adam r

I have to make a point very clear about the extremely unnecessary 'woke' agenda throughout this film that made it borderline unbearable. Films should be realistic and cast based on source material, casting should be based on merit and consistency. It was almost comical to see the casting. This film felt like a total woke indoctrination from the start to the end. Every scene felt like it had quotas to meet, with making sure they had enough whites, blacks, asians, browns etc. Male students with full beards wearing skirts, so many openly LGBT actors. It doesn't even make sense from a logical point of view for Munchkinland to be so diverse, are they having mass immigration too? The film itself was okay, but the industry cannot normalize this. I know I'm not in the minority when I say that I don't want my kids to see grown men wearing skirts and dressing as girls being normalized. Where was the significance of the nuclear family highlighted in the film?

Read the books back in 2013 and watched the film in the same year, but saw it on TV recently so thought I'd leave a review anyways. The books are pretty amazing, I have re-read them a few times over the past decade because they really stuck with me. The film takes a few very basic parts of the plot and condenses it into....something. I'm not really sure what else to call it, but I'm hoping eventually there is a series similar to the new Percy Jackson series that does this justice.