Hammy`S Boomerang Adventure Cartoon Photo ' title='Hammy`S Boomerang Adventure Cartoon Photo ' />Puss in Boots 2. Puss in Boots is a 2. American 3. Dcomputer animatedfantasyaction comedy film produced by Dream. Works Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The Shrek franchise from DreamWorks Animation, based on William Steigs picture book Shrek consists of four computeranimated films including Shrek 2001, Shrek 2. The Brick Joke trope as used in popular culture. Named after an old joke, which seems at first blush to be a pair of unrelated jokes. At the end of the first. Charlottes Web 1973, 1996 reissue, Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown 1977, 1996 reissue and The Secret Garden 1996. Puss in Boots is a 2011 American 3D computeranimated fantasy action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was. It was directed by Chris Miller who directed Shrek the Third in 2. Brian Lynch and Tom Wheeler. It stars Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton and Amy Sedaris. The film was released in theaters on October 2. Digital 3. D and IMAX 3. D. 4Although the character of Puss in Boots originated in a European fairy tale in 1. Shrek franchise. It follows the character Puss in Boots on his adventures before his first appearance in Shrek 2 in 2. Accompanied by his friends, Humpty Dumpty and Kitty Softpaws, Puss is pitted against Jack and Jill, two murderous outlaws in ownership of legendary magical beans which lead to great fortune. Puss in Boots grossed 5. It was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 8. Academy Awards. A television series, titled The Adventures of Puss in Boots, premiered on Netflix in 2. A sequel film, titled Puss in Boots 2 Nine Lives 4. Thieves, was scheduled to be released in 2. Puss in Boots Antonio Banderas is a talking cat named for his signature pair of boots. Puss is a fugitive on the run from the law, looking to restore his lost honor. He learns that the outlaw couple Jack Billy Bob Thornton and Jill Amy Sedaris have the magic beans hes been looking for most of his life, which can lead him to a giants castle holding valuable golden goose eggs. When Puss tries to steal them from the outlaws room, a female cat named Kitty Softpaws interrupts, and both fail. Kitty is allied with Humpty Alexander Dumpty, a talking egg and Puss long estranged childhood friend from the orphanage where he was raised. Puss tells Kitty his origin story and of his feelings of betrayal for a youthful misadventure when Humpty tricked Puss into helping commit a bank robbery in his hometown of San Ricardo Puss has been on the run ever since. Humpty eventually convinces Puss to join them in finding the beans and retrieving the golden eggs. The trio steal the beans from Jack and Jill and plant them in the desert. Puss and Kittys relationship becomes romantic. The trio ride the beanstalk into the clouds to find the castle of the late giant, while avoiding the Great Terror, a giant goose that guards the Golden Goose. When they realize the golden eggs are too heavy to carry, they steal the Goose, which is just a gosling, and escape the castle. While celebrating their victory, the group is ambushed by Jack and Jill, who knock Puss unconscious. When Puss wakes up, he tracks Jack and Jill to San Ricardo where he learns the entire heist was a plot by Humpty to lure him home to be arrested, as revenge for abandoning him to the authorities when Humptys youthful heist went bad. Jack, Jill, and Kitty were involved in the con. After pleas from Imelda, his adoptive mother, Puss turns himself in to the guards while Humpty donates many golden eggs to the town and becomes a hero. While in prison, Puss meets the original Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk who warns him that the Great Terror is in fact the Gooses mother, and it will stop at nothing to get its child back. Realizing Humpty intended to destroy the town all along, Puss lets a repentant Kitty help him break out of prison and she also tells him she loves him. Tracking him down just as the Great Terror arrives, Puss convinces Humpty to help him fight off the Great Terror, saying he knows Humpty is a good person at heart. Using the Goose as bait, Puss and Humpty lure the Great Terror out of the town. During the chase, Jack and Jill betray Humpty and try to take the Goose, but get crushed by the Great Terror. Humpty and the Goose are knocked off a bridge with Puss holding onto them. Humpty knows Puss cannot hold both of them, so he lets go, sacrificing himself to save the Goose and the town. Humptys shell cracks open to reveal he was a golden egg on the inside. The Great Terror then takes the Goose and Humpty back to the giants castle. Puss efforts to save San Ricardo make him a hero among the townspeople and Imelda. In the epilogue, Jack and Jill are recovering from their injuries, Humpty is shown once again in his regular egg form, wearing a golden egg suit, as he rides the Great Terror into the clouds, and Puss and Kitty kiss. ProductioneditThe film had been in development since 2. Shrek 2 was released. As a Shrek 2 spin off, it was initially planned for release in 2. Puss in Boots The Story of an Ogre Killer. By October 2. 00. Dream. Works Animations realization that the Puss character deserved more. In September 2. 