He's got cat class and he's got cat style...

Rating: 7/10 (24 May 2014)

'Puss in Boots' is a character that rings true to anyone who's ever kept (because we all know you never truly 'own' any cat) a ginger tom, the lead guitar player of the feline world. Casting him as a swashbuckling, devil may care, womanising, hero with a dark past (yet can still turn on the cutest of the cute when he has to) was truly a masterstroke and Antonio Banderas could not have been more perfect in the role, you half wish that he could have been so good as Puss' human counterpart Zorro. We also have a perfectly cast Salma Hyek as the wonderfully named 'Kitty Softpaws' (Ian Fleming would be proud) and seeing the 2 characters on screen you can just see the 2 actors so clearly in your mind. Frankly I would love to see them both together in a live action production, you get the impression that they would have such wonderful on screen chemistry. The dance fight at the tavern is hugely entertaining although you wonder at the tastefulness of moves such as 'The Litter Box' in a children's film? Not to mention Jack and Jill's baby conversation?
The story is OK, I like the scene where Puss and Humpty are on the clouds and Humpty tells him to look down, reminding him of when they were both children at the orphanage who would stare up at the sky in wonder, you get the feeling that this wasn't part of the scam and that he actually meant it.
So all told a worthy spin off from the Shrek movies and if you weren't an auriphile before then it's probably enough to make you one.