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While the original release of the film in French was in 2009, thus beating Dreamworks' ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'' to theaters by two years, it's clear that it was made to capitalize on the popularity of the ''Shrek'' version of the character and the FracturedFairyTale storytelling of that franchise. The English dub was released in 2011, a few months before Dreamworks' ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'', further leading to complaints in English-speaking media that it appeared to be a ripoff. The movie was critically panned for its ugly visuals, poor voice acting (especially William Shatner's ad-libbing), and its jumpy and incoherent plot.''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots''.
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''The True Story of Puss 'N Boots'' (''La véritable histoire du Chat Botté'') is a French animated film released for cinemas on April 1, 2009 in France and Belgium. The film is an interpretation of the classic fairy tale ''Literature/PussInBoots'' featuring new characters to flesh out the story.
The English dub was released in 2011, a few months before Dreamworks' ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'', leading it to be referred as a ripoff despite the two films having little in common. Despite this, the movie was critically panned for its offbeat visuals, poor voice acting, and long dialogue scenes.
The English dub was released in 2011, a few months before Dreamworks' ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'', leading it to be referred as a ripoff despite the two films having little in common. Despite this, the movie was critically panned for its offbeat visuals, poor voice acting, and long dialogue scenes.
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''The True Story of Puss 'N Boots'' (''La véritable histoire du Chat Botté'') is a French animated film released for cinemas on April 1, 2009 in France and Belgium. The film is an interpretation of the classic fairy tale''Literature/PussInBoots'' featuring new ''Literature/PussInBoots.'' While this version of the story uses the original fairy tale as its basis, it adds a great deal more subplots and characters and tries to flesh out give it a hip and modern twist. In this story, the story.
miller's son Peter often rows his boat to just under the Princess's tower window to hear her singing. When his father passes away, his brothers get the mill and he gets a cat with instructions from his dying father to "trust in your cat". Also to make him fine leather boots. Once Peter does, the cat gains the power to talk, becoming Puss 'n Boots, who's mission is to help Peter marry the Princess he's fallen for. Meanwhile, the dastardly Chamberlain is conspiring with a depressed, squid-shifting ogre to ensure he marries the Princess himself, but his plans start to go awry when he's suddenly being upstaged by the "Marquis of Carabas"... Peter's new identity crafted by the sneaky cat.
While the original release of the film in French was in 2009, thus beating Dreamworks' ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'' to theaters by two years, it's clear that it was made to capitalize on the popularity of the ''Shrek'' version of the character and the FracturedFairyTale storytelling of that franchise. The English dub was released in 2011, a few months before Dreamworks' ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'', further leading to complaints in English-speaking media that it appeared to bereferred as a ripoff despite the two films having little in common. Despite this, the ripoff. The movie was critically panned for its offbeat ugly visuals, poor voice acting, acting (especially William Shatner's ad-libbing), and long dialogue scenes.its jumpy and incoherent plot.
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''The True Story of Puss 'N Boots'' (''La véritable histoire du Chat Botté'') is a French animated film released for cinemas on April 1, 2009 in France and Belgium. The film is an interpretation of the classic fairy tale
While the original release of the film in French was in 2009, thus beating Dreamworks' ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'' to theaters by two years, it's clear that it was made to capitalize on the popularity of the ''Shrek'' version of the character and the FracturedFairyTale storytelling of that franchise. The English dub was released in 2011, a few months before Dreamworks' ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'', further leading to complaints in English-speaking media that it appeared to be
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* {{Mockbuster}}: Subverted as this film more follows the original fairy tale than Dreamworks' ''Puss in Boots''. It was also released two years earlier in cinemas, although the dubbed version was released a few months early as a means to capitalize on the latter film.
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* {{Mockbuster}}: Subverted as It's obvious from Puss' character design that the ''Shrek'' version of the character was the inspiration and while the French release was in 2009, a full two years before the Dreamworks film came out, this was well past the wildly popular ''Shrek'' characters introduction in ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'' and the production of the solo project featuring said character had already been well underway in 2004. It's hard to argue this movie would even exist without ''Shrek 2'' making the character so popular and thus appealing to get to market quickly to capitalize on the familiarity this incarnation of the character. The English dubs of this film weren't even released until just a few months before the Dreamworks film came out, clearly intending to capitalize on the long-delayed solo project finally coming out. Like many mockbusters using public domain characters that are currently popular from a more follows prominent adaptation, the film uses the original fairy tale than Dreamworks' ''Puss in Boots''. It was also released two years earlier in cinemas, although as its source material to get around legal complaints, but the dubbed FracturedFairyTale version was released a few months early as a means this movie tells is another reference to capitalize on the latter film.''Shrek'' franchise. Besides, the point of a {{Mockbuster}} is to trick grandma at the supermarket, the content of the film is secondary to the lure of box art using characters that look suspiciously similar to a famous IP.
