I Finally Saw Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (Breakdown & Review)
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- Bill shares his thoughts, analysis, and review of Puss in Boots The Last Wish the new Dreamworks Animation movie from the Shrek Universe! Did we need another Shrek Spinoff? Is the wolf as cool as people say? Let him know what to watch/listen to next in the comments, and don't forget to like the video, subscribe, and ring the bell if you're so inclined!
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By the way, the bell doesn't just toll. It tolls *exactly seven times*, to represent Puss' seven prior deaths. Then it tolls one last, 8th time, when it falls on him, to hammer in the fact that he's now on his last life.
Never noticed. I knew the bell tolling meant something but didn't put my finger on it.
The attention to detail in this movie is insane!!! I never noticed that before. That's so clever and I love it
Not only that, but at the bar it also tolls 8 times in the background. There's' also 8 empty glasses he drank and is now drinking a full 9th one away.
OH MY GOD HOW DID YOU FIGURE THAT OUT???
8*
"You're not gonna shoot the puppy, Jack? Right?"
"Yeah, in the face, why?"
Jack is so cruel but yet I laughed at everything he said
That had to be John Mulaney's favorite line, that shit had me CRACKING UP
I couldn’t believe how brutal it was in an animation targeted kinda towards kids I also think it was perfect,
It did remind me of a lot of little kids (like 6-9 barely self aware) that I’ve known that hurt animals/how they behaved as a person (living in the woods kids are weird not a ton to do and some get a little creepy before they grow up to society standard, crawfish fights, throwing frogs, messing with birds or squirrels kids are messed up sometimes they never stayed my friend but they definitely are real people.)
The brutality and nonchalant attitude mixed with a ‘ya why not haha’ vibe that’s disturbing and throws you for a loop.
I would have thought jack was really childish/cruel due to his complete lack of sympathy. I think as a child I would have been confused why anyone laughed as I would have been shocked/scared for the dog.
As an adult that shit was such a curve ball and out of pocket that I couldn’t believe it and laughed so hard the cricket getting more and more annoyed and beginning to hate jack was fabulous, his own conscious doesn’t like/trust him and it’s his lack of consciousness that ends up destroying him
@@jesterday3965
I forgot Mulaney was in the movie, and wondered where have I heard the voice before.
Took me until "I wish I could" (second to last line of the wishing process, if I misspelled it) where I realised I have *definitely* heard this double rise before. And then I remember "YOu sPEnt it already?!" from one of the skits, and it hits me. He did a smashing job.
@@someguy9052 No, that was definitely a "why". First, this is a return question, as in "what is the matter, why are you asking the question". Second, I trust the subtitles. And third, Mulaney is a professional in terms of verbal entertainment. He knows how to pronounce words so that they will be understood. There is no way his "watch" is very close to "why".
I just realized something. Spoilers:
When every major character is introduced, a wanted poster appears. Puss, Kitty, Big Jack, Goldilocks and the Three bears, and even Perrito with his “Unwanted” poster. Everyone except for the Wolf.
However, when the Wolf first appears, what does he do? He pulls out a wanted poster and repeatedly taps the word “Dead”
Oh. My god. That's fucking brilliant
The Wolf also doesn't show up on the Wishing Star map...almost like he was never really in the forest at all.
The wolf also angrily scratches the poster when puss tells him for the first time that "I laugh at the face of death, bounty hunter"
@@Chrysalist theres also the part where he goes "So i've heard"
Im kind of reminded me of Spiderman into the spider verse. When they introduce all the spiderman
Also, when Kitty says she didn't show up to the wedding, she was clearly lying. She wanted Puss to stop feeling guilty over it after she overheard Puss talk to Perrito about it and how he confessed the reason why he didn't show (and she was the one to bring up Santa Coloma in detail to get Puss to open up about it). The reason why it's obvious is because of how angry she was at him over not showing up. If you didn't show up either, you wouldn't be that pissed off like she was.
I was thinking about this. If she didn't show up, how could she have known with absolute certainty that he didn't?
I always wondered why she always brought up Santa Coloma before she overheard the discussion, if she didn't show up either. This is actually a logical explanation.
Idk about that. I mean, to get married you should know ur partner pretty well. Kitty’s a pretty smart cat, and she can read puss like a book. She would obviously know that we wouldn’t show up and commit to a long term relationship because of his love for himself. Also, kitty’s face doesn’t show a hint of lying to make puss feel better, it’s 100% honesty. Even her tone shows that she’s admitting something. Plus why would she make up that lie to make puss feel better, when she can just say “I forgive you”
I always thought that was obvious. Don't get how people don't understand that
@@davidc. Read my comment it might help shine some light on what others think!
When Puss had that panic attack I started crying so hard in the cinema.
That was the moment that got me the closest to crying as it was perfectly done. I had a horrible attack on New Year’s Eve that my friends had to comfort me through, and it felt exactly like that.
I can’t praise that scene or that movie enough
Yeah, i felt this too. I have alot of panic attacks currently.
Bruh
@@jolien5858 ?
ME
It hit so hard, i never thought I'd relate so much to an animated cat
I cried at the panic attack scene because all at once I just realized "oh fuck is this how it looks for my parents when I have a panic attack?"
i saw this movie in latinamerican Spanish, and something that i couldn't get enough of was goldilocks accent. the three bears have a very marked argentinean accent, while goldilocks speaks in neutral Spanish but sometimes says things in an argentinean accent. is a very tiny detail that i personally loved so much because it somehow shows that goldilocks it's obviously from somewhere else, but still belongs with them and has been adapting things from the three bears lives into her life probably unconsciously.
i loved this movie so much. i love the shrek universe. i love these characters so much
Jeje
Gato: [le pega a Papá Oso con palo]
Papá Oso: No teniah k aser eso biejo
OH OH THAT'S COOL CUZ, as an aussie, all the bears had very distinct british accents but goldie was aussie! She still spoke british but with an underlying australian accent in ENG. I'm so happy to hear they decided to do that with the dubs too ;___; Voice acting is Such a powerful tool in this movie that strengthens it's characters immensely, so much love and care went into this for those details to matter
The wolf un-ironically, deeply frightened me in a way I cannot explain. Something about the eyes/facial expressions I think. Every time he came on screen, I sunk back in my seat.
