Just like Cruella De Vil this is a bit of a schizophrenic movie. It's both incredibly well done and incredibly stupid and unnecessary at the same time. Let me try and describe Cruella De Vil from One Hundred and One Dalmatians, she's so evil that she wants to kill puppies just to make a coat. It's that simple, she's the definition of a cartoon villain, she even has devil in the name! That's why it works and that's why she's one of the most unforgettable characters in the Disney villain galleria. But then you try and humanize her and make people sympathize with her and everything is ruined. But you do it with an enormous budget (the soundtrack alone must have cost more than 99% of movies out there), with a lot of talented people and you have a schizophrenic movie. Why do I say that? Because it's frustratingly well made! It's very well directed, both Emmas are incredible, the production design, from sets to make-up and specially the costumes, is amazing. All serving a movie that is conceptually doomed that tries to convince us that this character is the same as the one in the cartoon. Spoiler Alert, she's not!
