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The thing is, if you ***really*** thing about how the wish map thing works. It is constantly trying to guide you to not want your wish, because you don't need it. Perrito didn't want a wish... And the map was subtly doing something quite evil in response... Think about what each of his "obstacles" really mean? Pockets full of Posies is "Ring around the rosies, pockets full of posies, ashes ashes we all fall down!" is a story about THE BLACK PLAGUE and being cremated to prevent the spread. The River of Relaxation is a metaphor for the River Styx, the river in greek mythology that runs into Tartarus and carries yoy after you die, and also ties into his backstory of being thrown into the river. And the most dastardly of them all, which we didnt get to see "The field of quick and easy solutions" would have almost certainly been the star trying to convince him to commit *suicide* "take the easy way out" And the star does all of this to prevent people from using its wish.
the fact he recognizes himself as an orphan and that Goldi won the orphan lottery, suggests he may not be quite as oblivious to his real predicament as he wants to be.
@@tyrant-den884 yep that makes perrito all the more precious,hes not dense,he just chose to take life as a beautiful thing to appreciate,hes beautiful 🥺
Imagine Shrek 5 comes out: the villain is defeated, but instead of a traditional animated movie villain death, we just hear the whistle of Death before it transitions to the next scene
That’s unfitting. It would ruin the movie. Have death not be in the movie at all except for maybe a cameo. There is no reason to use a death. One of the key factors that made death such a good character is being mysterious. You never knew when he appeared because he had a relatively low amount of screen time. Reusing the same character just because people like it doesn’t make it any better.
Notice how every character gets a wanted poster when first introduced The wolf doesn't, he takes out puss's poster and taps dead 3 times, that's some foreshadowing
@@belledraws1331 Perrito still gets a poster like everyone else and Wolf does not. Makes it so interesting how it was set up. Love all the details the more I watch this movie.
Death’s hatred to Puss is valid, imagine collecting souls for a living and some arrogant “fearless hero” cheats you everytime because of biology. I’d like to think Death is actually very gentle and kind to good souls, but can’t stand Puss because he wasted his chances. Death has most likely come across souls who deserved more lives, he hates that Puss isn’t grateful for what others would do anything to have: more chances.
exactly. He hates puss, he's angry, its not just some job. And now I feel sad at all the other good souls that he must've met that begged to live but can't, meanwhile there's puss wasting his chances until Death just snapped and started hunting.
When Goldie gets the map, you'll notice everyone is in there EXCEPT death. Little details like that are worth a second viewing and definitely the last ten years in development.
Actually, that scene is even more genius than that. If you take a closer look in that scene, the whole background of the map roughly outlines the face of a wolf, looking at the viewer menacingly: the two hills of the Nostalgic Pines area represented in the map are the eyes, the path where Goldilock and the three bears are represented is the muzzle, and there is even a rock at the bottom roughly outlining whistling lips. These two or three seconds are pure genius: this means that no matter where you go, Death is everywhere, you can't escape it.
@@PhunkieZero I mean, Puss and his other 2 allies get one too, and Puss' one gets shown the first 5 minutes, so it's foreshadowed even in the first viewing.
Shrek: "So, literal death was after you?" Donkey: "And he didn't just reap you while you were using the box or something?" Puss: "I think he was trying to teach me to value what I have... or he was very bored and wanted a good scrap. I'm honestly not so sure at this point."
Puss: Look I can barely explain the nutty adventure I just went on. So I'm not going to. I d- I don't wanna talk about it. I've seen Death. Copied from Smiling Friends.
"The Big Bad Wolf" (Death) really stole the spotlight whenever he appears on the screen. I'm really impressed DreamWorks was able to bring that sense of fear. His whistling and animation of the looming darkness just sells it even more. Gave me chills. One of DreamWorks best villains (and probably the best) by far. As for the film itself, it's without a doubt the best animated film I've seen in years. The animation is very reminiscent to Into the Spider-Verse and it works surprisingly well and allows for many beautiful images. If Kung Fu Panda 4 or the inevitable Shrek 5 has this same style, that would be awesome! I initially wasn't sure if a return to the Shrek world would work after more than a decade away from it, but after seeing this, I say bring on the return of Shrek!
This film was Amazing, I hope it gets an Oscar nomination and possible win. When Puss finally stands up to Death and doesn't back down the Wolf vents in frustration, "Por qué diablos fui a jugar con mi comida?" In case you don't want to wait until you learn Spanish again, "Why the hell did I go play with my food?"
You'll be happy to know that it at least got a Annie nomination, which is the oscar for animations. Wagner Moura, voice of death, was nominated, don't know if it got a nomination for best animated movie, but I feel like it should lol It will be a tough battle tho, it's going against Guillermo's Pinnochio.
I just realized yesterday that Jack Horner doesn't get the map until the very end. He never had to overcome his own trials. Jack just let Team Friendship and the Goldi crime family do all the work.
When the map customizes each person’s path to the wish, there’s an element of “character judgement” in there. “It knows your heart”. Even two of our main good guys were immediately presented with extreme danger in their first obstacles. It’s my theory that if Jack Horner got ahold of the map, the forest would immediately become uninhabitable and everyone would die.
@@jakobr_ The paths are actually the way that the map/star tells characters that they either don't deserve the wish, the wish has bad consequences, or telling them that they already have what they need. Puss has a path of fire, which is very painful. It's probably a symbol of how he will be immortal, but he can still feel pain, and if he is too careless with his lives, he can still experience the pain. Puss also has a valley which probably contains coffins that maybe have illusions of other characters, meaning that he will outlive them, or while wasting his lives being a hero, they will miss him, and eventually die. The cave of souls is self explanatory, his previous lives were cocky bastards who only lived for the fame, if puss had infinite lives, he'd be more like them.
@@jakobr_ it also could represent how they feel about their own path and their fears. Puss is afraid of death, hence his path looks like hell. Kitty is alone and has nobody to trust, so her path reflect that. Perrito’s looks happy, but is actually quite dark, just as how he perceives bad events as positive. Goldie’s was about showing her that she truly loves her family and she’s a part of it, even tho she doesn’t realize it.
