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Rebochan: Since this popped up on the main page, I thought I'd put it here if the troper wanted to talk more about it so it doesn't distract from the main page.
- Broken Aesop - The movie inverts the original tale's. Also, Foxy Loxy gets turned nice, docile, and perfectly feminine against her will, but everyone's happy with that, especially the guy that adopts her to be his girlfriend.
- Any parent would do anything to protect their child - such as blow up an innocent planet that has nothing to do with their child's disappearance. There's some good strong family values!
- You must remember their child went missing on that planet. Hell, the entire thing was basically the alien equivalent to a SWAT team responding to a suspected hostage situation.
- Any parent would do anything to protect their child - such as blow up an innocent planet that has nothing to do with their child's disappearance. There's some good strong family values!
A SWAT team won't blow up a house with hostages inside. They'll usually try to evaluate the situation rationally and may even communicate with them. In this case, the aliens tried to blow up the entire planet to find their kid when they obviously had more subtle technology on hand, which seems a rather strange moral to impart.
Rebochan: Took this paragraph out of the intro:
- Surprisingly, despite not being sufficiently received initially, the film has gained quite a number of fans since. Though undeniably a break from the norm of Disney animation and arguably an imitation of the competition, the film is, by Disney standards, rather fresh—there's no firm morals rammed down the audience's throat
and the film instead conducts every part of itself mainly for laughs. Though technically not on par with most of what Pixar does, it might prove you don't need superb production values to make an entertaining movie. However, it should be noted that many of Disney's other CGI films directly produced, such as Dinosaur, Valiant, and The Wild are even more easily forgotten, so the decision to maintain ties with Pixar was almost ceartainly the right one.
I'm sure it's possible to lighten the tone on the article - I'll admit I was hard on the movie. But it rambles on to a lot of points that aren't relevant, and the movie is most certainly Anvilicious about its morals (how many times did we hear someone repeat things like "Closure" and "trust in your family"?).
