It is rather rare for a spin-off film (spin off) is a great success and even rarer that the sequel to this film is more successful than the first. It’s the case for Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (Puss in Boots: The Last Wishin French version), a film produced by DreamWorks Animation and directed by Joel Crawford, which sees the light of day 11 years after the release of the first part and 12 years after the official end of the saga Shrek, where we met this cat with an oversized bravery and ego, but also endowed with an irresistible charm. Puss had won the hearts of moviegoers and this film will reinforce this attachment.
If the first part made it possible to learn more about the past of this puss in boots with the tunes of Zorro, the story seemed a little flat and diffuse. This time, we find our Mexican hero (and the suave voice of Antonio Banderas), more anthropomorphic than ever, in a more personal quest as he loses his eighth life. We learn how he lost the other seven in a short hilarious sequence where the shrimp allergy rubs shoulders with an immoderate consumption of leche alcoholic.
On the advice of the village doctor, and to escape the Big Bad Wolf, a very successful incarnation of death (which could frighten children under 6), Puss retires to a retirement home. Until the revelation of the existence of the magic star encourages him to resume his clothes.
He will reunite with his former partner Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek Pinault). The duo will be helped by Perrito (extraordinary Harvey Guillén), a cute pooch in his ugliness, a bit hippie and very happy, and pursued by a go-getter Goldilocks named Goldi, by his Three Bears crime family and by a Little Jack Horner as thirsty for power as Puss is for milk.
Despite the darker nature of the story, the quirky humor elicits bursts of laughter, between a life lesson delivered by the optimist Perrito and a beautifully animated fight scene. As he did for Tea Bad Guysreleased earlier this year, the studio renews its graphic aesthetic by moving away from photorealism to embrace a style closer to comics that marvelously marries 2D and 3D animation.
This firework that is Puss in Boots: The Last Wish superbly sets the stage for the return of Shrek and our trio ofamigos in a fifth installment. An event that has been rumored for years, but whose release date may no longer be so ” far far away “.
Animation
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Joel Crawford
Voice of Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek Pinault, Olivia Colman and Harvey Guillén
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