The True Story of Puss 'n Boots

The True Story of Puss 'n Boots
"I HATE YOUNG MEN!" — The Chainberlain
Genre: History Adventure Comedy Mockbuster Directed by: Jérôme Deschamps Pascal Herold Macha Makeïeff Written by: Jérôme Deschamps Pascal Hérold Macha Makeïeff Based on: Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault Starring: William Shatner (US) Richard Dumont (UK/Canada) Daniel Brochu Holly Gauthier-Frankel Pauline Little Mark Camacho Arthur Holden Michel Perron Terrence Scammell Thor Bishopric Hubert Fielden Release date: 1 April 2009 (France & Belgium) 14 May 2011 (United States) Runtime: 81 minutes Country: Belgium Switzerland Language: French

The True Story of Puss 'n Boots (or La Véritable Histoire du chat botté in French) is a 2009 French-Belgian-Swiss CGI historic, adventure, comedy mockbuster film directed by Jérôme Deschamps, Pascal Herold, and Macha Makeïeff and based on the 1697 story of the same name. The film was released two years before the DreamWorks film featuring the character Puss in Boots from the Shrek franchise.

Plot

An adaptation of Charles Perrault's famous Puss in Boots story.

Why It's Not So Fearless

1. The film is supposedly a blatant rip-off of DreamWorks' Shrek 2 character Puss in Boots, but since it was released two years earlier than his own movie, it's pretty much up to debate on whether this movie can be considered a rip-off or not.
2. False advertising for 2 reasons.
   1. Despite the title name, the film has multiple inaccuracies all over the place.
   2. On the cover art, Puss is holding a sword. However, he never once wields it in the movie.
3. Broken plot line with plenty of plot holes and filler.
4. UNBEARABLE voice acting that sounds way too over the top and very annoying (especially the titular character who, believe it or not, is voiced by William Shatner in the English dub, using a truly horrific falsetto).
5. The movie has so much anachronism that is on par with the CGI Swan Princess movies, thanks to it containing pop music and the Princess's royal guards even wear sunglasses in the tavern scene.
6. While the animation is fine, the mediocre character designs and their movements are very awkward.
7. Broken musical numbers. A song by the princess is just her going "Lalala" and another of hers is undubbed, left in French.
8. Subpar soundtrack, which just consists of Kazoos recreating classical music numbers, which fails miserably.
9. It's almost entirely unfaithful to the original story.
10. Poor character designs.
11. There's a needlessly disturbing subplot, where the Chamberlain turns the princess' suitors into toads, who are implied to be killed, grounds them up, and then force-feeds them to a toad (implied to have also once been human) strapped in a chair. Yes. A kid's film with forced cannibalism.

Redeeming Qualities

1. It does have some nice use of lighting.
2. The animation, despite looking like either a video game released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, or Nintendo GameCube made in the early 2000s, a video game made for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii made in the early 2010s, or computer animated shows that have much better looking animation like ReBoot, Zak Storm, The Little Prince, Arpo the Robot, Thunderbirds Are Go, The New Adventures of Peter Pan, Insectibles, Bolts & Blip, Iron Man: Armored Adventures and even Vídeo Brinquedo Rip-off films such as Little & Big Monsters, is fine.
3. In the later copies of the English version, Richard M. Dumont voices the lead character the Cat, which sounds WAY better than William Shatner's.
4. The Chamberlain is the only entertaining character despite his flaws, and the Ogre is somewhat the most tolerable.

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