Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Alpha and Omega (animated movie)

I went to see Toy Story 3 today and loved it. Before the movie began, though, there were 5 or 6 trailers for movies, most of them utter garbage.

One of them, an animated one - intended for children - was called, "Alpha and Omega."

There's no plot up at the IMDB yet, except one sentence, "Two mismatched young wolves are thrown together by circumstance."

The actual plot as depicted in the trailer - a male wolf, who would be considered "not handsome" or a "nerd" if this were a movie about people, is kidnapped along with a beautiful female wolf, who would be considered beautiful if she were human) and released in an area of a forest where the humans of the movie expect them to breed and start a new wolf pack.

They attempt to return to their original home, and of course initially the beautiful female wolf has no interest in the nerd, but he proves himself to be brave and resourceful so I have no doubt that by the end of the film they are in love and will indeed have sex - though perhaps the kids in the audience won't be treated to that.

Very reminiscent of Bolt, with his cross-country journey with the "villainous" cat Mittens.

Utter garbage.

Note the way the characters are depicted below.

The male... just a male. Obviously a nerd. Probably in this pic looking at the alpha female in hopeless love, knowing that he could never have such a beautiul creature.

then look at the female .... sexualized. Flirting. Come hither look. Telling girls...yes, girls, if you want to get a guy, if you want "grrrl power" it's not about looking strong, it's about looking sexy and willing to go to bed with the first guy who tells you you're pretty.



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