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Puss in Boots
Theatrical poster
Theatrical poster
Directed by Chris Miller
Produced by Latifa Ouaou
Joe M. Aguilar
Written by Tom Wheeler
Will Davies
Brian Lynch
Narrated by Antonio Banderas
Starring Antonio Banderas
Salma Hayek
Zach Galifianakis
Billy Bob Thornton
Amy Sedaris
Zeus Mendoza
Constance Marie
Guillermo del Toro
Bob Joles
Music by Henry Jackman
Editing by Eric Dapkewicz
Studio DreamWorks Animation
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) October 28, 2011 (2011-10-28)
Running time 90 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $130 million[1]
Box office $532,747,529[2]

Puss in Boots is a 2011 American computer-animated action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation, directed by Chris Miller (who directed Shrek the Third in 2007), executive produced by Guillermo del Toro, and written by Brian Lynch, with screenplay by Tom Wheeler. It stars Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton and Amy Sedaris. The film was released in theaters on October 28, 2011[3] in Digital 3D and IMAX 3D.[4]

The film is a spinoff prequel to the Shrek franchise, and it follows the character Puss in Boots on his adventures before his first appearance in Shrek 2 in 2004. Accompanied by his sidekicks, Humpty Dumpty and Kitty Softpaws, Puss is pitted against Jack and Jill, two murderous outlaws in ownership of legendary magical beans which lead to great fortune. The film opened to very positive reviews and has become a success at the box office with a gross of over $532 million as of February 2012. It was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the 84th Academy Awards.

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[edit] Plot

Years before Puss (Antonio Banderas) meets Shrek and Donkey in Shrek 2, he goes on a heroic adventure teaming up with mastermind Humpty Dumpty and street-savvy Kitty Softpaws. He learns that the outlaw couple Jack (Billy Bob Thornton) and Jill (Amy Sedaris) have the magic beans he's been looking for most of his life, beans that can lead him to a giant's castle holding valuable golden goose eggs. When Puss tries to steal them from the outlaws' room, a masked cat (Salma Hayek) interrupts. Both fail and escape, and Puss follows the cat back to the Glitter Box, a club, where they have a dance-off and a sword fight, ending when Puss hits the masked cat in the head with a guitar. He learns that the masked cat is Kitty Softpaws, and is shocked to learn she is a girl. She is allied with Humpty Alexander Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis), a talking egg and Puss' long-estranged childhood friend from the orphanage where he was raised. Puss tells Kitty of his feelings of betrayal for a youthful misadventure when Humpty tricked Puss into helping commit a crime. Humpty attempts to convince Puss to join them in finding the beans and retrieving the golden eggs, which he does.

The trio steals the beans from Jack and Jill and elude the angry outlaws in a canyon chase. As Humpty leads his compatriots to the spot where they must plant the beans, Puss and Kitty's relationship begins to grow from rivalry into friendship. The trio ride the fast-growing beanstalk into the clouds where, Humpty explains, they'll find the castle of the late giant, while trying to avoid a fearsome monster called the Terror who guards the Golden Goose. When they realize the golden eggs are too heavy to carry, they steal the Goose — which is just a gosling — and escape the castle and the Terror. While celebrating their victory, the group is ambushed by Jack and Jill, who knock Puss unconscious.

When Puss wakes up, he tracks Jack and Jill back to his old hometown, where he learns that the entire heist was a plot by Humpty to lure him home to be captured, as revenge for abandoning him to the authorities when Humpty's youthful heist went bad. Jack, Jill, and even Kitty were involved in the con. After pleas from his adoptive mother, the head of the orphanage, Puss turns himself in to the guards while Humpty donates many golden eggs to the town and becomes a hero.

While in prison, Puss meets the original Jack from the "Jack and the Beanstalk" (a.k.a. Andy Beanstalk) story who warns him that the Terror is in fact the Golden Goose's mother, and it will stop at nothing to get its child back. A repentant Kitty helps Puss break out of prison and tells him that she loves him more than gold. Puss convinces Humpty to help him fight off the Terror, saying he knows Humpty is a good person at heart, and he will be forgiven if he helps save the town. The Terror arrives, revealing itself to be a giant goose, aka Mother Goose. Using the Golden Goose as bait, Puss and Humpty lure the Terror out of the town, but Humpty and the Goose are knocked off a bridge with Puss holding on to them. Humpty knows Puss cannot hold both of them, and he lets go, sacrificing himself to save the Goose and the town. Humpty's shell cracks open to reveal that he was a golden egg on the inside. The Terror then takes the Goose and Humpty away back to the giant's castle.

