Check out these movie "reviews" for Herbie: Fully loaded

[SemiCharmedQuark]

But my beloved No. 53 does what he can, even as recent developments in cheapo special effects have made it easier for a car to overemote rather shamelessly. Still, Herbie manages to end one particularly contentious dialogue sequence by blowing a huge load of oil all over Lindsay's T-shirt, thus soiling the Lohan Mountains as if we were watching some sort of wacky Disney bukkake video.

I knew there was a reason I've always loved that bug.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/click/movie-1146595/reviews.php?critic=columns&sortby=default&page=4&rid=1404283

For tween girls, the car has to share the spotlight with Lindsay Lohan, one of their favorites, in a part designed both to cater to their incipient romantic impulses and show them that “gender barriers” can be broken.The result is, predictably, a mishmash of slapstick, action, romance, domestic comedy and feel-good feminist fantasy

http://www.oneguysopinion.com/review.asp?ID=1615

The only thing in Herbie: Fully Loaded more round and bouncy than the titular VW Beetle is star Lindsay Lohan's inflated rack...But it's nonetheless hard to ignore the potential double entendre of Maggie's exhortation, during the speedway-set finale, to "Go hard Herbie!"

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=1662

[atommom]

1. Even reviews for a kids' movie have to include commentary on the

female characters' bodies? Sometimes I feel as if our whole culture has been transformed into a high school boys' locker room.

[geniph]

2. Yep, because a woman's worth is defined by the

size and perkiness of her mammary glands. All else is secondary.

:eyes:

[atommom]

3. Oops, I forgot. Thanks for reminding me!

I think I'll take my boobless self to the kitchen and have some ice cream now... :rofl:

[gorbal]

4. That "Lohan Mountains" comment is kinda funny though

I don't particularily have a problem with boob jokes. I think men's responses to breasts are ten times funnier than the globulous masses themselves however. Any woman with nice ones can tell you how much NICER men are to them when they show 'em off.

[Eloriel]

9. Well, there ya go

What a great reason for not having 'a problem' with boob jokes.

:eyes:

Some of the stuff I read in this forum is as offensive if not worse than what I read out in the general DU population.

[UCLA Dem]

5. I feel sorry for her. Its horribly disrespectful not to mention

humiliating for them to talk about her body in that way. Its seems to be part of what has driven her to loose all that weight, which couldn't have been and isn't healthy for her.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

6. You can't win as a woman in hollywood.

Either they make fun of you for being too fat and drive you into an eating disorder. Or you are too thin and you are all over the tabloids as having anorexia. They make fun of women for being flat chested, and more importantly, flat chested women aren't given good roles. But they also condemn women for getting implants.

[FizzFuzz]

8. and any film that focuses on women as human beings

with an identity and worth is derisively referred to as a "chick flick"

:mad:

you are totally right. Use the young pretty ones, speak condescendingly about them even as you wank to the dehumanised characters you create; discard the old ones, they're of no use.

[FizzFuzz]

7. the rotten tomatoes review is particularly repellant.

But what the fuck is Disney doing putting all that marketing effort and filmwriting thought into creating visual metaphors for PORN FILM MONEY SHOTS? Bukkake is an incredibly disgusting "genre" of porn which relies on male domination of women, through humiliation. The thrill is in seeing a young woman debased and grossed out, with no consensuality involved. The thrill IS the put down.

It turns my stomach and absolutely enrages me, and many women.

So that is what Disney does? Disney and their fucking image as wholesome, inclusive entertainment?

This is the kind of thing that makes me go ballistic. And if the misogyny weren't there, fuck brains like th wanker reviewer would have no material to be talking about like that.

The other reviews are not much better. Making fun of what he percieves to be some feminist message.

fucking boys and their entitlement.

anyone have an email address for Disney? Grumbling here won't make a mark. (sadly, will direct complaints make any impression either?)

[Hello_Kitty]

10. Oh now don't you know it's just boys letting off steam.....

Quit being such a fuddy duddy. You, male basher, you....:sarcasm:

[FizzFuzz]

11. really.

puke.

I just made the mistake of watching a little TV---Mr Fuzz is a TV head, unfortunately, usually I avoid it.

Every venture into TVland feels like a fricking bash in the face with the "women should only exist as victims or plastic Barbie dolls" stick.

Just the other day I got some junk mail advertising some NFL cable channel or something, including a "veiled" bash at femininity---the Catch Phrase was "Who Wants to See Figure Skating??" The message, "not a big manly man like you"

Just another small kick among many.

[Ripley]

12. I've been an NFL fan since I was about 8 years old.

I was listening to an NFL channel on Sirius recently on a long road trip. I understand the game. I know the coaches and players. Yet the two guys talking made constant remarks about the men fans. The guys at home, etc. And of course a few subtle sexist comments.

I remember reading somewhere that NFL fans are now comprised of about 40% females. Look at the stadium... I'd say there are at least 40% females in the stands.

So why do they want to insult or ignore half of their fan base. I just don't get what is so hard about being inclusive.