Cruella

bnt wrote: »

I ended up wondering what could have changed in Cruella between the end of this film and the start of the original book. In that she's a maniac obsessed with fur, even marrying a furrier just to get direct access to his fur inventory. At that point, to her, the puppies are merely a source of fur to be exploited. Jasper and Horace are happy to follow her orders. We know she didn't kill the three Dalmatians she kidnapped for fur, this time, that's the best we can say.

I really enjoyed the film and I had the very same thought!

Her character at the end of this movie would have you wondering how she turned into the monster who skins puppies alive in the original film. In fact, this Cruella appears to be very enamoured of dogs, not someone who would ever conceive of doing such a barbaric thing.

It was the the one jarring aspect of the plot for me.

I enjoyed it myself aswell, the performances from the main two the obvious high point. The writing was fairly flawed and minutes were wasted here and there that would have been best edited away. The false reveal of her in particular was a severe bum note.

The soundtrack was neat enough for the most part, pity though it signed off with Sympathy for the De vil :rolleyes: given the premise of the film I'd say I'm not the only one who upon the opening notes drew comparisons immediately and all you can go is "ah here" and they waited to initiate this in the very last scene no less! A fluffy trailer to promote fair enough, last scene in the actual picture...cringe. :pac:

Have to say; initial reaction fair enough but kinda surprised the narrative that this is a Joker rip off is apparently still being pushed. I mean that was a more on the nose film about mental illness which drew inspiration from Taxi driver, here we have a girl who was a tear away from a very early age who formulates a path to success, Joker ultimately became the villain everyone knows,Cruella didn't I think it's fair to say.
I think there seems to be an odd obsession these days to compare the latest female led movie to a pre-existing male counterpart, sure there's been many films that way by design but shoddy journos seem to strive in looking for them when it is barely there or not there at all in some cases. Emma Stone was cast as Cruella before Todd Phillips even wrote his script, crazy huh.

I haven't been endeared as much by a live action Disney film in this vein so for that alone it's a relative success, while some of the glaring question marks are simply too hard for me to overlook even at that I just can't knock Stone and Thompson here at all, honestly without them you're probably looking at bang average show. Mark Strong is reliable as always too in his smaller role but worth a shout.

Maybe just to note this isn't really a kids film they'd want to be upwards of 9 range perhaps to have any take away from this, which also has me question why they hit the periphery of a dark element but then I just accept that it's just part of the essence of Disney in 2021.

Now on general Disney+ release.