#loo rants about dreamworks

[lastoneout]

CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW MONSTERS V ALIENS WAS A MOVIE HEAVILY MARKETED AS A "BOYS" ACTION COMEDY AND THEN DWA SAID "YOU ALL ARE GETTING A MOVIE ABOUT A WOMAN STRUGGLING WITH HER IDENTITY AND INDEPENDENCE AND SENSE OF SELF WORTH AFTER LEAVING AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP AND YOU ARE GONNA LIKE IT" CAN WE JUST TALK ABOUT THAT

YES WE CAN BECAUSE EXACTLY??? 

The real flaw with Dreamworks is the marketing!! Like fuck Megamind was marketed as a stand-off fight between the two leads when its actually a huge, beautiful, hilarious dconstruction of the super-hero trope and a punch in the face to the theory of ‘nice guys’ that actually makes me cry sometimes??? (Like sorry Roxanne and Megamind is my OTP for life ok I get feelings about them)

And KFP was marketed as a silly fat joke/lazy kung fu movie but was actually a good look at where people come from and accepting who you are and not letting your limitations and the judgement of others from stopping you, and that sometimes things you thought were limitations are strengths! 

And Spirit was marketed as an action packed western for boys when it was basically an ART film about the harm humans can do to the environment and handles the subjugation of Native Americans better than DISNEY did (because if there’s one thing Dreamworks does right its POC, which always leads me to wonder why if a studio considered by most as at best B-list can get it right why CANT EVERYONE ELSE) Honestly Spirit and Hunchback are up there with animated movies that I can’t really believe were intended for children. 

And the Croods was presented as a silly caveman joke movie that even I didn’t want to see at first but when I did like!!! FUCK that movie was amazing!!! 

AND YES Monsters vs. Aliens was DEF marketed for boys but like??? The main character is a girl and she has SUCH a character arc and its amazing!! God that movie deserved better, it was honestly a really faithful recreation of monster movie tropes.

Like yes Dreamworks has had some freaking astonishing misses ( *cough B Movie cough Shark Tale cough cough*) but they have also made some of the most glorious animated movies of all time and I wish that they got more credit for it. (And even the ‘bad’ ones are still pretty funny. Over The Hedge may not have stuck in people’s minds but I still remember it being an enjoyable movie, and in the end thats honestly enough.)