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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.

Better than the original

"Inside Out 2" improves upon the original with thoughtful writing and more impressive animation. It seems like non-woke writers and production staff really cared about making a good movie here.

Relative to the first film, they abandoned the "headcanon" that there are only 5 emotions. I think it still works, since the new emotions are ugly ones that we learn to mostly hide after puberty.

There is basically nothing woke. The adoration of the older girl by the lead girl is just a role model thing. It seems like a normal thing for teen girls.

I give it a 4.5/5, rounded up to 5 for no woke.

Hear me out: "Pitch Black but with Filipinos instead of aliens"

"Plane" is a mixed bag. So much is well done, but implausibilities detract.

Set long after 9/11, the movie nevertheless features ridiculously lax security and safety procedures. For example, the plane is experiencing severe turbulence, so the captain leaves the cockpit to check on the passengers?! You had one job, dude, FLY THE PLANE! Has the director ever even flown post-9/11?

You'd think that the blunders would continue once back on the ground, but no, or at least I didn't notice. But I'm not military.

It is either a 3 or 4, depending on how much you can disregard the first part. Nothing woke.

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.

Twisted

This is the UK version from 2010. It is vastly superior to the later American remake. The parallels to COVID, 10 years later, are truly disturbing. Some people call such prescient entertainment "predictive programming", but I think often writers are trying to warn us, like with the novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Whatever Utopia is, it's ridiculously good. It's a "must watch", unless you are sensitive to violent, disturbing content. It has been a while since I have seen it, but I don't recall anything woke.

Poor Horror Anthology Anime

Nothing woke. This is an animated Japanese anthology series. The voice acting is not so good, the animation is average at best. The stories are
very weak however. At only 25 minutes an episode and some episodes have 2 stories in that runtime it all feels so rushed and glossed over. Non of
them is really scary and most feel unfinished or like your getting only part of a story, especially the ones with only 12 min episodes.

strong single mother, villain is a "normal" white guy, female porkpine has purple hair, need i say more?

the ending message is good but the movie is infested with wokeness.

Another Failed Horror Comedy

All white males are incompetant morons. All blacks and females are smart and capable. White female states a black male is her ex, meaning
mixed race couple. The acting is not so good, the general story idea isn't bad but as a comedy most of the humor isn't that funny. The majority of the jokes revolve around how stupid the white male characters are.