After two weeks of refusing to go to Dreamwork’s new animated film, “Puss in Boots,” I dragged my roommate kicking and screaming to watch this surprisingly hilarious movie. Cats flamenco dancing, swordfight sequences and spoofs referencing westerns and “Fight Club” lead to a movie filled with laughs, eye-popping visuals, great banter and bits of morality mixed in. Throughout the movie, I would glance over at my roommate and yes, he and I were both giggling like the little kids sitting around us!

“Puss in Boots” features Puss, a swashbuckling outlaw who was first introduced in “Shrek 2” (voiced by Antonio Banderas), the lovely bandita Kitty Softpaws (voiced by Salma Hayek) and Humpty Alexander Dumpty, the estranged buddy of Puss (voiced by Zach Galifianakis). The story spins together the  fairy tale  characters of Jack and Jill, a bickering bandit couple (voiced by Billy Bob Thorton and Amy Sedaris) whose biological clocks are ticking, magic beans, a giant beanstalk and a golden goose. The wild adventure leads the animated characters through the desert, into the air-deprived clouds and across Mexico in search of magic beans and the golden goose.

Although “Puss in Boots” does not nail the adult and child demographics as well as the original “Shrek,” it comes pretty darn close. Each voice was perfectly matched for the character, and the chemistry between the actors really comes through. After viewing the end credits, I was surprised by some of the actors whose voices I did not recognize during the movie. Despite every inclination I had going in, the movie was enjoyable to watch. All in all, “Puss in Boots” was able to get two manly eighteen year-olds giggling like we were six.