DreamWorks Animation presents a new adventure of the swordsman cat from the universe of ‘Shrek’ with the voice of Antonio Banderas himself.
More than a decade after that dizzying (3D, of course) spin off of the headache-inducing ‘Shrek’ franchise that was ‘Puss in Boots’ comes back to the screens in a belated sequel that takes advantage of that passage of time. and more specifically the strange and fast rate of mutation in animation. With Guillermo del Toro back in production, ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ is committed to escaping the original digital ugliness by taking the style of the film towards anime more than the 70s. It does, and this can be shocking to more than one spectator, as if a nervous and classical hand (Japanese-style) drew on the drawing made by computer with pencil and marker. Really, this twilight sequel is still the rectification superimposed on the vices of the cartoons of the Dreamworks production company, especially those of those ‘Shrek’ horrors from where paradoxically the feline character with the voice of our Antonio Banderas became independent. With this disconcerting look, sometimes half finished, as if the lines of the protagonists were going to vanish (which is very appropriate because the plot deals with Puss in Boots’s struggle not to die after spending his nine lives), the film not only connects with the universe of Guillermo del Toro (that round trip and bets with destiny/Death are in his recent and great ‘Pinocchio’ in stop motion) but also with the anime. I don’t know if those involved in the plot, script, production and realization of ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ saw at the time (1969, in Spain in the 70s and in numerous reruns in theaters) a little animated Japanese delight of Kimio Yabuki, titled, naturally, ‘Puss in Boots’. I’d bet yes because there’s plenty of irreverent anime humor in this road movie with therapy dogs thinking they are cats, talkative heroines, and villains more in the orbit of a Doraemon episode. that of the (already more or less settled) Shrek universe.
‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ is ‘The Lord of the Beasts’, by Don Coscarelli (the hero’s unexpected allies) and a cat ‘Orpheus’ with the musketeer spark, or by Harry Flashman from ‘The heroic coward’ , from the seventies Richard Lester. It is the not so far-fetched idea that you have to put an end to (or transform) the stagnant CGI animation (Dreamworks) by going back to the artisanal beginnings. A reset that, naturally, is like the nine lives of this meowing golfer.
For those who didn’t expect a new life in the Dreamworks/Shrek universe
DATA SHEET
Direction: Joel Crawford, Januel Mercado Country: USA Year: 2022 Release date: 21–12-2022 Gender: Animation Script: Paul Fisher, Tommy Swerdlow Duration: 100 min.
Synopsis: Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: it has consumed eight of his nine lives, so he embarks on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore his nine lives…
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