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Disney movies are not doing well.
The Little Mermaid may struggle to make back its box office because of its failure abroad. (The media blames Chinese racism.) The Buzz Lightyear movie flopped and was banned overseas after it decided to depict a lesbian couple.
Now Elemental joins the Disney woke/broke panel. Its opening is the second worst in Pixar’s history. It’s seemingly also the most woke of the Pixar movies.
The latest release also represents another step in Disney’s dogged march to the left by hammering audiences with thinly veiled lectures about racism, xenophobia and sexual orientation.
The story is set in the city of Element, where beings made of the four elements – water, air, earth and fire – reside in harmony, with the exception of fire elementals, who are seen as dangerous and largely relegated to the other side of the tracks.
A fire “immigrant” named Ember Lumen whose family is fighting discrimination as they climb the socio-economic ladder falls in love with water-being Wade Ripple, who has a nonbinary sister named Lake.
Praising the film’s political messaging was MovieWeb reviewer Julian Roman, who said that the Pixar release “addresses racism and xenophobia with spectacular CGI animation.”
“Elemental also depicts a lesbian couple in Wade’s family,” said the review. “The film embraces diversity and inclusion for all. These themes have become hot-button issues in a charged political atmosphere. Some may view Elemental as indoctrinating propaganda for interracial relationships and alternative lifestyles, but sincerely, this shouldn’t become a rallying cry against moral turpitude.”
Nonbinary Character, Lesbian Parent, Systemic Racism, what’s not to like? But mybe this isn’t what audiences are looking for their children?
Disney lost $200 million on its Strange World cartoon with its biracial, openly gay teenager. And the bleeding isn’t ending. But before conservatives celebrate too loudly, Disney, like most of the industry, has embraced the streaming model. And as long as people are subscribing to Disney+, they’re subsidizing even the movies they don’t watch.
Still Disney is repeatedly taking a beating on its animated properties that push sexual identity politics. That’s looking to add up to hundreds of million in losses on its cartoons alone. And shareholders ought to be outraged.
Your concern for Disney’s shareholders is touching. Except it wasn’t that long ago that you wrote a column decrying a Muslim majority town banning gay pride events (did you forget????). And here you are, suggesting that there’s something wrong with a film depicting a (GASP!) lesbian couple.
Your gleeful hand-rubbing at Disney’s financial woes is a celebration of, what?, hatred and exclusion? That’s what you stand for. I hope your kids read your columns one day.
HIs disgust with subjects completely inappropriate for children is honorable, Dickorn. No cartoon should have an agenda, especially not for people who generally hate others who aren’t like the. You know, 98% of the population.
All cartoons have agendas, moron. There are just agendas that you approve of and agendas that you don’t.
Yeah, Bugs Bunny had an agenda. So did Tom and Jerry, “the Jungle Book,” “The Incredibles,” “Up,” and “Sponge Bob Square pants.”
Cretin.
Winnie the Pooh had a rightwing agenda. LOL
I didn’t decry it. As I told you when you repeated that lie in the original comments.
No more than I decry the State Department refusing to celebrate Pride Month in the Muslim world.
I note the shameless hypocrisy of your corrupt and dishonest movement.
“Decrying?” Seems pretty obvious, Daniel was laughing at it. But you’re in your own little world mickhorn (is this an older southside?), so you see all kinds of things that aren’t there, and miss quite a few that are.
Where is all this hatred and exclusion? Look in the mirror, goofball.
“”…. sincerely, this shouldn’t become a rallying cry against moral turpitude.” Does that moron know he contradicted himself? Apparently not.
So sad about Pixar. Their facilities used to be located across the street from my elementary school 🙂
My earliest memory of that lot, when it was still undeveloped, was when my friends in nursery school organized a jail break, I remember we were running wildly across that field, no idea where we thought we were going 🙂
LOL! pre-schoolers on the lam.
lol, it still makes me laugh 🙂
I can’t remember how they rounded us up 🙂
Maybe with nets and lariats?
Disney has already destroyed their multi-billion dollar IPs so investors should do what investors do because money can’t fix this anymore.
Propaganda outlets are not expected to generate revenue. They are “the cost of doing business”, and the business is Communism.