Freshly-released from prison, the infamous dog-botherer Cruella DeVil (Glenn Close) is apparently a reformed woman. So much so in fact, that she now owns her own dog shelter. But of course, it's not long before she's up to her old tricks, enlisting the help of Parisian designer Le Pelt (Gerard Depardieu), as she again attempts to realise her dream of owning a coat made from the fur of dalmation puppies. Never mind though, probation officer Chloe (Alice Evans) is keeping a watchful eye on Cruella, and with a little canine help she's going to do her best to foil the fur-lover's evil antics.
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We last saw Glenn Close as arch villainess Cruella De Vil in Disney’s hugely successful live action "101 Dalmatians” back ...
We last saw Glenn Close as arch villainess Cruella De Vil in Disney’s hugely successful live action "101 Dalmatians” back in 1996. As this sequel opens, a rehabilitated and puppy-loving Cruella is released from prison, but it’s only a matter of time before she returns to her old ways. Originally she needed 101 Dalmatian puppies to supply the fur for her dream coat, but now she needs one more (she decided to add a hood!). This sequel shares the high production values of its predecessor, with Glenn Close donning ever more outrageous black and white costumes, and elaborate sets that would be at home in one of director Kevin Lima’s previous animated movies. It also features the obligatory hoards of cuter-than-cute performing puppies, an over-the-top performance from Gerard Depardieu as an outrageous French fashion designer, and "Blackadder” star Tim McInnerny as Cruella’s long suffering valet. Ultimately though, this film is aimed fair and square at a kids audience, and does indeed hit its target. But be warned: if you’re the brave parent that volunteers to take a car-full of kids to see this at your local multiplex this Christmas you’ll find less to keep an adult amused this time round.3/5
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After all the hype, the counter-hype, the teaser trailers and the lack of press screenings and publicity, Gus Van Sant's ...
After all the hype, the counter-hype, the teaser trailers and the lack of press screenings and publicity, Gus Van Sant's reappraisal of Hitchcock's masterpiece is a big disappointment. Vince Vaughn is hopelessly miscast as Norman Bates (now a limp-wristed, giggling young man who isn't the least bit threatening), the mummy's boy who gives Anne Heche's fraudulent secretary a fright in the shower. The addition of a masturbation scene is made even more awful by some very suspect sound effects, but on the whole this is pretty close to the original. The famed shower scene is something of a washout in the new version, spiced up slightly for the '90s with shots of Heche's flesh hither and thither. Not so, much Psycho as Mildly Demented.
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