Why is this movie relevant again?

Because some corrupt threw money around to get it nominated, even though it’s a Z-list movie that only deserves to sweep the Razzie Awards 2026. It has:

• Bad cinematography
• Terrible acting → especially Michael B. Jordan’s performance, which is downright awful
• A really weak narrative that doesn’t even feel authentic

I won’t drag this out.
The movie is awful and doesn’t deserve a single nomination it’s getting, least of all an Oscar nod.

That said, there is one upside: the noise around it is so loud that you can clearly see the strings being pulled (and you’ve been able to for a while now), and that’s actually a good thing. Very good, in fact.

Yes, it is woke. It was made with the “help” of Irish, British, and Spanish taxpayer money.

As if poor little HBO at Warner Discovery needed public funding to afford a series. Good joke! tell me another one.

But is it good quality? Not really. Since it’s woke as hell, the “good” men are stereotyped as dumb, weak, and easily manipulated, while the smart or powerful men are portrayed as the bad ones.

On top of that, and this was mentioned in the other comment, which ties in perfectly, forced diversity is obvious. That alone wouldn’t be the main issue, but they also gave characters different accents, making them hard to understand, supposedly for “period authenticity,” while at the same time pushing forced diversity, which completely breaks that excuse.

ℹ UPDATE ℹ
Alright, to be fair, I watched the whole thing and I’ll give it two extra points on quality. Yeah, it’s got the stuff I mentioned before, but the cinematography’s pretty solid. And if you can put up with the woke bits, it’s a fun watch.

Outstanding Holocaust remembrance series

Given how delicate and controversial this subject is, both in the film industry and in life itself, this series handles it with absolute respect.

It’s a great adaptation of Heather Morris’s work.

It’s harsh and emotionally heavy, but the quality is exceptional.

No woke stuff here.

Paramount strikes again

Straight to the point → Can kids watch it? Yes.

Does it have woke elements? Yes. → Barb never existed in the original stories; and that character is there to fill thA quota

As a SpongeBob fan who’s seen absolutely everything in that universe since the very first episode (including material made after the creator passed away), I can confidently say this movie is a total disrespect to its creator. Paramount didn’t even bother to include a simple “thank you” to Stephen Hillenburg in the credits.

Is it SpongeBob? It’s basically a rehash of the first movie and a very calculated breakdown of all the elements that make SpongeBob SpongeBob but without the interesting spark of Hillenburg’s original vision. Back then, SpongeBob was for the whole family, Squidward included. Here, Squidward is pushed to the background→ third place, maybe even fourth.

In the end, kids can watch it, but it really doesn’t do justice to what Stephen Hillenburg created.

Not for everyone

This is a strange sci-fi movie with a very strong central theme, built around a mystery that’s present right from the start. I liked it, it’s not a bad movie, but only about 80%.

To explain where I’m coming from, I’ll leave a link to a video by experts who’ve seen it, and one of them pretty much agrees with me.

⚠Fair warning ⚠ it has light spoilers.
They don’t say exactly what happens, but they do talk about the ending without revealing it:

→ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gktEAYwnvh0

Woke before it even premieres

It’s not even out yet and it’s already woke as f!!!

You don’t even need to watch the trailer → just look at the casting choices and who’s playing who.

The lead actor is openly focused on LGBT community activism, hahaha. And that’s not even the point! An actor being whatever they are shouldn’t define a movie, but come on! The movie synopsis doesn’t even suggest they’re going to treat the source material with any respect.

Hasbro lost that a long time ago with the version they did on Netflix!!!

I mean → Kristen Wiig is RobotO!!!
And Idris Elba → a well-known activist who loves talking about regulations on knives → plays Duncan / Man-At-Arms.

Hahahahaha, this is gonna be a total shitshow all over the place.

What a joke!

A woke series made to provoke. Why?

Everyone knows it’s woke, they don’t even try to hide it. In fact, when the showrunner was asked “...what are you excited to share the fans?”, she literally said: “I am excited for the fans to dissect absolutely everything that they hate.”

So here we have a new step in the evolution of woke culture. Nothing that should really surprise anyone, considering everything that’s been going on lately.

The point is that this show is deliberately and maliciously made to destroy an already existing universe that used to be narratively solid (and, to be fair, it’s been getting wrecked for several series now). This isn’t just woke or even super woke → this is direct, in-your-face provocation. It’s the evolution of a movement that refuses to die.

The real question is:
Why are they doing this?

And the answer is simple, though not very transparent. They want to distract. They want to signal that they still exist. They’re dying, and just like the desperate shouting they do at street protests to get attention, they’re now doing the same thing with every series they put out.

The good news is that the numbers are not on their side. it’s been reported all over the world that a toy sitting on a chair (a Spock action figure), put there by the YouTuber Nerdrotic, got more views and more success than one of their episodes
[ you can see a news report about it here → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkqTF0wz1Ag ].
And sooner or later, this is going to have to be investigated as money laundering.

An interesting movie about Japanese culture and a critique of actors.

Straight to the point: is it woke? No.

Does it have woke elements? Yes. That’s why I add a point for how much of that it has.

That said, the movie stands out mainly because of its subject matter. The woke content it includes is lightly woven into the story to help it move forward and build the narrative, not to shove a political message down your throat, even though the core theme is rooted in a socio-political critique of Japan.

Even so, it’s handled with respect.

Other films have already tackled the idea of “rent-a-family” from a Western perspective, like Lost in Translation, but not like this and, honestly, this one is much better. On top of that, the lead isn’t a smug actor just playing himself, like Bill Murray. I mention that movie because it touches on depression too, which is also explored here, but in a much more positive way and from a more authentic viewpoint, since the director is Japanese. You can feel the love for her country, coming across as constructive criticism rather than the destructive kind we’re used to in the West.

A solid drama. Not perfect, but watchable.

A straight-up classic comedy

Nothing woke here. Just a great comedy with class-based humor in the Naked Gun style, aiming for nothing more, and nothing less, than to give you a good time and make you laugh.

Highly recommended!

Enjoy it!

Garbage-tier slop

This series is awful, and I’m not even going to get into the details of why, because not even the angry actor’s PR shields can defend how bad it is.

That said, if you’re in the mood to watch a cheap, low-effort show starring a smug actor who thinks he can insult half the country and then play president in a TV production, go ahead and watch it.

Otherwise, I suggest you watch something more interesting.