‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ Review: Mortality Casts a Shadow on Otherwise Amusing Animated Sequel

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dies.It’s only temporary of course. Puss in Boots is a cat, and in a fantasy universe, cats have nine lives. But what Puss doesn’t realize until it’s almost too late is that he’s officially on his last life, and his next death will be final.

Now he’s being hunted by a mysterious and powerful wolf who wields razor-sharp sickles and may be, and probably is, the literal personification of Death (Wagner Moura, “The Grey Man”).

Either way, he’s an unstoppable juggernaut who will not rest until Puss is buried in the ground. He hates every single thing Puss in Boots stands for — a life lived seemingly oblivious to mortality.So Puss does what any hero would do in that situation.

He retires immediately and runs away to the cat version of an assisted-living facility, the house of an elderly lady who swiftly reduces Puss’s life into a meaningless purgatory filled with humiliation, shame, overcrowding, and troughs of joyless dry food.There’s a whole big plot to “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” after that, in which a whole bunch of fairy-tale creatures search for the magic wishing star of nursery rhyme legend, which has the power to grant just one last wish.