#;; like its all good dont ge tme wrong i just wanted to ramble about thsi one thing tbh fhjewkhfwk

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I just finished watching the Puss in Boots the last wish and wow

no spoilers but: I agree with the reviews, it is really good, I’d watch it if you can. The animation is gorgeous and it really shows at least to me the animators and artists had fun with it. There’s so many dynamic shots and visuals that I was in awe for majority of the fight scenes spoilers below

Okay but like. I really liked it??? The movie itself didn’t feel as long as it did maybe because I was having a lot of fun with it and it is really interesting

i do like the idea of Death as a personification and holding a grudge to cats who are given 9 lives, the idea that a cat just frivolously living their 9 lives as if rubbing it in death’s face is really fun to me.

Legit the scene where Puss is having a panic attack in the woods game *me* anxiety because it lowkey just felt, really real. Like, I think they did a really good job showing what it is that a panic attack does to people, and how anxiety especially can just destroy someone’s life or hurt the people around them. I’m always going to be “meh” about the idea of ‘oh yeah the anxiety was cured by the end of the movie’ stuff because that’s not how deep seeded anxiety goes but it’s a kid’s movie and i cant exactly expect them to like go too deep into it already when i think they did a pretty good job expressing the anxiety throughout the movie already

because it is really good to have that looming threat, to have the character experience that anxiety throughout the film, not just once but that it follows them. No matter where they go, or who they’re with, the anxiety doesn’t just go away necessarily (except ya know the ending)

One thing I do love, and I’m almost *sad* that we couldnt’ get a movie or something about them; but Goldi and the three bears. This is purely self indulgent but rarely, and i mean RARELY do we get a storyline that revolves around orphans and adoption. We always get the “found family” and stuff but it never really goes into the idea of adopted kids and their struggles dealing with their adopted family. I legit love the representation as someone who has been adopted and has questioned my place in my family before.

I think, while it does seem trivial from an outsider perspective how “easy” the choice is for people to like “just stay with the people who raised you!”, it really isnt’ as simple as that. This might like, fall short on people who weren’t adopted or weren’t like experiencing that desire to “fit in”. Because we see through the movie that Goldi, in some ways, is reminded she isn’t a bear. Especially during the scene where they kidnap perrito and baby and her are fighting. When it’s pointed out “you aren’t [insert here]” it drives home the idea that yo udon’t belong. Which does hurt a lot more than you think. It’s stated a few times through the movie actually going back and looking the “shes not my sister” and stuff, it really does show that Goldi isn’t thinking of this from nothing, that a constant reminder like that may push her to think she doesnt belong and she isn’t one of them. Even with the support from mama and papa, it’s still a struggle especially since goldi is well hfewjk a human, and they’re bears

And kids, and adults like me, who have been adopted do have that fear that everything would be fine without you, because you don’t belong, because you “broke into” someone’s house and “took” their things. I really like this idea of goldi and the 3 bears because it does show how a lot of kids can feel like they had just invaded someone’s house and don’t belong and then end up stealing the other sibling’s (who might or might not be biological to the parents) things.

And while the ending I know rushes Goldi’s arch a bit I really do wish i could see more of them. Not like a whole movie, but I want them to be characters in future films, or maybe have a “to DVD” short movie or something about their lives cuz it’s also fun that they’re a crime family fhewjkhk and im just trying to think of like what they did before Goldi came along

If it isn’t obvious I did like the side story almost more than the main story since the main story felt pretty--- eh predictable? But I enjoyed more the way they showed the “realism” in the fear of death, and the anxiety someone might have over it. It might be the same predictable story, you know no one will get the wish, and they’ll learn to cherish the one life they have, blah blah blah but you don’t expect them to go into the character’s actual struggle with that fear. The song Death whistles and how it plays as a “trigger” for Puss gets his fur standing on edge, panicked, wide eyed, it does such a good job showing these small things that a lot of movies or shows wouldnt bother with.

I’d definitely recommend it, I didn’t go into it but it’s just fun? I really didnt’ care for big jack horner or whatever his name was cuz he was just played as the “im evil and irredeemable” but he plays the part well enough. He’s fun when he’s around and stuff so there is that. I enjoy the fact he’s just evil for evil sake but yeah I just was more roped in with the other people and just saw jack less as a threatening villain and more there for comedic villainy.

over all I hope dreamworks continues this way? Because this actually makes me more excited to see movies from them if they’re going to be this fun and this “real” and relatable however odd that might sound for a puss in boots movie lmao