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'Cats' is a disaster, but which actors kept their dignity intact? We rank them

The felines of "Cats" are so focused on what "Jellicles can and Jellicles do," they never paws to wonder if Jellicles should - and apparently neither did the actors who play them.

Tom Hooper's catatonic movie musical based on Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running stage production spurred quite a few questions when it clawed its way into theaters over the weekend: Why do the cats have human hands? Why do the cockroaches have human faces? Why do only some cats wear human clothes?

And perhaps the most burning question of all: Why, in Heaviside Layer's name, did so many global superstars and Oscar-winners sign on for this epic catastrophe? Only the Jellicle moon knows, as review after cruel review rolls in,

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