@@ArthurCallahan516 I'm sorry Good or evil I can vibe with someone who is true to themselves 🤣 Might not get a lot of invites to parties, but we don't have to be enemies
Btw - When Death cut him on the forehead at the beginning of the movie, that was actually the first time in his entire life he was cut with a blade, never before did anyone best him in combat - that is one of the reasons he was so afraid and had a panic and anxiety attack.
@@dragonmagoz have another one: Humpty Dumpty was a cannon used by English Royalists. The great wall refers to destroying the wall it sat on and smashing it to pieces, like an egg.
You are not missing a step. For the past few years dreamworks always had become Disney's shadow. But if you look at their shows compared to disney. Like shrek, how to train your dragon, megamind, kungfu panda, madagascar i mean they've produced a dozen masterpieces already. Its not surprising that this studio can make another one like puss in boots
I agree! DreamWorks really doesn't get enough credit for their amazing animated movies. they've always been overshadowed by Disney, & sure Disney's great (at least the old Disney was), but DreamWorks has just released masterpieces consistently. I never really realized that before about DreamWorks, but now that I'm older I definitely appreciate their awesome movies
The crazy thing about this is that you actually see death in the back of the crowd when he is fighting the titan. The doctor barber guy says that death walks among us and finally, his first encounter with the wolf, he says that he's been following him around for a long time. It literately forshadowed this entire event since his first encounter with the wolf based off these things alone.
@@renukaral not only that, every character gets introduced by a wanted poster except death until you realise he does introduce himself by taking out puss' wanted poster and pointing at dead 3 times
It is also fascinating how they change the P to a K in german, because instead of Puss it is called Kater there. Like after the Giant fight or on the grave. They really went all out on the localizations :D
@@universalpower419 additionally, if he had never hunted Puss in the first place Puss would've done something stupid and wasted his last life on his own like all the other times, playing with his food made him learn his lesson and ruined the game lol
I just saw this in my local theater. During that first battle with death, I just sat there and couldn’t hold back a „holy shit wow“. While two kids somewhere behind me started to cry with fear of this wolf lol
The wolf was: 1) introduced immediately following the prospect of death being shoved at Puss by the doctor 2) appeared out of nowhere 3) emphasized "dead" on the wanted poster 4) says he's been "following Puss for a long time" 5) says "everyone thinks they'll be the one to defeat me, but no one has" 6) put gold coins over his eyes while watching Puss ride away in the wagon 7) never showed up on the map There was a *lot* of allusion to the wolf's identity, so while the revelation wasn't "shocking" (for me), that made it no less good, as it was shocking for *Puss*, as he had never considered the possibility before. I loved how consistent the wolf was throughout the movie and on rewatches. It's not some Frozen situation where the character completely changes in order for a twist reveal. The revelation was always there, the question was merely "when would it come for Puss". Outstanding movie.
Yes, the movie was very much like that for me. Was it all a surprise? Nah, it’s got a pretty simple through line, but the characters and art make it so so so so so good.
he's the cherry on top. that's why. he make a great movie a masterpiece. come on. everything else works as well as it does because he's there. you can't gloss over that.
Not a villain, an antagonist. Calling him a villain makes him sound evil, but they was more Big Jack. He was evil for the sake of being evil, THATS villainous. An antagonist opposes the protagonist. He causes conflict with the main character. Which Death definitely did!
Death is an antagonist AND a villain because Puss mocks the very lives he had and Death got offended by it and wants to take Puss's last life for it. "So, why don't I do us both a favor and take this last one now." "That's cheating." "Shh, don't tell."
So he's identified as a villian because he's deciding that just this once he's going to break his own rules and speed up the process when he isnt supposed to, just to kill someone he doesn't like, right? Or am I missing some details...or overlooking, I dunno
@@AssassinhunterA8 Yes. Death is supposed to be a natural cause. The time for Puss to die isn't supposed to come yet but he's taking matters into his own hands and want him dead now just cause he hurts his feelings which makes him evil.
@@devilseyecry I don't think it's just about Death's feelings, but rather the concept of life and death and the ideals present within them. Puss didn't appreciate any of the lives he lived, yet he always got another chance when he died. Having nine lives in itself is already a perversion of nature, but then not even appreciating life and mocking death? One could argue that being insulted by that and taking matters in his own hands may be arrogant and "evil", but at the same time... the guy is literally death. I don't think stuff like morality concerns him in the way it does for mortals, which you can see when he decides to allow Puss to live his last life in the end.
@@gazelle_diamond9768 Perfectly said, but he decides to allow Puss to live only when he is valuing his last life. Speaking of morality, that's exactly the point. He is a force of nature, he should be beyond that. But he's salty about Puss laugh at the face of death and wasted his life and wanted to kill him early. That is exactly why he is called a villain.
Did y’all know that the bar wasn’t the first area we saw death? During a scene when Puss n boots is being cheered by everyone we can see in one part he is hidden in the shadows, Awesome detail that the developers put in there.
Funny thing is little jack horner nursery rhyme and Pinocchio's story was made almost right at the same time And as you may have already known Pinocchio's is more popular. The nursery rhyme didn't even make any sense when you read it
I don't thinking of death as the villain but rather a wake up call for puss, a natural force of nature that everyone meets. And when he's tracking puss, he does so because he's down to his last life, and because he was so careless before and made a mockery of death. Death wanted to get even or rather settle the score with puss, knowing he couldn't touch him until now. It's a part of deaths force of nature that brings him forth.
NGL, this Puss in Boots sequel is one of the best I’ve seen from Dreamworks. Yet, another sequel film that did great! I love the story, the comedy, the character (the Wolf/Death is the best imo), the music, and stylized animation. Imo, best animated film of 2022!
Yes!! I love this movie so much and I have to agree with you; it's definitely one of the best animated movies made since "Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse"! Everything, from the animation, to the story, and all of the important characters, were just great and innovative. Thank you for your fun reaction to this wonderful gem of a movie! I hope we see more creative movies like this!
The movie hints at the Wolf being Death sooner in the movie, at 4:01 the corners of the death counter are decals of the Wolf and his scythes. When the death counters were shown in the movie trailers, the decals were different. Don't want to give away too much!
