The Oncoming Puss In Boots

... of which director Chris Miller says:

"It's not a send-up of fairy tales. Our approach was, you thought you knew how all of those fairy stories went, but they went this way. Then from there, let's make sure the characters are driving the comedy and story, steer away from the popular culture references and make it a real character piece."

So in other words, it has Shrek characters in it, but less of the Shrek sensibility.

The studio is just now wrapping production on PiB. (A month ago, there were sixty animators on the feature in the final, mad dash to the finish line.) The artists I've talked to think it's solid, but it's often difficult for people in the middle of a production to see how well the different moving parts fit together. As Slash Film noted months back:

Puss in Boots smacked me in the face.I can’t tell you how excited I am to see more of the movie. It doesn’t even feel like a spin-off — from the footage I screened, Puss seems like a stand-alone movie in its own right. ...

Or as Peter Sciretta says in the linked video: "... It's not a money grab."

Of course, how the global marketplace takes to a feline with plumed hat and sword, and a talking egg sidekick, remains to be seen.