The voice acting really added to it for me, it's been a while since I was genuinely scared of a movie other than when I saw the new avatar because I'm scared of the ocean lol. But that first scene with death alone really got my heart racing and boy was he scary. It's so interesting that in a movie of fairy tales I could feel the etherealness of the wolf even over the other fairytale stuff.
What’s wrong? Lives flashing before your eyes?
@@SilentShadow423 😰
and I don't mean it metaphorically or rhetorically or poetically or theoretically or in any other fancy way I am (bc spoiler reasons) straight up
@@marslara Seriously. The voice just gave me such... awkward vibes. The time he talks to Puss at the bar- when he pretends to be a fan with those awkward weird chuckles, it reminded me of whenever someone suddenly engages in a conversation with you that you want no part in. You want to shut them down as quickly as possible, but they just keep continuing and you just sit there, wondering how to get out of the situation. It made me deeply uncomfortable... it was played perfectly.
I like the idea of Death being so offended by Puss wasting his lives because Life is also a person and someone he cares deeply about.
theres theories that perrito symbolizes life
@@seomews Or maybe The Map/The Dark Forest symbolizes life? With all of the trials and tribulations it puts people through?
I'm surprised Death had no interaction with the Phoenix. Like, if cats having nine lives bugs him, how about a creature of perpetual death and rebirth?
@@chaossin7425 Maybe Death appreciates repeat business? It's a novel thing for him! ;)
Was there a characterisation of life itself? I've only seen personification of Nature, which includes life, or Fertility.
Not my realization, but the parrying dagger is a common “weapon” used on the off-hand beside a rapier for defensive purposes. Whereas before, Puss in Boots was all offense, relying on his skill, agility, and luck to dodge everything. When fighting Death at the end, Puss uses the Gatito blade to deflect the Wolf’s attack, deciding that even a tiny blade is worth it to protect himself, that merely his own skill, agility, and luck is not enough.
that's really interesting! i was thinking more of dagger in the use of plays (only time it ever came up in school was shakespeare lol) theres multiple uses and meanings for sure but i like that one too! either way its still a sign of growth here
just realized with Perrito's map, pocket full of posies is a reference to the black death nursery rhyme, river of relaxation was referring to the river he was tossed into, and a field of quick and easy solutions... killing your unwanted pet is a quick and easy solution to getting rid of it. His paths are just as dark but since his heart doesn't see it that way, nor does the map
dang
Just when I think I’ve heard everything about this film…
WAT how did i not see that before??
Every single thing I hear about this movie just makes it better and better.
That is something I missed, but it enforces something I realized - I thought Perrito was intended to compliment the wolf, since Perrito appreciated and loved his life in spite of the hardships he had faced. Perrito is basically the manifested form of the life-appreciation message Death wanted to send Puss. If I remember, he does say hardships are a matter of perspective - so it makes sense that the one creature that had no wish chose not to struggle against the adversities in front of him.
Ultimately.... The wolf and Purrito compliment each other as opposites in the dog spectrum. Which is funny, because it's dogs teaching life lessons to cats.
I loved the antagonists in this movie:
-Goldilocks, the redeemable one, more like the modern day complex villains
-Jack, the irredeemable as**ole who doesn't want to change what he is, a one-dimensional villain
-Death, straight up, the unstoppable force, the inevitable and neutral character
I honestly think the three villains were brilliant. They made this film. By swapping between them, you could keep driving the story without any one of them becoming tired or losing threat.
I love the inclusion of *both* Goldilocks and Jack too because they foil Puss and each other. They represent how failing to appreciate what you have can hurt those around you both physically (Jack losing minions) and emotionally (Goldilocks breaking her family's hearts). Likewise, Puss learns to be less reckless but he also learns when to stay.
He's not one dimensional. He's just flat. The difference is subtle. One dimensional characters are poorly written like an oblivion NPC, with little to no defining character traits. They have one thing that defines them and it consumes their whole existence. Flat characters are characters that do not undergo development or change. They have the same personality and beliefs at the end as in the beginning. At first glance, Jack may seem one-dimensional since all he cares about is hoarding magic, but like Death (the other flat villain in this movie), he is a well-rounded character with more going on in his life than his psychopathic lust for control. Don't confuse character motivation for defining characteristics.
What I love about the wanted posters is that every main character gets introduced with one. Perrito's version is an unwanted poster looking for home, and Death's version is Puss's wanted poster as he points to the word "dead" (and this doubles in the deception to the audience that he is a bounty hunter).
I think Lobo/The Death is the best rendition of THAT character I've seen in any media. It really was amazing. He legit gave me chills. This is definitely movie of the year.
Check MALTHAEL, the angel of death from Diablo 3 expansion. The game trailer/opening should suffice.
I think the only comparison to "death" in any other medium is Julian Richings portrayal of Death in Supernatural. Dude looks & feels like a real-life version of Death.
@@Coasterteam that one was awesome too. The wolf gets mostly the visual aspects of MALTHAEL..
Another great example in my opinion is Rattle Snake Jake from Rango
Death's character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series is one of my favorite representations. Look up "Hogfather Death Speech" if you've never seen it!
