Ah Cruella or should I say Notviciousella. Yes, I know it is meant to be the origin story of Cruella De Vil, yes that is her full name. Well at least one of them anyway. Her other name being her real name was Estella Von Hellman because spoiler alert, Baroness Von Hellman is her mother. The story starts off with her being born in the 1950’s because of the Ford Poplar a car from the 50’s. Whilst ok most of the cars made sense for the film but, they ended up screwing the timeline for the late 70’s. Most likely 1977 or slightly before due to Davie Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust era. So lets say 1972-74. I’ll explain more when it comes to Artie later. Ok back to the cars, yes I know one of the cars is called the De Vil, but that wasn’t until 1980. And why yes, I’m going to call that one out and might be a slightly low hanging fruit. You have the 1981 Land Rover Range Rover, that feels way out of whack because cars from both decades are not the same thing. That’s like using the Ferrari 308 GTS the car that Thomas Magnum loved to steal from Higgins. My citations for aforementioned cars are in this link here. IMCDb.org: "Cruella, 2021": cars, bikes, trucks and other vehicles You can see my point. I can’t do the same with fashion because I’m not a fashionista.

Whilst Estella I can understand that she misbehaved because people picked on her based on her appearance and resorted to knocking people about and stood up for Anita. This eventually got her expelled from school and argued with the head teacher. Well, duh. So eventually her foster mother Catherine wanting to take her to London to start a new life. Ok that makes logical sense because people were moving to London a lot more than nowadays. However, Catherine was wanting money from the Baroness, who turned out to be her former employer. Estella didn’t stay in the car and waited. She followed her adoptive mother, and alerted Dalmatian. Remember this is before her insanity with fur. We see how the dogs accidently killed Catherine and to be honest at least that was quite a well-executed scene. This naturally unsettled her and ran off to London and hitchhiked her way there. We see her meet up with Horace and Jasper, two wee kids who were loitering around like fools.

We go 10 years later, from the 60’s I forgotten to mention that part, sorry. She turns into a thief and an efficient one, the opposite of Cruella in the other films. In the other films she was business smart and not street wise. That’s what makes this film utterly unbelievable and annoyed me greatly. At least they kept her talent of fashion the same, in which I’m glad they glad they did so. For her 18^th birthday both Horace and Jasper got her a job at Liberty Fashion shop. I think I’ve been there before years ago, neither here or there on that one. That was fine.

She meets up with Davie Bowie, sorry I mean Artie. Whilst Artie I definitely base him off of Davie Bowie but added I’m somewhat of an anarchist during the early 80’s feel. I’m not saying he’s a bad character per say, it’s just poorly written and could have easily been portrayed better. Sure he was quite useful, I can not dispute that one what so ever because he gave her resources and worked with Estella.

Was Curella schemes utterly insane? It’s both a yes and no. Her plan to liberate some family heirloom from Hellman That I can understand and went into I want revenge. Justifiable when she finally figured out who really killed her foster mother. How Horace managed to cause a scene I will admit it was utterly funny, especially how the party goers, yes they were at a party, in which I should have mentioned that one earlier, my mistake.

How she finally went 1v1  on Rust in front of her actual mother I have to admit she was pretty intelligent to pull off the heist, but again that’s the opposite of what I know her for. She took the necklace properly, after extracting it from the dogs, the dogs came to Estella due to the whistle, she was forced into the exact same area, and this infuriated the Baroness even more, due to constant one upmanship, kidnapping her dogs and etc., etc. She failed to kill Estella and stage her so called death, but ironically Estella faked her own death better by doing a simple trick, jump off the exact same spot her Catherine died from, got her glider deployed when she was like a few yards from her death. Of course the Baroness was arrested and taken to the slammer and good riddance for someone who couldn’t even kill properly, being absolutely authoritarian within her company and by the way that’s very inefficient. In which at least they proved it by the whole one marksmanship.

The other main thing I forgot to mention is the lack of smoking and that's honestly another part of Cruella De Vil. To me the lack of smoking for the character feels utterly wrong. Yes, I understand Disney doesn't want smoking, yes I understand about smoking laws in the UK, and blah blah blah. It was the 1970's and a lot of people smoked including children. Yes that was a pretty common thing to occur in citites.

Now I might as well do the great quotes of the main cast. And I'm not doing the child versions I'm afraid.

Cruella played by Emma Stone. 

• Cruella de Vil : They say there are five stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Well I'd like to add one more...

  Cruella de Vil : Revenge. 

• Cruella de Vil : You killed my mother!

  Baroness : You need to be more specific.

• Cruella de Vil : So this is a confusing day. My nemesis is my real mother, and she killed my other mother. I guess you were always scared, weren't you, that I'd be a psycho like my real mum? Hmm? That explains all the "tone it down, try and fit in" stuff. Love me into shape, I suppose, was the plan. And I tried. I really, I tried because I loved you. But the thing is, I'm not sweet Estella, try as I might. I never was. I'm Cruella, born brilliant, born bad, and a little bit mad. I am not like her. I'm better. Anyway, must dash. Much to avenge, revenge, and destroy. But I do love you. Always.

• Cruella de Vil : I want to make art, Artie, and I want to make trouble. You in?

  Artie : I do love trouble.

• Cruella de Vil : From the very beginning, I realized I saw the world differently than everyone else. That didn't sit well with some people. But I wasn't for everyone. I guess they were all scared... that I'd be... a psycho.

  [laughs] 

  Cruella de Vil : But a new day brings new opportunities. And I was ready to make a statement.

  Cruella de Vil : I feel sad that you think that looks good.

Baroness Von Hellman played by Emma Thompson.

• Baroness : [to Cruella]  Let me give you some advice. If you need to talk about power, you don't have it.

  Cruella de Vil : Well, I don't have it, which is why I need to talk about it, which is why I'm here. Am I going to have to catch you up a lot, or can you keep up?

• Baroness : She killed my dogs. And made a coat.

• Baroness : You can't care about anyone else. Everyone else is an obstacle. You care what an obstacle wants or feels, you're dead. If I cared about anyone or thing, I might have died like so many brilliant women with a drawer full of unseen genius and a heart full of sad bitterness. You have the talent for your own label. Whether you have the killer instinct is the big question.

  Cruella de Vil : I hope I do.

• Baroness : [to Anita]  No one is interested in what you write, my dear. Just in how I look.

Jasper played by Joel Fry 

• Jasper : I think you should stay here. Be apart of our gang.

• Jasper : I'm getting tired of Cruella.

Horace played by Paul Walter Hauser.

Horace : “Ladies and gentleman, I give you the angle.”

Horace : “We’ve all done it.”

Horace : " How can you not get choked up at all of this?"

Artie/Davie Bowie look alike played by John McCrea.

• Cruella de Vil : I want to make art, Artie, and I want to make trouble. You in?

  Artie : I do love trouble.

• [after reading about her exploits in the paper] 

  Artie : It's you!

  Cruella de Vil : It is. And you're reading about me.

  Artie : And you're in my shop.

• Cruella : How does that look go on the streets?

      Artie :  Some abuse, some insults, of course. But I like to say that normal is the cruelest insult of them all, and at least I never      get that.

 Cruella : I couldn't agree more.

• Artie : Check, check, not sure about the death though.

Catherine The Maid played by Emily Beecham.

• Catherine : (To young Cruella/Estella) Your name's Estella, not Cruella.
•  Honestly there wasn't really that many quotes of her that's memorable or noteworthy. Oh and please note this isn't technically Catherine, but the actress who plays her. 

Anita Darling played by Kirby Howell-Baptise.

Anita : You have a glimpse in your eye.