Puss In Boots: The Last Wish Destroys Modern Hollywood
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มี.ค. 2023
- Wow, who would have thought that a sequel to a not-especially-good animated Shrek spinoff from more than a decade ago, would turn out to be one of the best animated movies in years. Puss In Boots: The Last Wish is a fantastic movie that really took me by surprise, not to mention demolishing most of the awful tropes of modern Hollywood.
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"A children's story that is only enjoyed by children...is a bad children's story." - CS Lewis
Glad to see someone in Hollywood still gets it.
“When you’re making a show for children, don’t patronize them. Make it interesting for adults and the kids’ll watch too.”
Robin Williams, in _Mrs. Doubtfire_
Said the brilliant author of _The Chronicles of Narnia._
I’m 64 years old and that is still the best series of books I’ve _ever_ read.
Wow I never knew he said that could I put this on a t-shirt?
CS Lewis knew a thing or two about making timeless classics. TLTWatW is one of my lifetime favourite books.
I was totally shocked, after hearing of the rise of the Harry Potter books, once I started to read them.. .eh, she couldn't write real romance to save her soul, but my husband and I enjoyed the books. I still have them in my library. The final book was garbage while they were camping and I suspected she was running out of ideas, but it was bearable to read. The book with Dolores Umbridge was unbearable for me... They took me back to my years if Catholic Grammar school... Couldn't read it in one sitting. I had to skip some of it. amazing how some trauma and pain stays with us even in adult hood. Another example of that is the entire Shrek series... We loved it and watched it. The beginning of "UP" brings tears to my eyes..
So happy y'all enjoyed our hard work 😄
Did you work on this film?
@@akashnagar8694 IMDb says so... 👀
Great Job man!!!! Please tell those suckers in Hollywood to bring more of this stuff!!!
The animation was without a doubt a huge reason for this films success. Thanks for your work!
Bro if you keep this quality of movie up then animation can be saved
Disney: hasn't made a decent villain in over a decade
Dreamworks: 3 in one movie
Sadly longer imho, Disney hasn't had a great villain in 20 years. Meanwhile DreamWorks gave us the Fairy Godmother, Lord Shen, Death and Jack Horner since then. All of them are up there with the very best top tier Disney Villans of the 1990s golden age. Heck even Captain Dubois from Madagascar 3 is arguably one of the greats too, eat your heart out T-800 and T-1000 Terminators.
@@anasevi9456 Thanos??? disney owns marvel
Hey! Don't insult my man King Candy like that, he was pretty cool.
@@________7811they’re obviously talking about Disney animation studio
@@________7811Thanos was built up after like 7-8 years but death was a one shot, same with jack horner.
Disney: “Fear me if you dare!”
Dreamworks: “Fine by me.”
More like:
Disney: *Kicks over the box office numbers*
Disney: "Pick it up. Pick. It. Up."
Dreamworks: *Picks it up with a puss in boots sequel*
Dreamworks: "Fear me, If you dare."
@@Richard_Frost Illumination: I am with you dreamworks * super Mario movie *
Have you noticed that Goldilocks hair buns look as Mickey Mouse ears ?
Nintendo: "Hello there".
@@Richard_Frost
Disney: What's the matter? Hits flashing before your eyes?
Dreamworks: No, just one.
I am Puss In Boots: See me! If you dare.
Who’d have thought a fun film targeted towards all ages, filled with good characters and villains and appealed to the fans of the series would have been so well liked?
Huh. Who'd have thunk lol
I'm more surprised that the writers managed to handle all of the characters so well knowing how absolutely crowded this movie was. Perrito was way better of a comic relief character than Olaf
writers don't get enough credit
It's almost as if that's how entertainment media works
They're animals. Animals don't care about race or gender identity.
It’s funny how Dreamworks managed to outperform Disney
It’s the best thing ever, really. Dreamworks is rising while Disney is falling
It’s even funnier considering the entire Shrek franchise got started from them making jabs at Disney
Well unless Disney makes some serious change in their movies, I'm afraid it might get down to oblivion in the next few years
Anyone can outperform Disney at this point
@Shortest Movie Rants spot on
One thing I love about Perrito is he doesn't play victim, no matter how hard his life was.
That little butt nugget provided so many great teaching moments for my son and I to discuss. What a fantastic movie.
And he’s not stupid, he know he’s been mistreated but he never let go being positive, that no delusion, that’s just great character
Damn, that's a lesson.
@@Caricanalisis lol no that’s not a good lesson. That “lesson” u made up is bad and unhealthy. If your oppressed and mistreated you have a right to “ play the victim “ well u aren’t playing the victim you dumb nazis. Because you are. Perito would be justified because he’s a victim
It’s kinda sinister how his perception on how he was treated warped kinda like a mental disorder to help him survive the hard times
Bug:- "You are not going to shoot a puppy, are you ?
James Horner:- "Yeah. In the face. Why?"
This movie pulled no punches.
Do you mean Jack Horner? James Horner was a famous movie composer lol
@@RocketCalcutta Imagined James doing that and laughed wildly at the voice!!!!
@@RocketCalcutta Would have been cool if he composed this movie if he was still alive. Similar to the Zorro films.
Jack Horner is probably one of the greatest throwbacks to 80s-90s villains in a while.
A guy who is evil, irredeemable, and enjoys every second of it.
So we should expect a movie out next year how he's a victim of sitting in the corner? Oh wait this isn't Disney.
“I’m gonna bust you up plum fum and then I’m gonna wear your clothes!”
“Well that was weird.”
I wish we could go back to that. I like having villains that are just unapologetically evil. It's why I love Frieza.
@@Cairo40000 BANG!
He is also the one who represents Disney, trying to obtain and control all of the magic in the world like Disney had been going around absorbing every IP it could get its hands on.
I liked the metaphor of the cat lady's house. It was safety, but at the cost of a life worth living.
I also appreciated Puss's relationship with Death.
Agreed. I appreciated that while it would have been so easy to make Death a malicious monster of an antagonist revealing in his very nature but the writers amazingly refrained. At the end of the day Death was after Puss not out of malice or just to be evil it was in fact out of very understandable frustration and anger because Puss already had cheat codes on with 9 cat lives which death wasn't a fan of but Puss crossed a line when he showed no appreciation for all the lives he used up. I couldn't fault Death for wanting Puss's head at that point.
Still it was very powerful moment when a humbled Puss did make peace with his mortality and Death begrudgingly let him go for bit with Puss accepted the fact that 1 day Death would come for him again but until that day he'd make the most of the time he had left.
Was Safety vs Life Worth Living completely opposites?
@@nazra1127 no, but he had to sacrifice one for the other
@@nazra1127 “so this is where my dignity goes to die.” He was safe yes but he was ultimately unhappy
He grew up in an orphanage...and he goes to live in a cat retirement home. And hates it. There's more than one way to die...choose to die living.
As a middle-aged man, I can't believe how a kids movie about a cat with boots displayed my own fears and regrets so perfectly. Kudos to all the people involved👏👏👏
And the next round is on me. Cheers, mate.
Same here, man. I really resonated with Puss in this, and that freaking wolf both terrified and inspired me. When my 8-year-old said he wanted to see this film in the theater, I was like "meh, alright, if nothing else I'll probably get a couple chuckles". I genuinely teared up a few times, especially when Perito helped Puss with his panic attack. Holy crap, what a great film.
More mature and thoughtful than other R rated films that rely way too much on blood and language.
If DreamWorks continues with this trend, they will overtake Pixar by a lightyear
I see what you did there
Good! Pixar can eat it.
I think the next movie that could very cement this is Kung Fu Panda 4, especially if they take a few pages from this movie.
@@HRGAMES-rw7yd I pray that Kung Fu Panda 4 is a masterpiece. Loved Kung Fu Panda 2 especially. It would be great to have another great movie in that franchise.
I hope they do. Dreamworks pretty much does movies that Disney and Pixar aren’t able to do anymore. Dreamworks proves that animation can be for everyone not just for kids.
A friend of mine once compared Jack Horner to the average Twitter user.
