Friday, June 10, 2011

'Puss In Boots': No Ordinary Cats

In contrast to an avid Disney retelling fairy tales antiquity with boyish enthusiasm, Dreamworks Animation (with his debut 'Shrek') has a more wild side of humor. They are more daring to tamper with the famous tales, sometimes mixed up with each other, and produce something more fresh.

This time, Dreamworks Animation is proud to present 'Puss In Boots' which has long been touted for their latest masterpiece.

This story occurs before Puss (Antonio Banderas) to meet with allies, cronies in 'Shrek'. Puss is a cat wild, dangerous, lover of women and like other cats, milk lovers. He is also a fugitive being sought.

One day, an astonishing news reached the ears sounded Puss: rebel lovers, Jack (Billy Bob Thornton) and Jill (Amy Sedaris) has a magic bean. Magic bean that has been sought throughout his life Puss. Mainly because it reminded him of magic beans to his friend in childhood, Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis).

Puss was soon to move and find a way to steal the magic bean. In the middle of the road, he met with Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek) who interrupted his work. Big surprise, Kitty worked under the authority of Humpty Dumpty.

Puss meeting with Humpty Dumpty makes them come back nostalgic. And they, along with Kitty, decided to work together to get the magic beans and confront Jack and Jill together.

When 'Shrek' (2001) present in our midst, we were all surprised. His sense of humor is very fresh, very funny parody, his character is also fun. Not include a reference from a very cool pop culture such as bullet-time scene from 'The Matrix' (1999) that made people laugh until tears. The sequel, 'Shrek 2' (2004) not only funnier and more interesting than the first film, but also introduces new characters that are not easy to be forgotten, Puss In Boots.

After a long period of rumors Puss In Boots will be creating spin-off, the rumors finally came true. Puss In Boots is a character that is quite unique in the original fairy tale. In the hands of DreamWorks Animation, Puss In Boots become more jarring character, mainly because of Antonio Banderas. Latin blood, and resume his playing in 'The Mask of Zorro' (1998) have a big impact with the end result Puss In Boots character version of this reboot.

Antonio Banderas Puss turn the lives of so perfect that Puss looks so real and adorable. Other voice actors, such as Salma Hayek, Billy Bob Thornton, Amy Sedaris and Zach Galifianakis also doing a good job. Especially Salma Hayek whose voice is very seductive. Not only for Puss, but also for the audience.

Dreamworks Animation is also very outstanding. Almost all the images look magical and enchanting. On the musical side, Henry Jackman in collaboration with Rodrigo Y Gabriela gave the Latin aura sharpened fun atmosphere 'Puss In Boots'. Especially the scene and Kitty Puss first meeting ended with a war dance that is not only funny but also cool.

The only drawback 'Puss In Boots' is a sense of humor that is sometimes too sophisticated and mature making it somewhat less able to enjoy the kids. For example, the reference scenes involving the 'Fight Club' (for viewers who understand this joke will laugh out loud). But, in general, 'Puss In Boots' is a pleasant animated film.

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