The Film: Taking the Sin City: A Dame To Kill For method of waiting until the iron has well and truly cooled down before striking, Puss In Boots 2 arrives a whole seven years after the original solo outing for the Shrek take on the fairy tale character. That's just enough time for the target audience of the first to outgrow the appeal of cute Spanish kitties. There will be a Netflix series premiering later this year, but even then Nine Lives & 40 Thieves is coming a little late. It's too far off to know much in the way of plot, but expect Puss to meet a bunch of other fairy tale/nursery rhyme characters the series hasn't already plundered. The Title: Puss In Boots 2: Nine Lives & 40 Thieves commits just about every title sin possible; there's a number and a subtitle; it has an ampersand for some reason; there's both written and numerical numbers; it uses both a pun and vague cultural reference to try and make something inventive. It's like they're just trying to get to the top of this list. Maybe in the four years between now and its December 2018 release someone at Dreamworks will realise their errors and make something less affronting (what's wrong with Puss In Boots And The Forty Thieves?), although we're not holding out hope.
