Father of a 4y/o girl. Not as bad/woke as people make it out to be.

Trying to keep it spoiler free…
It was a decent movie, and actually had a good amount of laughs. Remember this movie is “PG” and not “G”.

What I thought people made a big deal about and I don’t they needed to-
1. The period scene- I laughed hard at it, all it was is that the parents were worried and thought their child was on her period. They didn’t even use the word “period”. They said things like “I didn’t think it would happen this soon”, and had a box of pads (set up for a joke later).
2. The kids not listening to the parents. Again, I think peoples problem with this was overblown. Mei had problems with her parents and it could have been fixed by different means but she wasn’t a perfect character. I’d compare it to the movie Luca, yes he didn’t listen to his parents, but he’s also a kid.
3. Some small misc. stuff- girl saying “stripper music”, the drawings of a guy holding her, other things I can’t remember didn’t seem woke, but definitely for older kids and why it’s in the PG compared to G.
4. The ritual scenes- it was fine. We’ve seen things like this like Mulan having a dragon.


What was woke-
1. The twerking Panda scene was a bit much and went on for too long.
2. The boy that was into the boy band. Could make people uncomfortable, but I remember lots of boys that age liking Backstreet Boys. The “I love you Aaron Z” from said boy, interpret that how you will.
3. The “My Panda my Choice” line. Did it make me uncomfortable, yes. Do I think it was a Planned Parenthood support thing, no. I just took it as a dumb line.
4. During the credits there are 2 lgbt rainbows with the boy bands logo on it. So it makes me interpret my 2nd point a little differently.


Conclusion-
It wasn’t the wokest thing, and I don’t feel the need to talk to my 4 y/o about it. The only thing I really would is the tweaking panda scene, but at the age she probably just thinks of it as a type of fart joke.
Do I think we would watch it again? Probably not, heck, if the movie got rid of the one twerking panda part and the lgbt logos at the end, I wouldn’t mind. It was a fun movie at times.