This movie made me cry, gasp out loud, laugh, all in the MOVIE THEATER. Like wow
I cried too
I love that the wish itself has a mind and a personality. If you aren't turned around by the threat of danger, it tries to reason with you and convince you that you don't need the wish
I noticed recently that when Goldie is reading the fairytale book, if you look at the first letter of every line, it spells out;
"You already have it."
The wish is literally telling Goldie that she has the family she's searching for!
Yes, it also gives the bears and Goldie the best version of their cabin: clean, warm with porrige and honey with no dangers. The map does everything to show them that they don’t actually need a wish.
The wish is wise. Probably truly wants someone who doesn’t have their wish granted already to make a wish. The map can be a reflection of one’s state of heart and when the holder of the map reaches their destination which is the star, they’ll have seen the deepest depths of their heart and realised whether or not they should make the wish or not. It kind of tests them. That’s what it did for everyone who held it and had a wish, Kitty, Puss and Goldi.
Fun fact with the wolf:
He whistles exactly 9 times in the movie. Once for every one of Puss' lives. However, the very last time, when he's walking away and whistling, he never finishes the whole tune. I thought it was an insanely well done detail
Puss’s panic attack made me and my sister and my mom breakdown crying in the theater. Also the wolf scared my little brother so bad that he had to take a break and leave the showing room.
The wolf scared all 3 of my kids and 2 of my nephews into actual tears and screaming. When i bought it to watch it at home, all of my kids save my middle child refused to sit with me to watch it again. The eldest hadn't even WATCHED it with me and came down from her bedroom and like 2 a.m. 'I had a nightmare about the wolf!' I couldn't stop laughing
r/ThatHappened
@@Paxton365 Have you ever had a young child in your family ? Escorting them out of a scary movie in theaters is not uncommon.
why are so many people so weak smh
Edit: and I'm not talking about the panic attack and its reaction, but rather the wolf and mortality
@@joseph_arrow idk, human bodies can be very susceptible to death
I think what makes Death's reveal so powerful is that it's esoteric, but explained in a modern way. It's quippy, it uses modern slang like "straight up," but it's also the physical embodiment of death speaking to the character. It's like reading about a Greek hero's journey into the Underworld, a norse warrior speaking to the dead from Hel. Those stories were for the people of their time, and this one is ours.
He's Death, straight up.
Funny little detail I just realized: when asked what their wish are, the Puss, Kitty and Goldi say they cannot reveal it because then it won't come true. Ironically all of their wishes come true in the end, except for Jack Horner who was boasting several times about how he wishes to take all the magic for himself XD
did you get to the part of the video where i talk about that? i had a similar, yet different takeaway from that lol
Technically Jack Horner got his wish, in a karmic way. He became one with the source of the most legendary and powerful magic ever... and died as a result.
@@Leet-iz2fz each of the characters got their wishes
The meowing being Puss' second language makes less sense the more you think about it.
In the first movie we're shown puss as a baby where he meows a lot until speaking with his deep voice. Also he speaks fluent English and Spanish, 2 languages, which means cat meows should be his third language
Puss was raised by a human woman and was raised as a human though. Its possible he could speak cat as a baby (or those meows were the equivalent to baby noises) and lost it because he was taught spanish from an early age.
I think Spanish is his third language, we rarely hear it. Kitty speaks more Spanish than he does.
Meowing is actually the equivalent of baby talk for cats. Normally, they only use it for kittens or as kittens, but we don’t notice their other “words” so they use meowing with us.
My wife wanted to see this a few weeks ago, I had no interest but figured it couldnt be that bad. So we went to the theater and saw it. I was so blown away by how great the whole movie was. In the cave, when the wolf says "I am death, straight up", I got so nervous/excited/anxious. It was such a curveball. I'd need to watch it again to pick up on some details I'm sure I missed. But if Shrek 5 is anywhere close to this, then I'm looking forward to it. Great review!
Something about the initial scene with Death hit something primal. Like it started as “oh it’s another badass that Puss has to beat in the end.” But then the already somewhat dark tone drops dramatically when the blood runs down Puss’ face, and Death immediately becomes 1000x more threatening and sadistic
And then every, I mean literally every single time I heard the whistle, my stomach dropped and I got goosebumps in waves down my whole body. Death is the most terrifying villain I have ever seen and it isn’t even close
Doggo is pure-hearted enough to not use the wish for evil, but suffered a lot during his early life without letting that affect how he treats others. Therefore he deserves it the most, and so he also gets the easiest path, regardless if he actually wants or needs the wish.
Meanwhile the others want the wish for selfish reasons and in all cases, don't need or deserve it in the first place. Jack was psychotic and greedy despite already having ludicrous wealth; Goldie was deceptive towards and ungrateful for who she already has; Kitty wanted the perks of a trustworthy partner without the vulnerability and heartache of earning it; and Puss was purely (and cowardly) serving his own ego.
All of them except Jack aren't bad people, but they fall into that trap a lot of people do; that dissatisfaction and regret with their life, the idea that "If I only had XYZ, then I'd finally be happy!" Or the idea that they squandered the fleeting time they have. Doggo has already seen worse, so comparatively his life is great now. The rest... are occupied with what-ifs, whether past or future.
I've heard a neat theory that the star is sentient and didn't want people to find or use it. Perrito was the only one who didn't want to wish, so the star made his a breeze
If Jack had held the full map, do you think it would have just straight-up disintegrated him? "Nah bro, you're just evil, no wish for you"
That word, "comparatively". There is also another trap, that everything is actually fine, and any dissatisfaction isn't justified. Don't try to make your life better, instead make yourself think that you already have everything.