I responded that at least Jack is aware of how evil he is and doesn't pretend to be good
This is funny
I agree random person on the internet
He even has the same give me attention dyed hair and is also heavyset,You are onto something!!!
An actual Twatter user never admits that their evil
Lmao
One of my favorite things is that they didn't do the whole ally betrayal trope with Perrito. It's become so common for animated movies to make the protagonist betray the comedic relief character who's very nice but maybe a bit clingy and make it into an "emotional moment" and reconciliation (even though it just make me see the main character as a bit of a mean person) that I was totally expecting this film to do the same with Perrito but they totally subverted the trope and made Puss actually like Perrito more and more because he proved himself to be a kind and supportive friend who could help Puss through tough times. We need more messages like this in kid's films
Think it was Steve Reviews or Nando v movies that mentioned there was a deleted scene that was just what you described. The director or whoever had the foresight to scrap that, probably because of what you mentioned
I was expecting Purrito to be the overly-friendly-backstabber again but that has become so cliche I was happy he turned out to "just be the stupidly nice" character.
There is actually a deleted scene where at the part where the panic attack scene takes place, puss actually takes the map and goes to get the wish for himself. He then comes across a tough obstacle, and this is when perrito catches up to him. Perrito tries to argue with puss and tell him stealing the map is wrong, but puss still stands his ground on needing his lives back to become "the legend" again. He then tries to cross the obstacle but gets trapped, so there's no way for him to escape on his own. This is the real bad part about the scene which is kinda what you described. He says "you know what, on second thought, you convinced me." and he offers the map to perrito so the forest will change and free him. Perrito is happy puss came to his senses and takes the map, but then puss immediately grabs perrito and keeps running to get to the star. That's the end of the scene and it's hard to tell what would happen after that, because that is a drastic turning point in the story, and I am glad they decided against it.
If it was Disney, they would have made Perrito a twist villain. Oh, the dumb and cute sidekick? Ha, joke's on you he's actually a evil criminal mastermind bent on getting the wish for himself.
They sorta did that with Humpty
The blood scene was beautiful. The first time I said was " Blood! In a kid's movie?!" It was really a tone setter for the whole movie.
I don't know why no one talking about how puss climbed through a toilet to run away. The almighty Puss in Boots crawled through the toilet to run away from a fight.
The scenes with death were awesome.
A lot of kids love blood and violence. I'm in college now, but back in grade school I remember my friends talking about Assasin's Creed and the like.
A lot of boys at that age gravitate towards "mature" media because it's usually restricted from them. I remember liking a lot of old TH-cam humor that had a lot of swears.
@@ihatefridays2715 they don't show blood in kids movies again. They was no blood in black panther. They might show a cut but no blood. I miss those days.
@@onuhrita5009 Yeah. There's a reason why so many kids like Dragon Ball Z. Thrashing and getting into a brutal fight with genocidal aliens is exciting for them. I guess that's really why anime became so popular in the west, because they're "kids shows" but they have real action, real violence, and cool protagonists.
Life was much easier when I was a kid. I watched aliens at 7 :)
Not any more humiliating then letting yourself be hit in the face and talked down by a woman, without ever retaliating.
"You're not gonna shoot a puppy, are you, Jack?"
"Yeah, in the face, why?"
We just gotta love how much of a bastard Jack Horner is.
Giving him Jiminy Cricket to talk to was genius I tell you.
@@Vandervecken I just LOVE how they made him sound like Jimmy Stewart, my FAVORITE actor of all time!
"You're an irredeemable monster!"
"Oh, oh, what took you so long? Idiot"
*flick*
About time we have a villain who is a colossal asshole whose greatest joy in life is to be the biggest asshole, AND the story made no attempt to justify why he is such an asshole because not every bad guy has to be Tony Soprano copycat. Who cares if your villain has a tragic/deep backstory if they have charisma of a brick wall.
My only gripe with CD's review is not props to this guy. Jack isn't just a bastard, he's charismatic and he's not an idiot.
I walked into the theater with my son, fully expecting to sit through another boring, woke animation. It was so good, my boy asked to see it again the following weekend and I was happy to take him. I hope this momentum continues
Exactly, i was with impulse walk in with my kids, all of us enjoyed it thoroughly was so surprise.
Taking ur son twice A+ dad move
Hopefully a new shrek does come out soon, it’ll be the most rewatched movie
I went with my 10 yo son too and we both loved it. We were both kids for once, taking the ups and downs of the movie.
You know it won't. It's not worth getting your hopes up.
Goldilocks and the bears could easily have been a one-off gag, like the Shrek franchise is known for, but instead became an incredibly deep and endearing set of characters you grow to love by the end.
Marvel movies these days tend to do the opposite, taking characters people love and turning them into one-off gags.
Nice one DreamWorks. Keep the film industry alive.
Goldilocks and the bears literally were a one-off gag in the first Shrek film
@@DoctorXander It's technically possible they're the same bears. They turned to organised crime in the power vacuum after Lord Farquard's demise, and being displaced probably didn't help.
Olivia did a magnificent job voicing mama. That was some heavy sh*t, heart-wrenching
I never expected them to wrench my heart like that
@@ckl9390Or the baby bear in Shrek has now grown to Papa Bear and has started his own family.
As someone who has struggled with panic disorder my entire life, the panic attack scene between Puss and Perrito made me cry. It's the most accurate depiction of a panic attack I think I've ever seen in media - not just the panic Puss feels, but the uncertainty that Perrito has in what he can do, ultimately just deciding to be there for his friend to help him through it.
Best part is that is exactly what therapy animals do. Just sit and snuggle the human to calm them down. So he got his wish twice.
I loved seeing that scene in a kids movie and surprised to see such dark concepts covered in a simple way for children to understand.
It's also exactly what therapy dogs do too they're juat there for you no bullshit, no preaching or any other nonsense they're just there so you know you're not alone It's beautiful.
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yeah not like that garbage they showed in velma
“Real storytelling is forever.”
Truer words have never been spoken.
Something Disney has long forgotten.
I don't know about that. The words that make up 'The sky is blue' are probably slightly more true
@@damiensharp2138 except when the sky is gray, black,red, purple, orange...
@@damiensharp2138 No, they aren't, because the sky isn't actually blue, we only perceive it that way. Colours don't exist at all in objective reality.
Touché
This film has:
A terrifying, cold, menacing and a badass villain;
Villain that is redeemable.
A straight up heartless monster that is irredeemable, yet entertaining to watch.
Eat your heart out, Disney
Dreamworks be dropping 3 awesome villians in 1 movie where Disney struggles to make 1 good villain over 10 movies.
is "death" technically a villain? - I still can't quite decide! - IMO, he is not really a villian
@@sanitarycockroach9038 Exactly! A well-crafted story with a fantastical plot, multiple characters that are more developed than a whole Disney + series.
In an era where we're starved of great animated villains, this film gave us not one but at least three awesome ones.
@@alastair4839 It's depending on the point of view. Like in The novel "Azrael", about a hallucinating psychic drug called Azrael. The angel of death is manifested as angel by a person in pain, who just wishes for death, and as pure demonic devil for a person, with extensive fear of death. Like a policemen, confronted on a daily basis with death.
That was the calmest "go away now" I've heard in a long time. The movie truly did touch him
Agree😊
Glad to hear the contentment and share it, rather than share the angst at usual releases these days. 😌
"Potter! Did you put your motherfucking name in the god damn Goblet of Fire?!" He said calmly.
Perrito gave him therapy
It's 'go away now' with satisfaction and appreciation. Truly rare things when talking about media today.
Surprised no one's talking about the Jimminy Cricket/conscious character. I love (what I feel) the subtle jab at modern stories for wanting every villain to have some tragic aspect (a thorn in his paw so to speak). He tries so hard to find good and is just shot down hard each time. Also adding the Jimmy Stewart voice was perfection.
It reminds me of that cartoon Super Secret Squirrel. There was an episode where he had to retrieve a rare panda without hurting him, which the panda exploits constantly. The panda is very spoiled, but Squirrel's partner keeps trying to find a reason for his bad behavior ("maybe he needs a hug"). And Squirrel finally says "maybe he's just a jerk".
