The trailer for Disney's Cruella promises a campy Joker treatment

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Too cruella for me.

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Emma Stone playing Helena Bonham Carter, is that what its come too?

I that what we’ve come too?

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Yes, that’s what we come to.

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I’m in.

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So at some point she went from socialite supervillain/criminal mastermind to a bitter loner who couldn’t even orchestrate a successful dog-napping? That seems like quite a decline.

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Yes, indeed it is hard to witness.

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I’ve come to that too, so its the two of us

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Together again, maybe forever too…

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Maybe forever two, too.

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That’s one too many two too’s for me.

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I look forward to the long form Lindsay Ellis review of this.

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Dear Disney,

We don’t actually need tragicomic backstories for your greatest villains. They can just… be evil, you know?

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Maybe there is a certain amount of projection involved.

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I wouldn’t mind being Evil Emma Stone, so yes, absolutely.

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Obligatory:

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It’s a fascinating thing that the redemption of villains seems to be so in this season and i’m thinking of - Suicide Squad, Joker, Harley Quinn… sure many more i’m forgetting.

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And the upcoming Black Adam from DC.

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Next one will be Madame Medusa from Rescuers.

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