Puss in Boots

Sometime before Puss (Antonio Banderas) meets Shrek and Donkey in Shrek 2, he arrives at a town while escaping a bounty hunter. There he learns that the outlaw couple Jack (Billy Bob Thornton) and Jill (Amy Sedaris) have the magic beans he's been looking for most of his life, beans that can lead him to a giant's castle holding valuable golden goose eggs.

When Puss tries to steal them from the outlaws' room, a masked cat (Salma Hayek) interrupts. Both fail and escape, He learns that the masked cat is Kitty Softpaws, and is shocked to learn that she is a girl. She is allied with Humpty Alexander Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis), a talking egg and Puss' long-estranged childhood friend from the orphanage where he was raised. Humpty attempts to convince Puss to join them in finding the beans and retrieving the golden eggs.

Critic Reviews:

• " Puss in Boots kind of surprised me. Far more witty then I expected it to be, nicely animated and featuring a charming story of forgiveness and redemption that belies its Shrek inspired fractured fairy tale roots, this movie more than won me over. " – SaraMichelle Fetters

• " It's all amiable stuff, with a perfectly decent script, and the feline hero lapping his milk gets an indulgent laugh. " – Peter Bradshaw

• " As an origin tale, it is a sharp and sophisticated piece of storytelling. " – Leigh Paatsch