#Although I haven’t seen the Mulan reboot yet I was busy...........doing other things

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Cruella is far and beyond my favorite of the stupid ass Disney reboots. The rest of this post is pretty much just spoilers: The soundtrack was great, we get found family like woah, me and my brother turned and looked at each other at the same point and go “you know I really hope she actually does make a Dalmatian coat” and she still got to be batshit crazy. It ran a bit too long, the dialogue was clunky in spots, and the cgi on the dogs was distractingly bad, but none of that was enough to really sink it in my opinion. And a big win, for once the villain who was queercoded by obsession with a clearly younger woman in the animated version wasn’t given a male love interest as part of her redemption. (this is a direct call out to Maleficent)

The costumes and aesthetics of the film were great as always, and this was the first time in one of these live action reboots that the ✨🥰 #girl-boss moments didn’t feel cheap, because it actually devoted a huge amount of runtime to relationships between women. And as a fun side effect you get to see a really cool battle that isn’t just a poorly lit fight scene between a cgi lion and hyena, and isn’t two women testing physical strength, but rather both doing an explicitly feminine thing in making and showing dresses.

I really enjoyed how it somehow managed to both make her a fairy tale protagonist, (yes her mother was pushed of a cliff by Dalmatians, her mother had to die tragically because that’s how the fairy tale formula works, good mothers die early) and also still a black leather wearing, heachmen leading, badass who renames her house Hell Hall and herself ‘Devil” because the one thing this film absolutely does right is make sure she doesn’t believe she’s somehow morally superior, she knows she’s a villain, and if you believe she had good reason to be that‘s your own fault. (take notes edgy villain character study movies)

I completely understand that this film won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but all in all it was mine, 7/10.

#cruella #cruella 2021 #cruella de vil #101 dalmatians #film review #why did my page just become me ranting about movies? #i know that’s what I like to do but I didn’t intend to let it soak into my art page #also don’t pay the extra money to Disney #I normally wouldn’t recommend pirating a movie I liked but this is Disney and if you have Disney + don’t give them the extra #But oh my gosh I need to geek out about how good the Dalmatian fur coat looked for a second #“You can’t throw enough money at something to make an actually good film #but you can make it look amazing” #Except the cgi lion king #that looked terrible #live action beauty and the beast and Cinderella looked great though #and so did the Mary poppins reboot actually #Although I haven’t seen the Mulan reboot yet I was busy...........doing other things #narrator voice: they were not