Disney has decided to end the discussion, once and for all. If your star is a girl in a dress that is carting around an animal sidekick, she is a princess. I am pretty much quoting from Moana, here. They really did spell it out like that; I guess that the Mouse is tired of all of these shenanigans getting in the way of them moving merch.
As for the movie: excellent Golden Age science fiction space opera, although it’s a shame that they couldn’t sneak in ray-guns somehow. The soundtrack is outstanding, although the song-songs must bow to the background music. Except for the David Bowie/Freddy Mercury/Prince tribute song in the middle – and I am neither lying about that, nor disapproving. No blood, nobody dies, kind of scary bits but nothing kids can’t handle, they’re gonna cry their eyes out during the film, so when you take the kids bring tissues.
I think that’s it.
I did like the bait and switch on the animal sidekick. It got me good.
One thing I liked: they skipped opportunities to tell where a lesser movie would have shown.
I may have to borrow a friend’s kids and go see it just to see how SpaceOpera squeezes into Polynesian Myth.
Hey, *I* went to go see it sans kids. Empty theater, though. I mean, I was the only one in there. Which is odd, because this movie is on track to be another monster for Disney.
Cool. I’m also glad to hear that Mouse-Princess Inc. is expanding beyond “Pretentiously useless aristocrat.”
Chicken voiced by Alan “I went to Julliard” Tudyk.
Sorry, he can’t hear you over the sound of the check clearing.
Not complaining. I’m in the process of reinstating my SAG-AFTRA membership. Getting paid for doing chicken noises is fine with me.
So …
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Leia follows Chewbacka (and Han) around, and hangs out with Ewoks ..
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Star Wars is now a Disney intellectual property..
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*IS* Leia a Disney Princess?
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Mew
“Now perhaps you will begin to understand the full power of the Dark Side.”
I understood it the minute the deal was announced .. Disney will see the Bechdel Test, and raise.
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Mew
I’ll just leave this here…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRMFH71fDIE
So since she doesn’t have an animal sidekick, this means that Black Widow is not a Disney Princess?
So far.
.. she just needs to hang out with Beast or Wolverine some ..
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Mew