Why is she giving them to Anita and Roger, anyway?
Cruella is friendly with Anita, her old schoolmate, so I can see why Cruella would choose her to receive a puppy, but there doesn’t seem to be any real reason why Roger would get one. The two characters barely interact, and on top of that, Cruella notes that he blames her for losing his job as lawyer for the Baroness (Emma Thompson). Meanwhile, this doesn’t seem like sufficient reason for him to write a whole song about how evil Cruella de Vil is, per the mid-credits scene, because, if anything, the Baroness was meaner to him than Cruella was. So, basically, Roger just gets a puppy in a half-baked and ill-conceived attempt to tie things back to the original
The new movie
Cruella is now playing in theaters and streaming on Disney+ with Premium Access. Make sure to stick around for the end credits scene when you watch the film!
There is a scene that happens after the credits that perfectly ties the events of the film to what happens in
101 Dalmatians.
This post will contain spoilers for the movie, so don’t continue reading if you don’t want to know what happens at the end of
Cruella.
Cruella follows the origin story of the
101 Dalmatians villain Cruella de Vil (
Emma Stone) and we learn that she was just a young girl, known as Estella, when her mother was killed by dalmatians owned by The Baroness (
Dodie Smith s 1956 children s novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians originally introduced the world to Cruella de Vil, a fashion-obsessed heiress who kidnaps