Joe Gartland

This film demonstrates that representation CAN be done badly. Exploiting numerous generic stereotypes (the friend group, the band, and the Asian family) and packaging it as representation that can be enjoyed by a niche audience with a high cringe tolerance is not conducive to creative and engaging media. The venerable and beloved creative powerhouse that is Pixar, known for creating breathtaking fables with allegories for life has fallen short by not only living up to the stereotypes it's trying to break and using childrens films as a political mouthpiece but is also guilty of the ideals it's trying to oppose. At the very least you'd thing it'd be entertaining despite this? Nope. Genuinely found it hard to watch at some points. Why couldn't they just make a nice female protagonist film like Brave again if it's about empowerment? Smhhgg