FINALLY in 2011, here's one movie I find it excruciatingly difficult to hand a negative scoring: Puss in Boots. This is a perfect way to end the year - with a bang.
Damn it, there's three more weeks to go and three more films to thrash to pieces.
You'll love Puss in Boots, not because it's a prequel to the Shrek series, but because it's extremely entertaining and so good a story that it can easily be an independent series of its own.
But it will stand you in good stead to be familiar with Shrek 2 because that's where Puss (voice of Antonio Banderas) was introduced.
Though the script by Tom Wheeler sometimes has gaping holes, Puss in Boots makes up for this by being visually appealing thanks to the use of 3-D, which is unusual for a mainstream animated movie.
Oh, Puss, the outlaw, is in love with the pretty but deceptive daredevil masked cat, Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek). So what is Puss up to in Puss in Boots? As I said, the story goes back to Shrek 2 when he starred alongside Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis), his long-lost estranged childhood friend, and Kitty.
Puss is in search of magic beans that will, if found, take him to highly sought-after golden goose eggs. After learning that these beans are in the hands of two criminal lovers, Jack (Billy Bob Thornton) and Jill (Amy Sedaris), Puss is asked by Humpty Dumpty and Kitty to join them in stealing the eggs.
This they do successfully when they somehow evade the frightening creature named Terror who is guarding the golden goose that lays the golden eggs at a castle. The Puss gang, realising the eggs are too heavy for them to carry, steal the golden goose itself.
But it turns out that Humpty has tricked Puss to commit this crime as payback for (Puss) having sold him out earlier. Puss is punished severely when he's knocked unconscious by Jill and Jack and ends up in prison.
While in prison, Puss is told that Terror is in fact the mother of the golden goose and is coming after those involved in the abduction of her child.
Puss must make a plan to stay alive and save his town from ruin but then he discovers that his old revengeful friend is a golden egg.
I enjoyed Puss in Boots although I'm not the target market. Of course, it's for the kids, which is why I can't give it an unsavoury remark.
You'll love this outlaw - Puss in Boots
FINALLY in 2011, here's one movie I find it excruciatingly difficult to hand a negative scoring: Puss in Boots. This is a perfect way to end the year - with a bang.
Damn it, there's three more weeks to go and three more films to thrash to pieces.
You'll love Puss in Boots, not because it's a prequel to the Shrek series, but because it's extremely entertaining and so good a story that it can easily be an independent series of its own.
But it will stand you in good stead to be familiar with Shrek 2 because that's where Puss (voice of Antonio Banderas) was introduced.
Though the script by Tom Wheeler sometimes has gaping holes, Puss in Boots makes up for this by being visually appealing thanks to the use of 3-D, which is unusual for a mainstream animated movie.
Oh, Puss, the outlaw, is in love with the pretty but deceptive daredevil masked cat, Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek). So what is Puss up to in Puss in Boots? As I said, the story goes back to Shrek 2 when he starred alongside Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis), his long-lost estranged childhood friend, and Kitty.
Puss is in search of magic beans that will, if found, take him to highly sought-after golden goose eggs. After learning that these beans are in the hands of two criminal lovers, Jack (Billy Bob Thornton) and Jill (Amy Sedaris), Puss is asked by Humpty Dumpty and Kitty to join them in stealing the eggs.
This they do successfully when they somehow evade the frightening creature named Terror who is guarding the golden goose that lays the golden eggs at a castle. The Puss gang, realising the eggs are too heavy for them to carry, steal the golden goose itself.
But it turns out that Humpty has tricked Puss to commit this crime as payback for (Puss) having sold him out earlier. Puss is punished severely when he's knocked unconscious by Jill and Jack and ends up in prison.
While in prison, Puss is told that Terror is in fact the mother of the golden goose and is coming after those involved in the abduction of her child.
Puss must make a plan to stay alive and save his town from ruin but then he discovers that his old revengeful friend is a golden egg.
I enjoyed Puss in Boots although I'm not the target market. Of course, it's for the kids, which is why I can't give it an unsavoury remark.
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