Nothing changed. That's the point. This is just the second trailer.
People looked at Sonic the Hedgehog and screamed in terror. The studio saw the reaction and immediately sent the film back to redo the CG.
People looked at Cats and screamed in terror. The studio laughed like an old-timey Disney villain, and made sacrifices to ensure the furpocalypse comes at the appointed time.
As someone that is a major fan of Cats.
And owns the album.
Ive seen it live on stage.
I looove this musical.
My opinion is
1. I predict this to do alright cats has a much larger fanbase than people realize.
2. The reason the execs dont think anything of this is because this is pretty much the identical reaction to the stage musicals release.
Cats is uh look theres a lot to be said about Cats.
3. I predict the film to somehow have less of a plot.
3/4 of the musical is literally just character introductions. There is maybe 3 somgs that move the plot.
And even thats hard to explain
Here is 4 of the biggest songs from the musical.
Thats who James Corden is playing.....DONT LOOK AT ME. Ask weber what drugs he was on.
Say hello to gay subtext the song.
The second most known song from this musical
Also Tim Curry if he were a cat
Aaand the biggest song of the musical of which all ballads are measured against. Memories.
4. The reason they are human looking is because cats is like 75% dance the musical was famous for being one of the biggest musicals focused on dancing you remove dancing from cats you might as well not make the film
It could be like 90% less weird but I have a feeling the execs okayed it because its kind of expected that cats looks fucking creepy.