Fun fact! You can see Death in the crowd at the VERY start of the movie before his first official on screen appearance. RIGHT before Puss’s 8th life ends. Why? Death appears when death is imminent, its why everyone else can only see him when theyre on the star, meaning everyone there was close to death depending on how things played out. Until that point at the end of the movie, nobody else saw him or heard his whistle. On that note theres a well liked fan theory like Perrito represents life, and the joy of living despite misfortune.
“Why the hell am I gonna play with my food?!” is what the Wolf was saying. Or possibly “Why the hell do I play with my food?!” but his wording doesn’t feel right for that, to me OR “Why the the hell did I (go and) play with my food?!” Someone said it was _fui_ instead of _voy,_ and I think they might be right. The f in it is hard to hear if it is. Thankfully it seems they finally fixed the subtitles (for streaming), to actually have the words instead of just (speaking Spanish/Spanish dialogue). It is in fact “¡¿Por que diablos fui a jugar con mi comida?!
@@vcs6047 I was thinking that but his wording throws me off. “¡¿Por que diablos juego/siempre juego con mi comida?!” that sounds better for that Unless, if you translate it as “Why do I go and play with my food?” it’s closer to what you put.
@@jonmercano1138 Hi so I'm a spanish person (Kinda I guess) and he says "¿¡Por que diablos voy a jugar con mi comida!?" And that translates to "Why the hell am I going to play with my food!?" But tbh I think they tried to say "Why the hell have I been playing with my food!?" OR "Why the hell do I play with my food!?". Probably just a little mistake on translating, it's kinda hard anyways lols.
@@JAGONTI I understood as "Why the hell did I had to play with my food". I think it makes mores sense since his frustrated that puss changed (not actullay frustated but you got the picture)
Death doesn't seem like a "villain" but instead a constant. He just does what he's meant to, and that hunts down those who didn't appreciate life. He's not doing anything wrong, Puss is a person who's done illegal things many times. Death is hunting down someone at the end of his rope, and when he decides to live his life, Death backs off. He acknowledges that they will meet again, but not now. When Puss's time has come, he'll collect his debt.
for whomever wants to know what Death yelled out after realizing Puss wasn't the immortal-legend he was hunting before? "WHY did I play with my food?!"
16:57 - I was looking for someone to react to that. I want to believe that during the writer's meeting they were like "What should the flowers do? Should they kill people" "Yeah let's make 'em kill people" "But that's too much for a kid's movie!" "You can always make it funny with a silly skeleton." My wife and I and others in the theater were gasping like "Yoooo they straight up killed a dude LMAO!"
Jack Horner's in no fairy tale. You don't remember the nursey rhyme, Little Jack Horner?! We sang it in pre-school and kindergarten: Little Jack Horner Sat in the corner, Eating his Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!" Which makes it funnier when see that he's a big, fat evil dude, LITERALLY.
One thing I love about the opening to this movie is how it sets up just how capable Puss actually is. He took on a whole squad of guards and a freaking giant without even breaking a sweat, and then, shortly after that, the Big Bad Wolf shows up and instantly disarms him, and what's more, actually manages to hurt Puss. That is how you do a villain entrance properly and set up just how strong and scary they are.
honestly I despise the whole "I thought you changed, I can't believe I trusted you" trope in animation, but the last wish did it so well considering how many times Kitty was betrayed by everyone it's gutwrenching as well bc puss genuinely was changing, but kitty only had the context that he ran out of the cave with the map
Interesting facts about the movie. Each time a person touch the map, you can see things related with the character of that person (Perrito with hapiness, Puss with things related to death, and Kitty with things related to Loneliness). Also, before the ring kills Puss, the ring bells 8 times. Also in the scene you can find the wolf amoung the crowd! Also, the bar where Puss meet Wolf has 8 candle, the same number of candles that turned off in the streets... It a movie full of passion by his creators!
Reminds me of a lot of Edgar wright films where upon second, third, fourth viewing you get to find more find details & easter eggs. Scott pilgrim is full of em
This is one of very few movies I've seen where the character 'twist' is obvious from the start without changing how enjoyable it is when the characters realise who the wolf really is. The anticipation waiting for the moment Puss would figure it out was what made the movie fun for me (as well as the adorable dog)
I like to think wolf Death I'd literally just Spanish Anubis especially because of his weapons , which works because Cats and Egypt is like 🤞and Anibus being a Dog
DreamWorks and Universal pushed this to paid VOD even with this being in theaters so quickly (imo). Glad that we're getting a lot of reactions about this film.
We’re also getting a lot of blocked reactions because of the paid VOD being pushed so quickly while this still being in theaters so fingers crossed this makes it out unscathed because I’ve seen reactors having problems with copyright with this particular movie commentary reactions.
@@penguinkingification I'm not even a furry... the community is shit and most anthro characters don't interest me much at all... but I LOVE monsters. xD
Dreamworks animation said since Disney/Pixar isn’t making any good villains we’ll make one of the best animated villain since Lord Shen, and the villain’s gonna be Death.
On the midas touch thing- the sister DID cross Jack, she was being obnoxious and annoying the whole time as jack wanted to move on, and her sister kept nudging her, and then SHE touched the hand herself, and then Jack lets the other sister go free, I think this was just him letting the idiot screw herself over because of how annoying she was, heck Her own sister doesn't really protest. So petty and evil, but in the sense of a bond villian's minon screwing something up or pressing one of his boss' buttons and then getting off, rather than being entirely pointless.
I love Death’s design! Sickle’s that look similar to the grim reaper’s scythe especially when attached together as a staff.. (also you have the pun sick in there and you know.. sickness can lead to death :P) He has the hood like the reaper.. he is a dire wolf which one, dogs vs cats… and secondly, another pun! He is death and a DIE’r wolf! 😉 I was very impressed by his design from the start and that is actually how I figured out he was the grim reaper from early on.
I mean, death is not a villain per say, he is an antagonist, he is going after Puss very hard cuz, in his words, he didn't value any of his lives, he had many and wasted them just like that, so he will show him that value by force, see how he leaves him alone when he no longer has fear and appreciates what he has.