01. Guillermo del Toro signed on as executive producer. Discussing del Toro, Miller stated We worked out a system for him to come in once every few months or whenever we had something new to show him. If we needed someone to bounce ideas off of, he was always there, and if we had a problem we were tackling, wed get Guillermo on the red phone our emergency phone and ask him advice on what we should do with a certain character or scene. It was like having our own film school. Miller stated that del Toro was particularly involved in Humptys character design. Guillermo loved the dreamy quality of Humpty Dumpty. He suggested we push that further, make him more like da Vinci. It was del Toros idea to make Humpty an ingenious freak of nature who builds contraptions such as a flying machine. Del Toro rewrote the ending to redeem the character and deepen his relationship with Puss an unconventional conclusion for a childrens film. He helped design the fantasy elements of the giants castle, as well as the architecture of the town, which he conceived as an amalgam of Spain and Mexico. Watch The Hole Cartoon The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Except for Puss, the film features new characters. Citing the co writer, David H. Steinberg, It doesnt overlap with Shrek at all. Partly that was done to tell an original Puss story, but partly because we didnt know what Shrek 4 were going to do with the characters and we couldnt write conflicting storylines. The film was teased in Shrek Forever After, when Shrek finally shuts the book titled Shrek, and puts it away next to a book titled Puss in Boots. Puss in Boots is the first Dream. Works Animation feature film that was partly made in India. A Bangalore studio owned by Technicolor, which had mainly worked on TV specials and DVD bonus material, spent six months animating three major scenes in the film. The outsourcing had financial advantages, with 4. US, but the primary reason for outsourcing to India was lack of personnel, due to the studio producing as many as three films a year. The release date was originally set for November 4, 2. October 2. 8, 2. 01. Anne Globe, head of worldwide marketing for Dream. Works Animation, said the decision to move the films release date a week earlier was to attract parents and their children to see the film before other family friendly movies were released in November 2. The film was renamed Cat in Boots in the United Arab Emirates for officially unknown reasons, but it is suspected for religious and cultural reasons. According to UAEs The National Media Council, which is responsible for censorship, UAE didnt have any involvement in the rename and that the decision to change the name had been made by the Hollywood studio and the movie distributors in the UAE. Consequently, since the films distributor was based in the UAE, the same print was syndicated to all theaters throughout the Middle East. However, the name change was limited to the films original theatrical run, as merchandise and later regional home media release retained the films original title. SoundtrackeditHenry Jackman, the composer for Puss in Boots, utilized folk instruments of traditional Latin music. Inspired by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, Jackman blended guitars and Latin percussion with an orchestral sound influenced by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Shrek franchise Wikipedia. The Shrek franchise from Dream. Works Animation, based on William Steigs picture book Shrek, consists of four computer animated films including Shrek 2. Shrek 2 2. 00. 4, Shrek the Third 2. Shrek Forever After 2. A short 4 D film, Shrek 4 D, which originally was a theme park ride, was released in 2. Two television specials, the Christmas television special Shrek the Halls 2. Halloween television special. Scared Shrekless 2. A spin off film titled Puss in Boots was released in October 2. Broadway musical adaption was produced for two years. The series primarily focuses on Shrek, a reclusive and grouchy yet kindhearted ogre, who becomes a respected hero with an ever growing collection of friends and family in a fairy tale world in spite of himself. In May 2. 01. 0, The New York Times called the principal Shrek characters brilliantly realized and said nearly a decade after the first Shrek film they remain as vital and engaging fusions of image, personality and voice as any characters in the history of animation. The series was a financial success, becoming the 1. Film serieseditShrek 2. Shrek, a solitary ogre, finds a surprise when fairy tale creatures are sent to live in his swamp by Lord Farquaad. He befriends a talking donkey whose name is also Donkey, and they set off to meet with Farquaad. The latter needs Princess Fiona to marry him so he will become the king of Duloc. When Shrek and Donkey visit him, they are forced to rescue her from an enormous fire breathing dragon. The Dragon turns out to be female, and she falls in love with Donkey. Donkey, Shrek and Fiona escape, and Dragon chases them. Once Shrek and Donkey rescue Fiona, they take her back to Lord Farquaad. Along the way, Shrek falls in love with Fiona. She reveals to Donkey that she is cursed and turns into an ogress at night. The only way the curse can be broken is by true loves first kiss. Fiona and Farquaad have a marriage ceremony, but they are interrupted by Shrek, who tells Fiona he loves her. Donkey and Dragon enter, and Dragon eats Farquaad. Shrek and Fiona kiss, and Fiona turns into an ogress permanently. Shrek gets his swamp back, and the two marry there. After a karaoke party the newlyweds set off on their honeymoon. Shrek 2 2. 00. 