Horner was bad not because he had much and wanted more, but because he liked to hurt people. Goldilocks' way was ultimately self-defeating, the trouble was not in her wanting a family, but in ignoring the bears. Kitty, however, was desperate to have a normal life, and getting it through some magic is no worse than conventional way unless it is also self-defeating. The "heartache of earning" doesn't make trust any better, unless you meant squandering it without changing yourself (which the wish could do if you spell it right). And, finally, Puss who, despite all the selfishness and legend stuff, in the end just wanted to live. Dude, how living is bad? Even if we think that Jack doesn't deserve to live, Puss is veeeery far from this.
@@sansaraee no the star did allow people to find and use it. Each people challanges set is likely the star telling them how to tackle their problem, Puss is reckless and lost, thus the star make the fire path to tell him to stop being reckless, the cave for self reflection, kitty will prolly for facing her loneliness, Goldie is about her true family, Perrito is a reflection of his coping, Pocket Full of Posies is a part of the rhyme Ring Around the Rosie, which represent the Plague, showing his health condition, the river is where he is abbadon, the quick and easy solution is, you guessed, suicide. After all the challange, if one still cannot get over their problem, then they can choose to use the wishing star. Jack is the only one (aside from lobo) who doesnt have any challenge as he is irredemable.
That's my take.
@@SMT-ks8yp Horner is also a monopolist who dishes out the same treatment to “allies” in his employ as he does his enemies.
Literally the panic attack scene in this movie is the most accurate representation of the feeling someone has during one. Heart pounding, vision blur, terror, everything. It was so important for me to see that on screen and I appreciate it so much.
Been thinking about the]is line in Fearless Hero.
'Puss 'n Boots is never afraid!' and the chorus goes 'You are, you are!'.
Kinda hinting or showing the fact that he does get afraid( his wedding), but instead of addressing his fear hides it beneath his other heroic acts to convince himself otherwise.
I’ve been trying to tell people how good this movie is for weeks. It’s so frustrating that so many people don’t believe me because they simply think that a puss in boots movie CANT be good and they won’t even give it a chance.
The story of animation's life as a whole tbfh. When done right, animated movies (I've personally found) are more meaningful than anything live-action. Like... I've never been as afraid or anxious watching any live-action character as I was while watching that fucking wolf. Absolute masterclass design in all aspects of his character, and the story as a whole.
"But animation's for kids!" blah blah blah. The worst part is, 9/10 times when you finally convince them to give it a chance, they don't take it seriously or don't pay attention because they've already decided it doesn't have meaning. So they completely miss what's going on and then complain that the story doesn't make sense. Ugh.
@@sarcasticat6979
Preaching the case. It’s so unbelievably frustrating how people will make an opinion on something before even watching it or just stand by that opinion because they’re too stubborn to admit they were wrong. I’ve always enjoyed animated movies more then live action most times, and you basically summed it up as to why.
Half of the teather I was in was empty.
@@sarcasticat6979 I also enjoy animation more than live-action as a whole. My DVD/Blu-ray collection is made up of mostly animated films. It doesn't make sense to a lot of people but animation generally feels more real to me
@@sarcasticat6979I don’t think it was an “animated movies are for kids” thing at all. I was in the same thought about the movie before because I thought they couldn’t do anything with the franchise anymore, the first PiB movie wasn’t that good, and the trailer made it look really annoying
I know im supposed to be scared or intimidated by the wolf but i just adore him
one or both feelings is valid :)
25:38 another thing I loved about this moment is that Kitty heard Puss talking about how he was sorry. One of my least favorite tropes is "hearing something you weren't supposed to hear" but then it's misconstrued to tear characters apart, i.e first Shrek movie when Shrek hears Fiona telling Donkey "princess and ugly don't go together". It's a nice little double back on that and having it actually be something nice for Kitty to hear when she wasn't supposed to hear it :)
It's a rare movie these days that subverts expectations by exceeding them. I have watched a lot of video reviews and comments about the story, the characters and the key scenes, and I keep finding new ways to appreciate the care and the craft that went into making it. Great review - thank you! And if you haven't seen it yet, I recommend it.
Yes exactly...a lot of care and heart, and craft went into it.
this movie is literally "the real treasure is the friends we made along the way"
Hopefully I can speak for most when I say this movie had no business being THAT GOOOD!!!
Following in the footsteps of Mr. In Boots' and Kitty Softpaws' map path being reflections of the thing they are running from which they must brave to get their wish, Nameless Dog's path is one of relaxation and taking the easy path. Maybe because he doesn't have a wish, or maybe because after spending a travel montage with the two adventure kitties, he subconsciously wanted adventure, and the Dark Forest responded with the opposite.
I mean it could also mean that the dog endured enough hardship and the star gives him an easy time to get the star. They made a river of relaxation and perrito nearly drowned in a river so it maybe thought the river would be more of a symbole of bonding and relaxation. These are just assumptions or theories that I had in mind
@@zhidoc I also think it’s because his wish is to be a therapy dog. The posies force you to take a moment to stop and focus on them by smelling them instead of your bothers while the river has you calm down from your issues and relax
@@theownerofthisaccount2521 Actually, according to Perrito, the River and the Posies could have been the multiple attempts to get rid of him. The Path responded to his internal trauma but hes too optimistic to mind it.
To him, this river that's probably similar to the one he almost drowned in, but why care when he's with his friends now?
The last path is actually pretty dark because it sorta means like suicide?
@@zie233 I think it's more like that the quick & easy solutions aren't always the best and long term one which could be suicide but yh perrito path has a lot more than it meets the eye
I will say I personally loved the original puss and boots as a kid, that one reveal scene will always be funny to me. This movie was perfect in not only bringing in everything that was established in the first movie but also being consumable and enjoyable to any newcomers as a stand alone. It doesn’t ignore previous highs of the shrek franchise but it sets a new standard and I just don’t have the words this is one of my favorite animated movies ever.
