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101 Dalmatians
Film
FilmPG-132021
Cruella
Directed by Craig Gillespie
In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella’s flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly… From TMDB
241 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
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| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 6 |
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Cruella is a 2021 comedy crime film, directed by Craig Gillespie, starring Emma Stone, Emma Thompson and Joel Fry.
- 225 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
- posts span May 26, 2021 to Nov 3, 2026
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60 of 241 · most liked firstI also believe that the movie "Cruella" is a white-washing biopic commisioned in universe by Cruella de Vil herself.
negative · AI labelView post →there is no better evidence that out of touch billionaires are running entertainment than the existence of the Cruella movie
negative · AI labelView post →I’m just gonna say it, I think “Cruella” is an absolute hoot of a movie. IDC IDC. It’s a 70s fashion fairy tale AND it features the dog who plays the role of Betty on #WillTrent.
positive · AI labelView post →I thought it was neat when people brought dogs to outdoor restaurants during COVID, and then within 24 months all of a sudden people were bringing them in grocery stores and movie theaters and I am now on the side of Cruella De Ville.
neutral · AI labelView post →Two things. 1: This looks like the trailer for a new Cruella film. It's physically impossible to make her a sympathetic character. 2: The fact they include her saying she can't be bothered to watch her husband on the news *in the trailer* is hilarious.
neutral · AI labelView post →Baloney. Cruella de Noem can go down there and film a propaganda video using prisoners as props flashing her fancy watch, she can haul her sorry ass back to get this innocent man out and to his wife and children.
neutral · AI labelView post →I like the Cruella movie because it went out of its way to show how cunning and badass this person is who will later in life be defeated by several baby dogs
positive · AI labelView post →The Maleficent and Cruella movies were already goddamn pointless and this idea is even MORE goddamn pointless. Gaston was already a brilliant subversion of the "mighty hero" trope. He's the kind of character who would've been the main good guy in most movies. deadline.com/2025/12/disn...
negative · AI labelView post →One of them pushed my mom over a cliff like in the Cruella movie
neutral · AI labelView post →I still can’t believe that the Cruella de Vil movie gave her the origin story of “out for revenge because a dog shot her mom.”
negative · AI labelView post →Cruella had a tragic backstory. (I think, I didn’t see the movie.) I don’t think Palin has. Though, to be fair, killing puppies is more a Kristi Noem thing.
neutral · AI labelView post →Cruella was an okay film. It's still UNBELIEVABLY WEIRD that they went "Hey you know the lady who wants to murder dogs? She wants to murder them for fun? She doesn't need to do it at all and specifically does it to PUPPIES? LETS MAKE HER A HERO" its a weird one LOL
neutral · AI labelView post →This reminds me of the Cruella movie where it’s all about counter culture punk rock but at the end of the day it’s still a Disney film, and never really goes far enough to do anything with the material. I still love the movie and the fashion in it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ya know, people weren't huge fans of Maleficent and Cruella. But I actually think those are BETTER (even if simply in concept) than most of the live action remakes because they don't just do "same exact movie but way more dull". They actually made completely new stories, and imo interesting ideas.
positive · AI labelView post →Remember there was a Cruella de Vil prequel movie and part of her origin story was “her mother was killed by dalmatians”?
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally found a way to re-watch this movie, and i'll say it's definitely not boring but not much like the adventure films I grew up watching. Like one user said in my replies, it does get way dark in the climax with Cruella but of course because she's the selling point
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched 101 Dalmatians for the first time since early childhood and I’m sorry but Cruella DeVille is the unambiguous protagonist of this movie
positive · AI labelView post →What’s next, a film humanizing the puppy murderer Cruella de Vil? *touches earpiece* What’s that now?
neutral · AI labelView post →Madam Cruella and I are considering holding a caning competition sometime within the next couple of months, which we would film for our private enjoyment. If we decide to go ahead with it, would you be interested in taking part? Sign up to my newsletter for news and updates. www.madame-li-ying.com
neutral · AI labelView post →What Hollywood has in store for us this year: Practical Magic 2, FOCKER-in-Law, Scary Movie (remake), Spiderman, Cruella 2, Maleficent 3, Aladdin 2, Super Troopers 3, Avengers, Supergirl, Mortal Kombat II, Star Wars (x2), Street Fighter, Moana (live action remake), Toy Story 5... God it's bleak.
