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"28.12 Cast Emma Stone Emma Thompson Joel Fry Paul Walter Hauser 134min"
“To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Emma Stone and since this movie was finally available for free on Disney+, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, on paper, there is no way that I should have liked this movie. Indeed, it is pretty annoying how Disney is shamelessly recycling their old material, I never really enjoyed ‘One Hundred and One Dalmatians’, it was just way too long and the story was rather convoluted. And, yet, I have to admit that I actually enjoyed the damned thing. First of all, even though ‘One Hundred and One Dalmatians’ has never belonged to the best animated features delivered by Disney, on the other hand, Cruella de Vil has always been one of their very best villains. On top of that, Emma S” read more
" Cinema- 2hrs. 14min. First Viewing I had no real interest in Cruella. The idea of another revisionist revamp of a classic villain seemed like a ridiculous idea, especially one of a character whose chief goal is still skin puppies for clothing. The film never actually reconciles that aspect of the character's origin with the version presented in the film (it, weirdly, winks at it, while still asking us to sympathize with the character), but a character, and it's film, deserve to be judged on it'"
"Ended up paying the Premier Access price to watch this film after all, and if Cruella using black magic wasn’t enough, she now faces against an actual witch, turning this story into less of a Joker and more of a Suicide Squad (2016). There is also a weird, freakish gag in which Jasper - played by an actor older than Joel Fry - confronts a large, Simpson-like eyeball that bounces its way into his eye socket and, this being a prequel, becomes the cause of his thick London accent. It then jumps o"