Column: Old merchants would celebrate added parking - Gainesville Times gainesvilletimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gainesvilletimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
‘Cruella’ is a vaguely retro costume party with a doggedly retro playlist a treat for fashion-curious kids whipped up by the boomers and Gen Xers who hold the keys to the Disney IP storage locker. And there’s a millennial Oscar winner in the titular role. When I say it has something for everyone I’m not being sarcastic, though I’m also not being entirely complimentary.
This revisionist supervillain origin story, directed by Craig Gillespie (‘I, Tonya’), doesn’t offer much that is genuinely new, but it nonetheless feels fresher than most recent Disney live-action efforts. There’s some visual wit and pop sparkle in the mildly Dickensian tale of how Cruella DeVil, the notorious pooch-hater of ‘One Hundred and One Dalmatians,’ came to be that way.