The cricket was an excellent touch.
As if Jack Horner wasn’t funny enough on his own, Jimminy Cricket was the cherry on top.
@@Joetino Jack was Too Good.
He kept the cricket around simply to see him break down, He did not need to, He could have thrown him away early on, but decided to keep him just to see how long it takes for him to break down.
The scene of Jack Horner acting surprised and then saying “What took so long? Idiot!” was funniest shit in a while.
Also, I love how the cricket when from "There's some good on people" to "You're horrible!" In one minute!
Death was one of the most amazing, foreboding, and horrifying villains I’ve seen. Every scene he’s in is unnerving. His introduction is powerful. Yes frightening, scary, and a force to be reckoned with. Something for the hero to face.
Was an awesome character perfectly voiced. You felt that whistle. Me and my 9 year old son just looked at each other like holy shiz
@@adamturner8732 that’s how death should be depicted as something both terrifying and necessary. And in the end the film manages to make death itself a character .
The Big Bad Wolf/Lobo/Death enters the roster of greatest animated villains of all time. Most of whom are from Disney, but classic Disney, not the sad sack the studio's become.
Jack Horner should get an Honorable Mention, though.
What a character man, I’m still shocked at how amazing the cinematography was!… all the movie you are just thinking when it might get back… the whistle was awesome sound design…
and damn his animation… they could have taken him further but kept it balanced and mysterious…
What a ride
That whistle doesn't sound unsettling for me
You're telling me people will like a movie that treats their heroes and characters with respect, portray villains like the threats they are, have an interesting story, handle their themes well and doesn't talk down to their audiences, despite being mostly aimed at kids, will be a good time?
Truly this is a groundbreaking discovery!
For Disney, it's still a hypothesis because they seem like haven't heard about it.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
@@mollywoodshots6503 I would rather say that they have forgotten about it
A rare gem these days
*Says in an automated voice* Sarcasm detected sarcasm detected
I dragged my dad along, who was apprehensive about seeing a kids' movie, but I had heard good things and we have a habit of seeing movies together to critique them and I saw him fall in love with The Last Wish in real time.
We both had a blast, it's an instant classic.
which btw is why I kinda loathe the label of "kids'/children's movie" to begin with.
imo a better label for movies like this (and this of course applies to the Disney classics as well as a good chunk of real-life films as well) is "family movies". because, essentially, that's what they are. films that are okay to watch for just about everyone in the family - with people of different ages (often) all getting different things out of it.
@@xxxaragon "family" movies are their own category. The big difference is that "family" movies include double entendres to entertain the parents
My dad fell sleep on two separate occasions
My daughter persuaded me to go and watch it with her. 10 years ago we'd watch all the DreamWorks/Pixar cgi films together, and thoroughly enjoy pretty much every one of them. In hindsight since Toy Story until about 2017, there has been a golden age of family films from Hollywood's cgi animators. Latterly I have lost a bit if faith in tinseltown. I found they just couldn't resist cramming woke ideology down our necks and ruining the stories.
This Puss in Boots sequel confounded my fears. We both loved it, and now she's 16, it really took us both back to a shared golden age.
Well done DreamWorks, thank you and phew!
This was the same for my parents!
The Wolf threatening Puss while having two coins affixed over his eyes is a stroke of such amazing visual genius and it's baffling that a children's cartoon managed to employ it.
My daughter bought this movie to watch in the car on a long trip. I could only listen as I drove. I loved the music, the voice work, the humor, and the pacing. On the way home I climbed in the back with my kid. My wife drove. My daughter watched it again and I got to see the amazing acting, action, animation and moments. When perrito helped comfort Puss during a panic attack I nearly teared up. Great film.
why does watching puss in boots on a roadtrip with your family sound like the most delightful time ever
You're the kind of father I'm gonna do my best to be like someday.
@@nickthepick8043 same
what a great thing to say, every responder. Justmakingit, you ARE a great dad. My own dad did that with us in the 70s and 80s. Road trips. We were the first people I know to have a van (minivans werent popular yet) with a TV and video player in it. An annual 2 week road trip with your family is one of the many good memories I have a of a child littered with normal ups and downs. While my relationship with my parents fell apart into my adulthood, they were amazing parents in my childhood. You've guaranteed to secure your place in their hearts...at least when they're little.
How badly we needed this. Just good storytelling, no virtue signaling or agenda pushing.
Thought the exact same watching this with my wife and oldest daughter. I was so glad to see an animated film that didnt follow the usual route that most others have in recent years, it really was excellent.
You're pushing an agenda by praising this movie for *not pushing an agenda*. The movie can just be good without having to be political or anti-political. Why can't we just talk about the movie for why it's good instead of "It's good because it doesn't push an agenda".
Agreed, it's fun for both children and adults, and doesn't talk down to his intended audience.
@@blataybragg7778 found the centrist
What's awesome is if this were a Disney production then you bet your ass that Soft Paws would have came in during the final battle to help defeat the wolf in an awesome girl boss moment.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is a perfect example of a sequel done right that exceeds the original in every conceivable way, it had incredible characters, amazing plot, and ridiculously immaculate animation
I'm more surprised that the writers managed to handle all of the characters so well knowing how absolutely crowded this movie was
The first Puss in Boots is soo underated
The animation was GORGEOUS. Reminded me of Spider-Verse.
@@jamescarr1265 Some of the animators of Spider Verse worked on this movie, even one of the director of Spider Verse serves as a consultant for this movie
Dreamworks really knows how to make great sequels. Shrek 2, Kung Fu Panda 2 and HTTYD 2 were amazing as well.
Perrito wordlessly trying to help Puss in his panic attack was so dog- like and beautiful it choked me up a bit. He really is the goodest boy.
My daughter is 8. Every time we watch a movie together she asks, “was that a good movie?” And I dont want to ruin things for her, so most of the time I just say “sure, it was fine”. But when she asked me at the end of this movie I said, “Yes, daughter. This is what a good movie looks like”.
The panic attack scene was top-notch, never expected to see such a perfect depiction of it in a kids' movie.
Or in any movie, for that matter. You could literally feel the screen pounding to the beat of his heart.
Well, remember, we're now in the Age of Snowflake where kids are dropping left and right from anxiety. They need this.
it really irks me to see people STILL refer animation as "kids' movies". You say you respect the movie, you love what it does, but then demean it by going "oh well didn't see this coming because it's a kids movie." when honey HOW many animations have featured mature themes and topics before?
@@TheRibottoStudios The thing is, most people still think that animation is a genre instead of a medium.
@@TheRibottoStudios while animation doesn’t necessarily mean the movie is for kids, Puss in Boots is definitely a series geared towards a younger audience. I don’t think that’s really a refutable point. Movie was great regardless.
I like how it had three types of villains, you had the irredeemable villain in Jack Horner, the redeemable villain in Goldilocks, and the unstoppable villain with Death. All were fleshed out, and you understood their motivations.
I love Jack Horner is evil because he wants to after we learn his backstory
you cant even say death is villain in traditional sense more like unstoppable force of nature
@@Legoldos I disagree, Death has a personality and wanted to toy with his victim, actively enjoying Puss' fear and pain. The Wolf is a villain, not just an antagonist or opposing "force of nature"
@Zigedelic i agree,he feels like a combination of force of nature and sadistic villain
@@Legoldos Sure I can, same way that Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, and the Terminator are villains. Its the unstoppable killing machine that can't be reasoned, bargained, or negotiated with, but just keeps coming after you.
I love how Death’s idea towards taking Puss’ last life is very similar to Puss’ attitude in his previous lives. This isn’t something personal, it’s not a vendetta he has against him, it’s just a “Well based on your history, I’ll probably see you in a month anyway, so while I’m in town let me scratch this off my list” to him it’s just another Tuesday. This makes the outcome between Puss and Death’s last duel more believable; Death now seeing how much Puss values the time he has left.
