Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

The swashbuckling ginger cat Puss In Boots (Antonio Banderas) has burned through eight of his nine lives. To get those lives back, he along with his former girlfriend Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek) and an orphan dog (Harvey Guillen) enter the dangerous Black Forest  to find the mythical Wishing Star to grant his wish. But he's not the only one seeking the Wishing Star. Directed by Joel Crawford (THE CROODS: A NEW AGE), this sequel to PUSS IN BOOTS (2011) hasn't lost any of its charm and holds its own with the original and may be slightly better. Banderas and Hayek return but some new fairy tale characters are added like Goldilocks (Florence Pugh) and Jack Horner (John Mulaney). The animation is marvelous, vivid and bright and the journey Puss goes on is interested in more than laughs (though they are plenty) with a serious "message" at the end of the trek without being saccharine. If you liked the first one, you'll definitely enjoy this one. Good fun although parts of the movie may be too intense for some youngsters. With Olivia Colman, Ray Winstone, Samson Kayo, Wagner Moura and Da'Vine Joy Randolph.