Puss without Boots

Rating: 6/10 (5 September 2014)

ATTENTION - There might be spoilers ahead!
Puss in Boots and the Donkey are my two favorite characters from the Shrek franchise, so you can imagine that when I heard about this movie I was divided between the expectation to watch it, because, you know, its Puss!, and the idea that the movie could be very disappointing.
Despite this last feeling of mine I decided to watch it and here is what I thought:

As usual, Antonio Banderas gives an incredible performance only through his voice and for me, it was by far the best part of the movie.

The cat's childhood was very catching and different from what I expected, providing us the knowledge of how the Puss became an outlaw

-Kitty Soft-Paws (Salma Hayek) is a good addiction to the animation, and quite interesting, once she and Banderas played a couple in Desperado and Once upon a time in Mexico. However, her character's personality and actions were very predictable

The animation was great, very colorful and real

There were a couple funny moments, specially at the beginning and all related to Puss.

Humpty Dumpty was a terrible villain. I hated him, mainly because he was so predictable and his decisions changed drastically from one minute to another

Most importantly, the whole story about the magic beans and the golden goose was extremely disappointing. It lacked development, twists, imagination and comedy.

Overall what I can say is that I could perfectly pass without watching this, once it added nothing to my emotions or to my life.
6/10