Cute but nothing to write home about

Rating: 7/10 (14 November 2011)

Riding the coat tails of the popular although somewhat overdone Shrek movies comes Puss N Boots starring the voice talents of Antonio Banderas as the title character and Salma Hayek as his female cat counterpart Kitty Soft Paws. The movie is cute and has some good snappy banter and even a well choreographed cartoon dance fight that had me smiling. Antonio Banderas does really good with Puss and the facial expressions are amazingly patterned after his own face which adds to the overall quality of the character. Salma Hayek does good with Kitty Soft Paws too ,adding some fun. I didn't like Zach Galifianakis's Humpty Dumpty character though, besides the lazy voice over - it could have been Humpty N Boots as he basically takes over 75 percent of the movie with so much boring dialog and it just drags the movie down. There is too little time devoted to Puss's origin too and it never explains how he got in the baby buggy as a kitten either. They really needed to spend more time on Puss and not Humpty , the payoff to the story was kind of a letdown too as I think everyone knew that Humpty was in on the scam with the obvious clues and the whole mess of the big goose etc. Of course , the ending leaves it open for the inevitable sequel which I hope they write better and have a better overall story because this one had better potential and ends up being a 7/10 .