Cruella

Slate's Spoiler Specials

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Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews

3.6 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Slate’s movie critic Dana Stevens is joined by Slate staff writer, Dana Stevens, to spoil Cruella, the new Disney live-action origin story for one of it’s most infamous villains, Cruella de Vil. Who was Cruella before she became the Cruella we all know and hate? This teen-friendly backstory holds the answers. Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore. Email us at [email protected]. Podcast production by Morgan Flannery. Hosts Dana Stevens is Slate’s movie critic. Karen Han is staff writer at Slate and you can read her review here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I want to tell you my secret now.
0:03.0	I see death.
0:06.0	Silent freed is people.
0:10.0	No, I am the father.
0:14.0	Oh,
0:16.0	what's in the box?
0:20.0	You did it! You blew it up! What's in the box?
0:25.1	You blow it up!
0:28.3	Damn you all the hell!
0:31.9	Hello and welcome to another Slate spoiler special.
0:40.1	I am Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, and today I am joined by Karen Hahn, staff writer at Slate. Hello, Karen. Hi, Dana. So nice to spoil another movie with you. Yeah, I think this is going to be a fun one to talk about. I just read
0:44.5	your review and I have lots to say about it. So the movie we're talking about this week is Cruella,
0:48.9	the origin story for the 101 Dalmatians character, directed by Craig Gillespie, the new, you know,
0:55.4	Disney cartoon turned live action movie. I don't know what we're calling this genre that now
1:00.4	exists that are there several examples of every year. But yeah, it's a, it's a reboot of the
1:06.8	old Cruella IP. So I just saw this movie today and just read your review for it, and I have
1:13.7	tons of thoughts about it, but since you're the person who reviewed it, I may ask you to set up
1:18.4	the story a little bit. The main thing that I think we should talk about up top, and this in a way
1:23.9	proceeds whether you've seen the movie or not. I mean, this happened as soon as the idea was released and the poster in the trailer is the idea of whether you can do the thing that
1:32.3	this movie is doing, take an old Disney character and tell their origin story when that character
1:37.0	is a villain. Basically, can you do a Disney joker? And that joke was everywhere on the internet
1:41.7	when we first found out about this movie. But I really do,
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