Post by Trey_Vore on Oct 28, 2011 4:14:51 GMT -5
Is anyone looking forward to this movie? I am.
I found a good review on msn.com right here:
'Puss in Boots': Purr-fectly Enjoyable
by Glenn Kenny
**** out of 5
As you may or may not have inferred from some of my previous reviews, I am what they call a "cat person." Not a cat person in the sense that I own lots and lots of them (my wife's allergic), nor a cat person in the sense that I collect cat calendars or coffee mugs with cat depictions on them or anything like that. No, I am a cat person in that I just greatly enjoy the company of cats and am delighted by the sight of them. In a way, that can be kind of awkward. For instance, at a big media screening of that "Watchmen" movie, when that dude Ozymandias shows up with the big purple tame saber-toothed tiger in tow, my cat Tourette's compelled me to break the hushed silence of the fan-boy-packed house with the exclamation, "Kitty!"
Watch "Go See This Movie": "In Time," "Puss in Boots" and "Anonymous"
It would stand to reason, then, that I would enjoy the IMAX 3-D animated spectacle that is DreamWorks' "Puss in Boots," and also that sitting through it in relative silence might prove a bit of a challenge for me. Roger to both of those, I can report. I found Puss in Boots as conceived by the DreamWorks animation guys and voiced by Antonio Banderas to be quite delightful in the otherwise meretricious "Shrek 2." And while Puss wasn't quite sufficient draw to compel me to attend a screening of "Shrek the Third," I was happy to learn of his solo film.
Search: More on Antonio Banderas
The film is kind of surprising in some ways. While it hews relatively closely to the semi-"Fractured Fairy Tales" ethos that provided the initial hook for the "Shrek" series -- characters here include a shifty Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill grown up to be rather grotesque outlaws, and a wide-eyed gosling (not Ryan) laying golden eggs -- the whole thing is more squarely, and even wholesomely, pitched at young kids than the sometimes irritatingly cheeky "Shrek" pictures have been. In other words, the soundtrack isn't glutted with overfamiliar pop hits, and there isn't a single flatulence joke. Yes, there are one or two action set pieces in which Puss' family jewels would seem to have come under threat, and another couple of winks at the cat's more Tommish tendencies, but for the most part director Chris Miller (with screenwriter Tom Wheeler and the usual battalion of talent required to create digital animation fare, including, rather interestingly, horror maestro Guillermo Del Toro in one of the executive producer slots) keeps things simple, sincere and largely innocent.
The rollicking action sequences, involving rooftop cat chases (Puss' opposite number is a crafty pickpocketing feline named Kitty Softpaws, voiced by Salma Hayek, reuniting her with her "Desperado" co-star Banderas) and beanstalk-and-castle hijinks, are among the better such material essayed by the DreamWorks folks, and the humor is of a basic but very-satisfying-to-certain-audiences sort. As one critic (William B. Goss) put it on Twitter, so pithily that I can't resist quoting him: "The 'Puss in Boots' audience: 'Aw, it's a cat doing people things! Awww, now he's doing cat things!' Foolproof if ever anything was." To which I can only add, nothing wrong with that.
movies.msn.com/movies/movie-critic-reviews/puss-in-boots.9/
I found a good review on msn.com right here:
'Puss in Boots': Purr-fectly Enjoyable
by Glenn Kenny
**** out of 5
As you may or may not have inferred from some of my previous reviews, I am what they call a "cat person." Not a cat person in the sense that I own lots and lots of them (my wife's allergic), nor a cat person in the sense that I collect cat calendars or coffee mugs with cat depictions on them or anything like that. No, I am a cat person in that I just greatly enjoy the company of cats and am delighted by the sight of them. In a way, that can be kind of awkward. For instance, at a big media screening of that "Watchmen" movie, when that dude Ozymandias shows up with the big purple tame saber-toothed tiger in tow, my cat Tourette's compelled me to break the hushed silence of the fan-boy-packed house with the exclamation, "Kitty!"
Watch "Go See This Movie": "In Time," "Puss in Boots" and "Anonymous"
It would stand to reason, then, that I would enjoy the IMAX 3-D animated spectacle that is DreamWorks' "Puss in Boots," and also that sitting through it in relative silence might prove a bit of a challenge for me. Roger to both of those, I can report. I found Puss in Boots as conceived by the DreamWorks animation guys and voiced by Antonio Banderas to be quite delightful in the otherwise meretricious "Shrek 2." And while Puss wasn't quite sufficient draw to compel me to attend a screening of "Shrek the Third," I was happy to learn of his solo film.
Search: More on Antonio Banderas
The film is kind of surprising in some ways. While it hews relatively closely to the semi-"Fractured Fairy Tales" ethos that provided the initial hook for the "Shrek" series -- characters here include a shifty Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill grown up to be rather grotesque outlaws, and a wide-eyed gosling (not Ryan) laying golden eggs -- the whole thing is more squarely, and even wholesomely, pitched at young kids than the sometimes irritatingly cheeky "Shrek" pictures have been. In other words, the soundtrack isn't glutted with overfamiliar pop hits, and there isn't a single flatulence joke. Yes, there are one or two action set pieces in which Puss' family jewels would seem to have come under threat, and another couple of winks at the cat's more Tommish tendencies, but for the most part director Chris Miller (with screenwriter Tom Wheeler and the usual battalion of talent required to create digital animation fare, including, rather interestingly, horror maestro Guillermo Del Toro in one of the executive producer slots) keeps things simple, sincere and largely innocent.
The rollicking action sequences, involving rooftop cat chases (Puss' opposite number is a crafty pickpocketing feline named Kitty Softpaws, voiced by Salma Hayek, reuniting her with her "Desperado" co-star Banderas) and beanstalk-and-castle hijinks, are among the better such material essayed by the DreamWorks folks, and the humor is of a basic but very-satisfying-to-certain-audiences sort. As one critic (William B. Goss) put it on Twitter, so pithily that I can't resist quoting him: "The 'Puss in Boots' audience: 'Aw, it's a cat doing people things! Awww, now he's doing cat things!' Foolproof if ever anything was." To which I can only add, nothing wrong with that.
movies.msn.com/movies/movie-critic-reviews/puss-in-boots.9/