I love that Death has less than six minutes of screen time, yet is the character that most people remember Just goes to show how much of an impact he managed to make in that little time
I love that Death isn't a Villain but a looming inevitability. He wasn't after Puss for revenge or hatred. Puss had a living legend complex that made him squander his 8 lives and not appreciate any of them. So Death wanted to put an end to him due to recklessness. By the end, he gave up when he realized the arrogant cat he was after was gone for good. He'll be back but only after Puss has lived and cherished his life. What a chad.
Death in this movie was the incarnation of Puss's fears and regrets when he has to look back at his past lives. You can't run from yourself because no matter where you go there you are. He finally has to face that part of himself to overcome it and grow.
I think the thing about Death being a great villain is 1. He loves what he's doing 2. He's powerful 3. He has rules/morals of his own 4. he embodies a universal concept since Death touches every human life. (making him relevant to everyone, kids as well but also relatable later in life because the longer you live the more you see death striking others) 5. the resolution to the story is not about defeating the villain but about the protagonist to change their way. so the fact that Death walks away at the end means that he's not unfair(to his own morals) which is the only way to philosophically resolve a conflict with Death. Combine that with how his concept matches with the execution of the story - Death always being around every corner, and now that Pib has that fear in him, he sees the wolf everywhere.
The “Jimmy Stewart” cricket is my favorite part of the movie 😂 I love the combo of relating to his optimism of goodness paired with the dark humor of the villain ❤
Super late comment but my favorite part of this reaction is how you half-jokingly say "Let's burn everything to the ground!" when the phoenix comes out, and Big Jack Horner immediately proceeds to do just that
The wolf is an awesome villain he is scary he is like the grim reaper. I love wolves. Wow I reached the part where wolf says he is death like see the grim reaper wolf he is always able to appear where puss is.
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They aren’t fencing swords they are rapiers
I would like to learn Spanish because I'm doing a Puss in Boots role-play account
The Big Bad Wolf was dubbed by the brazilian Wagner Moura, very famous and a great actor. Im also from Brazil. Olá.
26:34 That was spanish.
I adore the fact that the moment everyone hears his backstory, they agree that the universe was right to give Perrito an easy path to the wish.
The thing is, if you ***really*** thing about how the wish map thing works.
It is constantly trying to guide you to not want your wish, because you don't need it. Perrito didn't want a wish... And the map was subtly doing something quite evil in response... Think about what each of his "obstacles" really mean? Pockets full of Posies is "Ring around the rosies, pockets full of posies, ashes ashes we all fall down!" is a story about THE BLACK PLAGUE and being cremated to prevent the spread. The River of Relaxation is a metaphor for the River Styx, the river in greek mythology that runs into Tartarus and carries yoy after you die, and also ties into his backstory of being thrown into the river. And the most dastardly of them all, which we didnt get to see "The field of quick and easy solutions" would have almost certainly been the star trying to convince him to commit *suicide* "take the easy way out"
And the star does all of this to prevent people from using its wish.
@@TabbyVee Dear lord
@@TabbyVee о.0 Holy shi...
@@TabbyVee that is a stretch
@@TabbyVee Reading too much into it. Your theory is automatically dismantled by how they resolved the first area.
When you realize that Perrito knew so many slurs and insults with Goldi and the bears because of his abusive owner 🥺
Wait no you're so right. I'm sad now.
NO THAT'S SO SAD 😭
the fact he recognizes himself as an orphan and that Goldi won the orphan lottery, suggests he may not be quite as oblivious to his real predicament as he wants to be.
AAAAAAAAAUGH
@@tyrant-den884 yep that makes perrito all the more precious,hes not dense,he just chose to take life as a beautiful thing to appreciate,hes beautiful 🥺
Imagine Shrek 5 comes out: the villain is defeated, but instead of a traditional animated movie villain death, we just hear the whistle of Death before it transitions to the next scene
that would be good
If they don't do this
They've fumbled the ball hard
That would give me literal goosebumps if it happens
That’s unfitting. It would ruin the movie. Have death not be in the movie at all except for maybe a cameo. There is no reason to use a death. One of the key factors that made death such a good character is being mysterious. You never knew when he appeared because he had a relatively low amount of screen time. Reusing the same character just because people like it doesn’t make it any better.
@@Ulaanbasaar hard disagree
Just including the whistle on occasion isn't enough to ruin anything
Notice how every character gets a wanted poster when first introduced
The wolf doesn't, he takes out puss's poster and taps dead 3 times, that's some foreshadowing
Except Perrito's poster was "unwanted" lmao
@@belledraws1331 Perrito still gets a poster like everyone else and Wolf does not. Makes it so interesting how it was set up. Love all the details the more I watch this movie.
You also hear 8 soft bells in background right before death makes his first appearance
@@Sir-Vesh And Puss in on his 9th glass of milk.
@@Sir-Vesh And Puss was on his ninth drink.
Death’s hatred to Puss is valid, imagine collecting souls for a living and some arrogant “fearless hero” cheats you everytime because of biology. I’d like to think Death is actually very gentle and kind to good souls, but can’t stand Puss because he wasted his chances. Death has most likely come across souls who deserved more lives, he hates that Puss isn’t grateful for what others would do anything to have: more chances.
exactly. He hates puss, he's angry, its not just some job. And now I feel sad at all the other good souls that he must've met that begged to live but can't, meanwhile there's puss wasting his chances until Death just snapped and started hunting.
26:19 Gatito in Spanish is “little cat”, so they were actually making a “say hello to my little friend” reference
I DIDN'T NOTICE LOL
The one thing I got from my Spanish classes.
So basically he says "Say hello to my kitty's blade
@@adcoxfamily9656 yes
When Goldie gets the map, you'll notice everyone is in there EXCEPT death. Little details like that are worth a second viewing and definitely the last ten years in development.
Actually, that scene is even more genius than that. If you take a closer look in that scene, the whole background of the map roughly outlines the face of a wolf, looking at the viewer menacingly: the two hills of the Nostalgic Pines area represented in the map are the eyes, the path where Goldilock and the three bears are represented is the muzzle, and there is even a rock at the bottom roughly outlining whistling lips.
These two or three seconds are pure genius: this means that no matter where you go, Death is everywhere, you can't escape it.
Also every character gets a wanted poster for their presentation except death, for logical reasons.
