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The movie, to be released in December, features
Taylor Swift in her first film role, along with Jennifer Hudson,
Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Idris Elba and James Corden.
The film uses the actors' faces and covers their bodies in
computer generated fur as they sing and dance on a larger than
life set.
Scott Mendelson, film critic for Forbes.com, tweeted that the
trailer was "appropriately terrifying and insane, like a durg-induced
nightmare. I can't wait!"
"Taylor I love you but this is gonna give me nightmares," a user
called Charlotte Eller posted on YouTube. The trailer racked up
more than 100,000 views in the first hour and the #Cats hashtag
quickly became the top tending item on Twitter.
The film, directed by Britain's Tom Hooper, who won an Oscar for
"The King's Speech," is the first movie adaptation of Andrew
Lloyd Webber's hit stage musical "Cats."
The unlikely stage musical, based on poems by T.S. Eliot, opened
in 1981 and became one of the longest-running shows on both
Broadway and in London.
In a behind-the-scenes video, Oscar-winner Dench, one of
Britain's most admired actresses, called the film "an Alice in
Wonderland experience."
Swift, known for her love of cats, said cast members did
extensive movement workshops to embody their feline characters.
"As a cat lover, and a cat owner, he (Hooper) told me I was
going to get to go to cat school every day. For work! What?!,"
the delighted singer said in a behind-the-scenes video.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant)
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