Awake not Woke!

A Missed Opportunity

Another movie with a kinda interesting idea and a couple of actors who could’ve had some solid chemistry (I’m obviously talking about Liam Neeson and Joe Keery) completely ruined by a heavy overdose of in your face woke stuff. You can feel it the second the co-star shows up, they try really hard to make her look like the hero, but she can’t overshadow Joe Keery’s charisma, even though the movie clearly tries to push his character into the background. I’m not gonna waste more time describing it in detail. It’s a low-budget popcorn flick that could’ve been a lot better if it wasn’t for the forced woke agenda. It’s a shame cause the premise is decent for killing time, but the execution not.

I knew this was aimed more a younger audience but I wanted to see what it's like. First of all the fact this exists gets it a woke rating. For those that don't know Ms Marvel has been around since the 70's and is Carol Danvers. A great character with a rich backstory and history. Then in Marvel's age of woke they replaced her with this pathetic teen Muslim DEI character. So choosing to make this show with the woke version while ignoring decades of character building and history is peak woke. I only made it 1 full episode so this is all based on that. Every second of that episode screams 'we are minorities!!' If you didn't know any better you could think this wasn't even set in the U.S. It's a DEI extravaganza in casting. The lead at one point makes a casual racist comment about how 'It's not brown girls that save the world'. Her school counselor is flamboyant and pretty obviously gay. There is a scene with a white male teacher mispronouncing her name. This is yet another show where everyone character is unlikable. The parents are very annoying and actually get mad at and berate her driving instructor for failing her after she literally smashes into his car during the driving test. The lead is an annoying whiney constant victim as soon as she doesn't get whatever she wants. The writing is terrible, the first episode is her trying to convince her parents to let her go to Avengercon. One of her moms biggest issues is she doesn't want her to go out dressed in a tight skimpy outfit. She doesn't even try to show them the outfit which is anything but skimpy, it's literally covered head to toe and not tight at all. Avengercon looks like some kind of sketchy tent set up in an alley somewhere. Disney clearly put no budget into this at all, everything looks so cheap. The big Avengercon scene at the end of the first episode looks laughably bad. This has the look and feel of a low budget CW or Nickelodeon show it's so childish and cheesy. Then for some odd reason they completely changed the basics of the character from the source material. Her powers are different, the source of her powers and origin are completely different it may as well be a totally different character. I mean if you can't even get the basics of your adaptation right whey even bother, and just because something is aimed at a younger audience doesn't mean you have to flush quality control down the toilet.

Daughter is a lesbian

It has the trope about women being under appreciated at work, incompetent male, interracial relation (White guy Somali woman) and more. That being said the movie doesn't necessarily tries to make you like them, it has its funny moments and you could say some of her over the top capabilities are done for comedic relief not an agenda. But there's still a lot of girl bossing around. I still think its a watchable movie if you don't take it seriously.