Cats Butthole Cut Explained: What Is It & Does It Exist?

What is the so-called “Butthole Cut” of Cats? Does it truly exist hidden away on some secret server at NBC Universal? Or is it merely an Internet joke that has gone too far? The 2019 film adaptation of the musical Cats was one of the biggest cinematic disasters in recent memory. Panned by critics and ignored by audiences, Cats bombed at the box office, making only $6.5 million domestically in its opening weekend.

Cats was so infamously awful that it attracted a cult following similar to the one that developed around The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with audiences attending the movie just to sing along with the songs and make fun of its nonsensical plot and terrible production values. More recently, Cats won six Razzie Awards out of the nine nominations it secured, including Worst Picture, Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay.

Recently, rumors began to circulate on-line that the CGI costumes in Cats were originally intended to have articulated anuses, which were visible as the cats danced. This rumor seems to have started with Jack Waz; a writer on the recently cancelled Howard The Duck series. Waz claimed, in a Twitter conversation regarding the making of Cats, to have a VFX producer friend who was brought in to work on the Cats movie one month before its release, whose job was to “remove (the) CGI buttholes that had been inserted a few months before.” This led Waz to conclude that there must be a “Butthole Cut” of Cats somewhere, spurring a movement on Twitter to “#ReleaseTheButtholeCut.“

Unfortunately, despite the apparent wishes of a great many people, there is no evidence that the Butthole Cut of Cats exists beyond Jack Waz’s tweet. Indeed, simple logic argues against the existence of such a thing outside of the minds of furry enthusiasts. It is impossible, given the American tendency toward prudishness regarding nudity, to believe that a major Hollywood studio would ever consider depicting realistic orifices in what was meant to be a work of family entertainment.

The concept of a Butthole Cut of Cats also makes little sense within the context of the film’s troubled production. Cats was infamous for its slapdash CGI and for the numerous mistakes that were made as the film was rushed for a 2019 Holiday Season release. It beggars belief that one of these digital buttholes wouldn’t slip through the cracks into the finished movie given all the other mistakes that were made. One also has to ask why, if Cats was intended to give us realistic feline nether-regions. did they not go so far as to allow the cats to have nipples and genitals? It seems far more likely that Waz is satirizing Internet culture and trolling the movement among fans of director Zack Snyder to release his version of Justice League.

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Matt Morrison has been writing about comics since before the word
“blogging” was coined. He got his start writing for the
legendary DC Comics digital fanzine Fanzing,
before receiving his own column, The Mount. Since then he has gone on
to write for over a dozen websites, including 411
Mania, Comics
Nexus and The Cult of Nobody. He holds both an MS in Information
Science from the University of North Texas and a BFA from the
University of Texas at Arlington. Known as a font of comic book
history trivia, he has delivered lectures on the history of American
Comic Books, Japanese Manga, Doctor Who, and Cosplay at over a dozen conventions
and served as an Expert In-Residence for a course on Graphic Novels
for Librarians at the University of North Texas. In addition to his
work for Screen Rant, Matt is currently the Editor In Chief of
Kabooooom.com and writes reviews for No
Flying, No Tights – a graphic literature and anime review site
aimed at teachers and librarians. He also maintains a personal blog –
My Geeky Geeky Ways –
which hosts his extensive episode guide for the television series
making up The Arrowverse as well as his
comedic Let’s Play videos. What little spare time he has is
devoted towards acting, role-playing, movie-riffing and sarcasm. You
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