As a super-white white person, I have no comment on the race/ethnicity thing. All I can say is that the animation looks HORRIBLE. Are they trying to adapt their 2D style to 3D? cause I'm just creeped out by the look, somehow.
Also, Enchancia is worse than Andalasia. And that made me want to hurl. Aw geeze. And Briar Rose's fairy godmothers are there (looking flat and creepy, like videogame characters)... And Cinderella? I... what?
It turned out that she's not actually Latina or whatever, the guy misspoke (which is PR terminology for "is an idiot and now has an extra page in his HR file"). The mom has darker skin because she's from a country that's "like Spain." So does that make her what, Atina-Lay?
Also, overthinking it: her mom is marrying the king. What does that make her? Absolutely nothing.
re: overthinking. I had the same exact thought. I mean, unless the king is really nice and decided to name her an official heir-type. Which he probably wouldn't because he has two kids of his one and one of them's a boy.
Oh, GOD. I can't believe I watched most of that. What the hell kind of Disney moral are they attempting to preach with this? "Learn to love getting things you don't earn"?
I think I have no objections on the race/ethnicity thing, but we have to be honest with ourselves about the quality of Disney's straight-to-video movies as opposed to their released-in-theatres movies.
This movie isn't bad because it has a light-skinned Hispanic in it, it's bad because it's bad.
As I said above, they later retracted the statement about her being Latina. Because it's not Spain, it's "like Spain."
And this isn't even straight-to-video, it's a TV movie. But regardless, they really should be ashamed of themselves. Even High School Musical looked better than this. And their animated TV shows are usually quite good, too.
I think it's because they're doing a princess story, they don't feel like they have to actually, you know, try. Girls will watch it for the pretty dresses, or something like that. And the inappropriate stepbrother/stepsister dynamics. OH YEAH FAMILY VALUES
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Also, Enchancia is worse than Andalasia. And that made me want to hurl. Aw geeze. And Briar Rose's fairy godmothers are there (looking flat and creepy, like videogame characters)... And Cinderella? I... what?
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Also, overthinking it: her mom is marrying the king. What does that make her? Absolutely nothing.
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This movie isn't bad because it has a light-skinned Hispanic in it, it's bad because it's bad.
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And this isn't even straight-to-video, it's a TV movie. But regardless, they really should be ashamed of themselves. Even High School Musical looked better than this. And their animated TV shows are usually quite good, too.
I think it's because they're doing a princess story, they don't feel like they have to actually, you know, try. Girls will watch it for the pretty dresses, or something like that. And the inappropriate stepbrother/stepsister dynamics. OH YEAH FAMILY VALUES
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