I mean, only for like a quarter…

“I’ll take ‘Skeezy Race Issues’ for $500, Alex.”

I can only imagine what the fandom commentary is going to look like when this actually comes out, or we get enough clips to validate our suspicions. (I admit, I am prejudiced against phony ‘viral marketing’ stuff, a check in the negative column to begin with.

Wonder if the spoiled chihuahua gets rescued by and finds love with the Taco Bell chihuahua from a few years back?

BetaCandy, you can tell me if I’m being too cynical, but my first thought upon reading this was – that was the pitch meeting, ‘We can remake Lady & The Tramp, only we’ll update it so she’s a Valley Girl, and he’s that Taco Bell chihuaha! It’ll be a blast!”

I loved WallE BTW. I’m about to do a review of it now.

(Bad, *bad* P@L! No biscuit!)

Hmmm, what would the Purgatory level look like? It won’t work as History Fanboy meets Famous Ambivalent People Who Redeemed Themselves In The Past; it won’t *really* work as Hero gradually attains self-knowledge and understanding, either, even tho’ that’s what it’s all *supposed* to be, b/c there are never enough explosions and karate kicks in that (which is why Yoda’s training in Empire gets cut off short!) so my thought is that it would have to be a level of mess-with-your-head – the higher up the mountain you go, the less you can tell what reality is, and the greater the temptations to stay and become a Lotus-Eater in your own reality, as you try to work through your issues needing redemption. (Maybe “Purgatory’ is breaking up/getting corrupted due to Lucifer’s increasing power, chainging it from its original purpose?)

Anyway this gives us the opportunity to have that most important reversal of the Hero’s Journey with Action!Grrl Beatrice – the point at which she goes from being Kick-Ass to Helpless Weenie. Maybe he was a screaming weenie down on the levels with the lava and the burning sands and the centaur-archers and the farting demons with pitchforks, but *here* Dante gets to come into his own and instead of needing to be rescued, here’s where he rescues her and she finally reciprocates his affection, instead of treating him like the annoying kid brother…

(Down, girl! Stop that!)

Isn’t it weird that Tigress and Snake in Kung Fu Panda were more realized female characters and were in a CARTOON? They weren’t the point of the movie, but their separate plot (where they and their team save the village, and they and their team go to confront the big bad on their own) was pretty darn interesting in its own right. I didn’t get the sense that they were just foils for the hero’s development — they cared passionately about their mentor and the village, and wanted to help save the day.

I’m not so surprised that it was in a cartoon, because I used to watch a lot of anime when I was in junior high, and even the butchered, bowdlerized versions that were all that was shown then were so far above most of the live-action adult US-made TV of the time for plot complexity and characterization, conflict and nuance (TJ Hooker frex vs anything by Leiji Matsumoto) but i AM surprised because it’s a kids’ movie which isn’t following the whole Hero’s Journey/Precious Object model exactly. Sounds like they got some YA writers to do the script, instead of the usual suspects! [/snark] [/snark] [/snark] – damn key’s still stuck–

Speaking of which – Have you seen the buzz about this new Disney chihuaha-romance movie? Bleargh!!!

Isn’t it weird that Tigress and Snake in Kung Fu Panda were more realized female characters and were in a CARTOON? They weren’t the point of the movie, but their separate plot (where they and their team save the village, and they and their team go to confront the big bad on their own) was pretty darn interesting in its own right. I didn’t get the sense that they were just foils for the hero’s development — they cared passionately about their mentor and the village, and wanted to help save the day.