Damn I didn't even notice that those were gold coins on the wolf's eyes. I thought they were just giving him that glowing eye effect you often see in flash photographs of animals in the dark.
The coins in eyes is something the ancient greeks put on the dead as a gift to the underworld
I just realised the sickles of the wolf are reminiscent of kopesh swords, while the wolf has a bit of a jackel like appearance. Might just be me, but I feel his design evokes Anubis.
Not khopesh, shotel. Also from there, but different. Khopesh is a heavily mutated axe and this is an extreme case of sabre. Shotel's gimmick is that its extreme curve allows it to either hook the opponent's weapon and drive it away or just bypass their defence without even touching it. Death does pretty much this.
@@SMT-ks8yp i stand corrected.
Although death's sickles aren't as far as I remember double edged.
@@willowarkan2263 yep, but for some reason he sometimes holds them as if they were, like during that move which was blocked by Kitty's dagger, or in the end during his speech.
@@SMT-ks8yp I looked at them closely just now and while not bladed, they do have a pointed edge, not rounded or flat, even if it doesn't look sharpened, so with blunt force it would still do focused damage on a line of contact. I'd guess the blunt edge is for knocking the target down and then cutting with the sharp end, preserve the edge and all.
Him saying "and I thought we were going for a metaphor" made me laugh so hard it almost caused a singularity
The story of how this movie came to be should be a movie in itself. The little movie that could. A spin-off of an IP so dead it's been relegated to ironic meme culture. No one believed in Puss and Boots: The Last Wish when it was announced. I think plenty of us (myself included) were waiting for it to fail quickly so our cinemas could make room for something better. But through memorable characters, mature themes, and style of humor we'd come to expect from the middle-child of animation studies that is DreamWorks, Puss and Boots propelled it's way into our hearts.
This sequel no one asked for, of a spinoff that no one asked for, somehow singlehandly made people's appreciation and hype for the Shrek franchise go from ironic to genuine.
On the topic of cheesy cliches, it really feels like the movie uses those tropes because it understands what they're for and recognizes that they're right for the moment, not just because it's the done thing.
The entire movie is unflinchingly and unapologetically sincere.
When I first saw mama bear help Goldi even after knowing she wanted a normal family, bruh I broke down. They animated mama bear so well in that moment, her eyes, perfect.
Not only does death not get a wanted poster he also doesn't show up on the wishing map. Just love the small details showing that he's definitely not a normal entity.
he kinda gets one
he taps on it when talking to puss
"dead"
just realised, with this movie being Puss's life 9, it means that the first time we met puss in shrek 2 he was on life 8 (edit: life 7 before his firey demise with Gingy and the oven) and thats why he was so cocky and brave. I wonder what he will be like in shrek 5, if they keep to this new revelation and he is more mature and thought out than the reckless fool in the last shrek film.
Gingy was there dueing on of Puss' deaths, so it might have been life 7.
@@matti.8465 I had a bit of a brain blank while commenting, I will edit to reflect. its a very good point.
@@AnikaJarlsdottr I bet you he'll continue to be a daring adventurer cuz that's Puss in Boots that people loved
Fun facts!: Throughout the film Puss goes from calling Perrito ‘Perro’ which is just the Spanish word for dog to ‘Perrito’ which mean Small dog/cute dog
It just shows how much he comes to love him by the end :))
I love that in the transition of all the characters and the super serious face they had while traveling for the wish, all of em had a color outline in representation to what they had been thinking. Jack Horner had a purple outline signifying himself, Locks had blue (herself), Soft paws was green (Puss has green eyes), Puss had a green outline (himself), and Perreito didn’t have one. Either thinking about themselves, someone else, or even nothing.
25:35 Im pretty sure Kitty was lying about that to make Puss feel better. She overheard his reasoning for leaving and and was willing to forgive him after that.
If she also didn't show up she would have no reason to be angry at Puss and also have trust issues.
Kitty not showing up explains why she's so quick to forgive Puss though. He knew he wasn't going to show up and was right, but its still an awful thing to do.
There is a kind of nostalgic style to the animation that's unique.
The "Jimmy Stewart" bug was so so funny 😂 I loved every minute of him
My favorite character arc in this movie was Jiminy Cricket learning the futility of arguing axiomatic morals.
Mr. In Boots learning math is a close second
I'm not even sure if they teased Shrek 5 (I kinda hope they didn't, tho they most likely did). I thought of it as Puss just wanting to spend his last life with all the people he grew to love throughout his past lives with no greater meaning behind it.
'Cause honestly I'm kinda sick of this MCU Formular where 20 - 40 % of a movie or show is just there to tease another project. It works great for the MCU but it should stay there.
I think it's a shrek 5 teaser at the end but more so because it's already known shrek 5 is being worked on
@@marslara pretty much, was announced 3 years ago.
I've genuinely been in heated arguments about what was better, this or Avatar 2. I would at least entertain their arguments if they had seen this film, but I know they won't because once they do, they'll know they lost the argument.
I had much more fun watching puss in boots.
Avatar is a great cinema experience, but the movie itself is a bit weak
Avatar was an experience yes. But puss was more gripping.
Wolf is voiced by the actor who portrayed Pablo Escobar in Narcos. He did a fantastic job.
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There's something that goes unsaid about Goldi's wish that I don't know if they should have said it out loud or not; the idea that she's not wishing for her own family for her sake, but because she thinks it'll make things better for the bears, too. Because Goldi's not even a bear, she doesn't belong, and if she's gone everything will be just right for them. Also, the fact that Death didn't reappear until Puss picked up his showboating ways makes me wonder if he considered it fine for Puss to live the rest of his life out as a very unheroic lapcat.
