: She was mean and vain and, more importantly, totally unrepentant about slaughtering puppies. The new moviefilmmaker Craig Gillespie and out this Friday in theaters and on Disney+, purports to explain how she became the “inhuman beast” we know from her theme song, and the results are mixed. On the one hand, it’s fabulous-looking fun, and thankfully not the-but-a-woman story the trailers seemed to suggest.
Emma Stone stars as Estella, whose mother uses the nickname “Cruella” to chide her whenever she’s being particularly naughty. When an incident causes her mother’s untimely death, Estella blames herself, and does her best to put her Cruella side away while teaming up with fellowesque orphans Jasper and Horace to make a living pulling various small cons. When she manages to land a job in a fashion house run by the famous Baroness , she resolves to stick to the straight and narrow.
Loved that movie!