 18, 2019
heLp pic.twitter.com/NE1aDsg25I
— Jill Pantozzi (@JillPantozzi) July 18, 2019
Some folks are getting downright existential.
The ‘Cats’ trailer but with the ‘Annihilation’ score pic.twitter.com/MIFUsjylzR
— Bob Marshall (@bobmarshall) July 18, 2019
Also, there’s this.
me waiting for cats memes: pic.twitter.com/MqJfV7cyqb
— Elena Nicolaou (@elenawonders) July 18, 2019
Cats arrives in theaters on December 20, 2019. Are you prepared?
Images: Universal Pictures