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It was less him being "un-heroic" and more that, as Death himself said, he wasn't "a little legend who believed he was immortal" anymore. As far as Death was concerned, he won. It wasn't until he heard of the wishing star and sought out this chance to get more lives does Death resume his hunt for Puss.
@@eyesfullofsky9776 Maybe, but the same can be said for Puss after his close shave; he clearly doesn't think he's immortal at that point either, but the Wolf is still perfectly happy to follow him at least as far as the toilet, with every apparent intent of finishing Puss off there and then.
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Eh, no, see, the problem with that is that that is still the same singular encounter. What you suggest would be akin to saying that a farmer wouldn't chase of a fox that ate some of his chickens because he leaned over from his rocking chair and saw that the fox was already in the middle of leaving. No, most people in such a situation would get off their rear and, at the very least, throw something at the fox- all of the farmers I've ever known from back when I grew up on a farm myself would have cussed and shot at it and left traps.
In this hypothetical the fox still gets away, but the farmer put up some amount of a chase. Okay, the fox gets away by darting off under a fallen tree and zips off into the wilderness- no real point in chasing it when you've completely lost track of it in such a vast area. Similarly, Death probably doesn't continue trying to chase down Puss because he hasn't come back to the metaphorical farm -or resumed his arrogant, reckless lifestyle that disrespects Death. The wolf only begins showing himself again when Puss shows an interest in the wish so he can get those lives back, the hypothetical chickens the fox loves to eat in this analogy.
I saw someone mention this on tik tok. During the first fight scene, the bell rings eight times, including when it rings as it kills “Mr. Boots” to symbolize all his deaths
This movie is one of my favorites now. Everyone had talked so high of it, and the movie did not disappoint. Beautiful Movie.
They all have wishes that they realize by the end are not what would actually make them happy. By the end they've grown up enough to realize they already have what they really wanted to begin with. No need for the wish to do it. Perrito realized it for himself and said it fairly early on. The panic attack Puss had was about the most accurate portrayal of what that's like I've ever seen. For anyone who's never had one, yeah, just like that. They could have had Perrito ham it up and do the "Rub my belly!" thing, and that would have ruined the scene. Instead, they played it straight and let him do what a real dog might well do and it was magic. You mentioned the details they had in this film. Here's one you missed. In that fight at the start, the bell tolls 8 times with the last being when it falls on him. As far as the nod to Shrek 5, I'm with you. If they can do it on the level of this film then bring it on.
And this movie was in Production Limbo for years!! There was a pretty good chance that we would’ve never gotten this movie at all!
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Mama bear isn't just okay with Goldy leaving them if she gets the wish. She explicitly states that they'll get the wish for Goldy to make Goldy happy even if Goldy uses it to get rid of them. Mama is straight up willing to put the lives of herself, Papa, and Baby on the line, trusting that Goldy will make the right choice.
What I love about Jack Horner (and the rest of the villains in this movie) is that he feels like a commentary on the overabundance of "redeemable", "relatable" or twist villains. Nobody is allowed to just "be evil" anymore. They either need to have a backstory to make them sympathetic, or needs to be human enough so that you don't completely hate them, or are trying to instill a message. Jack Horner laughs in the face of these concepts and are just unapologetically evil. He has no real reason for being so evil as he is. Yeah Pinocchio was more popular than him as a child, but as he himself said, he grew up in a *very* privileged situation, so Pinocchio didn't even ruin his life or anything by the merit of being magical. And people could go for the line of it's a very lazy villain, but that falls flat because it is easier to mess up this kind of villain, one that is goofy and just pure evil to become too much, but they keep his actions evil enough that he never feels like a bumbling fool and still a threat to be scared off.
And then you have the two other "villains" in this movie, Goldilocks and Death. The three of them together represent every type of "villain", Jack being the Irredeemable evil villain, Goldilocks being the sympathetic "villain" and Death being a force of nature, he's the villain in a sense of "what they stand for is an obstacle to the party, but it's just the way things are" type of villain, and I love all of them... But Jack has a special place for me for not being afraid of not being redeemable
I appreciate this review so much. Like seriously more people need to know and watch this movie it’s near perfection
8:31 DEAR GOD NO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND ON A FIRST WATCH HOW IMPORTANT THIS "THERAPY DOG" PART IS!
I absolutely love how they casually threw a foreshadowing for one of THE most important and moving parts of the movie as a kind of disgusting joke with Perrito's ugly belly, and watching the movie again I can't help but notice the scars and how they tell a story of a life of pain! God this movie was amazing.
Sad that people are missing the experience in the theaters. It’s so colorful and beautiful
with the iced roads, blizzard, and needing to borrow a car to drive 15 miles to a theater .. i prefer staying home
just know, when death enters, he never walks or moves into frame, he simply appears.
notice in the bar, first a random cup appears with nothing in it, the boots blocks view of the cup for a moment, then death is just THERE when the view is brought back.
there are so many tiny details like that
You asked if we’d like a video about you catching up on the shrek stuff; I think that’s be a cool video. I don’t think the random little Halloween and Christmas specials really matter but Shrek 4 and Puss in Boots 1 are both pretty good in my opinion.
Really only Shrek 3 is particularly bad
if I weren't with a friend in the movie theater I would have been absolutely sobbing
To be fair, Baby kept calling Goldi an orphan and thief, and if I was adopted into a family where it seemed like one of my siblings didn't see me as family and made that as clear as Baby did, I'd also wish for a family
Sounds like you've never had a sibling
Words can not express how excited I was when I got the notification
A bunch of people in my theater actually started clapping when they showed Far Far Away and I'm the same as Bill, I have never been so excited for a Shrek movie lol. I loved this movie so much and I wish I could go to every single showing. It's so amazing. DreamWorks better make more of this kind of stuff.