@@vancesirron9170 That's actually a very good point. You don't notice it on first view because Death Wolf shows up before Jack Horner and Goldie.
@@PhunkieZero I mean, Puss and his other 2 allies get one too, and Puss' one gets shown the first 5 minutes, so it's foreshadowed even in the first viewing.
@@vancesirron9170 And a very sad unwanted poster too Have to admit I let out an audible "awwww" when I saw Perrito's poster
Shrek: "So, literal death was after you?"
Donkey: "And he didn't just reap you while you were using the box or something?"
Puss: "I think he was trying to teach me to value what I have... or he was very bored and wanted a good scrap. I'm honestly not so sure at this point."
Why did I imagine them actually having that conversation.
@@merafirewing6591 Unfortunately, the only voice I could hear was Puss', since it's been something like ten years since the last time I watched Shrek.
Puss: Look I can barely explain the nutty adventure I just went on. So I'm not going to. I d- I don't wanna talk about it. I've seen Death.
Copied from Smiling Friends.
"The Big Bad Wolf" (Death) really stole the spotlight whenever he appears on the screen. I'm really impressed DreamWorks was able to bring that sense of fear. His whistling and animation of the looming darkness just sells it even more. Gave me chills. One of DreamWorks best villains (and probably the best) by far.
As for the film itself, it's without a doubt the best animated film I've seen in years. The animation is very reminiscent to Into the Spider-Verse and it works surprisingly well and allows for many beautiful images. If Kung Fu Panda 4 or the inevitable Shrek 5 has this same style, that would be awesome! I initially wasn't sure if a return to the Shrek world would work after more than a decade away from it, but after seeing this, I say bring on the return of Shrek!
I love how serious all the scenes he is in are, they were not playing around with his character.
I think it’s more accurate to describe him as “The big bad wolf” as he isn’t the one from the story. Cool marketing subversion tho
DONKEY
But doesn’t the big bad wolf already exist in the Shrek universe?
@@cakeday4058 Yes, but he is the wolf, because in many cultures death is white, red eyed wolf.
This film was Amazing, I hope it gets an Oscar nomination and possible win.
When Puss finally stands up to Death and doesn't back down the Wolf vents in frustration, "Por qué diablos fui a jugar con mi comida?" In case you don't want to wait until you learn Spanish again, "Why the hell did I go play with my food?"
You'll be happy to know that it at least got a Annie nomination, which is the oscar for animations. Wagner Moura, voice of death, was nominated, don't know if it got a nomination for best animated movie, but I feel like it should lol It will be a tough battle tho, it's going against Guillermo's Pinnochio.
I was wondering how Wagner Moura's accent is, since he's Brazilian?
God that little tidbit makes it so much more worthwhile
As long as it's no Disney film, FINE WITH ME.
@@raindrainxi It's good. He sounds a bit funny and is obviously a foreigner speaking Spanish but it's not distracting.
I just realized yesterday that Jack Horner doesn't get the map until the very end. He never had to overcome his own trials. Jack just let Team Friendship and the Goldi crime family do all the work.
When the map customizes each person’s path to the wish, there’s an element of “character judgement” in there. “It knows your heart”. Even two of our main good guys were immediately presented with extreme danger in their first obstacles. It’s my theory that if Jack Horner got ahold of the map, the forest would immediately become uninhabitable and everyone would die.
@@jakobr_ The paths are actually the way that the map/star tells characters that they either don't deserve the wish, the wish has bad consequences, or telling them that they already have what they need.
Puss has a path of fire, which is very painful. It's probably a symbol of how he will be immortal, but he can still feel pain, and if he is too careless with his lives, he can still experience the pain.
Puss also has a valley which probably contains coffins that maybe have illusions of other characters, meaning that he will outlive them, or while wasting his lives being a hero, they will miss him, and eventually die.
The cave of souls is self explanatory, his previous lives were cocky bastards who only lived for the fame, if puss had infinite lives, he'd be more like them.
@@jakobr_ it also could represent how they feel about their own path and their fears. Puss is afraid of death, hence his path looks like hell. Kitty is alone and has nobody to trust, so her path reflect that. Perrito’s looks happy, but is actually quite dark, just as how he perceives bad events as positive. Goldie’s was about showing her that she truly loves her family and she’s a part of it, even tho she doesn’t realize it.
"What took you so long idiot?" -jack horner
@@ArthurCallahan516 I'm sorry
Good or evil I can vibe with someone who is true to themselves 🤣
Might not get a lot of invites to parties, but we don't have to be enemies
Btw - When Death cut him on the forehead at the beginning of the movie, that was actually the first time in his entire life he was cut with a blade, never before did anyone best him in combat - that is one of the reasons he was so afraid and had a panic and anxiety attack.
"Little Jack Horner sat in a corner
Eating a Christmas pie
He stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plum
And said, "Oh what a good boy am I!"
I had never heard that nursery rhyme and a little research shows that it's been used for literal decades as a dig against corrupt oligarchs.
@@dragonmagoz well that escalated quickly
@@sketchyskies8531 I am starting to think that every piece of artistic creation "for children" has some really messed up stuff behind the scenes.
@@dragonmagoz have another one:
Humpty Dumpty was a cannon used by English Royalists. The great wall refers to destroying the wall it sat on and smashing it to pieces, like an egg.
@videohistory722 I will look info on that, that is interesting AF
You are not missing a step. For the past few years dreamworks always had become Disney's shadow. But if you look at their shows compared to disney. Like shrek, how to train your dragon, megamind, kungfu panda, madagascar i mean they've produced a dozen masterpieces already. Its not surprising that this studio can make another one like puss in boots
DreamWorks only has two notes
Mediocre and absolute bangers
I agree! DreamWorks really doesn't get enough credit for their amazing animated movies. they've always been overshadowed by Disney, & sure Disney's great (at least the old Disney was), but DreamWorks has just released masterpieces consistently. I never really realized that before about DreamWorks, but now that I'm older I definitely appreciate their awesome movies
The crazy thing about this is that you actually see death in the back of the crowd when he is fighting the titan. The doctor barber guy says that death walks among us and finally, his first encounter with the wolf, he says that he's been following him around for a long time. It literately forshadowed this entire event since his first encounter with the wolf based off these things alone.
