Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is a 2022 American animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. The sequel to the spin-off film Puss in Boots (2011) and the sixth installment of the Shrek film series, the film was directed by Joel Crawford, co-directed by Januel Mercado (in his feature directorial debut), and written by Paul Fisher, Tommy Swerdlow, and Tom Wheeler. Based on the character introduced in Shrek 2 (2004) and inspired by the fairy tale of the same name, the voice cast includes Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek reprising their respective roles as the titular character and Kitty Softpaws, with new additions to the cast including Harvey Guillén, Florence Pugh, Olivia Colman, Ray Winstone, Samson Kayo, John Mulaney, and Wagner Moura. The story follows Puss in Boots, who teams up with Kitty Softpaws and Perrito to find the Last Wish of the fallen Wishing Star to restore eight of his nine lives. They race against other fairy tale characters seeking the same treasure, while a sinister wolf hunts Puss himself.
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- At the end, Perito asks Puss in Boots where they're heading, Puss replies "To New Adventures, and old friends." The camera pans out to reveal that the ship is heading towards the Kingdom of Far Far Away, presumably teasing a fifth film in the Shrek series.
- Olivia Colman's fourth animated film, after Arrietty (2010), The Mitchells vs the Machines (2021), Ron's Gone Wrong (2021), and Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022), the latter of which was also released in 2022.
- One of Puss's deaths is by a shellfish allergy. Some cats actually do suffer from an allergy to shellfish.
- At 1 hour and 42 minutes, this is the longest film in the Shrek franchise.
- 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.
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