Despicable Me 2

[gollygee]

I saw this movie and was pretty horrified about how women were treated in it. It has other problems too, but there's this woman Gru is set up with, and she's an obnoxious stereotype but just annoying, but she gets hit with a moose tranquilizer and physicallly hurt in several ways and dropped unconscious on her doorstep, and it's supposed to be one laugh after another. It was one laugh after another - people in the theater laughed like crazy.

http://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/despicable-me-2-lives-up-to-the-title-in-all-the-worst-ways/Content?oid=2693458

Big disappointement.

[ismnotwasm]

1. Is this where we are supposed to "lighten up"?

'Cause you know that's not going to happen with me. It sounds, not only cringeworthy bit socially damaging. There is no need for this shit. It's laziness and greed.

[gollygee]

2. Yeah all I could think was

"What are my daughters learning from this?" I'm glad they didn't laugh anyway. I said something about it on the way home and the younger one didn't even remember that part (movies are more about popcorn than anything else for her) and the older one said she didn't get what was supposed to be funny about slamming a woman's head in a door.

[ismnotwasm]

3. Good for them

It's my belief that young women and little girls ARE picking up on how bad these kind of things are. The goal for a female in life is no longer 'catch a man and have babies' (although there is NOTHING wrong with being a stay at home Mom, as long as its a choice) there are a multitude of options, something feminism has been fighting for. Which makes movies like this even more disturbing

[Squinch]

4. Just saw The Heat, and had a similar reaction.

There were a couple of laughs, but there were also stabbings, shootings, guys dropped from buildings (which was treated as a joke), mistaking political incorrectness for humor.

Taking a stupid male shoot-em-up movie, and substituting women for the leads doesn't change the fact that it is a stupid shoot-em-up movie.