I just went back and checked and holy shit
@@renukaral not only that, every character gets introduced by a wanted poster except death until you realise he does introduce himself by taking out puss' wanted poster and pointing at dead 3 times
Fun fact: in the spanish version of the movie, Puss in boots instead of "No hablo ingles" says "No hablo con desconocidos" (I dont talk to strangers)
In the French dub, he says "No entiendo" sooo "I don't understand" ?
It is also fascinating how they change the P to a K in german, because instead of Puss it is called Kater there. Like after the Giant fight or on the grave. They really went all out on the localizations :D
26:33 apparently Death said something like “I shouldn’t have played with my food!”
So he could have killed Puss at any moment, but let him go for fun
I mean that's obvious, an sneak attack and puss was dead, plus Death let him scape just for fun.
@@universalpower419 additionally, if he had never hunted Puss in the first place Puss would've done something stupid and wasted his last life on his own like all the other times, playing with his food made him learn his lesson and ruined the game lol
He exactly said: Why the hell did I go and play with my food?
Fun fact: “say hello to my gatito blade” literally means “say hello to my little cat blade” aka say hello to my little friend 😂
I don't speak Spanish but I knew that immediately lol
I just saw this in my local theater. During that first battle with death, I just sat there and couldn’t hold back a „holy shit wow“. While two kids somewhere behind me started to cry with fear of this wolf lol
tbh I was just like you & those two kids crying lol I didn't cry but I was pretty scared but also amazed by Death
The wolf was:
1) introduced immediately following the prospect of death being shoved at Puss by the doctor
2) appeared out of nowhere
3) emphasized "dead" on the wanted poster
4) says he's been "following Puss for a long time"
5) says "everyone thinks they'll be the one to defeat me, but no one has"
6) put gold coins over his eyes while watching Puss ride away in the wagon
7) never showed up on the map
There was a *lot* of allusion to the wolf's identity, so while the revelation wasn't "shocking" (for me), that made it no less good, as it was shocking for *Puss*, as he had never considered the possibility before. I loved how consistent the wolf was throughout the movie and on rewatches. It's not some Frozen situation where the character completely changes in order for a twist reveal. The revelation was always there, the question was merely "when would it come for Puss".
Outstanding movie.
Yes, the movie was very much like that for me. Was it all a surprise? Nah, it’s got a pretty simple through line, but the characters and art make it so so so so so good.
Everyone only talks about death but puss himself is amazing in this film and the action scenes are truly epic and even the music
Death was the core factor that pushed Puss’s character development that’s why.
Jack was great
he's the cherry on top. that's why. he make a great movie a masterpiece. come on. everything else works as well as it does because he's there. you can't gloss over that.
Not a villain, an antagonist. Calling him a villain makes him sound evil, but they was more Big Jack. He was evil for the sake of being evil, THATS villainous. An antagonist opposes the protagonist. He causes conflict with the main character. Which Death definitely did!
Death is an antagonist AND a villain because Puss mocks the very lives he had and Death got offended by it and wants to take Puss's last life for it.
"So, why don't I do us both a favor and take this last one now."
"That's cheating."
"Shh, don't tell."
So he's identified as a villian because he's deciding that just this once he's going to break his own rules and speed up the process when he isnt supposed to, just to kill someone he doesn't like, right?
Or am I missing some details...or overlooking, I dunno
@@AssassinhunterA8 Yes. Death is supposed to be a natural cause. The time for Puss to die isn't supposed to come yet but he's taking matters into his own hands and want him dead now just cause he hurts his feelings which makes him evil.
@@devilseyecry I don't think it's just about Death's feelings, but rather the concept of life and death and the ideals present within them. Puss didn't appreciate any of the lives he lived, yet he always got another chance when he died. Having nine lives in itself is already a perversion of nature, but then not even appreciating life and mocking death? One could argue that being insulted by that and taking matters in his own hands may be arrogant and "evil", but at the same time... the guy is literally death. I don't think stuff like morality concerns him in the way it does for mortals, which you can see when he decides to allow Puss to live his last life in the end.
@@gazelle_diamond9768 Perfectly said, but he decides to allow Puss to live only when he is valuing his last life. Speaking of morality, that's exactly the point. He is a force of nature, he should be beyond that. But he's salty about Puss laugh at the face of death and wasted his life and wanted to kill him early. That is exactly why he is called a villain.
Props to everyone involved in the production of this movie; I was very pleasantly surprised by how good it is.
Did y’all know that the bar wasn’t the first area we saw death? During a scene when Puss n boots is being cheered by everyone we can see in one part he is hidden in the shadows, Awesome detail that the developers put in there.
Also, he's on "8 deaths numbered" sequence cards
Death is seriously up there with Pitch Black as the best DreamWorks villain. The fact they had death as a wolf as well? Absolutely fantastic.
Don't forget Eris from Sinbad, shes underatted and shes a goddess
Funny thing is little jack horner nursery rhyme and Pinocchio's story was made almost right at the same time
And as you may have already known Pinocchio's is more popular.
The nursery rhyme didn't even make any sense when you read it
I don't thinking of death as the villain but rather a wake up call for puss, a natural force of nature that everyone meets. And when he's tracking puss, he does so because he's down to his last life, and because he was so careless before and made a mockery of death. Death wanted to get even or rather settle the score with puss, knowing he couldn't touch him until now. It's a part of deaths force of nature that brings him forth.
DreamWorks really said, "We're back, people, and better than ever!" with this one
"OMG HIS DEAD"
yep, that's why we love this movie.
NGL, this Puss in Boots sequel is one of the best I’ve seen from Dreamworks. Yet, another sequel film that did great! I love the story, the comedy, the character (the Wolf/Death is the best imo), the music, and stylized animation. Imo, best animated film of 2022!
13:54 Ah, but in hindsight, every single person confessed their wish, and nobody got to have it!
No! Everyone got to have it
Yes!! I love this movie so much and I have to agree with you; it's definitely one of the best animated movies made since "Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse"! Everything, from the animation, to the story, and all of the important characters, were just great and innovative. Thank you for your fun reaction to this wonderful gem of a movie! I hope we see more creative movies like this!
