There's no tripe for cats

Rating: 5/10 (18 August 2019)

After four movies on the main character, "Shrek"'s saga turns on one of the most popular mascot of the franchise: Puss in boots. But the spin-off that represents him doesn't catch all the play of references and parodies that shapes the shrekian concept, and the pastiche that would have to be the point of arrival is just alluded, with the mix the histories of Puss, Humpty Dumpty and the magic beans. The result is an anonymous film sanza infamia e sanza lode, that follows more or less all the stereotypes of the adventure "for kids": the journey, the betrayal, the redemption toward love. It affects, at most, the rancor that can be hatched inside of what at first seemed to be the best friendship; but the pale result reveals how the Puss character works well, instead, only near Shrek and company.