For Bill: please watch the first Puss in Boots movie to learn more about Kitty Softpaws and Puss. The villain in that one is not as good, but the movie itself is a fun watch.
Nice review! I loved all the beautiful little touches throughout the movie, like for example when Perro put his head on Puss's stomach, after Puss had calmed down he said "Thank you Perrito"...that was the first time he called him Perrito which is I think a more affectionate form of Perro (which is Spanish for 'dog').
If this is the kind of stuff they're going to be doing with the Shrek universe from now on, I'm all about it.
I love how everyone, including myself and every reviewer I've seen, got nervous when the dog showed up but he somehow showed his worth in, in my opinion, the most emotional moment in the film.
When I saw the trailer for the movie, I thought the dog was going to be super annoying and I wasn't planning on seeing the movie in theaters. But then all the reviews on CZcams and one of my friends said the movie was super good so I went to see it and I'm so glad I did. Fantastic movie! And I loved Perrito
19:45 Similarly with the shadow is on the river when Kitty tries to tell Perrito that she’s a solo act only.
I want to be a therapist in the future and I'm totally going to get a Perrito plush to have as my main motivator and future office decoration.
This movie captured anxiety and phobias so beautifully it instantly became one of my top favorites.
Yay! Perrito plushie!
Probably everyone notices when in the last part puss said that he can't defeat death, but he will fight for this live.
It really points out that when puss chose to fight, he knew he will die. But he still choose to fight than run away like previously.
It just shows how much character development he has on this journey, to face his fear even though it may cause his death.
Lobo was so good, and one shot is absolutely amazing, during the first fight with Jack and his Baker Dozen there is a shot of Lobo in a cave and the cave forms a skull for a split second, it was pure artistic genius
I was surprised people didn’t know of jack horner
I feel like that was really common with ‘plumb on his thumb’
He steals a Christmas pie and eats it in a corner all for himself and eats all the fruit from the center all the while telling himself he’s a good boy.
It’s the expectation you can do what you want take from anyone especially on a holiday of giving/sharing and lie to everyone even yourself that you’re being good because you’re satisfied with your own self-serving actions. Even if it means there’s no pie for anyone else.
and the thought of taste testing with one finger from every single persons pie from every pie ever made, so much so that his fingers are stained to match. His thumb becomes a plumb (swollen and purple from him sucking on it/constantly dying it when dipping into a jam)
And all he eats is the the one taste-test of the pie, poke by poke till he’s over stuffed on filling alone that isn’t something he made.
Top tier adaptation of turning this childish boy into an adult with a lack of consciousness. I like that the wish everyone wanted was found it if they accepted it.
Purrito was satisfied and had no wish, kitty found trust, puss accepted the moment with honestly and care for others, Goldilocks family was what she wanted, and jack needed to accept that in reality he needs a conscious: he goes through the map with a conscious on his shoulder where before in the world he completely lacked one.
Deep down his wish is to be a good boy and to be happy given a pie on a holiday where people like him and want to willingly share it with him.
But to be a good boy and get that you can’t do what you want the people around you have to believe you’re also a good boy. You want love you can’t be abusive and stealing. If you want people to share you can’t be controlling and never give back.
Jack is given that option if haveing a conscious of being able to participate with people as a good person yet he constantly ignores him and claims he wants to be a terrible person so that he can have control, as he perceives and uses power for getting everything he wants and there being no alternative.
Jack needed to accept that his dream to control all magic would require getting a consciousness to realize how terrible his actions of stealing all magic would affect everyone else and him. And how he wouldn’t be a good person wouldn’t be liked and there wouldn’t be a world of magic as he destroys all of it for himself and no one else to the point that there’s no reason to create anything with it as no one but jack would ever know of it.
to be acceptable that his behavior has weight and depth he can’t be selfish and hurt others he has to treat people nice and they will be nice back.
Great foil to purrito who’s a constant optimist to match a constant pessimist
Some of Puss's expressions (especially 6:02 and 6:50) remind me of the Lackadaisy Cats webcomic's art style
23:40 I was having a great time watching this movie, the characters and their connections made sense enough for me to like all of them. Then that scene between Perrito and Puss happened. It's difficult to describe what a panic attack feels like. They captured the experience very well. That moment of Puss being soothed by Perrito was the best feeling.
After watching the movie once and a lot of review videos before and after, im not afraid to say this.
I have a hard crush on death.
Hard same.
Just… hard same.
A personal experience about the Wolf. When we watched the film with some friends, one of them didn't fully believe the Wolf was Death for real. She thought he might have been just bluffing... Until he showed up crossing the magical wall of the star that destroyed anyone who touched it like it was nothing and created a wall of magical flames. She even mentioned that, "Wait! The power of the star didn't even faze him!? Holy sh*t he IS Death for real!" it was hilarious xD
Also, a thing about spanish is that we use "Diminutivos" (Diminutive words (?)). These are basically words to which we add the ending "ito/ita" to refer to them not only as something being small, but also very close or dear to us. So the "Gatito blade" would be something like "Little cat blade" refering again to size, but also as something that Puss treasures now. And in the case of "Perrito", that'd literally be "Little dog" but while at the beginning it was just to refer to his size, by the end he becomes someone dear and treasured by both Puss and Kitty.
Just watched it and it truely is something special. Surface level it’s a fun family movie but if you look deeper there’s so much more going on.
It has layers to it.
Like a... I dunno, I can’t really think of any examples but you know what I mean.
