My family recently watched “The True Story of Puss ‘N Boots”. This was originally a French animation that recieved an English translation featuring Emmy and Golden Globe winner William Shatner. For those of you who are not familiar, the story is about a young farmer’s son inherits a talking cat with magical boots. Puss, the cat, helps the farmer’s son battle other potential suitors for the Princess’ heart and consequently the throne.
The animation wasn’t at all what we were used to after spending way too much time watching Dreamworks and Pixar flicks. The color is a bit darker but the animation is artistic and actually quite pretty. I really expected the classic William Shatner voice and was even looking forward to some classic Trek pauses but Shatner voiced the cat as… well, a cat!?! I thought it was kind of a mix of gruff and yet whiny but the kids weren’t bothered by it. “The True Story of Puss ‘N Boots” did stay true to the original Charles Perrault text and many over-stimulated Americans probably will find it lacking in action. I personally liked the pace. It kept my 5 and 3 year old’s attention. And the movie does have an underlying positive message consistently through it that you can attain your dreams no matter where you come from.
Unfortunately, overpowering this positive message are the creepy and villainous characters and dark humor. They plot underhandedly and act deviously throughout the story. There are also monsters and ogres that might very well be scary to younger children. Two additional put-offs: the inebriated Queen and the gratuitious flaunting of curves. The Queen really did seem drunk during most of the movie and the women in the film were definitely gratuitously curvy. The shirts were drawn very low cut to the point of near wardrobe malfunction. I’m not sure what the writers were thinking both of these brought to the film, but I found them both ridiculous and needless.
My kids haven’t asked to watch the movie since the first time we viewed it. And I’m actually very glad about this. I’m not sure how much they grasp of what the director, Pascal Herold, said was the intention of the movie: “to tell children that they can make a success of their lives even if they’re not top of the class.” But they could tell me that the “green faced character was being really sneaky”. So to the back of the movie cabinet it goes!
The True Story of Puss’n Boots movie runs 79 minutes and features an exclusive interview footage with William Shatner as well as a slide show and the official movie trailer. The Blu-Ray/DVD Combo Pack is available for $24.99, while the DVD is available for $19.99 or $22.49 on Amazon. For more information visit the The True Story of Puss’n Boots website or Facebook page.
Have you watched The True Story of Puss’n Boots and if so, what did you think?
Disclaimer: I received a copy of The True Story of Puss’n Boots to facilitate my review. All opinions are honest and my own.
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GREAT review love those honest opinions !! We watched it , but did not make it through the entire movie.
This movie would not go in the back of my cabinet, it would go in the trash. There are a ton of wonderful movies and no need to ever watch this one. It was in poor taste and trashy. I would not let my children finish watching this movie because it was the opposite of how I’d like my children to act or behave. It was just sick and twisted to include this kind of style and dialogue in a children’s animated movie. Very slick of the makers to produce a movie that children are going ot go for because they are expecting and wanting to see the cat from Shreck and instead give them this very disappointing and perverted version that is far from the original. Shame on Wiliam Shatner and all involved with this scam….very tacky, very cheesy! We felt very bad for letting them watch the first 10mins…but we had popcorn and the entire family and were just hoping it would get better….but it did NOT, it was horrible. MORE PEOPLE SHOULD COMPLAIN…..the people involved with the other movie should be concerned that this movie will create an overall, negative feeling towards any Puss n boots movie ever again.
agreed, this movie is appauling. No true friendships or genuine personalities at all. Horrible scheming and negative messages.. not worth it guys.. thanks for the honesty!
I may sound backwards but I love the movie and my kids even memorized the words to most of the songs. They laugh every time the evil chamberlain is on screen and ask me to fast forward past the ogre fight with puss, they called the queen a crackhead lmao and asked several questions like why is the king always sleeping? And why does the princess have a booty so big her pants should rip right? Kids just need to be taught that a cartoon is not real it’s just for entertainment! I disagreed with a lot of things in the film but it still was better than the last spongebob episode I saw!
Better than the last Spongebob…. well you could have said that comment first and it would have explained a lot.
TRASH like this is completely appalling. How anyone could possibly think this could be acceptable for kids to watch is beyond me.
And you’re “glad they didn’t ask” to watch it again?? Who’s the parent in your house?
To each his own your right about the way you feel. Thats what shapes individuals in this country! My kids will grow up with a sense of humor but it may or may not cause issues later on and your kids will probably forget about this movie since they only saw it once and will probably become the president but ah well thats life! Lmmfaotipmp!
i’ve watched this movie recently and i like the story but puss in boots himself was foolish and its ridiculous how they dressed him like a human and also his words dragged soo much and the stammering and messed up personality was insane and not in a good way and i agree with how the review said the queen seemed drunk there was alot wrong with it
Oh friggen great, I picked this up at the Dollar Store getting stocking stuffers for my 3 year old niece. Now I’m hopeing they don’t even watch it reading some of the comments here! Glad I got her the Ballerina Barbie & a Stuffed Animal to go with the Dvd….no wonder it was 4$ @ Dollar General store…….