40th Annual Razzie Awards: ‘Cats’ Moves Into The Litter

Unlike the Academy Awards, which recognize the peak of the film industry each year, the flip side of the coin is the Golden Raspberry Awards, or the Razzies as they’re affectionately called.

Most years have an obvious punching bag of a movie for the critics to throw shade at and one movie in particular is bearing the brunt of the hate for the 40th edition of this “awards” show and that’s the film (if you want to call it that) “Cats.” 

The live-action production of the famous Broadway play was panned across the board, currently hovering at 20 percent at Rotten Tomatoes and the overwhelming front-runner to win Worst Picture at -650. Let’s be frank, you know this is a bad movie when a Tyler Perry production is the next betting option at +1000 for “A Madea Family Funeral.”

Odds as of February 26 at Sportsbook

Worst Acting Categories

Since Cats had a star-studded cast with no leading role, it was spared from the alley and instead thrown in the cat litter for Worst Supporting Actor and Actress. James Corden, host of The Late Late Show on CBS, is the front-runner to take the Razzie at -300 for his role of Bustopher Jones (I wish I’d made that up) while actress Rebel Wilson is -300 to take the Razzie for Worst Supporting Actress with Dame Judi Dench having a hairball’s chance at +300 to beat her by a whisker.

In the lead roles, John “Revolta” Travolta is the odds-on favorite to win his second Razzie for Worst Actor for his role in two bombs, I mean films, called “The Fanatic” and “Trading Paint.” Travolta is no stranger to the Golden Raspberries as he’s been nominated seven times in his career and got his first Razzie for the catastrophe of a flick called “Battlefield: Earth.”

As for Worst Actress, Hilary Duff leads all nominees for her poor-taste portrayal of Sharon Tate in “The Haunting of Sharon Tate,” which reimagines Tate’s life events and positions them as a horror movie. Considering the success of Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon A Time in... Hollywood,” the timing of this release had to be considered awful for the Tate estate.

Odds as of February 26 at Sportsbook

Odds as of February 26 at Sportsbook

Odds as of February 26 at Sportsbook

Odds as of February 26 at Sportsbook

Did You Think We Were Done With ‘Cats’?

Just when you thought you were done reading about one of the all-time box office bombs of the big screen, “Cats” makes its appearance once again to rub up against your leg and then disappear for a few days after you feed it.

The live-action film’s director was not spared the wrath of the Razzie nominations with Tom Hooper as the odds-on favorite to win Worst Director at -300. Quite a fall from grace for a director who won an Oscar for his work in 2010 for “The King’s Speech” with two of his next three movies being plays adapted to the big screen.

“Cats” also has the distinction of not only having nine lives but nine nominees among the 11 categories and oddsmakers have set an OVER/UNDER line of 3.5 Razzies for the feline flop with the OVER at -400.

Here are prop odds for the rest of the categories that involve “Cats” and each will stare into your soul while simultaneously becoming a piece of the furniture:

Odds as of February 26 at Sportsbook

Odds as of February 26 at Sportsbook

Odds as of February 26 at Sportsbook

Best Of The Rest

Odds as of February 26 at Sportsbook

Odds as of February 26 at Sportsbook