Arts One More for the Bratz
posted by August 3 at 11:27 AM
onFrom my review of the Bratz movie:
The live-action movie is a celebration of what generates the cultural power of Bratz: imperfection. The movie begins with the four girls (one Asian, one black, one white, one Latino) entering their sophomore year in high school. They are friends to the end, and the other students (cheerleaders, jocks, geeks, goths) recognize the strength and beauty of their friendship. The other students also recognize the Bratz as the new order, the coming future that will confront the approaching past: a rich, blond, white girl named Meredith.
The movie not only celebrates imperfection, it also has very little (and therefore denounces) boy talk—the killer of girl minds all over the world. The Bratz have other things to think about, other things to talk about, other things to do than endlessly chatter about this and that boy. And there’s no worse poison for a girl’s mental development than excessive boy talk. It turns their minds into mush. Keep them away from it, and they will become a master; let them indulge in it, and they will become a slave in a man’s world.
One more plus for the Bratz: The one boy that the main girl likes is deaf—a symbol of the silencing of boy chatter.
Comments
Those are some hot foreheads, eh Charles?!
Wow. You were the perfect person to review this. Are there any songs/dance numbers in it?
So nothing like the toys then which are basically babies dressed as sluts.
Slutbabiez!
A critical sampling of "Bratz," courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes:
"This is why the terrorists hate us."
- Onion AV Club
"For all its blather about 'letting your spirit soar,' it’s really about furthering an MTV-defined version of cool, which means too many clothes, too little education and too much money."
-Variety
"In the end, the most offensive part of Bratz isn't its stereotypes or brand expansion; it's the sorry state of Jon Voight's career."
-Village Voice
"Wow, is this movie mind-numblingly vapid and shrill."
-AP
"Bratz is like being raped by MySpace."
-CinemaBlend.com
You're way, way out on a limb with this one, Charles. Good luck to you.
...and then they all put all belly shirts and go to the mall.
I meant "put on." Doh!
Yeah - BS on this one. Those toys are straight evil.
Best Mudede movie review EVAR!
I hope someone called the cops on you while you were perusing the young girls at the theatre.
I would have.
Okay. I never bought into the hype that Ecce Homo is Dan until that comment @10. Sealed the deal.
Chaz talk is the most dangerous thing to an adult mind.
no boy talk? dykez.
My dad was a gay racist. Really gay, really into gay rights, hated black people-- and brown people and Asians and pretty much all non-whites --with a deep and fiery passion. And it was always sort of fascinating to me that someone who could talk such a good game when it came to gay rights was not only a racist, but a loud, angry unapologetic racist. It's like he had really sharp senses in a certain frequency and he was deaf and blind to everything else.
I often think that about you, Charles. You can spot the racist subtext in a clear glass of water, but when it comes to objectifying women and all the negative shit that implies you've got more in common with Andrew Dice Clay than you do with bell hooks. It's really... I think appalling might be the word I'm looking for, but I'm not sure.
What Charles needs in his life is some of this.
Saw the TV ad. Yuck.
They look like a second generation series of modified clones of Angelina Jolie that escaped the lab.
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