Parents, watch it sober.

Rating: 9/10 (5 March 2012)

A lot of movies took me by surprise last year; not bad surprise either, and some of them were kids movies. Yes, I actually enjoyed Zookeeper. Also, Rango and Mr. Popper's Penguins worked, because they all had the right touch of family friendly and hilarity, like Puss in Boots.
Puss in Boots was never my favorite Shrek character.I always loved Eddie Murphey's scene stealing Donkey. But Puss was a mystery. The first Shrek film was a masterpiece. The others were good, but not great. The last two got bad rep, so thank God this spin-off came around.
Antonio Banderas is back behind the voice of the sly outlaw, Puss. The film shows a time before he met Shrek and the gang. Puss teams up with an old friend, Humpty Dumpty(voiced perfectly by Zach Galifianakis) and Kitty Soft-Paws(voiced very seductively by Salma Hayak) to steal magic beans from Jack and Jill(Also voiced perfectly by Billy Bob Thornton and Amy Sedaris), a married couple of psychos.
Puss in Boots is almost like a work of magic. While watching it, I got a feel of the original Shrek, which was smartly funny and clever, do to all of it's fairy tale references. Puss in Boots has a lot of energy, and never seems to really run out of it.
The voice work is almost perfect. Whenever Humpty talks, you kind of see Galifianakis' facial expressions come to life, very strange. The animation here, like Rango, is gorgeous. The other Shrek films may have seemed that way, but Dreamworks has something different here, something much more colorful.
Overall, Puss in Boots is a really good movie. And I know some are skeptical, but don't't be. I bet some parents went to see it drunk, they shouldn't have. If adults had as much of a heart as I do, they would actually enjoy Puss in Boots. Is it quite as good as Rango? Um, no. But it's still very good.
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