The popular Broadway musical Cats is headed to theaters this Christmas. The first trailer is making waves for its use of something called “digital fur technology”. Instead of the actors wearing costumes and makeup like the original musical, the film blends motion capture suits with the performers facial expressions to make up some bizarre looking cats. They look animated with human faces. While the effects look odd at this point, I thought the same thing about Will Smith’s Genie in Aladdin before the movie was released. That ended up being fine in the theater. Maybe we should all calm down and give these cats a chance. (Or maybe I’ve seen the trailer way too many times and have become immune to it.) Cats is directed by Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech, Les Miserables) and stars Judi Dench, Jennifer Hudson, Ian McKellan, Idris Elba, Taylor Swift, Rebel Wilson, and Jason Derulo.