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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Movie

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

2022 • Animation, Action, Adventure

Woke Score
1
out of 10

Plot

When Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll and he has burned through eight of his nine lives, he launches an epic journey to restore them by finding the mythical Last Wish.

Overall Series Review

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish focuses on the universal themes of mortality, personal anxiety, and the value of relationships. The narrative centers on Puss in Boots’s journey to overcome his own arrogance and fear of death after losing eight of his nine lives. The main characters, including Kitty Softpaws and the dog Perrito, are judged purely by their compassion and moral choices rather than any immutable characteristic. One of the main antagonists, Jack Horner, is an irredeemably greedy human male who serves as a cautionary tale of endless consumption and entitlement. The central moral lesson is the appreciation of life and the found family one already has, contrasting with the relentless pursuit of a magical, perfect future. The film avoids political lecturing, presenting a classic hero's journey with existential depth.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics2/10

Characters are judged by the content of their soul, specifically their capacity for compassion and growth. The conflict revolves around Puss’s personal flaws: arrogance and vanity. The human villain, Jack Horner, is portrayed as irredeemably evil and consumed by entitlement and greed, which fits the vilification of a 'white male' archetype, but the non-animal characters are all fairy tale tropes.

Oikophobia1/10

The film’s central message is gratitude and acceptance of one’s current life and relationships. Institutions like family, whether biological or adopted, are celebrated as sources of strength and meaning, exemplified by Goldilocks learning to value her adoptive bear family and Puss finding belonging with Kitty and Perrito. There is no commentary on Western civilization as fundamentally corrupt.

Feminism2/10

Kitty Softpaws is a highly competent female character and Puss’s former love interest, but her arc focuses on the importance of mutual trust and commitment. Puss himself is initially a bumbling, deeply flawed male protagonist crippled by fear and arrogance who must improve himself. The female characters are not perfect or 'Mary Sues,' and the overall theme strongly celebrates familial bonds and relationship commitment, running counter to anti-natalism.

LGBTQ+1/10

The narrative centers on the traditional male-female pairing of Puss and Kitty. The concept of a 'found family' (Puss, Kitty, and Perrito, or Goldilocks and the Three Bears) is celebrated for its unconditional love and loyalty, not used as a vehicle to deconstruct the nuclear family or promote alternative sexual or gender ideologies.

Anti-Theism1/10

The core theme deals with the objective, transcendent truth of mortality, where Puss is forced to confront and accept Death as a natural force, which is a powerful moral and existential struggle. The villain is pure greed and entitlement, not a religious figure or institution. The resolution is an embrace of an objective moral law: cherish the one life given.