Cruella LITERALLY Gave Me A Concussion 

I actually think she’s SUPPOSED to be a narcissist/unreliable narrator.

Fun fact having a white part of the hair is a genetic thing in reality I knew a girl in my school who had it an basically everyone thought it was so cool especially the anime kids So

Hollywood (especially Disney) loves lazy writing and the insufferable genius is one of their most overdone tropes (think Sheldon Cooper, Morty, Tony Stark, Sherlock, etc.). Disney seems to have decided that the insufferable genius trope wasn't enough for their female characters and decided to go full blown psychotic genius (think Maleficent, Ursula, Madame Medusa, etc.). Kinda shows you what Disney thinks about women that they are all either helpless & gullible or evil and cruel...

Ah, I didn't notice the movie was "woke" actually. I liked the movie, however... I looked at it with a specific way of viewing - 1. I skipped the childhood part, didn't watch it at all, it's a boring needless setup. 2. I completely detached the movie from the original Cruella, for me, this movie and the original animation have nothing in common. 3. I didn't expect to like the movie while watching it. The result is, that for me, the movie is pretty much about the fashion industry... Sort of an odd perspective upon how a fashion artist succeeds in the world... And yeah, the narcissism, weird behavior and various gestures seems fitting, it's not a child film. There's a reason why people keep mentioning the fashion part when saying they like the movie - That's the only part there that comes with direction, thought and actual effort. The movie would have benefited much more if it had nothing to do with Cruella, because these parts about the movie, the whole drama of her childhood/family/reverge story, these parts are terrible, because they have nothing to do with the core of the movie - The cutthroat fashion industry. Oddly enough, the fashion industry does have allot of dark backgrounds... I feel like this movie would have made a whole lot more sense if it focused on one of the prominent figures in the fashion industry around the years the movie takes part in. There's a very good movie hidden in the Cruella coat, the whole Disney act sets the core back in my opinion. The movie has a soul, it's trapped in Disney. Strangely enough, this type of movie, as a "woke" type of movie, fits to be one - it's the Fashion industry.

I like Cruella, i admit, so its hard to me hearing you crictize the movie. But you made good points here, and you are rigth. I kinda now see why the movie feels a little bit weird or uncomfortable for me. That bescause of Cruella apology scene! You see, Cruella just says sorry and tells her friends about her sad childhood, but she treat them bad for most of the movie, so i feel that apology wasnt enough to made up for the stuff she did for them.

How the hell did Disney make the perfect Webtoons protagonist?

TBH I actually enjoyed the movie. I just feel like it was okay as a story, but featuring CRUELLA is a sin. They could've slapped on a different name, given her a different reason for being bullied, and spawned a different dog breed.

The theory my mom and I have for both cruela and maleficant is that they’re both alternate universes and they aren’t the same person from the original source material

You said everything I wanted to say about this movie. I am so tired of Disney lacking creativity and reusing the same characters just to leech as much money from nostalgia as they can. Theyre don’t care about anyone, the only thing they look for is money. They don’t care about their own characters, their viewers, feminism, gay people, black people, etc. It makes me sad to see so many people truly believe that Disney is doing all this for good when really, it’s just to turn a profit. Disney is extremely manipulative and I wish more people saw it.

4:39 I almost thought you were going to use the Austrian painter as an example of someone who had a bad childhood.

ngl this movie mightve worked if it was just something on its own and not so badly written, or maybe like an au where she doesnt want skin puppies for a stupid fur coat

You actually brought up a lot of points I never thought about. Great video!

If they wanted to pull a Wicked with Cruella Devil, they should have changed the story instead of trying to cram the original into a new story. The problem is that Disney wanted a remake but wanted to pretend that they could write new stories.

I went to this movie and left feeling weird and never desired to watch it again. The path of its logic didn't make sense and the only pass I gave it was that it showed she was self-centered and valued status and power above all else. She could be very cruel to get what she wants, and that lined up well with her future self. As you pointed out though, the direction of the film signalled that we should care about her, and that it all made sense why she bacame so angry and callous. It really didn't.... I thought they were showing that she'd forfeit or twist logic if it didn't suit her narrative to identify she's a narcissist, yet as you spoke on the behaviour of the other characters in the film, the more it seems like a narcissist wrote the bloody script itself. Her "friends" that she took for granted and used seemed to just play along at the end even though they didn't accept her behaviour at a core level. Seeing you rant about this film and break it down to its basics has helped me realize where my feelings leaving the theatre came from and why this movie had no impact on me. Thank you for taking the time to make this and vent to all of us about it! Unlike the movie, I really enjoyed your video about it.

It’s a good video but I don’t like how you’re pulling up narcissism a lot. I think it’s a misunderstood mental disorder but idk. I have no clue how they thought they can take a puppy k-ller and make her… likeable? They failed so hard. Though I’m kind of glad nobody likes Disney’s stuff anymore.

2:40 I'm not even kidding you when i say i saluted at the "should've been born American" part before the visual gag! I'M NOT KIDDING!! HOW THE HELL DID I HAVE SUCH BEAUTIFUL TIMING?!?!?! HOW?!?!!!!!!

4:22 Baby Genius in the background! I haven't seen that movie since I was in 1st grade!