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: The Chamberlain's method of disposing the Princess' potential male suitors is to transform them into toads and give them to the Ogre.
* PoliceAreUseless: Everyone in the castle calls out on the Chamberlain for his terrible job at maintaining the police force.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Most of the music are remixes of various classical music.
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* PoliceAreUseless: For once it's deliberate! Everyone in the castle calls out on the Chamberlain for his terrible job at maintaining the police force.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Most of the music are remixes of various classicalmusic.music, such as the kazoo version of "Fur Elise" that opens the picture and the Princess singing a pop version of Mozart's "Queen of the Night Aria."
* PoliceAreUseless: For once it's deliberate! Everyone in the castle calls out on the Chamberlain for his terrible job at maintaining the police force.
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* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: The US release of the movie credits William Shatner as Puss, but the rest of the cast are incorrectly the French actors. This also gives a false impression to French viewers that Shatner was involved in the French version, despite the fact he doesn't. The Canadian release does correctly give the rest of the cast of the English voices.
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* BigBrotherBully: Peter’s older brothers kick him out of the windmill after their father’s death and they mock him by telling him that he’ll end up in the Ogre’s castle.
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* DigitalDestruction: The version originally uploaded on Tubi was less colorful and had green lines placed on the bottom on the screen. However, it was fixed sometime in 2022.
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I'm not an ordinary trrrrrrrrrrrrrroper, I have boooooooots
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''The True Story of Puss 'N Boots'' (''La véritable histoire du Chat Botté'') is a French animated film released for cinemas on April 1, 2009 in France and Belgium. The film is an interpretation of the classic fairy tale ''Literature/PussInBoots'' featuring new characters to flesh out the story.
The English dub was released in 2011, a few months before Dreamworks' ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'', leading it to be referred as a ripoff despite the two films having little in common. Despite this, the movie was critically panned for its offbeat visuals, poor voice acting, and long dialogue scenes.
!!''The True Story of Puss 'N Boots'' provides the following tropes:
*AdaptationExpansion: The film adds scenes to flesh out the characters. For example, the Ogre has his own chef and servants as well as a backstory.
*AdaptationalHeroism: Some of the more villainous acts Puss does in the fairy tale are either toned down or transferred to other characters. For example, his threats towards the countryfolk are instead serious warnings from the Queen's retribution.
*AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: When Puss points towards the Princess (who is in her disguise) and asks Peter for his opinion, Peter says "not bad". Puss clarifies he meant her performance, and Peter reassures his thoughts.
*AscendedExtra: The Princess has more presence and contributes a bit to the story.
*BasedOnATrueStory: The title is a slight jab on Dreamworks' version of ''PussInBoots'' which took the character in a different direction instead of being truer to the source material.
*BoyishShortHair: The Princess sports a pixie cut.
*BrickJoke: Puss' introduction has him asking Peter if he could get boots with higher heels. Peter angrily says no because it's his last day in the mill and doesn't want to spend it making boots. At the end, Peter makes custom heeled boots for the Princess and gives her old heels to Puss as a farewell present.
*BrightCastle: Placed in the middle of a lake with a thin land bridge connecting the small island to the main land.
*ButNowIMustGo: Peter leaves with the Princess to an unknown location with Puss staying behind.
*CannotSpitItOut: The Princess pressures Peter to tell the truth once she finds out he's not really the Marquis. When he tries to do so, he's interrupted by someone else enforcing his lie and appeasing the Queen.
*CassandraTruth: The Chamberlain is the first one who knows that Puss and Peter are lying and frequently tells the truth in front of the Queen, but because he has a horrid reputation and is annoying, the Queen dismisses him.
*ChekhovsSkill: The Princess' singing helps out in calming the Ogre down.
