Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Antonio Banderas as Puss in Boots, a swashbuckling cat fugitive from the law and a hero of San Ricardo who has lost eight of his nine lives. In Mama Luna’s Cat Rescue, Mama Luna named him “Pickles”.
• Salma Hayek Pinault as Kitty Softpaws, a street-savvy Tuxedo cat who is Puss’ ex-fiancée, and seeks the Wishing Star to find somebody she can trust.
• Harvey Guillén as Perrito, a friendly and naïve dog who is initially disguised as one of Mama Luna’s pet cats and wants to become a therapy dog.
• Florence Pugh as Goldilocks – known as Goldi, the leader of the Three Bears Crime Family.
  • Kailey Crawford as Young Goldilocks
• Olivia Colman as Mama Bear – Papa Bear’s wife, Baby Bear’s mother and Goldilocks’ adoptive mother.
• Ray Winstone as Papa Bear – Mama Bear’s husband, Baby Bear’s father and Goldilocks’ adoptive father.
• Samson Kayo as Baby Bear – Papa Bear and Mama Bear’s son, and Goldilocks’ adoptive brother.
• John Mulaney as “Big” Jack Horner, a feared pastry salesman and a crime lord who plans to use the Wishing Star to gain control of all magic. He has collected various magical items, creatures and people ever since being denied fairy-tale fame by calling himself “Little” Jack Horner as a kid. His group of henchmen cooks is called “the Baker’s Dozen”. An insane and psychopathic killer, he is an egomaniacal and megalomaniacal man who regularly kills his own men to further his goals.
• Wagner Moura as the Wolf / Death, a wolf who is initially presumed to be a bounty hunter before revealing his true identity to Puss, who he wants to personally kill as punishment for Puss wasting eight of his nine lives. He wields twin sickles that combine into a double-bladed glaive.
• Da’Vine Joy Randolph as Mama Luna, an elderly cat lady who initially takes Puss in.
• Anthony Mendez as the doctor who tells Puss to retire after informing him of his eight deaths
• Kevin McCann as the Ethical Bug, a parody of the Talking Cricket, who attempts to act as Jack Horner’s “conscience” As the film progresses, he loses his faith in Jack, eventually deeming him as “horrible”. In the climax of the film, he is responsible for helping the Phoenix burn the map, thus effectively killing Jack.
• Bernardo De Paula as the Governor of Del Mar
• Betsy Sodaro and Artemis Pebdani as Jo and Jan Serpent, twin criminal sisters who deliver the map of the Wishing Star to Jack.
• Conrad Vernon as Gingy
• Cody Cameron as Pinocchio
• Kaley Alyssa Flanagan as Little Girl

Storyline:

Sadly, Puss in Boots, the undaunted Spanish lover and hero, is now down to the last of his nine lives, a decade after the events of Puss in Boots (2011). And as if that weren’t enough, the unstoppable bounty hunter known as The Big Bad Wolf is after him. To restore all of his precious lives and escape an inglorious fate, Puss must pluck up his courage to embark on a dangerous quest into the Dark Forest to find the legendary Wishing Star. However, Puss isn’t the only one seeking the map to the magical star. As the daring outlaw puts his skills to good use to stay one step ahead of formidable adversaries determined to get their hands on it, a crucial question arises: Does he have what it takes to face his most skilled and terrifying opponent and get his life back on track?

About Movie:

• The sequel to the spin-off film Puss in Boots (2011) and the sixth installment in the Shrek franchise.
• Plans for a sequel to Puss in Boots began in November 2012, but did not come to fruition, languishing in development hell, until it was revived in November 2018, with Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri confirmed to be an executive producer.
• During the montage where Big Jack Horner assembles his Baker’s Dozen, the horses pulling their carriage were actually unicorns whose horns were cut off
• At 1 hour and 42 minutes, this is the longest film in the Shrek franchise.
• It is the first animated feature film of Harvey Guillén, Wagner Moura, and Florence Pugh.
• The second movie in the DreamWorks Shrek-verse to use Smash Mouth’s song All Star, the first being Shrek (2001) in its opening credits.
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish premiered at Lincoln Center in New York City on December 13, 2022, and was theatrically released in the United States on December 21, 2022. The film was made available to stream on NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service on March 10, 2023. As part of their 18-month deal with Netflix, the film streamed on Peacock for the first four months of the pay-TV window, then moved to Netflix for the next ten on July 13, 2023, and then will return to Peacock for the remaining four beginning in May 2024.
• At the 95th Academy Awards it was nominated for Best Animated Feature, as well as receiving nominations at the Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice Awards, and British Academy Film Awards.
• The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing $484.7 million worldwide on a production budget of $90–110 million and becoming the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2022.
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish grossed $185.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $299.1 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $484.7 million. It is the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2022.