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Anonymous wrote:All the Pixar characters look the same. I actually thought the main character was the same one from Encanto. And some of the others looked like they were from Descipleable Me.
The over exaggerated eyes are a bit much.

Encanto is a Disney movie, not Pixar, and Despicable Me was neither Disney nor Pixar.

It's Disney Pixar now They merged 10+ yrs ago.

Anonymous wrote:All the Pixar characters look the same. I actually thought the main character was the same one from Encanto. And some of the others looked like they were from Descipleable Me.
The over exaggerated eyes are a bit much.

Encanto is a Disney movie, not Pixar, and Despicable Me was neither Disney nor Pixar.

Anonymous wrote:All the Pixar characters look the same. I actually thought the main character was the same one from Encanto. And some of the others looked like they were from Descipleable Me.
The over exaggerated eyes are a bit much.

Yeah, I really don’t like this style of animation at all. Feels like a slightly more polished Sid the Science Kid. Give me hand-drawn animation any day. I still got choked up when Mei met her mom as a 13 year old and they walked together hand-in-hand.

All the Pixar characters look the same. I actually thought the main character was the same one from Encanto. And some of the others looked like they were from Descipleable Me.
The over exaggerated eyes are a bit much.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d rather see a movie about getting your period than hiding it behind ancient Chinese history about girls turning into a red panda. It fuels really sexist stereotypes.

I’m not entirely sure what your mean by the sexist stereotype, but if it was there, I think I maybe kind of appreciated it a bit. I’m a little tired of the girl power/girls rule the world/girls-as-fierce-warriors tropes.

Agree, there are may ways to "be" and not everyone has to be the warrior. We need more Luna Lovegood characters too.

We loved it. Kids (age 8 & 4) were totally engaged and it led to a very natural conversation about periods after, which I knew we needed to have soon so very glad it happened as it did. I loved the 2002 throwback and only wish the final scene had been with the main character as a mom in 2022 parenting in a different way (breaking the generation cycle). Lots of great themes and fun jokes - it will definitely be in our regular rotation.

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Anonymous wrote:It was boring and weird. And as a woman, I found it a bit stereotypical.

As a boy mom, I can report that boys have normal outbursts as well. But this film focuses on girls.

And, as one of four girls, I have to say the tiger mom stereotype didn’t resonate at all. My sisters and I adored our mother. She provided unconditional love, not controlling at all.

Little kids wanted to watch it, but they got bored after 20 minutes. Curious what age group actually enjoyed it? Also curious if the film resonates with certain ethnic groups?

Congratulations to you I guess? I’m white from the whitest possible family and my mom was highly anxious, repressed and controlling so the movie resonated a lot with me even though I don’t belong to any “certain ethnic groups” (gross, why don’t you just come out and say you couldn’t relate because you don’t think of asians as real people)

Same. I’m white and this character could have been my mother. Very strict, controlling, and unwilling to listen.

I am not white but omg, I have spent my whole life watching movies about white people. I am happy to see more diversity these days but it’s not like I could not watch and relate to movies about white people. You don’t have to like the movie, but it sounds like you didn’t like it because the main character was a female and non-white. That is super gross.

Anonymous wrote:I HATED it. The self loathing talk from the little girl, hitting herself and yelling stupid, her self proclaimed “sexy drawings” and saying she likes to do gyrations with her bodY. Horrible movie.

That’s right, we were cracking up at the panda butt twerking scene to deliberately piss off her mom.

The sexy time drawings were odd too. I don’t know kids drawing romantic stuff, thinking it maybe…

My kids like the begging puppy eyes. And anime like panda reminded them of totoro.

Anonymous wrote:The reviews on Commonsense Media were not all that positive. I’m going to hold off on it for my 9yo for now.

Probably, I trust their book reviews. Definitely has the mom/daughter fights down pat in the movie.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone watch yet? This one got me to cry (whereas Encanto did nothing for me), but maybe it’s just because I have a 13 year old girl. The metaphor of the big hairy, smelly, awkward, emotional beast was spot on.

We all thought it was strange and probably about being trans or non-binary, not puberty (which is before age 13 for girls anyhow).
Also found it hypocritical and stereotypical that the chinese family still exploited the panda for money, as did the girl herself.
Friend group was fine, certainly a group of deliberate misfits.
Boy bad craze didn’t really fit their genres but whatever.
The dad planting the seed to not do what mom and the elders advised was interesting too.

Anonymous wrote:Not sure why y'all are showing this to your 6 and 7 year olds, it's meant for 10+

lol

Not sure why y'all are showing this to your 6 and 7 year olds, it's meant for 10+

My 10 year old liked it. My 12 year old did not like it. I didn't like it either. It missed the mark with the story it was trying to tell.

We loved it! Also so great to see an Asian facet of North American childhood featured in a Pixar movie!