The way you react when death first shows up in the bar is literally like the entire fandom in a nutshell 😂😂
Yup 😄
The movie hints at the Wolf being Death sooner in the movie, at 4:01 the corners of the death counter are decals of the Wolf and his scythes. When the death counters were shown in the movie trailers, the decals were different. Don't want to give away too much!
Fun fact! You can see Death in the crowd at the VERY start of the movie before his first official on screen appearance. RIGHT before Puss’s 8th life ends. Why? Death appears when death is imminent, its why everyone else can only see him when theyre on the star, meaning everyone there was close to death depending on how things played out. Until that point at the end of the movie, nobody else saw him or heard his whistle.
On that note theres a well liked fan theory like Perrito represents life, and the joy of living despite misfortune.
“Why the hell am I gonna play with my food?!” is what the Wolf was saying.
Or possibly “Why the hell do I play with my food?!” but his wording doesn’t feel right for that, to me
OR “Why the the hell did I (go and) play with my food?!” Someone said it was _fui_ instead of _voy,_ and I think they might be right. The f in it is hard to hear if it is.
Thankfully it seems they finally fixed the subtitles (for streaming), to actually have the words instead of just (speaking Spanish/Spanish dialogue). It is in fact “¡¿Por que diablos fui a jugar con mi comida?!
"why the hell do I always play with my food"*
@@vcs6047 I was thinking that but his wording throws me off. “¡¿Por que diablos juego/siempre juego con mi comida?!” that sounds better for that
Unless, if you translate it as “Why do I go and play with my food?” it’s closer to what you put.
@@jonmercano1138 Hi so I'm a spanish person (Kinda I guess) and he says "¿¡Por que diablos voy a jugar con mi comida!?" And that translates to "Why the hell am I going to play with my food!?" But tbh I think they tried to say "Why the hell have I been playing with my food!?" OR "Why the hell do I play with my food!?". Probably just a little mistake on translating, it's kinda hard anyways lols.
Rough translations but it's all leading to the same meaning
@@JAGONTI I understood as "Why the hell did I had to play with my food". I think it makes mores sense since his frustrated that puss changed (not actullay frustated but you got the picture)
Death doesn't seem like a "villain" but instead a constant. He just does what he's meant to, and that hunts down those who didn't appreciate life. He's not doing anything wrong, Puss is a person who's done illegal things many times. Death is hunting down someone at the end of his rope, and when he decides to live his life, Death backs off. He acknowledges that they will meet again, but not now. When Puss's time has come, he'll collect his debt.
for whomever wants to know what Death yelled out after realizing Puss wasn't the immortal-legend he was hunting before?
"WHY did I play with my food?!"
Jack: "I'm a nursery rhyme"
M.I.D: "I don't remember this guy from any fairy tales"
16:57 - I was looking for someone to react to that. I want to believe that during the writer's meeting they were like "What should the flowers do? Should they kill people" "Yeah let's make 'em kill people" "But that's too much for a kid's movie!" "You can always make it funny with a silly skeleton."
My wife and I and others in the theater were gasping like "Yoooo they straight up killed a dude LMAO!"
Jack Horner's in no fairy tale. You don't remember the nursey rhyme, Little Jack Horner?! We sang it in pre-school and kindergarten:
Little Jack Horner
Sat in the corner,
Eating his Christmas pie;
He put in his thumb,
And pulled out a plum,
And said, "What a good boy am I!"
Which makes it funnier when see that he's a big, fat evil dude, LITERALLY.
My take on Wolf:
The ferocity of Tai Lung
The cool head of Shen
The tenacity of Kai
He is the powers combined of every Kung Fu Panda villain.
One thing I love about the opening to this movie is how it sets up just how capable Puss actually is. He took on a whole squad of guards and a freaking giant without even breaking a sweat, and then, shortly after that, the Big Bad Wolf shows up and instantly disarms him, and what's more, actually manages to hurt Puss. That is how you do a villain entrance properly and set up just how strong and scary they are.
honestly I despise the whole "I thought you changed, I can't believe I trusted you" trope in animation, but the last wish did it so well considering how many times Kitty was betrayed by everyone
it's gutwrenching as well bc puss genuinely was changing, but kitty only had the context that he ran out of the cave with the map
Interesting facts about the movie. Each time a person touch the map, you can see things related with the character of that person (Perrito with hapiness, Puss with things related to death, and Kitty with things related to Loneliness). Also, before the ring kills Puss, the ring bells 8 times. Also in the scene you can find the wolf amoung the crowd! Also, the bar where Puss meet Wolf has 8 candle, the same number of candles that turned off in the streets... It a movie full of passion by his creators!
Reminds me of a lot of Edgar wright films where upon second, third, fourth viewing you get to find more find details & easter eggs. Scott pilgrim is full of em
I’m guessing you mean the bell rings 8 times.
5:02 you and the whole damn internet…
*Also me*-
If death got his own at least movie or at least short special I watch it no questions asked.
3:33 in medieval days, barbers were also surgeons, doctors and dentist. Another way this movie displays its brilliance.
This is one of very few movies I've seen where the character 'twist' is obvious from the start without changing how enjoyable it is when the characters realise who the wolf really is. The anticipation waiting for the moment Puss would figure it out was what made the movie fun for me (as well as the adorable dog)
6:07 as jack Horner word play says. "ITS TIME. TO burry the Hatchet." . And i couldn't stop laughing.
in deaths quick spanish rant after he get "beaten" he say "why the hell did i decide to pay with my food?!?!"
I like to think wolf Death I'd literally just Spanish Anubis especially because of his weapons , which works because Cats and Egypt
is like 🤞and Anibus being a Dog
DreamWorks and Universal pushed this to paid VOD even with this being in theaters so quickly (imo). Glad that we're getting a lot of reactions about this film.
We’re also getting a lot of blocked reactions because of the paid VOD being pushed so quickly while this still being in theaters so fingers crossed this makes it out unscathed because I’ve seen reactors having problems with copyright with this particular movie commentary reactions.
The movie we didn't know we needed.
