- “Say hola to his little friends.”
- ―Tagline
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (a.k.a. Puss in Boots 2, original cancelled title as Puss in Boots: Nine Lives & Forty Thieves) is a 2022 American computer-animated film. It is the sequel to the 2011 film, Puss in Boots, which serves as the second main installment and the sixth installment in the Shrek film series. It is DreamWorks Animation's 43rd feature film.
Summary[]
Sometime after the events of the first film, Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one left. He sets out on an epic journey to find the mystical Last Wish and restore his nine lives.
Plot[]
After the events of Shrek Forever After, Puss in Boots hosts a party in a governor's mansion when a giant attacks them. He manages to subdue it but is crushed by a bell shortly after. Waking up, he is informed by a Doctor that he only has one life left after dying eight times before (being rammed by a bull, mauled by dogs, jumping off a tower while drunk, crushed by a barbell, exploding in a cannon test gone wrong, having a food allergy after eating shellfish, accidentally burning himself on an oven and getting crushed by the bell respectively). Puss initially brushes it off, but after getting scarred and nearly killed in a duel with a black-hooded wolf in a local pub that night, he reluctantly goes to the house of Mama Luna, an elderly cat lady, to be a domesticated pet.
Time passes, and he soon meets a dog disguised as a cat, but their conversation is cut short when Goldilocks and the Three Bears show up to find him. However, after they find his "grave", they inadvertently reveal the existence of a Wishing Star to Puss and that the map pointing it will be delivered to "Big" Jack Horner that night. Seeing it as an opportunity to restore his lives back, Puss breaks into Jack's factory to steal the map, unexpectedly reuniting with Kitty Softpaws who holds a grudge on him after a previous incident at Santa Colomba. After a skirmish with Goldi's group and Jack Horner's goons, Puss, Kitty and Perrito (the dog from earlier who followed him) manage to escape with the map which instructs them to go to the Dark Forest.
Entering the forest, the trio find out that the dimension morphs into different landscapes to whoever wields the map. The dimension transforms into a hellish setting for Puss and Kitty, while Perrito is given a nice setting. While riding downstream, Puss gets his beard shaved off by Kitty before getting rid of a stick which Perrito follows, leading to the latter being captured by Jack. Mid-fight, Puss sees the hooded wolf again and runs off in fear, distracting Kitty and enabling Goldi to obtain the map.
Puss elaborates what happened at Santa Colomba to Perrito; he left Kitty at the altar at the town’s church on their supposed engagement, which he has regretted ever since. Kitty overhears their conversation and reveals that she never came to the altar either, feeling like she could never compete with someone who loves himself more than her. The two manage to reclaim the map from Goldi's group but Perrito is captured once again. As the dimension morphs, Puss is accidentally trapped in the Cave of Lost Souls after touching the map and instructs Kitty to retrieve Perrito.
Inside the cave, Puss encounters his past lives and the hooded wolf again, who introduces himself as "Death" and reveals that he wants to obtain Puss's last life as retribution for evading him. Puss cowardly runs away with the map, an act which Kitty and Perrito see from afar. Meanwhile, Goldi reveals that she wishes for a real family. Even though it's to the Bears' dismay, they oblige to help her if it's what she really wants.
Finally reaching the star, Puss is about to make his wish but is stopped by Kitty, who calls him out for his selfishness. Shortly after, they are interrupted by Goldi and Jack and a fight ensues, during which Jack is thrown into his never-ending nanny bag by Kitty and Goldi saves Baby when he is almost thrown off the star.
Puss encounters Death again and a fierce duel erupts between the two. However, Death begrudgingly decides to spare Puss after the latter boldly stands up to him but remarks that "they will meet again" before departing. Puss reconciles with Kitty and gives her the map, but she doesn't need it. Just then, Jack re-emerges from his bag, having eaten a cookie that makes him grow big, and seizes the map from Puss and Kitty. As Jack attemps to make a wish, Perrito manages to distract him long enough for Puss, Kitty and Goldi to reclaim and rip the map to shreds, causing the Wishing Star to collapse and kill Jack after it violently implodes when the former attempts to reassemble the map.
In the aftermath, Goldi finally accepts being a part of the bear family while Puss and Kitty start a new relationship. Perrito also finally gets his name. Sometime later, they steal a boat from the Governor and set sail to reunite with "some old friends".
Cast[]
- Antonio Banderas as Puss in Boots
- Salma Hayek Pinault as Kitty Softpaws
- Harvey Guillén as Perrito [1]
- Florence Pugh as Goldilocks [2]
- Kailey Crawford as Young Goldilocks
- Olivia Colman as Mama Bear [3]
- Ray Winstone as Papa Bear [4]
- Samson Kayo as Baby Bear [5]
- John Mulaney as "Big" Jack Horner [6]
- Wagner Moura as Death [7]
- Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Mama Luna
- Anthony Mendez as Doctor [8]
- Kevin McCann as the Talking Cricket
- Betsy Sodaro and Artemis Pebdani as the Serpent Sisters
- Conrad Vernon as Gingerbread Man
- Cody Cameron as Pinocchio
- Bernardo De Paula as the Governor of Del Mar
Shrek, Donkey and Mister Geppetto appear in a non-speaking appearance in a brief flashback, as does Imelda from the first Puss in Boots[9].
Trivia[]
- The second DreamWorks Animation film to be released in December, since The Prince of Egypt.
- The second DreamWorks Animation film to be directed by Joel Crawford, after The Croods: A New Age.
- This is also the first animated film to be executive produced by Chris Meledandri since Horton Hears a Who!.
- Some main elements of the movie are taken directly from the Walt Disney's animated classic 1940 film Pinocchio, iconic animated movie adaptation of the Italian Carlo Collodi's novel with the same name.
- The entire concept of the Wish-Granting Star.
- The magic phrase "Star Light Star Bright First Star I See Tonight", is the same poem recited by Geppetto when he wished upon the Wishing Star in his film for his still lifeless puppet Pinocchio to become a real boy.
- Although the phrase originated from an old nursery rhyme.
- The Ethical Bug is a parody of the character Jiminy Cricket, who acted as Pinocchio's conscience in the Disney's animated film, unlike the Talking Cricket in the original Carlo Collodi's story, who acted as a minor and more marginal character.
- In the flashback scene showing how "Little" Jack Horner became envious of Pinocchio and magical creatures in general, Pinocchio is performing similarly to the "I've got no strings" musical scene in the Walt Disney's animated film, this doesn't happen in the Carlo Collodi's novel, the only differences to the Disney film (except for the lyrics, of course) are the absence of other marionettes and Geppetto as manager instead of Stromboli.
Gallery[]
Videos[]
[]
v - e - d  | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|