An orgy of throbbing tails: is Cats the kinkiest film to earn a U certificate?

Tom Hooper’s adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is festive fun for all the family, according to the cinema ratings boards.

So why are early audiences averting their eyes?Cats review – a purr-fectly dreadful hairball of woeIt was hard to anticipate audience reaction to the first screenings of Cats, Tom Hooper’s version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.

Would there be whoops and applause, particularly at the showstopping songs and big-budget staging? Or perhaps hoots of derision at the stars prancing and the heavy use of synth?In fact, an agog silence dominated in London and New York cinemas, as critics struggled to process the images which had gone before.

Key among the issues raised afterwards was the film’s apparently seething sexuality.

One critic described proceedings as permanently on the brink of a sex party.

Other reviewers were struck by Cats’s visual and tonal similarity to The Human Centipede,

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