Wanted to watch the movie days ago but waited til my nephews and nieces were gathered one night. They haven't even seen Shrek (tho they know who he is) but I made them watch with me and boy was the wait worth it. Had to explain to them what the fairy tale references are and even PTSD.
Shrek 4 is absolutely great- Boots 2 is kinda a realization of everything that movie wanted to do :) also Boots 1 is pretty good but not nearly as good
The only reason you should watch the first Puss in boots movie is for Humpty Alexander Dumpty....he was always there
what an incredible movie, they absolutely did the first Puss in Boots justice with this incredible sequel. i love how much the first movie and this one feels like a nod to the Mask of Zorro, which starred Antonio Banderes as the spanish heartthrob himself ;]
i absolutely recommend the first movie!!! all that i'll say is there is a reason that this film was so well-funded and well-received: it had a good foundation (outside of the Shrek movies)
Big Bad Wolf's VA is Wagner Moura, he's a brazilian actor famous for Narcos and Tropa de Elite. You got his last name's pronunciation quite right the second time! Though his first name is pronounced more like Vagner, as if it had a V on it!
Yo I had a feeling he had a Portuguese type of accent. The way he said "I enjoyed the chase, Gato" the way he says gato, gatu. I was like "this guy needs to be Brazilian or Portuguese because that is not how that is said in Spanish." I only know the smallest amount of Portuguese, very basic, I just have a nerd thing for language.
Something I thought that was really cool with the whole birthday wish rule thing, was the fact that everyone wanting a wish said what their's was, so at the end none of their wishes came real, and that wasn't a bad thing.
I haven't expected much but damn this movie rlly got me! I knew it's Shrek universe but amount of dark(humour but not only) moments was impressive, my friend felt disturbed during wolf's scenes even tho we're mid-20's : D
WAGNER MOURA IS BRAZILIAN AND AS A BRAZILIAN I'M SO DAMN HAPPY PEOPLE ARE SEEING HOW TALENTED HE IS
did he actually put coins on his eyes? I thought it was just his eyes reflecting the light like the way wolves usually do and they just happened to look like the coins that puss tosses out the carriage
He does! Also there's some points (I think in the beginning of battle scenes with the Wolf) where his pupils flash to white, I think you can see one of the times in the trailer
Oh you can see it at 32:32 in this video too (just a pic but yeah)
They are coins on his eyes. It's a reference to Greek mythology and a hint that he is Death. In Greek mythology, when anyone died they needed two coins to pay The Ferryman for their souls to pass across the river Styx into the Underworld.
@@cazory2147 i love charon. That's my boy right there
Yeah I completely missed this detail and both times I saw the movie thought it was like... that effect that nocturnal animals have in their eyes reflecting and stuff but I guess his eyes already kind of glow red so I was just being dumb.
Only way Sherk 5 can follow this well is Sherk feeling he becomes a bad father not knowing why his kids grown up stop wanting to listen, stop telling him things and talking with him, stop spending time with him. A journey where Sherk doesn't know if or if not he a bad father to his kids not wanting his kids to disconnect to him like his dad when he was only so young.
I wish that we would have gotten to see Jacks map because I want to know what his trials were. Everyone else’s trials changed them in some way or at least we could see their past traumas in their trials so I’m curious what jacks would be
It's probably just that white space that Squidward in SpongeBob gets stuck in when he takes that elevator in that one episode 😄
I think he would've just desintegrated.
Fun conspiracy theory: Pocket full of Poses= a nursery rhyme about the plague. River of relaxation= the river they tired to drown Perrito in, where he would have died if he's just relaxed and accepted it rather than fighting. Field of quick and easy Solutions =suicide reference. Perrito's map is also related to his trauma, it's just that he deals with his trauma a lot better than the other characters, so that’s why the landscape doesn’t suck when he's holding the map.
That actually makes a bit of sense, also why did you say "conspiracy theory" when you could have just said theory
Shrek cinematic universe, lol
I don't know what it is but almost as soon as the Wolf appeared I knew what he was. I just thought the bounty hunter stuff was Puss lying to himself.
I also found it interesting how Perrito and Jack kind of mirror each other. All the other wish seekers have had their ups and downs in life and are various shades of anti-hero. But Jack is a true villain, born with so much that when it didn't fill that hole we all have inside us it twisted him and he became the hole. Represented by his bottomless sack of weapons. And Perrito who might be the true hero of the film who was born with nothing and so seeks to fill the holes in those around him with love.
Tbh didn’t realize that the sock was his sweater even after the story he hold.
I thought he was given that sweater at the cat house and kept it because it was something nice given to him
Haha nope it’s totally a sock and makes it more wild that it’s something he was thrown away in it’s like dobby all over again but so much worse and horrifying when mixed in with all his scars and wants for belly rubs
I also love how in the bakers dozen fight kitty attacks everyone she sees immidiately however puss in boots constantly avoids every single danger. When the explosions constantly hit him in the face when trying to avoid it he gets more and more panicked, putting him in more fear that he’s really going to be hit/killed with the final blow. I think it’s why the whistle being gentle but consistent parallels to the wolf blowing a house down/whistling at night.
I only just realised the little tidbit of there being a river in the dogs version of the map, not just that but it's called 'river of relaxation' just another little nugget of how innocent and pure he is, this movie does so much that it didn't need to, but that make it so much deeper than it would seem on the surface.
It kind of makes sense that none of them got the wish because per the birthday rule, they all told their wishes before getting to the star.
29:35 "You're no bounty hunter... You're-" "Death. And I don't mean that metaphorically, or rhetorically, or poetically, or theoretically, or in any other fancy way... I'm Death... Straight. Up. And now I've come for you, Puss in Boots."