For me, this part of the "How to train your dragon" series is a total depreciation of the trilogy. The dialogs are dull and this film drips with sexual clichés and applied sexism.
Unfortunately, sexual clichés in kid's movies are commonplace (for Americans, at least). While women in this film are all portrayed as totally normal people, all male actors (both humans and dragons) are portrayed as either abysmally evil or mentally dull, almost retarded beings who are busy all the time recruiting female sexual partners.
One might think that the script for this film was written by a frustrated woman who has a deep-seated frustration or hate against men.
If women had been portrayed as clichéd as the men in this film, the outcry in public would have been great - especially because this is a children's film! Imagine what criticism there would have been if all the women in a film had been portrayed as blond, stupid and willless.
To portray men so one-sided seems to be okay? Why? Strangely enough, sexism directed against men seems to be socially accepted. We here in Europe are already two decades further than the people in the states and know: a human being is a human being, independent of his sex - and ALL kind of sexism or sexual clichés doe not help us to overcome this old encrustation. So while we in Europe are currently breaking down sexual prejudices and clichés and focusing on a person's CHARACTER, films like this help sexual cliché are further cementing - or they just turn old sexual clichés into the opposite. Is that what we want to teach our children?
A child's brain absorbs everything it sees or hears. A child's mind does not filter. I can still see mmovie scenes in my mind that I saw as a child and that influenced me a lot. And that's exactly why as a father or mother you should pay attention to what you present to your children. And so I am currently worried about what is presented to our children in animated films from the States, because they are dripping with sexual clichés.
Unfortunately, sexual clichés in kid's movies are commonplace (for Americans, at least). While women in this film are all portrayed as totally normal people, all male actors (both humans and dragons) are portrayed as either abysmally evil or mentally dull, almost retarded beings who are busy all the time recruiting female sexual partners.
One might think that the script for this film was written by a frustrated woman who has a deep-seated frustration or hate against men.
If women had been portrayed as clichéd as the men in this film, the outcry in public would have been great - especially because this is a children's film! Imagine what criticism there would have been if all the women in a film had been portrayed as blond, stupid and willless.
To portray men so one-sided seems to be okay? Why? Strangely enough, sexism directed against men seems to be socially accepted. We here in Europe are already two decades further than the people in the states and know: a human being is a human being, independent of his sex - and ALL kind of sexism or sexual clichés doe not help us to overcome this old encrustation. So while we in Europe are currently breaking down sexual prejudices and clichés and focusing on a person's CHARACTER, films like this help sexual cliché are further cementing - or they just turn old sexual clichés into the opposite. Is that what we want to teach our children?
A child's brain absorbs everything it sees or hears. A child's mind does not filter. I can still see mmovie scenes in my mind that I saw as a child and that influenced me a lot. And that's exactly why as a father or mother you should pay attention to what you present to your children. And so I am currently worried about what is presented to our children in animated films from the States, because they are dripping with sexual clichés.