Well, in a sense it is still a vendetta, Puss has repeatedly said he doesn't respect death and laughs in the face of it because he has infinite lives, which turns out to be just nine lives and he's on his last. Death is 100% pissed at Puss being so arrogant and wants to make him dread the inevitable day, feasting on his fear and essentially making him die every day of his life before he dies for real, way before his time is supposed to be up. "Why don't I do us both a pleasure and end it now?", that is literally what Death says; it is pretty much a call for suicide, for giving up on life because there is no meaning to it. And when one of Puss' older lives says that Death would be cheating that way, Death simply axes the crystal with this past life of Puss in it and tells him "Ssshhh, don't tell", which indicates he knows he's crossing a line but feels it's justified for putting this menace called Puss in his place.
And in the final confrontation, when Puss acknowledges that his last life is enough and that he will treasure it and never stop fighting for it, Death is irritated and tells Puss he's spoiled the fun. In fact, the wolf laments in Spanish something that can be paraphrased to 'why the hell did I play with my food?'. In a way he's succeeded into making Puss respect his life, but that was not his goal, or at least not in this way. He wanted to get rid of Puss' arrogance in the face of death by killing him, not by giving him a character arc. And yet, he knows that Puss now deserves to live on, so despite the fact he's not happy, he lets Puss live his life, showing that while he's not necessarily honourable, he does recognize and respect character.
@@the_tactician9858 As someone who recently watched this film I have to say your spot on with Deaths motivations. If Death was just doing his job he would've never harassed Puss.
The part he showed from "The Fox and the Hound" was such a tear jerker for me as a kid. It's amazing how much can be shown and said without speaking a word. I miss when Disney would make masterpieces instead of just copy and paste.
Everyone was going crazy over Encanto less than 2 years ago when you commented this
This is my favourite Dreamworks film in recent years. They handled panic attacks much better than Velma did, despite being aimed at children, and Velma supposedly for adults.
Prince Of Egypt is still one of my personal favorites
Most of Dreamworks movies, the ones that aren't cashgrabs like Boss Baby at least, are very mature, well written stories that don't shy away from tackling dark and mature themes.
@@GeraltofRivia22👍👍👍. Prince Of Egypt, Megamind and How to Train Your Dragon are just a few examples
In Velma, Daphne randomly kissed her. It was gross, weird and honestly stressful to sit through.
Just goes to show that just because something is targeted at adults doesn't exactly mean it's mature.
Wife: “babe wake up, The Drinker just posed a new video”
Sounds like a keeper. 😀
I’ve got to say that Death was the standout for me.
How layered and heavily embedded the theme of Death contrasted with Life as well as the character standing on its own.
It’s nice to see a dangerous presence and a theme NOT undercut by lampshading, jokes and tired referencing but played charmingly yet menacingly.
At once human yet foreboding.
It was a beautifully executed balance to make this version of Death a real character with understandable personality and motivation, but at the same time make it clear from the start that he was something much greater and more terrible than just a Big Bad Wolf.
The other thing about this movie is that you have a strong, straight male character who finds himself completely broken down and emasculated, but that is done PERFECTLY. It was part of the story, and in fact necessary for the hero to rebuild himself. Contrast this with the D&D movie's emasculating the straight male character just for lols and to make the female characters look good. In addition, Puss and Kitty are shown to be rivals, but neither of them overshadow each other. You have a strong male and female lead working TOGETHER and playing off each other. The strong female character is shown to have earned and deserve her skills, rather than just have them magically given because "durr empowerment". The most amazing thing about this movie is how many things it did smartly and right when compared to how many drek-filled movies get those things completely wrong. The fact that a master class in writing and balancing characters with and against each other comes from a Puss in Boots sequel is just mind-boggling. But that's what this movie is.
The complete lack of wokeness made that possible. The two main characters are allowed to be their proper genders and work together as males and females are supposed to do. The story rewards them for that when at first it punishes them for competing against each other
I wouldn't even say Puss gets emasculated but rather just defeated and scared by a very real life threat.
And soft kitty also has genuine feminine moments too.
That too! They were both allowed to be skilled and their genders weren't different to pit them against each other. I love it.
[Die Hard and Lethal Weapon, and Aliens have entered the conversation]
@@littlegiantj8761 what do those movies have to do with anything?
@@kayneassasin Lethal Weapon and Die Hard both featured main characters having break downs or dealing with serious depression. Aliens featured emasculated men (and one woman) who were in over their heads and rejected Ripley's experience before relying on her. But Bien's character was still a marine who could kick ass at the end of the day (and also had the iconic panic attack of the movie, which was also improvised).
Anyone else find it kind of neat that Perrito and the Big Bad Wolf both share one thing in common: to appreciate what you have, and have no desire for this wish. These two characters are the embodiment of the truth that Puss must learn, and yet they fall on the complete opposite ends of alignment regarding Puss. On one hand you have Perrito, who is unconditionally an ally to Puss, and eternally optimistic. On the other hand, you have the literal embodiment of Death, the ultimate adversarial force of nature to any hero. Yet they both send the exact same message.
Outstanding writing.
Also both are canines
They're also both dogs (canis lupus).
@@vincentthendean7713 (vulpes vulpes)
@@BowlOfHotDogs that would be a fox.
And Canis familiarus
We really need more irredeemable monsters like Jack Horner and Green Goblin who pull off being just plain evil and charismatic at the same time.
It was refreshing after about a decade of "redeemable" villains to just have a total bastard. I loved him.
Look no further than Joe Biden or Xinnie the Poop.
@Dennis Burdick congratz, you went political while talking about an apolitical cartoon.
I agree, we do need more White people! Fuck this 'modern audience' crap!
I'm all for bad guys we can sympathise with, but there are times where I just want someone I love to hate (or hate to love).
I also like how they make fun of the trend of redeemable villains with Jack, who is not only irredeemably evil but loves the fact that he has no good in him
I just love how this movie has the three most universally beloved villain archetypes, and manages to pull off all three flawlessly.
You have the force of nature villain with Death, the villain who can clearly be redeemed by the end with Goldy, and the hilariously unrepentant kind of villain with Jack.
The scene between Purrito and Puss, when he was having a panic attack, was so unbelievably close to what an actual panic attack feels like and how one can snap out of it by having just a single person be there to tell you "Hey, you're not dying. It's gonna be alright, just breathe." As someone who has dealt with it in the past, seeing it being represented in a serious and heartfelt manner made me tear up.
As someone who has panic attacks and breakdowns when things get to be too much, I envy people who have that support, even if it's just from one person. Life is a hell of a lot easier to get through if you have someone to get through it with.
Way better than how Velma handles it.
Nobody asked for your sob story, hon...
Having suffered for years with random panick attacks, I can confidently say, a cartoon about a talking cat and fairy tales made it more real than pretty much anyone ever could. This has no right calling itself a kids movie. Most kids wouldn't understsnd just how relatable this movie is to someone who has lived a little and has gone through some shit.
@@englishatheart Back around 2016-2018 I experienced a lot of those at work. Sometimes completely at random. My supervisor, who is also a wildfire fighter, was there every time. And he just had this way of calming storms with just random small talks. A few minutes and it's over. That scene reminds me of him, and every time, makes a grown man cry.
I remember finding your channel and thinking “ this guy is just hilarious and he’s actually often right about his movie reviews”, now a year later I’m humbled by how well your recommendations are. I am a single father and I heavily control what my son watches and I take your word to heart. If the Drinker says Puss is good, that’s enough for me.
Beautiful reply without a comment?
Let's change that.
Cheers to you and your son, sir.
Just be a bit careful. When I think about fictional media that terrified me as a kid, those things weren’t close to how scary the wolf is. I had anxiety issues as a kid though, so that might be why. Either way, keep your son’s age in mind. Just in case. I hope you two enjoy !
