Puss in BootsThe Last Wish is a fairly good proxy for the typical American animated blockbuster. It is basically an amalgamation of every other successful American animated film and gives audiences exactly what they would expect. It is reasonably funny without being too ridiculous, it is generally entertaining enough for all four quadrants, and it teaches us the same safe moral to the story that we have seen in these films time and time again.
I guess the thing that frustrates me the most is just how much this film rips off so many others so shamelessly. First of all it's a sequel to a spinoff of a film that already is a rip off of other materials. Then it copies the animation style of Into the Spiderverse because, well that film was successful, so... Everything about this installment just feels like it is designed to be as palatable as possible. Sigh.
If you are looking for something that will meet all your expectations and deliver nothing unexpected then The Last Wish is for you. It is perfectly passable as such. But if you want your animated films to be genuinely interesting or perhaps even surprisingly original, then skip this.
Puss in Boots the Last Wish
Starring: Antonio Bandaras, Salma Hayek, Harvey Guillén, Florence Pugh, Olivia Colman, Ray Winstone, Samson Kayo, John Mulaney, Wagner Moura, Da'Vine Joy Randolph
Director: Joel Crawford
Writers: Paul Fisher, Tommy Swerdlow
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