Tonic1080's Reviews
Extreme Toxic Feminism
Male characters are irrelevant and incompetent, gay, or comedic relief.
Female character is a ninja super hero that can do anything and cannot fail.
All the girls in the audience: You don't need any man and if you don't grow up to be super heroes, you will be measured as failures.
All the boys in the audience: You will fail at everything, your contribution won't matter, you better have a woman to be your better, and you will personally never be required for something to be successful.
The movie should be called "Princess Peach" rather than "Mario Bros". Luigi is the damsel in destress. Mario literally fails at EVERYTHING the whole movie. His 1 success at the end could have been anyone who got the power-up (not dependent upon him). Peach's only failure (beside training Mario) is a voluntary "noble sacrifice" to stop fighting.
Created: 04-11-2023
Overt-needless placement of woke and overall undertone.
Early in the movie, blatant and irrelevant woke points added like "my two mommies..." instead of "my owners..." are overt in-your-face for the pure sake of wokeness.
Undertone of the story is...
- no one is exceptional (even Superman?), you cannot succeed without others (bastardized version of the old "teamwork" narrative).
- blatantly white characters (or stand-in characters for pets) are the lesser moral individuals who need to learn something from their non-white counterparts (but not the others).
The undertones overall are collectivist, racist ("reverse-racist"?), and classist with a spattering of blatant woke language.
Created: 11-25-2022
Guilty Woke-ish Pleasure
While this show is hilarious and makes fun of everyone, it is still built on pandering to woke stereotypes essential to get most media published these days (but yet still making fun of those same stereotypes....I'M SO CONFLICTED!!!). Male characters are generally bad guys or incompetent while female characters tend to be strong, capable, and independent (while still mocking those points of them).
Created: 09-10-2022
Good for adults, Bad for impressionable children.
Mixed emotions here as I really enjoyed this series, the character development, and the art style. However, that does not hide the blatant in-your-face pro-antifa/BLM "eat the rich" narrative of the haves vs. have-nots. The only good "haves" are those who acknowledge their privilege and the only bad "have-nots" are those who want to be the "haves". The idolized heroes of the "have-nots" (Vander) are build around architypes that do not exist in the real world (but kids watching this would not know that). Those same heroes are discretely basically mob-bosses in disguise whose only answer is to threaten violence and harm for transgressions.
Created: 09-10-2022
Like gulping down a jug of Toxic Masculinity while standing at the open refrigerator! Refreshing!!!
Excellent representation of the strengths and weaknesses differentiated between genders in the most raw and violent way possible.
Created: 09-10-2022
Once-Woke, Now the Anti-Woke
Who would have thought a story written from a liberal stance 30+ years ago would be the poster-child for anti-woke today. Just change the name (and only the name) of the "ultra religious conservative authoritative government' to the modern "ultra woke leftist authoritative government" and leave EVERYTHING else the same (actions, plot, society, outcome) and it's a highly accurate representation of modern anti-woke.
Created: 09-10-2022