4editThe second film opens with Prince Charming on a quest to rescue Princess Fiona from the Dragon. When he gets there, he finds the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs in Fionas bed. He asks the wolf where Fiona is and the wolf tells him that she is on her honeymoon with Shrek. Once Shrek and Fiona return from their honeymoon, they find Donkey in the swamp who tells them he and Dragon are going through a rough patch. They then get invited to the land of Far Far Away by Fionas parents and who want to bless their marriage. When they arrive, Shrek and Fiona are not what they expected. The Fairy Godmother and her son, Prince Charming, are trying to break up Shreks marriage by making Fiona fall in love with Prince Charming. However it does not work and Shrek and Fiona stay together. Shrek and Donkey get a new sidekick called Puss in Boots. They have a lengthy quest to search the Fairy Godmothers cottage to get a love potion. Shrek and Donkey drink the potion and they become something quite unexpected. Shrek becomes human and Donkey becomes a horse. Since Shrek drank the potion, it also affected Fiona as she woke up to seeing her human form once again. At the end of the film, King Harold turns back into a frog after being struck with the Fairy Godmothers magic. Shrek the Third 2. Shrek and Fiona are reluctantly reigning over Far, Far Away during King Harolds prolonged illness. The King promises that if they can find Fionas cousin Artie, he will make him the next in line, so Shrek would not have to run the country after his death. As Shrek, Donkey and Puss set off to find Artie, Fiona reveals she is pregnant. Shrek is shocked as he believes he will not be a good father and will ruin his childs life. This is reinforced by his relationship with his own father, where he tried to eat me. After finding Artie, Artie is frightened of being king, and they end up on an island where they meet Arties former magic teacher, Merlin. Meanwhile, Charming plots to overthrow Shrek and become king, but this is foiled by Shrek. The film ends with Shrek and Fiona caring for their newborn ogre triplets. Shrek Forever After 2. Shrek has become a domesticated family man, living happily with Princess Fiona and the triplets. Instead of scaring villagers away like he used to, a reluctant Shrek now agrees to autograph pitchforks. Longing for the days when he felt like a real ogre, Shrek is tricked into signing a pact with the smooth talking deal maker Rumpelstiltskin. Shrek suddenly finds himself in a twisted, alternate version of Far, Far Away, where ogres are hunted, Rumplestiltskin is king, Puss is obese, Donkey does not know who Shrek is, and Shrek and Fiona have never met. Shrek joins the Resistance and meets Fiona, but she doesnt love him. Rumpelstiltskin sets bounty on Shrek and uses the Pied Piper as a reward for finding Shrek, he offers a deal of a lifetime. Shrek turns himself in and instead of asking for his life back, frees the captured ogres. The ogres then ambush the palace, and Shrek and Fiona battle Dragon. As the twenty four hours are almost up and Shrek lays dying, Fiona kisses him and everything reverts to Shreks universe. At the end, instead of storming out of the triplets birthday party, Shrek kisses Fiona and appreciates all that he has, truly living happily forever after. Fifth film TBAeditFollowing the success of Shrek 2 in May 2. Jeffrey Katzenberg revealed that the Shrek story had been outlined into five films almost from the beginning. Before the first one was finished we talked about what the whole story of Shrek is, and each of the chapters answers questions about the first movie and gives us an insight, said Katzenberg, Shrek 3 and 4 are going to reveal other unanswered questions and, finally, in the last chapter, we will understand how Shrek came to be in that swamp, when we meet him in the first movie. After the release of Shrek the Third in 2. Katzenberg announced that the fifth film would be released in 2. In May 2. 00. 9, Dream. Works Animation DWA announced that the fourth films title would be Shrek Forever After, indicating that it would be the last in the Shrek series. Later in 2. Bill Damaschke, head of creative production at DWA, with him saying All that was loved about Shrek in the first film is brought to the final film. Josh Klausner, one of the writers of Shrek Forever After, explained in 2. When I first came onto the project, it wasnt supposed to be the final chapter there were originally going to be 5 Shrek movies. Then, about a year into the development, Jeffrey Katzenberg decided that the story that wed come up with was the right way for Shreks journey to end. In February 2. Fox Business Network, Katzenberg hinted that a fifth film may still be made. We like to let them have a little bit of time to rest, he said of the characters. But I think you can be confident that well have another chapter in the Shrek series. Were not finished, and more importantly, neither is he. On June 1. NBCUniversal purchased Dream. Works Animation for 3. NBCUniversal chief Steve Burke discussed plans to revive the franchise, as well as other Dream. Works films. 89 In July 2. The Hollywood Reporter cited sources saying that the fifth film is planned for a 2. In September 2. 01. Eddie Murphy confirmed that the film is expected to be released in 2. The story for the film was written by Austin Powers writer, Michael Mc. Cullers, based on his own idea,1. Spin offseditPuss in Boots 2. Puss in Boots is a computer animated American action comedy film that was released on October 2.