Im happy this comes out now, so that i understand things more
Good to know I am not the only one who got tingles of something *other than fear* at that damn wolf lmfao
Maybe because you're a furry
@@penguinkingification I'm not even a furry... the community is shit and most anthro characters don't interest me much at all... but I LOVE monsters. xD
He's hot as hell
20:54: I'm making the mother of all omelettes here Jack, can't fret over every egg!
That's the vibe I get there.
Him: Dogs are the best animal.
Me: how dare you?
Puss: how dare you?!
the sword is called a Rapier, and it will certainly ruin your day, when stabbed into your heart
I like how they occasionally drop in historical stuff like how barbers used to side work as what we would today consider doctors or at least GPs
i remember i felt sad when puss was have a panic attack :( “im suppost to be a fearless hero.. a legend but without lives to spare i I im nothing”
Dreamworks animation said since Disney/Pixar isn’t making any good villains we’ll make one of the best animated villain since Lord Shen, and the villain’s gonna be Death.
Pretty much and you know for a fact that they made him a wolf in order to excite the furries
Perrito got put in a sock with rocks in it and thrown into a river like no wonder why his path for the wish thing is so colorful- bro deserves it😭
The best lini from Jack Horner is “Seriously are u having a hernia or something”
The giant isn't keeping the people for toe jam, it's to grind their bones for his bread.. remember Shreck one?
Him only scared and careful and not cocky when he is down to his last life.
When Death said "Pick it up" at first, i fuckin just... this movie is so good!!
Death: * appears *
"I'm in love."
One of us, one of us.
On the midas touch thing- the sister DID cross Jack, she was being obnoxious and annoying the whole time as jack wanted to move on, and her sister kept nudging her, and then SHE touched the hand herself, and then Jack lets the other sister go free, I think this was just him letting the idiot screw herself over because of how annoying she was, heck Her own sister doesn't really protest.
So petty and evil, but in the sense of a bond villian's minon screwing something up or pressing one of his boss' buttons and then getting off, rather than being entirely pointless.
2:10
They do NOT have fencing swords, they have Rapiers. Very different and the CLASSIC dualing sword
"Squeeze the jelly from your eyes, actually its quite good on toast" had me dying
I love Death’s design! Sickle’s that look similar to the grim reaper’s scythe especially when attached together as a staff.. (also you have the pun sick in there and you know.. sickness can lead to death :P)
He has the hood like the reaper.. he is a dire wolf which one, dogs vs cats… and secondly, another pun! He is death and a DIE’r wolf! 😉
I was very impressed by his design from the start and that is actually how I figured out he was the grim reaper from early on.
19:38 The classic football hooligan chant during a football match. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
4:02 I really love Death with his sickles in each corner as they count off his deaths.
Your editing is the best.
You know what would be interesting? If Death would from now on just show up out of nowhere whenever Puss in Boots has a close to death experience.
Death is so haunting is amazing
Death is the greatest villain ever in a Disney film. Its like watching a horror movie when Death arrives.
No surprise this is MID's most viewed video. Congrats on 50k my guy!
I mean, death is not a villain per say, he is an antagonist, he is going after Puss very hard cuz, in his words, he didn't value any of his lives, he had many and wasted them just like that, so he will show him that value by force, see how he leaves him alone when he no longer has fear and appreciates what he has.
Wolf was just so epic! I loved it when he had a Spanish rant when he realised puss had changed and it took his fun away 😂
I love that Death has less than six minutes of screen time, yet is the character that most people remember
Just goes to show how much of an impact he managed to make in that little time
at the end when death is speaking in spanish he is saying "why the hell did i have to go and play with my food?!?"
I love that Death isn't a Villain but a looming inevitability. He wasn't after Puss for revenge or hatred. Puss had a living legend complex that made him squander his 8 lives and not appreciate any of them. So Death wanted to put an end to him due to recklessness. By the end, he gave up when he realized the arrogant cat he was after was gone for good. He'll be back but only after Puss has lived and cherished his life. What a chad.
Every time you hear that whistle you Goosebumps oh my God I guess I'm not the only one that feels very spooked and threatened
By the way, in that part where Death let Puss live, I think he said something like "Why did I play with my food!?" lol
Death in this movie was the incarnation of Puss's fears and regrets when he has to look back at his past lives. You can't run from yourself because no matter where you go there you are. He finally has to face that part of himself to overcome it and grow.
26:09 YES PLEASE IVE BEEN SAYING THIS THE WHOLE TIME 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think the thing about Death being a great villain is 1. He loves what he's doing 2. He's powerful 3. He has rules/morals of his own 4. he embodies a universal concept since Death touches every human life. (making him relevant to everyone, kids as well but also relatable later in life because the longer you live the more you see death striking others) 5. the resolution to the story is not about defeating the villain but about the protagonist to change their way. so the fact that Death walks away at the end means that he's not unfair(to his own morals) which is the only way to philosophically resolve a conflict with Death.
Combine that with how his concept matches with the execution of the story - Death always being around every corner, and now that Pib has that fear in him, he sees the wolf everywhere.
The “Jimmy Stewart” cricket is my favorite part of the movie 😂 I love the combo of relating to his optimism of goodness paired with the dark humor of the villain ❤
Cricket: You're an irredeemable monster!
Jack: Oh, what took you so long, idiot!
This movie is a fucking MASTERPIECE!
YES
Super late comment but my favorite part of this reaction is how you half-jokingly say "Let's burn everything to the ground!" when the phoenix comes out, and Big Jack Horner immediately proceeds to do just that
He's not a Villian. He's Death, straight up!
The thing is, that Wolf - Death is not a villain. When you think, it's a natural inevitable force. Death was just doing his job
Jack and the magical beans...I guess he became addicted to...magic.
Death is the most cold character ever in a dreamworks movie and so scary to encounter. 😀
The wolf is an awesome villain he is scary he is like the grim reaper.
I love wolves.
Wow I reached the part where wolf says he is death like see the grim reaper wolf he is always able to appear where puss is.
I didn’t expect to love this so much and actually be invested my cousin made me watch it
Deaths Whistle is actually Pop goes the weasel in a different pitch and a few notes dropped.
I did not know that. What I did know was it was in a minor key with Death whistling in a major key after he lost the thrill of taking Puss' last life.