Like with Maleficent, of course such an iconic animated(she has appeared in two of them, and three live action feature films, very high) Disney villain had to get a movie where they are the entire focus. And of course that's not the massive corporation's brand, and they're terrified of alienating customers. So instead what they do is turn these pure evil entities into misunderstood, misrepresented complicated individuals. This is of course extremely important for the feminist movement. But on account of it clearly being wokewashing by people who don't actually believe in those values. And just the fact that these two really don't fit this sort of thing. And for all this does to make us not hate the one female antagonist, it gives us another one, in the power napping, perpetually rude, impossibly narcissistic girl boss Baroness of verbal assassination. Pitting women against one another is patriarchal. So is there actually any progress being made?
I do appreciate that it fully embraces the fashionista aspect rather than running away from it(as it of course does with the animal cruelty, other than an unintentionally hilarious attempt at justifying the canine theft by making her mom die at the paws of Dalmatians. They also give her a puppy. The hatred of wealth, remains with this bending over backwards to explain that, no, don't worry, she's not the one who has the money that, like in real life, turns people, well, cruel) and this is actually the first time that gets a positive depiction(not to mention the inclusion of a gay man involved with it). It's seen by many as something primarily for women by misogynists who just look for excuses to hate 50% of the population and blame them for things they had nothing to do with.
I mean, this thing did have a vision; it's a period piece(with positively stunning costumes, sets, location shooting, needle drops, slang - the whole nine yards) about a poor orphan who joins a duo so all three can be incredible pickpockets, while she hopes to make statements with the clothes she designs and maybe plan a non-zero amount of heists. It absolutely is not what people would have guessed before these details were made public. You might barely even guess the House of Mouse was behind this, if not for a few giveaways. Few jokes actually land, despite both halves of the Emma-off displaying tremendous comedic chops elsewhere. At least they do deliver amazing performances and remain impossible to take your eyes off, even if this is very different from the Glenn Close version in most ways, until almost the halfway point. This rarely pushes the CG past what they can make seamless. Why does Jasper go from being an African American kid to a white adult? Are they saying being black is something you grow out of? For all that this does that is interesting and even at times absolutely astonishing, at the end of the day it's just impossible for it to completely escape the fact that everyone watching knows that either this is meant to lead up to (and maybe justify), or simply going to craft a completely new path from, the original in which Cruella dog naps 99 puppies in order to have them killed because she wants a fur coat. 8/10.
I do appreciate that it fully embraces the fashionista aspect rather than running away from it(as it of course does with the animal cruelty, other than an unintentionally hilarious attempt at justifying the canine theft by making her mom die at the paws of Dalmatians. They also give her a puppy. The hatred of wealth, remains with this bending over backwards to explain that, no, don't worry, she's not the one who has the money that, like in real life, turns people, well, cruel) and this is actually the first time that gets a positive depiction(not to mention the inclusion of a gay man involved with it). It's seen by many as something primarily for women by misogynists who just look for excuses to hate 50% of the population and blame them for things they had nothing to do with.
I mean, this thing did have a vision; it's a period piece(with positively stunning costumes, sets, location shooting, needle drops, slang - the whole nine yards) about a poor orphan who joins a duo so all three can be incredible pickpockets, while she hopes to make statements with the clothes she designs and maybe plan a non-zero amount of heists. It absolutely is not what people would have guessed before these details were made public. You might barely even guess the House of Mouse was behind this, if not for a few giveaways. Few jokes actually land, despite both halves of the Emma-off displaying tremendous comedic chops elsewhere. At least they do deliver amazing performances and remain impossible to take your eyes off, even if this is very different from the Glenn Close version in most ways, until almost the halfway point. This rarely pushes the CG past what they can make seamless. Why does Jasper go from being an African American kid to a white adult? Are they saying being black is something you grow out of? For all that this does that is interesting and even at times absolutely astonishing, at the end of the day it's just impossible for it to completely escape the fact that everyone watching knows that either this is meant to lead up to (and maybe justify), or simply going to craft a completely new path from, the original in which Cruella dog naps 99 puppies in order to have them killed because she wants a fur coat. 8/10.