7/19/21 Cruella? (Movie)

     I was kind of forced to sit through Cruella Sunday night and was not expecting much good out of it, but I was full with just having eaten some delicious brisket so I went along with what Wife and Baby A wanted to watch.  The movie, according to Wife, is the origin story of Cruella, the bad guy from 101 Dalmations that seemed obsessed with killing puppies in the cartoon, which first came out in 1961, according to IMDB.

    The movie starts with Cruella as a young child, in the first scene she is being born and we see the first of many shocking things from her, she is born with the crazy half black half white hairdo.  In the next clip, she is older and starting elementary school with her cute hair, she seems like a normal little girl who is constantly having to defend herself because of her hair colors, yet seems to walk with an air of confidence and the character is generally very likable.

    I don't want to give too much of the movie, but it is a Disney movie and man, do they like killing the parents off to give the starring character an even bigger struggle.  She ends up meeting some street scallywags, as the cops call them, and soon become inseparable friends.  The camera fast forwards ten years and now Cruella, who goes by Estella, when she is trying to be good (Cruella is her evil personality within) which is awoken when she is pushed too far.

    Her dream since she was a small child is to be involved in fashion, it is all she ever thinks about, and as stories unfold, she ends up in the right place at the right time and is seen and picked up by the Baroness, who is at the epicenter of all that is the hottest fashion there in England, or wherever they are supposed to be.  They become intertwined and pretty much the movie revolves around their love/hate relationship, so I won't divulge much more than that.

    Emma Stone does a great job with the role I thought, as well as Emma Thompson who plays the Baroness to an almost joyous effort at being such a horrid human.  There were several other recognizable faces, so the movie was easy to enjoy, even if it was a bit long at 2 hours and 14 minutes.