I hope you love it as much as I and everyone else have
@@BelBelle468 Imo if he is above 8 he should be fine. 6-7 kinda depends. Anything less than that i wouldn't recommend unless he is actively not scared of stuff children his age would find scary (That said movie is still insanely good obviously)
Ehhh try not to be TOO controlling. They gotta experience some stuff in film sooner or later. I was raised to be allowed to watch anything I thought I could handle with my mom. She knew that it was better if I watched the stuff with her so she could answer questions and guide me rather than watching it somewhere else on my own or with a dumb friend. I still remember my first PG13 movie was at around 8 years old and it was Radio Flyer. It had an abusive step father and suicide messaging in it and to this day I still love the movie. My first R rated movie was Deadpool and I was around 13 or 14 then. Being with my family to watch this stuff helped me learn and understand what I was watching.
Kids are gonna see this stuff eventually no matter what you do, whether at a friend's house or wherever. So instead, try to be there to guide them. Just advice, not trying to tell you how to parent.
The scene where Puss was having an anxiety attack was the one that hit home for me. I had anxiety attacks during the middle of my divorce and how it was portrayed is EXACTLY what it felt like: Rapid heartbeat, cold sweat, hyperventilation, narrow vision, and sound fading from your ears.
Kudos to the team that wrote and animated The Last Wish. It's one of the few films I bought to own this past year.
As a 53 yr old man this movie hit surprising hard.ive watched it a dozen times
The Wolf's character had no business going as hard as he did. Simple, yet layered at the same time, and never undermined by forced gags, even though they had plenty of opportunities to do so, what a masterpiece. That scene early on where Puss actually bleeds is such a tone setter for the quality of this film.
When you watch the movie, aside from before you know he exists, he is always in the back of your mind, and you subconsciously wait for him to reappear. You never forget he exists. You wonder and fear the moment he appears next. A fantastic villain.
The Wolf always acted according to his raison d'etere. He raised the stakes for the protagonist. He is the figure whispering in the conquerer's ear "Memento mori."
Wagner Moura did a phenomenal job making Death/Lobo iconic as hell. I hope he's aware of the love and recognition he's getting from his role.
Was blown away that the Wolf was played by Wagner Moura who played Pablo Escobar in Netflix's Narcos series. That and the Wolf's overall design and presence was badass throughout.
I know! I fully expected it to be jam from a jar on the counter that the wolf slashed and it dropped on Puss' head. My eyes got REAL BIG when it actually WAS blood, definitely wasn't seeing that coming.
Not to mention the darkest scenario I've ever seen in a "kids" movie - when Perrito is talking (oh so cheerfully!) about his former family playing "hide-and-seek" with him. There's a growing look of horror on Puss and Kitty's faces as it gets worse and WORSE culminating in the story of how they tied him up in a bag and threw him in the river. It's vaguely played for laughs because it's transposed against the cheerfulness against which it's told, but frick that's a dark story.
The funny thing is, I know people who've been through hellish abuse who are some of the most cheerful and helpful and friendly people possible.
But he got a great sweater out of it.
If you have friends who have experienced trauma and abuse in their childhood, that is _exactly_ what it's like. All of their 'funny stories' make you want to cry. But I always respect them for it. If you can dismiss what happened as a humorous aside from the past, then it has no power over the present.
amazing how the writers turned the table on such a horrifying action... definitely going to keep an eye on Tom Wheeler and Tommy Swerdlow
Yeah I loudly said Holy Shit man in the theater
Disney: Man i haven’t made a great villain in decades now.
Dreamworks: oh yeah? wanna see me do three?
The only thing I disagree with is calling it a kids movie. It's a family movie.
A kids movie would be something like Paw Patrol.
Yeah.
It's surprisingly deep for a kids' movie how, in the end, Puss DOESN'T beat the wolf. In fact, he acknowledges that winning against death is impossible, but he's willing to fight anyway.
Yes, it was very surprising. No tricks, no funny business just him admitting he can never defeat the wolf and the wolf reminding him they will meet again later for a last time. It was already bold to have Death as the main antagonist but then making it actually unbeatable shows the writers maturity.
The epic of Gilgamesh is still relevant
I think the message may be: "It's not the destination (death,) but the journey (life) that matters."
@@dennisburdick682 I'm pretty sure Death was trying to hammer in to Puss the idea that life is precious and should not be taken for granted. He resigned when Puss faced death as inevitable, but fought against it, as opposed to thinking he was immortal (beginning) or too scared to live (middle/marriage backstory).
@@robinthrush9672 As he put it, he wasn't as much fun when he was accepting. The hunt was great because he had eluded him for so long. But accepting lost the luster, but he still intended to "keep in touch" which I like.
This movie blindsided me. I went to see it with my nieces, fully expecting to have to slog through it and was just amazed at how great it was. I came out of the theatre just incredibly happy and excited to have seen it.
What did your nieces think about it?
It wasn’t that great. Lightyear was a way better animated film.
@@almanac520 😬 Lightyear, huh.
@@whiplash2891 They loved it - the second time they had seen it. The wolf scenes scared one, so I had to hold her hand for a bit. Awesome experience!
@@Hossak Glad it was a great movie all around for grown ups and little ones too.
Really look forward to seeing it
I don't use this expression lightly, but here it's well deserved: a new classic. And all that in 90 minutes, let's add that.
The Last Wish really threw me back to the time when films for all ages were pure, poetic, heartwarming, and really fun to re-watch as an adult.
I’m glad you enjoyed this fantastic woke movie full of leftist lessons for the kids.
@@Golems_wrathYou probably go outside thinking the sun's woke huh. It's a kid's movie and you're bringing political garbage, really?
@@Fusible_1 the movie already is political lol there’s many messages that are very woke and progressive I can go over them if need be for you. Also everything is political lol
@@Fusible_1 also actually the sun is woke since it disproves religion because the earth isn’t the center of the universe lol, science is woke. Woke is a good thing. XD
@@Golems_wrath Oh you mean the actual definition. My bad. 😅
I love how this movie, despite being a kid's movie, actually deals with real and meaningful issues. Puss' sudden mortality, Kitty's legitimate trust issues, Goldi's abandonment and yearning for a "true family". Real things that real people deal with in real life.
And everything gets resolved in a way that feels earned, not "shit here's your happy ending in the most contrived way possible". Also, shoutout to John Mulaney as Big Jack, a villain in the style of Poppa Palpatine. Irredeemably and hilarious evil, and a joy to watch in an era of "all our villains are really just misunderstood and are really good guys".
I legitimately laughed out loud at his line 'You know the saying, can't make an omelette without losing a dozen men' after witnessing them tumbling to a horrible demise. Hilarious character.
From many comments about this movie, I feel while kids/ children like it, adults and parents love it. Not because nostalgia, but from the mature yet lighthearted theme.
Jack Horner is literally all the overprivileged karins. lol
@@thebatman4279 My favorite from him was "Yeah I couldn't get this rock off it but it's still pretty cool right?". So basically the sword told him nope and he just took it rock and all. Absolutely brilliant joke..
@JohnMosesBrowningVEVO the "Villains are just misunderstood good guys" actually can work if done right. For example, when you think of Demons, you probably think of evil. When you think of Satan, you probably think of evil. When you think of the Grim Reaper, you probably think of evil. But in a story I've been working on, none of them are evil. The Grim Reaper is just doing his job, helping the souls of the dead to move on to the afterlife. The Demons are just entities that just so happen to have been born in hell. They have their own lives, and their own personalities, and all of that. And then Satan is just a former angel cast out and forced to take care of the souls of the dead.
But this only works if you tell it from the perspective of the misunderstood characters. It CAN work from the perspective of those not understanding them if done right, though.
Fun fact: For Goldilocks when she opens the book to her favourite story each letter of the first line spells out the secret to her wish (her wanting a family that's just right)
y
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....holy moly
Didn't notice that at theaters. Guess I'll have to buy the movie
Dammit, that actually makes me feel all mushy inside. How _dare_ you make me feel things!
I LOVE these types of things
“Holy Frijoles”, Puss in Boots.
When Perrito helped Puss with his trauma, it took me back to movies like the fox and the hound. Movies like that where you could really feel an understand characters emotions were something special. Something Hollywood has forgotten
This movie had no business being this good. All I heard was: "More please."
The scene where perrito calms down puss almost made me cry. So much emotion delivered with no words. And the wolf is one of the most intimidating villains in animated cinema. A couple scenes were legitimately unsettling, and the art style and animations in his scenes are immaculate.
