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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) - Very Predictable but Good
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<p>[QUOTE="Phiwise_, post: 13168, member: 257"]</p><p>I don't see many movies, but puss in boots was my least predictable movie in some time. I predicted any emotional tension or serious stakes would be constantly undercut by mediocre jokes, and was blown away when the shrekspawn merchandising vehicle about an animated anthropomorphic cat and nursery rhyme baker racing to the impact site of a literal fallen star took itself more seriously than what seems to be the typical live-action blockbuster these days. Finally another kid's movie with a genuine antagonist, unnerving and melancholic scenes that aren't either immediately collapsed or resolved, and rather impressive visuals that are actually integrated into the scene instead of just wall-of-sound novelties in the middle distance of each shot? Sign me up.</p><p></p><p>"Well-executed" is a bit of a snub to the accomplishment here, which is to say to the degree that it stands out from the crowd. (I did put quotes around that phrase, but let me assure you it's not to insult it. Perhaps I should have put quotes around the quotes to make that clear.) Whatever the latest Disney or Illumination movie is was """well-executed""". (Ah, much better.) This movie was no [whatever glory days Pixar film you want to name, maybe Toy Story or Ratatouille] , but it was straight-up good. I'd personally not consider giving a merely well-executed movie more than three stars, so maybe we're just misaligned on that scale, but I think there's just about as much of a case to be made that this one deserves five stars as there is for four. It's not perfect, but almost entirely in sufficiently small ways, which is what makes a five-star movie.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Phiwise_, post: 13168, member: 257"] I don't see many movies, but puss in boots was my least predictable movie in some time. I predicted any emotional tension or serious stakes would be constantly undercut by mediocre jokes, and was blown away when the shrekspawn merchandising vehicle about an animated anthropomorphic cat and nursery rhyme baker racing to the impact site of a literal fallen star took itself more seriously than what seems to be the typical live-action blockbuster these days. Finally another kid's movie with a genuine antagonist, unnerving and melancholic scenes that aren't either immediately collapsed or resolved, and rather impressive visuals that are actually integrated into the scene instead of just wall-of-sound novelties in the middle distance of each shot? Sign me up. "Well-executed" is a bit of a snub to the accomplishment here, which is to say to the degree that it stands out from the crowd. (I did put quotes around that phrase, but let me assure you it's not to insult it. Perhaps I should have put quotes around the quotes to make that clear.) Whatever the latest Disney or Illumination movie is was """well-executed""". (Ah, much better.) This movie was no [whatever glory days Pixar film you want to name, maybe Toy Story or Ratatouille] , but it was straight-up good. I'd personally not consider giving a merely well-executed movie more than three stars, so maybe we're just misaligned on that scale, but I think there's just about as much of a case to be made that this one deserves five stars as there is for four. It's not perfect, but almost entirely in sufficiently small ways, which is what makes a five-star movie. [/QUOTE]
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