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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is a 2022 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film is directed by Joel Crawford and co-directed by Januel Mercado from a screenplay by Paul Fisher and Tommy Swerdlow, based on a story by Swerdlow and the first film's writer Tom Wheeler.[2] It stars Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek (reprising their roles as Puss in Boots and Kitty Softpaws, respectively), alongside Harvey Guillén, Florence Pugh, Olivia Colman, Ray Winstone, Samson Kayo, John Mulaney, Wagner Moura, Anthony Mendez, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph as the new voice cast. A spin-off of the Shrek franchise and the direct sequel to Puss in Boots (2011), the film continues Puss in Boots's (Banderas) journey as he sets to find the mystical Last Wish and restore the eight of his nine lives that he lost while escaping new enemies (Pugh, Mulaney, and Moura) who plan to hunt him down, with the help of his friends (Hayek and Guillén).

Plans for a sequel to Puss in Boots began in November 2012, when Guillermo del Toro shared to take the titular character on an adventure to a "very exotic locale". He also stated a couple of drafts for the screenplay were completed. Work on a sequel was announced in April 2014, according to Banderas. The film's title was announced as Puss in Boots 2: Nine Lives & 40 Thieves in June 2014. In November 2018, Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri was confirmed as an executive producer. It was announced that the film would be helmed by Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) director Bob Persichetti in February 2019. Crawford was later announced as the new director in March 2021, along with Mercado, who was the head of story on the first film. The majority of the new cast members, along with the returning cast, were announced in March 2022. Like their previous film, The Bad Guys (2022), inspiration for the film's animation style came from Sony Pictures Animation's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, giving it a visual style that resembles storybook illustrations. Rather than the more realistic style introduced in Shrek (2001), the team focused more on a painterly style design, to make the film look like a fairy-tale world by using new technology.

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish had a one-day public screening in select theaters on November 26, 2022, before its wide theatrical release in the United States on December 21, 2022. The film received generally positive reviews from critics.