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This one was actually pretty fun

Funny from start to finish. It’s got that 80s movie aesthetic but set in the present day, using all the current tech stuff. This comedy just follows a couple of college students trying to ride out whatever they took.

On the woke side of things, it checks the diversity box. For example: one of the “bullies” looks like Bad Bunny, and honestly, in real life I’d probably be the one bullying him just for that. So it’s got that forced “role reversal” thing that’s annoying but doesn’t ruin the movie.

Overall, it’s a really good way to kill some time.

A male character has a boyfriend

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.

Woke to its fucking core

What a load of woke bullshit! I couldn’t even make it past the first 10 minutes before it was obvious that from the very first line "Roots run deep", the whole point of this movie is to brainwash whoever’s watching it. But the worst part is that it’s deliberately and maliciously aimed straight at kids, which makes it even more fucked up (if that’s even possible).

I’m not wasting any more energy describing it. This animated movie is literally everything wrong with woke culture shoved into stuff made for children, and the people who made it know exactly what they’re doing.

This is the kind of content that needs to either disappear completely or come with a BIG-ass warning label that says “This contains political propaganda” so people can tell it apart from other movies and shows.

WOKKERS

Ugh... Where do I start?

Let's start with the main character: a 'woman' that looks 100% like a man (not even a tomboy, 100% A DUDE), your typical transgender/non-binary BS. Of course she is an insufferable radical activist with the most annoying voice, and she will never never NEVER EVER shut up (Imagine Greta Thunberg but 100 times more annoying)!. Of course she has to be the only one that is brave, strong, capable of the impossible, raising her voice, girlbossing her way even above royalty.

The plot? Jeez, even Ferngully and Guardians of the Galaxy 3 were waaaay more subtle. Yes, MAN is the EVIL destroyer of nature, especially if he is white. Speaking of white, every 'good' or non-relevant character is black, brown or female, even male animals are depicted as cowards, non-caring, dumb, or plain evil compared to the females, of course! Why am I not surprised?

Movies like Avatar show you the issue in a very entertaining way, making you care, making you feel invested. This movie feels like your typical insufferable vegan standing outside your favourite meat restaurant, nagging and yelling at you for being a 'murderer'.

No... just NO.

Well 5 minutes in and I already absolutely hate the kid and want the character to die off. Spoilers follow but it's all in the first 10 minutes anyway. Movie tells us the white male is an abusive, racist p.o.s. who hates the kid, except it never shows any of that on screen other than 1 loud verbal fight with the kids mother. She than violently attacks and bashes him over the head and left for unconscious. We are not shown or told why. She leaves the idiot moron child behind and escapes. The male comes to and goes outside with a gun. Reasonable after being attacked. The unhinged and apparently mentally deranged child shoots an arrow at him narrowly missing. TWICE! He does nothing but tries to talk the kid down, even though he's holding a gun and the kid is
actively trying to shoot him. Sounds like a violent abusive person to me. The kid than shoots him and dances around singing and celebrating like an absolute psychotic future serial killer. That's not a good start. The writing is pretty bad. A character in a dinner is acting shady talking on the phone and writes down a meeting place and time on a napkin, then immediately crumbles it up and leaves it on his plate and leaves. WTF was the point of writing it down then? This is boring pretentious filmmaking at it's worst. Seems all males are either idiots, violent criminals or both and just all around bad. The females are all innocent victims just trying to survive. 45 minutes of stupidity was all I could take.

This isn’t free of woke content.

It’s not a bad movie, but yeah, it definitely has woke elements.

Just because it’s a Guillermo del Toro film doesn’t mean it avoids that kind of stuff. Pretty much everything he makes is heavily rooted in social symbolism, and in this case the female character is clearly shaped by a kind of feminism that doesn’t really line up with the time period the movie is trying to portray. The messaging is there from the very start, and it’s distracting. At times it’s so on the nose it almost feels like a modern day "Karen".

That said, the movie still has strong craftsmanship, great cinematography and solid execution. But at the end of the day, it’s just another Frankenstein story, nothing more. Way too much hype for a filmmaker who tends to get overpraised in that space. And that's fine, he does his job very well.

But, it doesn’t break new ground or redefine anything, it’s just well put together, and that’s it.

P.S.: I do like his movies, but this one feels like a straight-up cash grab.

Great acting

Minimal scene movies like this tend to showcase good acting skills. Chris Pratt hit it out of the park, like Colin Farrell in Phone Booth, or the full cast of The Man from Earth.
The only woke element I noticed is the diminutive black lady beating a full-size white guy in a rooftop brawl. It would be a spoiler to discuss more about her.
The story is not bad. It is similar to The Minority Report.
A similar concept was tried in real life. Algorithmic programs were used to determine sentencing of criminals with no consideration of ethnicity or gender. It was a failure. Black culture was triggering longer, more severe sentencing. It had the effect of appearing even more racist than the human judges.

After the first two episodes, I would give this show a negative wokeness rating. Michelle Pfeiffer's character has old fashion values and the show makes fun of her very progressive daughter and grandchildren. The people in the flyover states are depicted in a positive manner for once.