Disney
Cruella is a completely unnecessary movie. I know it is. You know it is.
It’s the latest in a long line of films and TV shows designed to tell us about the secret origins of beloved figures from earlier stories, in this case Cruella de Vil, the memorably fur coat-obsessed villain of Disney’s 1961 animated film
. Cruella’s origins lie in Dodie Smith’s 1956 novel
Why do we need to know more about the origins of Cruella, this time played by Emma Stone? Isn’t it enough to know that she wants to make a fur coat out of Dalmatians for some unspecified reason? Can’t the fact that she is a former classmate of Anita (the woman who owns Perdita, one of the two Dalmatians that kicks off the plot of the original story) be enough to serve as an inciting incident? What purpose is served by filling in the backstory about who Cruella is, what motivates her, and where she comes from? She hates puppies! That’s plenty! Why spend a gobsmacking 137 minutes on this? A Cruella de
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