neutral · AI labelView post →Everybody knows how the Cruella movie reveals that her mother was run off a cliff by Dalmatians but it also reveals she named herself after a coupe de Ville
neutral · AI labelView post →You know, the only Disney villain they'll never try to give a redemption movie for, or ever try to get the POV of, is Ratcliffe from Pocahontas. (y'know, like with Cruella or Maleficent) Which kind of makes him the best classic Disney villain, right up there with Claude Frollo.
neutral · AI labelView post →#Edwards1000SixtiesMovies 103/1000: ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS This Disney animated film explores a Dalmatian dog couple's quest to rescue their adorable, cute puppies from the menacing Cruella de Vil and the criminal Badun brothers, who plan to use their skin to make Cruella's coat.
neutral · AI labelView post →I did not watch the Cruella movie but you're fooling yourself if you think that having Cruella De Ville's mom get straight up murdered by dalmatians like she wandered down Crime Alley on Earth C-Minus was one of the best ideas anyone making a movie has ever had.
positive · AI labelView post →Rewatched Cruella. Older art from the first few times I saw the movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →First rewatch of Cruella since release and it’s really quite good. Stone and Thompson are electric, of course, but the production design and costumes are impeccable. Jenny Beaven styled the fuck out of this film and rightfully took home the Oscar.
positive · AI labelView post →The one time I used a Montblanc, I did the "blast this wretched, WRETCHED PEN!" air-stab thing Cruella did in the movie and that's the only experience I needed out of it
neutral · AI labelView post →* Goofy - Monster Mash * Hocus Pocus - Main Title * Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy - The Witches Are Back * The Melomen, Paul Frees, Betty Taylor, Bill Lee, THURL RAVENSCROFT - Grim Grinning Ghosts * The Citizens of Halloween - This Is Halloween - From “The Nightmare Before Christmas” * Andrew Gold - It Must Be Halloween * Andrew Gold - Spooky, Scary Skeletons * Andrew Gold - Trick Or Treat * Andrew Gold - Witches, Witches, Witches * Andrew Gold - In Our Haunted House * Andrew…
neutral · AI labelView post →I like how the recent movies had Cruella step on another villain-coded woman to get to the top.
positive · AI labelView post →Why did none of you tell me how absolutely hard Cruella (2021) slaps? We finally watched it and it was incredible. The story was solid, the visuals were stunning, and the music was hit after hit. I haven't had that much fun with a movie in a while. It's been two days and I'm still thinking about it.
positive · AI labelView post →Paul Dano takes on Wall Street in first trailer for Dumb Money. There’s no shortage of movies already based on real-life, historical incidents surrounding the Stock Market, but everything in the first trailer for Sony’s upcoming Dumb Money film — a biographical comedy-drama covering the events of the GameStop short squeeze — beautifully demonstrates why we have such an appetite for them. Especially when it involves a David vs Goliath-like plot where “the little guy” takes on the Wall Street…
neutral · AI labelView post →I think I had the same reaction to this podcaster having the same reaction to the first film. It’s just an insane take to me from somebody au fait with pop culture, in a post-“Maleficent”, post-“Cruella”, post-“I, Tonya”, post-“Frozen” world.
negative · AI labelView post →The guy in the red shirt could have a second career as a lion tamer, SM film star, or a male Cruella de Vil. Kudos to the crew boss who wasn’t intimidated and kept his hands down. That is a critical non-escalatory posture. Protecting his employee and standing his ground.
neutral · AI labelView post →The whole administration is a feature film of Disney villains. JD is Gaston, Tulsi is Cruella, Miller is Shere Khan, Rubio is Ursula, and so on
neutral · AI labelView post →It was brilliant to make Cruella into a heist film but I think it had too many ideas and didn’t hone in on just being an excellent heist flick but that’s minor— my main issue is that disney yet again absolves my favorite villains of their villainy! But shout out to the fashion moments. 😍
neutral · AI labelView post →Tony McNamara is now writing the script for Taika Waititi’s ‘STAR WARS’ film. He wrote ‘Poor Things’, ‘The Favourite’ & ‘Cruella’ (via screenrant.com/star-wars-mo...)
