Cats 2019: Every Song Ranked From Least To Most Horrifying

15. Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat

This was unequivocally the best scene in the whole film, despite the absurdity of it conceptually. One would think that a tap-dancing mustachioed cat in red overalls and tap shoes who brings the other humanoid cats to a train yard and manages the train's goings-on would rank way higher on a list of horrors, but the truth of the matter is that the song, Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat, is exactly what the entire film was meant to be.

This sequence feels divorced from the rest of the film with how high-energy, enjoyable, and well-done it is. It's a delightful romp that had both actors and audiences smiling the whole way, Steven McRae as Skimbleshanks showing off truly astounding prowess as a dancer, with Robert Fairchild's Munkustrap sounding like he's having the time of his life talking about this particularly delightful cat.

Being that it's the most fully-realised part of the film, with the song itself enjoyable to listen to on repeat, all the strange events within just feel natural, like magic in a children's film, making this one of the best, and least troubling, of all the film's sequences. Even if it ends with Skimbleshanks pirouetting into the ceiling.