The scenes where puss' hair would raise were really well done.
My mom and I were bawling our eyes out in the theater and I don't cry very much, but holy shit.
Heck, I only watched this review and the scene made me cry. Both times I watched it😹
If it was Disney, he would have made a fucking awful pun. But he saw the situation didn't require one. Good boy.
@@steelfalconx2000 Fear man. It's an instinct.
My girlfriend insisted we watch this and I begrudgingly agreed while asking why she wouldn’t rather watch a movie more likely to have intelligent, mature themes and deeper meaning beyond the surface. Boy were my preconceptions blown away watching this movie.
Hopefully this movie gets people to not just see animation as “for kids” it’s a tragedy. Animation has so much potential to make beautiful environments, bizarre characters and incredible action without using a bunch of cgi not that there’s anything inherently wrong with cgi I just wish animation was more mainstream.
Hey one of you need to know fun so
@@myuugi not exactly that, but that was the sentiment
This comment sounds made tf up. Who talks like that?
@@jaykelley103 Thats a weird thing to make up, but sure. It’s not what I said word for word but it was my sentiment
That scene between Puss and Perrito where Puss needs him to calm down actually made me cry. As someone that's actually helped by my dog in life to bring me joy and companionship that people can't it was simply a powerful scene. Perrito fulfilling his goals to be a therapy dog, Puss leaning on him in his time of need, the conversation and confrontation Perrito helps guide the once fearless hero through his growing fear of death. It struck so many cords within and through me. It was just so perfectly executed between the body language, the eye expressions, the superb voice acting that really brought Puss' fear to life as well as Perrito's concern and optimism all felt so genuine. DreamWorks truly is lead by passion and ambition, they have their flops and mediocracies but that's only because they had a story they really wanted to tell and have fun with and didn't care if it succeeded or not. They'll continue to have ups and downs but this movie absolutely reminded me of the magic that exists within Dreamworks.
I started crying when Perrito just looks at Puss losing it, and then just lays his head on his lap. My own little Chihuahua does the same thing, and it hit me right in the feels how powerful a quiet, 'Im here' moment can be when you feel like the world is ending. It was a brilliant film, goddamn why can't we have more of this!
I can always tell how he truly feels about a movie by the tone which he says,”Go away now.” The tone in this video tells me he has hope for more movie stories like this. And so do I.
*thinks of velma* GAUO AWAUY NOUW!!!!
You caught it too right? So heartfelt😌
Maybe it's my pessimism, but to me, it sounded more defeated. Like he said, it's a 'last hurrah', like we'll never see anything this good and thoughtful again. And it's a bloody cat cartoon.
You must be really smart to pick up on that.
same
What's really poignant about this is that Antonio himself had a brush with death a couple of years ago when he had a heart attack. He said it changed his outlook a lot and made him face up to his own mortality. I wonder if he had a hand in the script? Either way it's a wonderfully personal movie for him, I expect that's why he puts in such a great, heartfelt performance.
He definitely had a hand in the script. I don’t remember where I saw it but I believe something was said that Banderas told the producers that he wanted this movie to be special for him and oh boy what a job they did!
Antonio Banderas is such a great actor. Even in his early Spanish films, under the direction of Pedro Amodóvar, he managed to stand out, which is rare, as in most Amodóvar's films the most memorable characters are women.
@@OBJYN788 it’s strange that Antonio himself had a near brush with death and years later it now created the basis for not only one of the year’s best animated films but a comeback for Dreamworks too
Yep. They changed the entire story because of this actually. It was never supposed to be about puss's mortality. Just supposed supposed to be another adventure with some sort of fantasy villain characters. After he gave his request, they switched up the plot and this is what we got. Honestly...it just does to show what actual thought and care put into a script can really do. It immerses your audience and makes them feel what you're trying to show them without having to force feed it through dialogue
@@LuciferArc1 a bunch of the ads on TH-cam videos in December 2022 really marketed the film fine and especially the clip of the old flame telling Puss it’s what you make of your one life is one certain ads love using.
In a way, I find it funny that Puss getting a sequel over a decade following his 2011 spinoff lined up perfectly with Shrek Forever After from 2010 because that film contained a theme of learning to appreciate your life too. Shrek in his own take on Its A Wonderful Life makes a mistake wishing for his old days which of course backfires and thus his journey gets him to reconsider his actions.
Now Puss gets a similar chance minus the Jimmy Stewart film influence but similar theme of appreciating what you have is contained in there
They managed to write a good story, tell a good message, have a great voice cast, look great in terms in animation, make a great and intimidating villain all in one movie. On top of that, this is one of the best animated movies I have ever seen in a looooooong time.
Edit: This and the Mario movie are both my two new favorite animated movies.
It's the best animated film I've ever seen I think. Maybe that's just recency bias, but watching Shrek (my previous # 1) and this back to back with my kids and it's not even close which one is better. Last Wish is really that good.
Mario was as generic as it could be.
Agreed. This, Mario, Across the Spider-Verse, and Mutant Mayhem are the best animated films I seen lately that I want more of it ❤.
Mario movie is very mediocre imo.
The movie was made because the VA for Puss went through a heart attach and realized how close to death everyone is, so he wanted a movie where Puss went through something similar
It's ironic that DreamWorks did Shrek as a parody to fairytale tropes.. yet they ended up having such a strong foundation in good story telling with well developed characters.
To echo what others have been saying, DreamWorks took the time to understand their fan base and IP and cut out a path that works for them as the studio and us as the audience.
Bravo to them for pulling it off.
May the hits keep rolling!
It was great but not at the level of Shrek. I'm surprised of the success of the movie tbh
I still think first Shrek was the best...Shrek 2 and the rest were getting jarring and cringe.
@GGAdams Why are you surprised? People have been yearning for good storytelling movies for years. Word of mouth is more powerful than advertising. The people spoke and the results show, The Last Wish is amazing and Buzz Lightyear is a crapfest.
One of the (many) scenes i liked was puss talking to his past lives and realizing how selfish he was back then, on his own.
Nobody there waging their finger at him, stating the obvious at him or using his flaws to put themselves above him morally.
He realized his flaws on his own.
Imagine that.
He's talking to himself literally there?
“You know what? You guys are jerks! Which is very conflicting to me!”
Still cracks me up because of how well it’s delivered 😂
@@jendoe9436 Where is that from?
@@Thomasmemoryscentral yes but each of his lives is a bit different, displaying the mentality he was in before he died. The one thing these lives agree on is that he should do the selfish thing, wish he had nine lives again and forget about his friends. Something he at that point is steadily steering away from.
I'd rather not spoil what comes after that, since it is important to the story.
What? When he talks to his past lives that emboldens his drive to get the wish. They all start singing the Puss in Boots theme song and drinking then Death shows up. Then he runs. Then he has a panic attack.
They more so just bully him for having lost his touch for a few minutes. He realizes he’s selfish because he’s about to take Kitty’s wish away from her again.
Can't even tell you how many times I kept telling my friends and colleagues at work how much they need to see this movie already. I laughed myself to tears a few times at the cinema. It is indeed clever, funny and tells a compelling story. Easily the best animated movie in years.
After watching She-Hulk, HBO Velma and Rise of Skywalker, Puss in boots 2 feels like a reinvigorating breath of fresh air.
You might have dropped a few I.Q. points after watching those first few. 😁
Yeah, I'm a 34 year old man, and I never watched Shrek but my kids wanted to watch this movie and I have to say I liked it. Death was a total badass.
yeah well im 40
I just hate how death just gave up... i get it's a child's movie but that really irked me about him. My son loved the movie too
Death legit is terrifying! and Jack Horner is hysterical and over the top, both are breath of fresh air for villains.
@@Desecrator6 the whole point though with Death is that he was pissed off that Puss would throw his lives away like they meant nothing. It was only that Puss realized that he had to fight to stay alive and that running away was no good that Death decided to spare him. It was no longer necessary to teach Puss that lesson, and it was no longer fun because Puss was no longer afraid. If you live life in fear of death, you forget to truly live.
