Sonority Music Studios

Good cast and very well polished due to its incredible budget. Outfits are pretty cool honestly. Ultimately, it is very shallow. Disjunctive storytelling beats are stapled together with low-hanging musical stings (does ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ play at the end? Absolutely.) Attempts at meaningful relationships are made in early to mid movie only to be totally abandoned by the end. As usual, CGI dominates the setting (even the dogs are cg; not even joking here) giving it a very sterile look. Punk fashion plays a huge role in the movie with no proper homage to its roots. What is more un-punk than a Disney movie anyways? Finally, by the end of the movie, we are still mystified as to what would make a person such a monster that they would literally skin a hundred dogs to make a coat. One of the last scenes in the movie shows our protagonist, the would be Dalmatian-flayer, enter her new home with… her three new Dalmatian pets. So, does she hate them or not? Probably the greatest storytelling crime in this movie is the way the writers implement the device of coincidence. So much of what happens in this movie happens by inexplicable coincidence. Alas, we can all agree it was very important that this movie was made, so that we can finally put to rest, our collective yearning for the back story of Disney’s most captivating villain: Cruella?