The moment i saw that they were trying to make cruella a good person with the trailer i said out loud "why are we excited to make a person who skins puppies for a coat a role model?" The way my friend at the time tried to justified it. I was like nah lol either go the whole mile to make cruella CRUEL and an actual horrid human being or don't do it at all. Cause then we get this trash.

ngl this movie probably would've been 10x more enjoyable to watch if 1). it was inspired by cruella, rather than being a direct backstory of her, and 2). if it was 2d animated.

The video editing is masterful, and that narrator girl is so gorgeous and intelligent.

Huh, women, am I right?🎉

2:25 See my other comment. Words like "narcissist" and "narcissistic" villify people with NPD for the simple fact that they have a disorder that warps their perception of the world. Having NPD does not automatically make you a terrible person and using these words to describe terrible people adds to the stigma that SAYS everyone with NPD is an abusive, manipulative, irredeemable villain.

I absolutely DESPISE how movies and how people portray feminism as if it's something like 'Oh we're women, we want rights, we are better, men SUCK!' Because that's not it AT ALL! Feminism is about equal rights, for example, man earns more money than woman, 'womanly' items cost more compared to men (pink tax), etc etc. A real feminist does not want to be superior unless everyone else is too, which just means equality. The message of feminism has been completely twisted and turned to a whole new meaning and it's so STUPID! The sad thing is, more and more movies (such as this one) keep coming out with the wrong portrayal, which keeps spreading the wrong message. I wish it would just stop so the actual women who are suffering can say their truth. I also don't understand how Cruella is tried to be pictured as a misjudged villian... She's JUST a villian who wants to harm dogs.

Matty: Everyone was bullied in grade school! Me(the bully in grade school):👀👀

I think they should have just embraced that she’s a bad guy?? I think this was supposed to be a movie about her from inception but the reason why Maleficent worked and this didn’t is… Maleficent is retaliating to what was considered a MASSIVE slight- not being invited to a royal christening. She’s actively trying to make King Stefan suffer for looking down on her. That’s Fae behaviour. You can build on that. Cruella is just a lady so obsessed with herself and furs that she is willing to kill puppies. You can’t build on that in a sympathetic way unless you lean into WHY she’s so self-absorbed and obsessed with furs. Because it wasn’t fashion she loved, it was FURS. Also if Anita knew her before she was Cruella she would just call her Estella. Her name literally just was Cruella DeVil.

Great video! I liked the part where

Watched cruella on an 18 hour airplane flight, and I LITERALLY remember nothing

Gravepost but.. This movie is almost perfect in how it takes a thing that is a very bad caricature of what a girl boss stereotype is and portrays it as something to be celebrated. I almost feel that the movie lands somewhere between subversive masterpiece (If you call being subversive to disney adults hard), Disney going completely mask off on how they feel about girlbosses, and some weird social experiment that capstones a trend of having increasingly badly written girl boss characters in their live action films being lauded for their bad girlbossiness. Was that the point? I just struggle coming to grips with how perfectly opposite each girlboss trait is represented, and that being lazy.

Wait until they make the 100000’th first gay character in a Disney film 😂 It never ends

I was not expecting a Krull cameo at the end there

Finally someone who also hates this movie

When I first saw the cutting-off-parts-of-a-dress scene without seeing the movie, I thought the Baroness was Cruela, not the red-haired girl who made the dress

2:33 “people” 😭

8:40 damn she went off 😭

6:41 what an entry-level position at a big company working on something I haven’t gone to school and worked my ass off for I can’t believe it😱 those darn misogynist

I mean her name is literally Cruella “DEV IL”

I actually like this movie… just not in the context of the way it’s made. I like the movie if I divorce it from the source material and viewing her as a villain I love to hate.

ngl I really didn't see how this movie was abt feminism at all, I think that helped me like the movie also cuz I didn't associate it with the older ones. I thought Estella always felt envy for baroness and was fueled to do smthing after finding out about her mom. Shes always just been a bad person in this movie for me

9:17 comment trope now a days that pisses me off

This is the best movie review I've seen of Cruella lol EVER

The only Disney live action i will stand behinf is Cinderella 2015. And don't even get me on how angered about the new "snow white" uuudntdhgdgffbgd

I more or less agree with you, as a stand alone movie I enjoyed it but looking at it as a "pre sequel" it doesn't make much sense.

Can we PLEASE stop using "narcissistic" to describe characters that are full of themselves. You are actively contributing to the stigma around NPD which does not automatically make people willing to skin puppies for their own pleasure.

3:39 and if they do it was secretly for the validation of a boy yep because accountability doesn’t exist in the feminist vocab

You have to think about it Cruella was supposed to be a narcissist character and so did her mother and if you think about the time setting this was when still men were in the social hierarchy more powerful than women sure there were women who had some power but more men had power in the social hierarchy so that's why more male characters acted bossy and arrogant that was because they knew that they were on top and they just discriminated women and to be honest there are many movies that do the same trip where someone does a bad deed and gets rewarded for it so I really don't see any reason to be mad at the Corella movie for this because so many good movies do it and they become masterpieces sure there are some things wrong with the Cruella movie and you shouldn't sympathize with her that's not what the movie is truly about the movie that Cruella is about is understanding why a character is how they are no one really sad for us to sympathize with her the real truth playing the movie starts to understand her and how she became who she is sure they use it but that's not really the main point of the story but that's just my opinion

18:32 isn't this... the plot of that one Barbie movie?

Ngl I really enjoyed the movie

1:50 90% of todays media

Comment for the algorithm, since this is a good video

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