Oh dude you gotta see Shrek. That's another one that's aimed at younger audiences but anyone can enjoy
The Wolf(Death) is easily one of the most iconic character I’ve seen in a while. His presence, even for a short duration , is felt throughout the movie and after it. Everyone involved in it did a great job bringing him to life.
Also, on the movie, I thought this was gonna be another cash grab, and boy was I so wrong, and I glad I am.
Yeah, Death was properly menacing.
@@vodkavecz That’s because unlike other antagonists in the Shrek franchise and Puss in Boots spin-offs, he is depicted not as a mocking parody of fairy tale characters but a serious character which fits the movie’s theme of mortality. It would have ruined the movie if he was Death expy from Billy and Mandy.
something less is more
Reminded me of The NeverEnding Story.
It really is a monument to the movies we used to watch and enjoy in the 2000s and before. This is what we used to have in droves and it somehow managed to peak its head out of the trash heap of sludge we have grown all too accustomed to every day now. Let this simply be a reminder to EVERYONE that greatness can still exist and shine through. A reminder, that we can still have this today and it doesn't have to go away just because "it's the current year."
Just watched this with my millennial daughter. We were shocked. It was great. No woke garbage, just a good story, characters, and direction. We want more like this.
Ah yes, because abuse on boys by girls is not woke (Puss by Kitty). I guess it is not, since "don't hit girls" rule was made before current climate, and so was the abuse on males=funny/empowering
You gotta watch out… sometimes they’re INSIDIOUSLY WOKE
@@nickytommymancinelli8066 At heart "woke" just means being aware of bias and injustice and wanting to correct it. The negative connotations of the term have come from some parties thinking they have to lean hard into it to appeal to people, while others have made it a label for anything they don't like.
@@danieldickson8591 woke=blue pill and blue pill=IN A MOTHERFUCKING COMA (*despite hate, bias, etc.) IN A MOTHERFUCKING COMA!!! (*fact 1,000% period) they negative they don't, won't, can't and never fucking will GET IT, get it?!?...
I took my daughter to see this and I think I enjoyed it more than she did for the very reasons you highlighted. For me The Wolf/Death has to be one of the coolest characters ever written. I love that Puss didn’t defeat him just fought him to the point that the Wolf realised puss has learned a harsh lesson and worthy of his last life.
I swear Death looks lime Risotto from Jojos part 5.
The black edgy attire with the red eyes
Overall the team at DreamWorks made an awesome and memorable character
@Digital Cthulhu imagine if dreamworks made jojo 😂😂
Goldi and the three bears are really funny for the most part, but some lines like Papa's "Some people stay until they run out of porridge, don't they Goldi?" and Mama's "If this is something that will make you happy, we'll get you that wish" really hit me.
Goldi really won the orphan lottery
"The day a little orphan girl broke into our cabin and stole our hearts. The day when our world became just right".
Such great writing.
and the fact they are a British crime family just made the whole thing better. I loved the way mama bear was smiling and petting a cat when she said "Give her the piano treatment papa!" and the Beer Barrel Polka? Perfection. They really took care to craft every character so well
Sometimes, family is what you make of it, not with what your born with.
This is the thing in ANY other movie the bears would be the main characters and it would be great. Its great writing atop some other great writing
god my heart is aching
Everyone in the theater dropped their jaws when they showed him drawing blood on puss, without spoiling anything more, the movie was like a glass of refreshing water compared to the garbage that’s been coming out lately.
When my ex wife left in my 20s, I was faced with a ton of new feelings and experiences that I wasn't prepared for. I had a panic attack out of no where on the way home from the bank. When the scene happened where he had a panic attack, the accuracy behind it took me right back to that moment in time that honestly, I had forgot. Aging, losing our edge, or dying, is all things we struggle with eventually. Puss hit me hard, man. What a beautiful film.
@Oprator holy shit no way me too, spam bot! I have always wanted random links to TH-cam videos, and I have never been more excited in my life to go watch it.
As someone who writes comments on TH-cam videos, I must say I'm glad there's another video where I can post my comment in the sea of other meaningless comments.
@@libertas5005 hey now! No existential dread and no talking down and equating others to your societal value, also that fucking 'as someone' joke is tiring fuck you bitch your comments doesn't have worth or value you're completely right
How are you doing now?
A panic attack cuz some b* left you? grow a pair dude
"Real storytelling is forever"... Words from a real genius. Well spoken
This film will be remembered as a classic for years to come.
The Eleventh Doctor said, "We're all just stories in the end. Make yours a good one."
I love how they clearly made Perrito as the annoying sidekick but made him less annoying and more likeable with a proper background, as depressing as it was, it's such a simple concept who knew it would work. And then there is Death, he's not the villain, he's inevitable, just a looming presence with one of the most amazing designs. They did great, even his whistle, it normally has 9 notes, he stops at the 8th one, freakin' ominous as he's saying want me to whistle your 9th?
Interesting enough, a relatively new Pathfinder 2 WotR has a character called Ember, who is pretty much a Perrito in disguise.
Similarities are rather impossible to miss when - when you first meet her - she is forgiving very people about to burn her at the stake and encourages you to spare them later on.
I like how Perrito doesn't play the victim despite having a sad backstory, but I wish he was less extroverted. The unfunny forced badwords scene is the worst in the film imo.
I really loved his character so much. On the surface he seems like your average ditzy comic relief character, but he actually has a deeply traumatic past. The way he talks about it can be interpreted two different ways. He just has a strictly positive outlook on life (almost “toxic positivity”) or he’s telling it like a “funny story” to downplay his trauma to others, and himself, because it’s a coping mechanism. Of course, neither are mutually exclusive. His character was pretty relatable to me.
It says something that I, an adult, was genuinely scared of an animated wolf.
Let's hope this isn't the last hurrah of a dying art form, rather a glimmer of hope in the darkness. A sign that not all is lost, and maybe, just maybe, mainstream studios can find the strength to clamber out of this hole they've been so happily digging for themselves this past decade or so.
Death in this movie has to be one of the best antagonists in any film I have ever seen. The little amount of screen time he has is so impactful and memorable. The whistle, voice acting, fight scenes and dialogue are all outstanding.
It was perfect, he was always in the back of your mind always a part of the movie even if he wasn't on screen. Just as death shadows us throughout our lives.
Yup. And I love how ultimately he’s depicted as not a malevolent monster, but just an unstoppable force. When it’s time for Puss to go, he’s going to go. But it’s not time for him to go, so death leaves him alone. For now. Great and accurate depiction of death: it’s not evil, it’s just part of life, and it’s not something to live in fear of. Since it’s coming for us all eventually.
Well said. I was with my kids seeing it and only really started taking it seriously after the first time I heard that haunting whistle. I was glued to it after that.
He's pretty much the animated version of Michael Myers back when he debuted in 1978. He was only in Halloween for 10-13 minutes, but you FELT him. You FEARED him. It's something Hollywood threw out the window for decades and it's great seeing it come back, even if it's in a more youth-friendly series.
I dunno what it is, but for some reason, some of the best antagonists in film are in animated features. This is a great example, as is Lady Eboshi in Princess Mononoke. There's some major irony going on when it's the "cartoon" antagonists that seem real and the mainstream Hollywood ones that seem cartoonish.
Can we also appreciate how this movie gave us not one, but two iconic antagonists? Death is obviously a standout with how nuanced and utterly terrifying he is, but Jack is the perfect irredeemable villain. He’s fun, charming, funny, and beyond apathetic in his ways, literally disposing of his own goons because they got in his way or didn’t serve his needs well enough (like making a bridge to cross a gap and having them brutally die) and doing literally everything to NOT listen to his conscience. “YOURE A MONSTER!” “Waaa-waaa-what took you so long, idiot?!”
Fiiiinally, someone who can see that the Villain and the antagonist are two distinct entities. I truly got tired of people calling the wolf reaper "the villain." He represents Death. Death can't be the villain as it's a natural part of life.
