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[–] markz@suppo.fi 41 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

Didn't they make one recently where they tried to spin the villain solely known for turning puppies into purses as good?

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Yep and they do that by making it not even believably the same character.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

They explore an alternate story. Sometimes they do that and explore fun scenarios like "what if Cruella DeVil was a somewhat decent person" or "what if all the heroes lived together and operated a magical ghetto and also brought their enemies back from the dead specifically so they could force them to live in squalor in the ghetto forever". Fun little alternate stories.

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm struggling to see the link between that and 101 Dalmatians.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

It's probably how the real Cruela would tell her backstory, making herself the victim

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The movie itself is excellent. However there is one horrible almost meme like scene where dalmatians run into a fancy party and kill Cruella's mother. If you ignore that scene, it's a great movie.

[–] viral.vegabond@piefed.social 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It might actually be a good thing that they made the dalmatians seem very mean/vicious.

The original movies were so popular that it actually caused a big problem for the breed. Many people got dalmatians without doing their research first. They're a very active breed, and require lots of exercise. Without proper exercise and socialization, they can become quite the trouble makers and this kind of gave them a bad reputation...

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Without proper exercise and socialization, they can become quite the trouble makers

that's pretty much true of any dog... but I guess dalmatians even more so?

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 hour ago

Not really "more so" just "more likely to become" as the minimum requirements are higher and thus easier to fail to meet.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yeah and it's pretty good I thought. Shits on the old story but I care not.

[–] viral.vegabond@piefed.social 7 points 5 hours ago

Cruella was excellent, in my opinion of course 😁