*ClarkKenting: The Princess' public disguise is a black version of her normal clothes plus gloves, boots, and a domino mask. Her guards are worse; they wear palette swapped versions of their uniforms and sunglasses. Peter is fooled by it until the Princess reveals her mask during the ball.
*ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Puss' boots enable him both SuperSpeed and [[InASingleBound large leaps]].
*CourtJester: A supporting character and the Princess's companion. Puss doesn't find him funny.
*DisproportionateRetribution: Lying to the King and Queen results in one's body to be grinded into hamburger meat. The castle even has a banner with a meat grinder imprinted to prove their point.
*EvilOldFolks: The Chamberlain's age is not given, but he explicitly says that he hates young men.
*FairytaleWeddingDress: The Princess wears one at the end. The bottom of her dress has multiple butterflies that fly out from it.
*FatteningTheVictim: The toads are thrown food scraps from the chef before they're served to the Ogre.
*FourthDateMarriage: Peter and the Princess marry a few days after they meet. They do get a few scenes together instead of the Princess immediately falling in love with him.
*{{Gonk}}: A few characters are this with the Chamberlain being the most prominent example.
*HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Chamberlain eats one of his transformation candies out of desperation to get away from the Queen.
*IncessantMusicMadness: Doctor Marcel's music is used to calm the Ogre down. It's always the same ditty despite the Ogre's frequent requests for a new song. Eventually, he gets sick of it and continues his rampage. He calms down again when he hears the Princess sing and is relieved to hear something new.
*HatedByAll: No one likes the Chamberlain due to his annoyance and incompetency. The Hunchback is the one who isn't bothered by him, and the Queen still has him employed for some reason. Once the Chamberlain spills his plans, the Queen finally gets fed up with him and the Hunchback doesn't intervene.
*HorseOfADifferentColor: Ostriches are used in place of horses.
*LoveAtFirstNote: Peter's fell in love with the Princess' singing and would often ride his boat close to the castle so he could hear her songs better.
*MaintainTheLie: Puss and Peter spend the second act lying about being royalty. Once the Queen insists in visiting Peter's castle, Puss orders the country folk to tell the Queen that Peter owns the land. Like in the fairy tale, both characters succeed in convincing the royal couple.
*{{Mockbuster}}: Subverted as this film more follows the original fairy tale than Dreamworks' ''Puss in Boots''. It was also released two years earlier in cinemas, although the dubbed version was released a few months early as a means to capitalize on the latter film.
*ModestRoyalty: The Princess main attire is a pair of pants, a shirt, and a cropped jacket. Her parents are dressed in robes and have a fair amount of jewelry on them.
*MovingTheGoalposts: When the Jester informs that the Princess can only marry an excellent dancer, the Chamberlain insists her future husband to be a royal or perhaps a Chamberlain. The Queen is repulsed by his idea.
*MsFanservice: The Princess and the tavern's owner have an ImpossibleHourglassFigure and large rears. The film is not shameful in [[MaleGaze emphasizing them]], especially on the Princess as she has tighter clothing.
*MurderTheHypotenuse: The Chamberlain's method of disposing the Princess' potential male suitors is to transform them into toads and give them to the Ogre.
*PoliceAreUseless: Everyone in the castle calls out on the Chamberlain for his terrible job at maintaining the police force.
*PublicDomainSoundtrack: Most of the music are remixes of various classical music.
*OutOfFocus: Characters tend to fade in and out from the story. Some of them don't even show up for the wedding.
*KingIncognito: The Princess often disguises herself as a commoner and performs in public areas.
*RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Despite her drunk and spaced out mannerisms, the Queen is astute in interviewing as to sniff out any liars. Averted for the King, who spends most of the film sleeping and/or dozed out.
*SeeThruSpecs: The Princess uses special eyeglasses given by her godmother to reveal Peter's true self.
*SmoochOfVictory: Peter and the Princess share one at the end after the Queen is convinced and the Chamberlain runs away.
*SparedByTheAdaptation: The Ogre does not get eaten by Puss. Instead, he's tricked into transforming into a duck and walks free.
*StaffOfAuthority: A regal flyswatter for some unknown reason.
*SurpriseWitness: The Chamberlain second-to-last attempt to expose Peter is by bringing his brothers to the Queen. This ultimately fails as Peter confidently continues his lie with his brothers' full support.