Puss is forced to flee because he is still an outlaw, but his efforts to save the town make him a hero among the townspeople. Puss and Kitty escape the guards once more, and Kitty says she will see him again soon, showing that she has taken his boots. In the epilogue, Jack and Jill are recovering from their injuries after being crushed by the Terror, Humpty is shown once again in his regular egg form, wearing a golden egg suit, as he rides the Terror into the clouds, and Puss and Kitty head back to dance at the Glitter Box, where they finally kiss.

[edit] Cast

Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas at a premiere of the film in Paris.

[edit] Production

The film had been in development since 2004, when Shrek 2 was released.[5] As a Shrek 2 spin-off, it was originally planned for release in 2008 as a direct-to-video film,[6] then titled Puss in Boots: The Story of an Ogre Killer.[7] Due to the market conditions, DreamWorks re-slated the film in 2006 as a theatrical release.[8] Production on the film began after the release of 2010's Shrek Forever After. Banderas said in an interview in early 2010 that he had completed the first recordings of his character.[9]

Late in 2010, Guillermo del Toro, director of Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth, had signed on as executive producer.[10] "We were really inspired by him," said director Chris Miller, in relation to del Toro's contribution. "We worked out a system for him to come in once every few months or whenever we had something new to show him. If we needed someone to bounce ideas off of, he was always there, and if we had a problem we were tackling, we'd get Guillermo on the red phone – our emergency phone – and ask him advice on what we should do with a certain character or scene. It was like having our own film school." Miller stated that del Toro's was particularly involved in the character design of Humpty Dumpty. "Guillermo loved the dreamy quality of Humpty Dumpty. He suggested we push that further, make him more like Da Vinci."[11]

Except for Puss, the film features new characters. Citing the co-writer, David H. Steinberg, "It doesn't overlap with Shrek at all. Partly that was done to tell an original Puss story, but partly because we didn't know what Shrek 4 were going to do with the characters and we couldn't write conflicting storylines."[12] The film was teased in Shrek Forever After, when Shrek finally shuts the book titled "Shrek", and puts it away next to a book titled "Puss in Boots".

Puss in Boots is the first DreamWorks Animation feature film that was partly made in India. A Bangalore studio owned by Technicolor, which had mainly worked on TV specials and DVD bonus material, spent six months animating three major scenes in the film. The outsourcing had financial advantages, with 40% less labor costs than in the US, but the primary reason for outsourcing to India was lack of personnel, due to the studio producing as many as three films a year.[13]

The release date was originally set for November 4, 2011, but was pushed a week earlier to October 28, 2011.[3] Anne Globe, head of worldwide marketing for DreamWorks Animation, said the decision to move the film's release date a week earlier was to attract parents and their children to see the film before other family-friendly movies were released in November 2011.[14]

The film was renamed Cat in Boots in the United Arab Emirates and other parts of the Gulf for religious and cultural reasons,[15][16] as well as in Lebanon.

[edit] Soundtrack

Puss in Boots
Film score by Henry Jackman
Released October 24, 2011
Genre Score
Length 65:51
Label Sony Classical

Henry Jackman, the composer for Puss in Boots, utilized folk instruments of traditional Latin music. Inspired by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, Jackman blended guitars and Latin percussion with an orchestral sound influenced by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.[17] Also, Lady Gaga's song 'Americano' was contributed, but not in the official soundtrack.

All music composed by Henry Jackman, except "Diablo Rojo" and "Hanuman", which are by Rodrigo y Gabriela.

