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The amount of real world product placement in this veered on uncomfortable territory. Crypto and Smash Bros are now part of the Pixar canon :(
We’re living in a world where complacent billionaires are laying off countless employees and using them as tax writeoffs in favor of utilizing AI in workplaces to avoid having to deal with financially rewarding people for their own labor they actively destroy themselves for in the process, causing them to severely economically struggle while the 1% continues to diminish and oppress all in favor of being as “frugal” as possible (as if wealth to them is of any concern) and…
I feel like such an asshole for not loving this since I loved the source material this was based on, and I really like the themes and messages here and I’m glad there is a kids movie that tackles gender identity and systematic oppression tastefully, but overall I just found this film to be extremely annoying stylistically, not very funny with only a few sporadically humorous gags and lines of dialogue, and overall containing a lot of the cliches that…
