Since Cruella seems to be the talk of the town, thought I'd post my summary of the movie in case people don't want to subject themselves to it.
I PRETTY MUCH SPOIL THE ENTIRE THING SO BE WARNED
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So the movie starts with child cruella. She's like 10 or something. She doesn't fit in because of her hair and because she's determined. She gets bullied or whatever, but she's still a sweet kid. She's also always been into fashion and stuff.
She gets into fights and gets expelled from school so her and her mom leave town. They're poor so mom needs to make a stop which is at this really extravagant party. Curious, ella follows her mom into the party (her puppy in tow) and shenanigans ensue. She then starts being chased by the dalmatians.
She ends up outside, where her mom is talking to another woman (conveniently next to a cliff) and ella hides behind a bush. We hear the mom asking the woman for money to survive and she threatens with "telling everyone the truth"Â
A dog whistle is heard and the dogs jump over ella and attack the mom, pushing her into the cliff. Turns out the lady had trained them to attack on command.
Big twist reveal that happens later in the movie is that the lady the mom was talking to is a baroness, and cruella's REAL mother who had given away cruella after birth to be disposed of. However, her manservant decided to hide baby cruella and give her to a kind maid who was working at the manor (cruella's adopted mom)
Cruella thinks she caused her mom's death, so she runs away. She finds her way into town, gets found by two boys (her goons) and they grow up together. Ten years pass. the three of them survive by committing petty theft and scams. Cruella makes their costumes.
On her birthday, she gets a job application to work at a clothing design shop or something, since she's always been obsessed with fashion. Shenanigans ensue, she gets discovered by Baroness, a famous fashion designer (and the villain) and gets hired by her. She works her way to the top, and gets noticed by baroness, becoming like her assistant.
After seeing she's wearing her dead mother's necklace, she puts two and two together and devices a way to steal from her. (The movie feels like a heist movie sometimes)
As a distraction while her goons do the work, Estella comes up with "Cruella," a separate persona, and she crashes a baroness party.
Cruella becomes kind of a popular figure, like a phantom thief/fashionista and keeps upstaging the baroness at her fashion shows.
Shenanigans ensue, (the costumes are great btw) and eventually both cruella and baroness find each other out. Baroness tries to kill cruella, but she is saved by the manservant again (this is where she learns baroness is her mom and the true heir to their fortuneor whatever)
Yadda yadda, she and her goons plot revenge, they come up with a scheme to make it look like baroness is trying to kill cruella (or rather, estella, her assistant) in front of all her guests.
Before everything, estella leaves everything in her inheritance to "cruella" (who people don't know is actually estella because she wears a wig i guess) and so in the end, they hold a fake funeral for estella as she and her goons and her dogs move into the manor.
At some point, anita and roger are there (the owners of the dalmatians from the cartoon) and there's this whole bit where one baroness's dalmatians swallows the necklace, and at the end, she adopts the three dalmatians and there's like a mid credit scene where the dalmatians had puppies so she sends one to roger and anita (that's right, pongo and perdita) and that's how it ends.
So yeah. Saved ya some money and two hours lol. I had fun with it, and it was over the top and ridiculous, but overall not as terrible as i expected. The costumes were beautiful and the cgi was horrendous lol.