No. Title Length
1. "A Bad Kitty"   2:04
2. "One Leche"   2:01
3. "Jack and Jill"   0:22
4. "Holy Frijoles"   1:14
5. "Chasing Tail"   1:09
6. "Diablo Rojo"   4:53
7. "Humpty Dumpty & Kitty Softpaws"   2:42
8. "The Orphanage"   4:29
9. "Honor and Justice"   1:44
10. "That Fateful Night"   2:35
11. "The Wagon Chase"   2:58
12. "Team Effort"   0:57
13. "Planting the Beans"   2:09
14. "The Magic Beanstalk"   1:17
15. "Castle in the Clouds"   1:57
16. "Golden Goose of Legend"   6:38
17. "Hanuman"   3:39
18. "Confronting the Past"   1:37
19. "I Was Always There"   4:06
20. "Kitty-Cat Break-Out"   1:35
21. "The Great Terror"   7:56
22. "Farewell to San Ricardo"   1:32
23. "The Puss Suite"   3:09
24. "The Giant's Castle"   3:08

[edit] Release

[edit] Home media

Puss in Boots was released on DVD and Blu-ray on February 24, 2012.[18] The movie was accompanied by a 13-minute short film called Puss in Boots: The Three Diablos.[19]

[edit] Reception

[edit] Critical response

Puss in Boots received positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 83% of 134 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 6.8 out of 10. The website's consensus is, "It isn't deep or groundbreaking, but what it lacks in profundity, Puss in Boots more than makes up for with an abundance of wit, visual sparkle, and effervescent charm."[20] Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gives the film a score of 65 based on 24 reviews.[21] CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade moviegoers gave the film was an "A-" on an A+ to F scale.[22]

[edit] Box office

The film has grossed $149,247,529 in North America, and $383,500,000 in other countries, as of February 28, 2012, for a worldwide total of $532,747,529.[2] It is the eleventh highest-grossing film of 2011 and is also the third highest-grossing animated film that year behind Kung Fu Panda 2 ($665.7 million) and Cars 2 ($559.9 million).[23]

[edit] North America

The film grossed $9.6 million on its opening day at the top of the American and Canadian box office.[24] For its opening weekend, the film made $34,077,439 while remaining the #1 film from Friday to Sunday.[25][26] That amount also topped Saw III's record ($33.6 million) for the highest Halloween weekend opening ever.[27] The film received an "A-" CinemaScore.[28] It held onto the #1 spot in its second weekend, with a drop of only 3%, and grossed $33,054,644.[29] This was the smallest non-Holiday decline ever for a saturated release (2,500+ theaters), a feat attributed to reduced grosses on its first weekend due to Halloween and bad weather in the Northeast and to solid word-of-mouth.[30]

[edit] Markets outside North America

It scored large opening weekends compared to other animated features in Russia ($14.9 million)[31] and in Ukraine ($1.73 million).[32] On its opening weekend in total overseas, it earned second place with a gross of $17.2 million.[33] The film opened at #1 in the United Kingdom with a weekend gross of £1,975,758 ($3.1 million).[34] It also opened at #1 in Australia with $2.98 million.[35]

[edit] Accolades

Award Category Recipient Result
84th Academy Awards Animated Feature Nominated
Alliance of Women Film Journalists Best Animated Film
Best Animated Female Salma Hayek
Annie Awards Best Animated Feature
Animated Effects in an Animated Production Can Yuksel
Character Animation in a Feature Production Olivier Staphylas
Character Design in a Feature Production Patrick Mate
Directing in a Feature Production Chris Miller
Music in a Feature Production Henry Jackman
Storyboarding in a Feature Production Bob Logan
Voice Acting in a Feature Production Zach Galifianakis
Editing in a Feature Production Eric Dapkewicz
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards Best Animated Feature
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Animated Film
Golden Globe Awards Best Animated Feature Film
Kids Choice Awards Favorite Animated Movie Pending
Favorite Voice From a Animated Movie Antonio Banderas
Producers Guild of America Awards Best Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures Joe M. Aguilar, Latifa Ouaou Nominated
Satellite Awards Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media
Toronto Film Critics Association Best Animated Feature
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
Women Film Critics Circle Best Animated Females Won
Saturn Awards[36] Best Animated Film Puss in Boots Pending

[edit] Video games

[edit] Tribute and reference to popular culture

There is homage paid to Ricardo Montalban and his famous 1970s advertising campaigns for the Chrysler Cordoba car, when a character refers to Puss' boots (presented to him as a badge of honor and courage) as being made of Corinthian leather (a creation of the advertising agency).

[edit] References

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