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Posted: 2021-10-11T18:09:46Z | Updated: 2021-10-11T18:09:46Z

Andrew Lloyd Webber admits he had an extreme reaction to the 2019 movie version of his stage musical Cats : He went out and bought a dog.

The composer cattily told Variety that the film was off-the-scale all wrong.

There wasnt really any understanding of why the music ticked at all, he said. I saw it and I just thought, Oh, God, no.

In fact, Webber thought the movie was so doggone awful that for the first time in his 70-odd years on this planet he wanted the companionship of a dog.

So the one good thing to come out of it is my little Havanese puppy, Webber said.

Webber has really taken to his dog so much so that he figured out a way to bring him on planes.

I wrote off and said I needed him with me at all times because Im emotionally damaged and I must have this therapy dog, Webber said. The airline wrote back and said, Can you prove that you really need him? And I said Yes, just see what Hollywood did to my musical Cats.

It must have worked. He said the approval came back with a note saying No doctors report required.

Webber isnt the only one who has yowled at the Cats movie. The film took home six Razzie Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Director for Hooper, and Worst Supporting Actor and Actress for stars James Corden and Rebel Wilson.

However, not everyone feels the same.

Jennifer Hudson, who sang Memory in the film, loved the movie so much that she got two cats, naming one after her character, Grizabella the Glamour Cat, and the other after Macavity, the feline played by Idris Elba.