*TalkingAnimal: Alongside Puss in Boots, there's Doctor Marcel the talking monkey.
*TrickingTheShapeshifter: Unlike in the fairy tale, Puss fails to persuade the Ogre to transform into a mouse. Puss does convince him to eat one of the candies to turn into a duck.
*VillainousBreakdown: The Chamberlain freaks out after realizing the Ogre is not in the castle anymore, and blurts out in front of the Queen that he's been doing all of the misdeeds.
*WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: The Jester asks the Princess this with her responding that it's Peter's niceness. The Jester retorts that no one just marries someone because they're nice.
*WhatsUpKingDude: Downplayed. Visiting the castle requires someone of high importance, however the royal ball is a first come first served basis regardless of social standing, such as Peter's brothers.
*YoungestChildWins: Peter eventually gets the best deal out of the three brothers. The eldest two aren't much bothered by it at the end.
*YouHaveWaitedLongEnough: The Chamberlain first piece of dialogue is informing the Queen that the Princess should already marry someone. The Queen not only is confused by his idea, but she never pressures her daughter about it.
*WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Ogre's servants and chef disappear after Puss turns the Ogre into a duck.
The English dub was released in 2011, a few months before Dreamworks' ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'', leading it to be referred as a ripoff despite the two films having little in common. Despite this, the movie was critically panned for its offbeat visuals, poor voice acting, and long dialogue scenes.
!!''The True Story of Puss 'N Boots'' provides the following tropes:
*AdaptationExpansion: The film adds scenes to flesh out the characters. For example, the Ogre has his own chef and servants as well as a backstory.
*AdaptationalHeroism: Some of the more villainous acts Puss does in the fairy tale are either toned down or transferred to other characters. For example, his threats towards the countryfolk are instead serious warnings from the Queen's retribution.
*AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: When Puss points towards the Princess (who is in her disguise) and asks Peter for his opinion, Peter says "not bad". Puss clarifies he meant her performance, and Peter reassures his thoughts.
*AscendedExtra: The Princess has more presence and contributes a bit to the story.
*BasedOnATrueStory: The title is a slight jab on Dreamworks' version of ''PussInBoots'' which took the character in a different direction instead of being truer to the source material.
*BoyishShortHair: The Princess sports a pixie cut.
*BrickJoke: Puss' introduction has him asking Peter if he could get boots with higher heels. Peter angrily says no because it's his last day in the mill and doesn't want to spend it making boots. At the end, Peter makes custom heeled boots for the Princess and gives her old heels to Puss as a farewell present.
*BrightCastle: Placed in the middle of a lake with a thin land bridge connecting the small island to the main land.
*ButNowIMustGo: Peter leaves with the Princess to an unknown location with Puss staying behind.
*CannotSpitItOut: The Princess pressures Peter to tell the truth once she finds out he's not really the Marquis. When he tries to do so, he's interrupted by someone else enforcing his lie and appeasing the Queen.
*CassandraTruth: The Chamberlain is the first one who knows that Puss and Peter are lying and frequently tells the truth in front of the Queen, but because he has a horrid reputation and is annoying, the Queen dismisses him.
*ChekhovsSkill: The Princess' singing helps out in calming the Ogre down.
*ClarkKenting: The Princess' public disguise is a black version of her normal clothes plus gloves, boots, and a domino mask. Her guards are worse; they wear palette swapped versions of their uniforms and sunglasses. Peter is fooled by it until the Princess reveals her mask during the ball.
*ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Puss' boots enable him both SuperSpeed and [[InASingleBound large leaps]].
*CourtJester: A supporting character and the Princess's companion. Puss doesn't find him funny.
*DisproportionateRetribution: Lying to the King and Queen results in one's body to be grinded into hamburger meat. The castle even has a banner with a meat grinder imprinted to prove their point.
*EvilOldFolks: The Chamberlain's age is not given, but he explicitly says that he hates young men.
*FairytaleWeddingDress: The Princess wears one at the end. The bottom of her dress has multiple butterflies that fly out from it.
*FatteningTheVictim: The toads are thrown food scraps from the chef before they're served to the Ogre.
*FourthDateMarriage: Peter and the Princess marry a few days after they meet. They do get a few scenes together instead of the Princess immediately falling in love with him.
*{{Gonk}}: A few characters are this with the Chamberlain being the most prominent example.
*HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Chamberlain eats one of his transformation candies out of desperation to get away from the Queen.
*IncessantMusicMadness: Doctor Marcel's music is used to calm the Ogre down. It's always the same ditty despite the Ogre's frequent requests for a new song. Eventually, he gets sick of it and continues his rampage. He calms down again when he hears the Princess sing and is relieved to hear something new.
*HatedByAll: No one likes the Chamberlain due to his annoyance and incompetency. The Hunchback is the one who isn't bothered by him, and the Queen still has him employed for some reason. Once the Chamberlain spills his plans, the Queen finally gets fed up with him and the Hunchback doesn't intervene.
*HorseOfADifferentColor: Ostriches are used in place of horses.
*LoveAtFirstNote: Peter's fell in love with the Princess' singing and would often ride his boat close to the castle so he could hear her songs better.
*MaintainTheLie: Puss and Peter spend the second act lying about being royalty. Once the Queen insists in visiting Peter's castle, Puss orders the country folk to tell the Queen that Peter owns the land. Like in the fairy tale, both characters succeed in convincing the royal couple.
*{{Mockbuster}}: Subverted as this film more follows the original fairy tale than Dreamworks' ''Puss in Boots''. It was also released two years earlier in cinemas, although the dubbed version was released a few months early as a means to capitalize on the latter film.
*ModestRoyalty: The Princess main attire is a pair of pants, a shirt, and a cropped jacket. Her parents are dressed in robes and have a fair amount of jewelry on them.
*MovingTheGoalposts: When the Jester informs that the Princess can only marry an excellent dancer, the Chamberlain insists her future husband to be a royal or perhaps a Chamberlain. The Queen is repulsed by his idea.
*MsFanservice: The Princess and the tavern's owner have an ImpossibleHourglassFigure and large rears. The film is not shameful in [[MaleGaze emphasizing them]], especially on the Princess as she has tighter clothing.
*MurderTheHypotenuse: The Chamberlain's method of disposing the Princess' potential male suitors is to transform them into toads and give them to the Ogre.
*PoliceAreUseless: Everyone in the castle calls out on the Chamberlain for his terrible job at maintaining the police force.
*PublicDomainSoundtrack: Most of the music are remixes of various classical music.
*OutOfFocus: Characters tend to fade in and out from the story. Some of them don't even show up for the wedding.
*KingIncognito: The Princess often disguises herself as a commoner and performs in public areas.
*RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Despite her drunk and spaced out mannerisms, the Queen is astute in interviewing as to sniff out any liars. Averted for the King, who spends most of the film sleeping and/or dozed out.
*SeeThruSpecs: The Princess uses special eyeglasses given by her godmother to reveal Peter's true self.
*SmoochOfVictory: Peter and the Princess share one at the end after the Queen is convinced and the Chamberlain runs away.
*SparedByTheAdaptation: The Ogre does not get eaten by Puss. Instead, he's tricked into transforming into a duck and walks free.
*StaffOfAuthority: A regal flyswatter for some unknown reason.
*SurpriseWitness: The Chamberlain second-to-last attempt to expose Peter is by bringing his brothers to the Queen. This ultimately fails as Peter confidently continues his lie with his brothers' full support.
*TalkingAnimal: Alongside Puss in Boots, there's Doctor Marcel the talking monkey.
*TrickingTheShapeshifter: Unlike in the fairy tale, Puss fails to persuade the Ogre to transform into a mouse. Puss does convince him to eat one of the candies to turn into a duck.
*VillainousBreakdown: The Chamberlain freaks out after realizing the Ogre is not in the castle anymore, and blurts out in front of the Queen that he's been doing all of the misdeeds.
*WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: The Jester asks the Princess this with her responding that it's Peter's niceness. The Jester retorts that no one just marries someone because they're nice.
*WhatsUpKingDude: Downplayed. Visiting the castle requires someone of high importance, however the royal ball is a first come first served basis regardless of social standing, such as Peter's brothers.
*YoungestChildWins: Peter eventually gets the best deal out of the three brothers. The eldest two aren't much bothered by it at the end.
*YouHaveWaitedLongEnough: The Chamberlain first piece of dialogue is informing the Queen that the Princess should already marry someone. The Queen not only is confused by his idea, but she never pressures her daughter about it.
*WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Ogre's servants and chef disappear after Puss turns the Ogre into a duck.
