La véritable histoire du Chat Botté

This film is not fit for the American viewing audience...(pause while I vomit....regain my composure). What am I hearing?...a middle schooler's impersonation of a crazy grandmother? No, that's William Shatner trying to disguise Captain Kirk's voice. Let's not compare this to other movies with cats that wear boots. Let's judge it on it's own merits. For starters, never dub a movie. Not even a cartoon. It is horrifying to watch lips that don't match the audio. Subtitles would have been more bearable. Secondly, the plot is so boring my wife has banned my Red Box privileges. To watch paint dry is more entertaining than this film.

The sole purpose of creating films like these is to attempt to fool consumers into renting the wrong movie. Yes, looking really carefully on the cover can help avoid this sometimes (assuming you know what the "real" one actually looks like, and take the time to check in detail), but the companies that produce these kinds of films are just looking to make a quick buck. These movies are constantly released through outlets such as Redbox.

Second, the movie is dull, extremely shallow and poorly written, that any Saturday morning cartoon is far superior to this rubbish. I will rarely criticize a movie on visual/technical qualities, but for ones that do a terrible job at the most basic story-telling I have little tolerance. Many of the sequences for even annoying and silly.

I'm sure my impression of it would have been much better had I listened to it in the original French. But William Shatner was a horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE choice for the voice of the English version. His raspy, shaky voice and constant non-verbal noises he kept making just utterly ruined it. In the prior release, for English-speaking audiences, I suppose we were spoiled by Antonio Bandaras' as the cat. Shatner's Puss was just plain nails-on-chalkboard awful. Totally ruined any potential enjoyment I might have been able to get out of it. The story itself was okay, though definitely a bit on the "silly" side - but it doesn't seem to be geared towards an adult audience, so that's okay.

I can't really comment on the French version, though surely they had to have a better voice than Shatner. If you're listening to it in English, just don't expect an experience even remotely similar to the original movie release. This movie was nothing like it. At. All.

"It's a trap!" -Admiral Ackbar- The same could be spoken of this film. Whenever a great film is released, or even just anticipated, anyone with the ability to churn our their own knockoff is going to release their dumbed-down version so as to capitalize on the success or hype of the original. The True Story of Puss in Boots is one such film.

While I'm quite the plot, if you wish to call it that, differs quite widely from Dreamworks upcoming film, the cover was way to much like the Dreamworks cover to make me think that this film being released about the same time was mere coincidence. The film makers knew you would get this by accident, thinking you were getting the American made film staring Antonio Banderas...and so did Redbox. Hence, why I want my dollar back.

The characters in this film are just awful, and the American dubbed voice acting does them no justice (Shatner sounds like Herbert the Pervert from Family Guy) there is your pop-obsessed princess, an obese king, a drunk queen, your demon-clown chamberlain (who I am convinced was supposed to be the court jester in the French version) and for some reason an ogre who seems to be more along the lines of Cthulhu.

The plot makes no sense, and I will not even attempt to walk you through it. I got bored after 15 minutes and just completely lost track of what was going on.

I don't fault the French for trying to trick us into getting this film. What I do fault them for is deliberately messing up a story that originated in their country far worse than any American hack could. The blame for tricking us lies with Redbox for trying to pass this abomination off as the Dreamworks film we actually wanted to see. If you're reading this review, it is likely because you fell for the trap as I did. In that case, I can only offer my condolences. In the off-chance someone reads this before renting this film, do not get it!

This film is dreadful. I had rented a copy of the movie "The True story of Puss 'n Boots" because I thought it was by the same people who did the Shrek movies; the Puss on the DVD cover looked just like the one in Shrek. Instead, it was a horrible, badly animated regurgitation of the fairytale that looks like it was done in Belgium and is over-dubbed in English. It supposedly contains voice-overs by William Shatner, but you can find him among the other noise in the dialog. And many of the characters are just plain ugly: the drunken queen, the obese king, and the Fright-Night-Evil-Clown of a chamberlain may play overseas, but here in the US they're just awful in what is supposed to be a film for children. It was such an ugly, boring mess I turned it off after about 10 minutes. The Shrek people should sue these folk for false advertising, and anyone who rents this should be aware that it's NOT what it pretends to be.