Puss in Boots 2 Box Office Success Just Got a Hell of a Lot More Interesting
Puss in Boot 2, or Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, is an American animated film and the second installment of the 2011 movie Puss in Boots. The film is produced by Dreamworks. For more than two decades, the Shrek franchise has dominated popular culture and shown that other studios besides Pixar can be successful with computer-generated animation.
Even though Shrek himself had his last major motion picture adventure in 2010 with Shrek Forever After, Puss in Boot came out in 2011 as a prequel that explored his beginnings as an explorer. With the success of the first film, Dreamworks announced the sequel. The film is clawing to become Dreamworks’ success, given the studio’s most recent box office failure, Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.
An interesting twist in Puss in Boot 2 success
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, the sequel to 2011’s Puss in Boot, has been one of the biggest films from the Dreamworks studios. The film came out at the end of last year and was the biggest hit at the box office. After the major failure of Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, the sequel film has been a success at the box office.
Ruby Gillman represents the negative aspects of success for the major studio, giving Dreamworks it’s worst opening in the company’s nearly 30-year history. However, Puss in Boot 2 has managed to cover the $70 million budget of disastrous box office performance by Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.
The film struggled mightily at the box office and just managed a total gross of $12.8 million. Ruby Gillman, only made up 18% of its enormous $70 million budget. In comparison, the 2022 sequel of Puss in Boot by the studios outperformed it by a huge margin, earning $480.9 million worldwide on a budget that was only $20 million higher.
It puts sequel animations at the forefront of commercial possibilities and also demonstrates that not every modern animated film, such as Ruby Gillman’s Teenage Kraken from 2023, is a surefire success.
Puss in Boots 2 provides insight into the winning strategy and how the studios should presumably act in the future.
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What is Puss in Boots 2 about?
Puss in Boots 2 is a sequel to 2011’s Puss in Boots. The film came out in 2022, 11 years after the first. It saw Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek reprise their roles as Puss and Kitty, respectively. Along with that new performers like Harvey Guillén (as Perrito) and Florence Pugh (as Goldilocks) were added.
The film follows Puss, who has been seasoned by his experiences and decides to lay down his cloak and sword after realizing that he only has one life left to live out of nine. But when he learns that Goldilocks and the three bears are looking for a Wishing Star that might possibly give him his life back, he decides to embark on an adventure.
As Puss explored the final of his nine incarnations, the sequel offered more insight into the character’s subtleties. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish ultimately became to be one of the best Shrek pictures to appear in the last two decades.
Puss in Boots 2 is available to stream on Netflix.
Source: ScreenRant