neutral · AI labelView post →Series of sympathetic villain backstory movie villain backstory movies, where the villains who are the secret reasons that Cruella and Maleficent are sympathetic get backstories explaining how they’re sympathetic
neutral · AI labelView post →I find it grimly humorous that in 2026 there are these notable attempts to make famous film villains into sympathetic characters (Cruella, etc) wonder why that could be. what a mystery
neutral · AI labelView post →And then, of course, making the victim into the aggressor. Remember in the movie Cruella where Emma Thompson throws someone over a railing and then says "she jumped! she came at me!" This is that.
neutral · AI labelView post →I said I didn’t like the movie Cruella and got called a bully who was forcing people to delete their Twitter accounts
negative · AI labelView post →I should be AT HOME, drawing MISERABLE LESBIANS, and WATCHING THE LIVE ACTION CRUELLA MOVIE AGAIN
positive · AI labelView post →#101DalmatianStreet #101Dalmatians #Disney #DisneyPlus #CruellaDeVil #Cruella I must be REAL late to the party by this point, but... Happy 5th Anniversary to Disney's 2021 Live-Action film featuring our most iconic Disney villainous Cruella De Vil!!🎊🎉🎈 (1/2)
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't count this as a remake cause it's just a movie with Cruella and not a remake of 101 Dalmatians. That out of the way, this movie is like leaps and bounds better than like 99% of live-action films to come out of Walt Disney Pictures. It's well directed, stylish, and just pure fun. Love it!
positive · AI labelView post →I WOULD FUND THIS MOVIE !!! “All Bitches go to HELL” “The Equalizers” “Cruella 2025” “Death Wish”
neutral · AI labelView post →Cruella said what??? This is movie- with evil villains taking over the world…
neutral · AI labelView post →(yeah, yeah, Disney won't greenlight the script unless Cruella is sympathetic, but maybe we simply did not need a movie about a sympathetic dog murderer)
neutral · AI labelView post →I decided to draw Cruella De Vil based on the Cruella movie I think it came out very good :) #cruella #disney #art
neutral · AI labelView post →Not every villian needs an attempt at a forgivable backstory. Cruella was awful and is still awful after the live action film, Gaston is still gonna be a misogynistic jerk even if they give him a tragic backstory. Just stop, Disney.
neutral · AI labelView post →Disney History - 6/13/1910 Actress Mary Wickes is born. She was the live-action model for Cruella DeVil in Disney's 101 Dalmatians and the voice of the gargoyle Laverne in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (her last film). She was Sister Mary Lazarus in the comedy Sister Act and Sister Act 2.
neutral · AI labelView post →That is an unhinged story line for a children’s movie (or any movie really), It makes Cruella de Vil seem rational. Not to mention how shortsighted the vet is for eliminating half his customer base
neutral · AI labelView post →I agree, and I actually liked the Cruella movie. Gaston is, to me, less redeemable than the woman who wanted to skin puppies and make a coat out of them
positive · AI labelView post →I’ve forgotten how much I love the Cruella movie!
positive · AI labelView post →I thought Cruella was actually a pretty decent movie that would have been much better if it had been a completely independent story.
neutral · AI labelView post →Age yourself with a movie you saw in theaters. Yeah, the one from 1961. Figure that out, chronology-lovers. I don't really remember it, but apparently I cried so much when Cruella de Vil was driving her car that we left the theater early. ok i just looked it up and yeah that's pretty scary
neutral · AI labelView post →TIL Disney's songwriter composed three (3) different versions of the song "Cruella de Vil" for the movie "101 Dalmations"
neutral · AI labelView post →Correcting the record on the Cruella movie is not going over well
neutral · AI labelView post →I think anyone who sees Glenn Close’s Cruella as girlboss goals has probably only seen like a still image of her and not even one single second of this movie. Lol
neutral · AI labelView post →Also, not for nothing, but as with the case of the misbegotten CRUELLA movie and the all-but-forgotten (deservedly) DRACULA UNTOLD, we already know what Scrooge's whole deal is; 1/3 of A Christmas Carol is dedicated to his past! bsky.app/profile/bloo...
neutral · AI labelView post →Twisted fairy tale theme? Cruella was an unexpected hoot; A City of Sadness needs to be rewatched when it's not a blurry mess on Youtube :( ; The Legend of Billie Jean delivered Intense 80ism; Secret of Kells was ok, watched for Hater Club Challenge. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →Anyway, I'm surprised to learn that the guy who directed one of the most visually drab films of recent memory (Cruella) has directed another visually drab film. Who'da thunk.
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