“Cats” (*1/2 out of four) was a misfired adaptation of the popular musical about a tribe of cats called the Jellicles (Taylor Swift, Judy Dench, Jennifer Hudson, and others) who have to make the life-altering decision about who will ascend up to the Heaviside Layer and will come back to a new Jellicle life but find that this is a much more difficult decision than they thought. Even the musical numbers are botched by cluttered staging and surprisingly tacky cinematography and sets. I wasn’t a huge fan of the musical but at least it had striking costumes and was visually extravagant. A real disappointment from director Tom Hooper who fared far better with his 2012 adaptation of “Les Miserables.”