Antonio Banderas
Puss in Boots
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With Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Harvey Guillén, Florence Pugh. When Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll and he has burned through eight of his nine lives, he launches an epic journey to restore them by finding the mythical Last Wish.
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- Animation, Action, Adventure
- Joel Crawford, Januel Mercado
- 2022-12-21
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is a 2022 American animated adventure fantasy 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 ...
Puss in Boots is a Spanish-speaking anthropomorphic cat, named for his signature pair of boots. A fugitive on the run from the law, Puss is seeking to restore his lost honor.
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Tale type
In folkloristics, Puss in Boots is classified as Aarne–Thompson–Uther ATU 545B, "Puss in Boots", a subtype of ATU 545, "The Cat as Helper". Folklorists Joseph Jacobs and Stith Thompson point that the Perrault tale is the possible source of the Cat Helper story in later European folkloric traditions. Similarly, Frisian professor Jurjen van der Kooi noted that variants from oral tradition were only starting to be recorded from the 19th century onwards, and tales from Central and Western Europef...
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The tale has also spread to the Americas, and is known in Asia (India, Indonesia and Philippines).Greek scholar Marianthi Kaplanoglou states that the tale type ATU 545B, "Puss in Boots" (or, locally, "The Helpful Fox"), is an "example" of "widely known stories (...) in the repertoires of Greek refugees from Asia Minor".
The saying "enough to make a cat laugh" dates from the mid-1800s and is associated with the tale of Puss in Boots. The Bibliothèque de Carabas book series was published by David Nuttin London in the late 19th century, in which the front cover of each volume depicts Puss in Boots reading a book.
Folktales of ATU type 545B, "Puss in Boots" by D. L. AshlimanPuss In Boots: The Last Wish - Only In Theaters this ChristmasThis holiday season, everyone’s favorite leche-loving, swashbuckling, fear-defying feline retur...
- 2 min
- 20M
- Universal Pictures
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. This fall, everyone's favorite leche-loving, swashbuckling, fear-defying feline returns. For the first time in more than a decade, DreamWorks Animation presents...
- (195)
- Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
- PG
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish - Only In Theatres December 21 This fall, everyone’s favorite leche-loving, swashbuckling, fear-defying feline ret...more.
- 2 min
- 782K
- Universal Pictures Canada
