![]() ![]() The thing is, though, that dog killers aren't the most sympathetic protagonists, and this movie definitely wants us to sympathize. It's set in 1970s London, and it means to show us the youthful origins of Cruella de Vil, that fascist fashionista who kidnapped a litter of Dalmatian puppies and tried to turn them into a spotted fur coat. Like Maleficent, it's a Disney live-action movie inspired by an earlier Disney animated classic - in this case, One Hundred and One Dalmatians. ![]() The latest example of this trend is Cruella, and it's, well, a mixed but not uninteresting bag. The results have been a mixed but not uninteresting bag, and they've allowed some fine actors to go entertainingly over-the-top: Joaquin Phoenix won an Oscar for his psychic meltdown as the Joker, and Maleficent, a clever reframing of Sleeping Beauty, remains one of only a few movies that have put Angelina Jolie's otherworldly screen presence to effective use. Is Cruella de Vil (Emma Stone) meant to come off as misguided, unhinged or genuinely unscrupulous? A new film tries to suggest a complicated mix of all three and winds up feeling mostly confused.Ĭhalk it up to our eternal fascination with human evil or to a movie industry that's short on original ideas, but it seems like almost every classic villain nowadays is guaranteed their own feature-length backstory. ![]()
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