Dont forget the Furry Yaoi r34 smut of Death that came right after the Movie dropped. :D
*Jack is a villain who's immune to Talk-no-Jutsu.*
@@aaronwalcott513 no he is a villain. He should have no business with Puss yet, but still goes after him. He torments him throughout the whole film and is actually FURIOUS when he realises he made Puss become a better person. Death didn't try to teach Puss anything, he just wanted to watch him suffer. He went after Puss purely out of his own malice.
Even if he wanted to take Puss' last life, then he could have just took it, he didn't need to toy with Puss, but he did and he enjoyed it.
He's not trying to make any point, Puss' actions just pissed him off, so he wanted to make his final moments hell. Again, he acts purely out of his own malice.
So yeah, he is, by all means a villain.
I love how Jack talks a little like he's playing an FPS or some other multiplayer game.
I just watched this film and was blown away. There were some seriously heavy themes for a childrens movie, and it was clear that this film was made with care, from its engaging visuals to its well-rounded themes and messages, even tackling themes of mortality, and what it means to come to terms with death and choose not to live in fear. Throughout the film, Puss is mortified by the ever looming idea of his own demise, and it isn’t until the very end when he’s learned from his friends and realizes that a life lived in fear is no life at all. This film is touching, funny, clever, and just a good fun heroes journey.
perrito trying to calm puss by laying on his chest is the most heartwarming scene i seen in a kids movies in the past 2years
I literally cannot express how happy I am that dreamworks still makes good animated movies after more than 20 years..
They even beat Disney to the ground without even attempting to. Bravo!🌙👏🏻
@@liamphibia Anyone can beat Disney after few years of failures where even someone with a cheap $50 camera and a used old laptop can out beat Disney in the entertainment industry.
I wonder how much small entertainment companies that going to replace Disney within the next century?
Just wish they wouldn't do the 10fps animations again tbh
DreamWorks has always made decent films. Kung Fu panda, how to train your dragon, Shrek for a few movies. I enjoyed ants low-key. The croods are funny as hell. Mega mind is decent. El dorado is cool. Over the hedge works for me. Like flushed away.
Boss baby is so cringe. Bee movie is a meme lmao.
@@MrREAPERsz
Megamind is a MASTERPIECE man!
I think Dreamworks somehow also nailed having three villian archetypes on screen and for them all to work.
We have Goldilocks representing the misguided criminals who we are supposed to sympathize with.
Then we have the Wolf representing a force of nature out to test the main character to their breaking point.
Lastly, we have Jack Horner just being comically evil and selfish, reveling in his own power and seeking no sympathy or redemption for his actions.
It's mindboggling that they had all three villain types on screen, and yet none felt annoying or shoehorned into the story.
Spider-man 3 done right basically
CE = Jack Horner. CN = Goldilocks. NN = Death.
While at it
CG = Puss. NG = Softpaws. LG = Perrito.
NE, LE, LN not represented here.
@ X again Wouldn’t Jack Horner be NE since he simply and selfishly lusts for power?
I like how Jack Horner really didn’t give a shit about his goons.
"Go on. Pick it up." Chills every time.
Truly started having a crush on Goldilocks 😭 She’s gorgeous 😭
The panic/anxiety attack scene was absolutely spot on. As someone who experiences these fairly regularly, this was easily the best depiction I've seen in a movie so far.
Seconded, it was much better than Velma, the writers could take notes from this film!
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@@trinaq I have a feeling Velma was written by people who identify as people with panic attacks just because it makes them feel special (while actually it's just regular life anxieties that literally everyone has). I don't think they've ever actually experienced anything like it. But when you can just decide to identify with anything, you don't have to know what reality is like.
I teared up for how sincere and real they portrayed it. It was very respectful and appropriate
@@viljamtheninja the quirky and unique crowd made velma lol
I’ve got to say that Death is one of the creepiest and scariest animated characters I’ve seen in animation. From the whistle to the wide red eyes and the voice, he’s a spine chilling figure throughout
That scene of him opening the door still sends chills up my spine
I watched it with my 4-year-old, not knowing about the wolf character, and she keeps telling me how scared she is of the “wolf,” even waking up at night lately.
This is the first animated movie in a long time that I’ve seen with a genuinely scary villain!
It's amazing how a voice that normal can be so terrifying. Death usually has an unnatural voice to go with it, but in this case it's like any dude on the street could be the inevitable coming for you. Chilling.
@@kait112 Though Death isn't a villain, he's just showing Puss the real actions of his consequences of choice in lives he had and if he keeps up, Death will go after him.
It's when he did the "I'm watching you" gesture with eyes a wild animal has towards prey is when I felt chills.
What i love most about this movie other than the animation is that it knew when to let a serious moment be serious and didnt undercut it with a joke every time like... other companies would do. And because of that the serious moments felt extremely impactful
The animation on this is next level. You could take a single frame and it’s just like an illustration. As Drinker says, no idea how they got it made, but glad they did.
this movie just wiped the floor with 99% of stuff made in the past decade
really? I know people like to overreact but calm down.
@@ha-kh7ef But is it that much of an overreaction? It's some of the best work dreamworks ever put out and easily one of the best animated movies of the decade, it's arguably the best we've seen from the shrek franchise beating Shrek 2 which is a movie beloved by almost everyone. An instant classic.
@@ha-kh7ef I wouldn't say the last decade, but the last 5 years absolutely, but seeing how low the bar is at this point, it wouldn't take much.
Until recently you could watch 20 movies and maybe 2 or 3 would be bad, now you have to watch 50 to find 1 good one, Hollywood has piled up more garbage than a waste management company on strike.
Don't get me wrong, Puss in Boots 2 is definitely my fav animted movie I've seen in recent years, but Arcane, Into the Spider-verse, Mario movie's on the way, etc....... they exist, bud.
DUNE. Nuff said. This was nice and Dreamworks is amazing, but... DUNE!!!!!
As someone who'd never seen Puss in Boots or Shrek before, I was genuinely surprised by the wholesomeness and awesome animation of this movie. A ray of hope in the dark abyss that is modern "cinema".
Edit: Yes guys, after i watched this and realised how good DreamWorks' films could be, i watched the Shrek movies within a few days. Really enjoyed them too!
You need to watch Shrek 1 & 2. They're great films.
@@TheRCScotsman Shrek forever after as well
Go watch Shrek if you haven’t yet. It’s good too.
I said that Top Gun: Maverick is the best film of 2022, but Puss ‘n Boots might be the best film of 2023.
@@methatis3013 I've never seen that one. After Shrek 3, I was like "Well, that's over." Thanks for the recommendation.
This wasn't just an animation, it was a gift. It is a reminder of how good films and animation once was and we'll be lucky to see another as great in the next five years.
Perrito is by far the best character. As a person who suffers anxiety disorder I was really feeling for Puss when he was having his panic attack. When Perrito lay his head on Puss's chest and his breathing and heart beat gradually slowed it was a powerful moment for me personally. Perrito is the goodest boy and I love him!
I think he's too much for me. I love how he doesn't play the victim despite having a sad story, but I wish he was less extroverted. The unfunny forced badwords scene is the worst in the film imo.
By far the best film I've seen in a long time. As I watched it quickly became clear there was so much being said without actually being said. Puss experiences real personal growth and realizes he's been a real Git for most of his lives. The Wolf was freakin' scary AF. Disney and everybody else needs to take notes--this is how you tell a story.
Imagine an anime figure has more souls than 99% of Hollywood movies with real people playing the roles....
This film has shown me that we dont need hollywood stars anymore.. Good writers, directors that understand what people want is better than millions spent on actors that all want to tell us they are victims
@@frankxu4795 To be fair, many anime figures are of great quality and you can tell they put a lot of heart into them, even if the figures themself are something like a big breasted bimbo in a playboy style bunnysuit.
I felt the same about Paddington 2. No politics, a great story about an innocent bear, his family and crazy friends facing a ridiculous villain. Hugh Grant’s musical number in the end credits is a joy to behold. Great films can be made but Hollywood keeps hiring idiot ideologues.
As if everyone wasn’t going crazy over Encanto less than 2 years ago when you commented this. Plus Disney Animation had only released one movie since, calm down