Andrew Lloyd Webber Calls ‘Cats’ Movie ‘Ridiculous,’ Blames Director Tom Hooper
. “The problem with the film was that Tom Hooper decided, as he had with Les Mis, that he didn’t want anybody involved in it who was involved in the original show," Lloyd Webber says of the Oscar-winning director. «The whole thing was ridiculous.”The film, which starred Idris Elba, Taylor Swift, Rebel Wilson, Judi Dench, James Corden and more, was widely panned by critics.