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Liked it

Some woke stuff, but nothing that I thought took away from the movie.

Not Woke

Enjoyable summer flick.

Nice to see Marvel move back to the "Real" mainstream audience

Loved this movie. Over the top, but...

I'll go with the bad-man storyline

Hey! I saw this film a while back. Just noticing other reviews on this film, I said, "self, that movie really did have shitty men in it". I think the husband was a rapist and child beater. I'm sure there were other evil doer men in Where the Crawdads Sing too.

And I do think that maybe 10 or 15 years ago, in isolation, this film might not be considered "woke" so much, but we all know the reason these men are cast as shit. We know it and you know it.

Finally got around to watching this propaganda... not really

I have to say in any of my reviews that I'm all for hot young lesbians making out, but when it becomes propaganda, flyers dropped from an airplane that read: "Diversity!" and "Everyone You Know is a Transexual!", that's where I opt out.

So what if I didn't make it more than a half hour into this film? At least I finally got around to kind-of watching it. I don't think there was a man in sight for the first half hour. Just lesbians.

If anyone has made it through this film and would like me to change the overall rating, just review it here! I'm likely not going to change the wokeness, though.

Surprisingly Well Done Prequel Series

The only thing maybe that could be woke is there is a lot of female leaders among the ruiling classes. There are also men as well as both male and
female heroes so I didn't really see it as woke. This is a pretty faithful prequel of sorts to the original from 1982 with a lot of little Easter eggs.
The puppets are well done with limited CG and the voice acting is good as well. If you are familiar with or enjoyed the og movie this is a great series.
It was cancelled after only 1 season but it has enough of a satisfying ending to still be worth while.

A hundreds movie whose theme is women, rape, bad men... in isolation that's not too bad but in the 2020's you know why it was made.

The plot is incredibly contrived. the main protagonist is supposed to be smart but does very stupid things. and the end doesn't feel earned.

Note: I began writing this shortly before the movie ultimate ending. And after I saw it I increased wokeness and diminished the note. here is why...

--SO SPOILERS COMING--

So she actually did it... yes, the movie is that morally bankrupt. I belived the dude did it for her or perhaps the benevolent black father figure but no ! which mean all the good men are actually completely useless.
since this is not a true story, everything was actually manufactured for it to be a chad murder fantasy. I don't give max wokeness because; yes, those things may happen.
And also using the praying mantis as metaphore is quite stupid.

Like an SNL Skit That Goes For Way To Long

DEI casting. Mixed race couple. Casual racism. Another modern 'comedy'. Nothing but stupid, slapstick over the top childish comedy. Every character is so damn stupid. Awkwafina is horribly miscast. The general idea is actually not bad and could of been ok with a different main character. She is so awkward and unbelievable. One of the early scenes has her surviving somehow with no help against dozens of attackers including a martial arts class who can't manage to kill 1 small bumbling woman. Make the comedy a little more subtle and less SNL sledgehammer over the head and this could of been a very entertaining film. Any actual funny moments come from John Cena's character surprisingly, though they are few. This third world trash depiction of future dystopian California is pretty much a perfect depiction of modern CA so I guess that's at least accurate.

I rank it number 4 in the Gru series

1 & 2 are tied for first, 3 is in third and this one falls to number 4. It just didn't seem to have the same level of cleverness that makes these characters great. It is worth watching. Just don't get your hopes up. As far as wokeness goes... There's a short allusion to Boy George that was somewhat out of place. It was presented as a flashback to a high school talent show. I didn't think that was worth a 1/5. Maybe about 1/15. That rounds to zero on a scale of 1 to 5. I hope they make another one. The series is great. Steve Carrel, Kristen Wiig and Pierre Coffin have raised the chemistry of animated casting to a new level.

Stupid Comedy and No Identity Make This a Disappointment.

Only one black character that I can recall so even though it's likely this was a DEI casting decision it doesn't overstep into over representation. There is a gay character and a lot of feminism nonsense including Johansson character being a completely horrible girl boss type. This movie was so disappointing for me. It has no identity at all, one minute it's a romance, then it switches to slapstick comedy, than governmental conspiracy theory and it juggles them all poorly. It just jumps around jarringly between genres. The acting is ok but it's all just so over the top corny and stupid comedy. While there are some actual laughs I was rolling my eyes much more than laughing. This is another movie with an entire cast of just unlikable characters, especially the gay director and Johansson's character. They are just awful people and I hated them instantly. What a waste of some actually talented actors to make this muddled mess.

Star Trek Meets Godzilla... and It's Bad

All white people are evil villains in this and all Japanese are good and noble. Yes it is Japanese made movie but still it's a little over the top and unnecessary. This is one of the worst. The FX are just terrible even by 90's direct to video standards. The acting is bad especially by the American actors, the dialog is bad, the story makes no sense with huge inconsistencies and plot holes everywhere. Best to move along, nothing worth seeing here.

A Little Drug Out and Slow Paced

Nothing woke. Not a bad movie really but just needed to be edited down a little and the pace tightened up a bit. At 135 minutes it seems to really drag especially at the beginning. While the story is interesting and the acting good the first 20-30 minuets can be hard to follow as it jumps
around a lot and it takes to almost the 1 hour mark to really get going. Unfortunately by then I was getting bored with the slow pace. If you don't mind the very slow pace it might be interesting for you. It could help as well if you know more about Korean culture as that may make
it more interesting and less boring at the beginning.