bloodyrosemccoy | Double Disney (Sort Of) (Reply)

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Two Disney-related things:

1. Saw Enchanted last night with 妹 and her friend. I liked it a lot more than I expected to. It’s sassy and a pretty good satire for Disney to make of its movies, and it’s so loaded down with inside jokes that it’s just this side of collapsing into a singularity. And I want that first curtain dress. Who has curtains like that, anyway?

You also get my review of it. If I were a professional critic, I would get paid for this, but I really don’t want to get a job that necessitates me watching lousy movies too.

Ironic Favorite Part: The message that strong women like Marie Curie and Rosa Parks are boring and that fairy tale princesses are much more fun and interesting. One scene pretty much jams that nice little lesson in for you to be irritated at.

Unironic favorite part: When Giselle manages to recruit everyone in Central Park for a musical number. It’s funny and cute, and even managed to keep me from wondering too much about how this was supposed to be the non-Disney world where this stuff doesn’t happen. (And Robert’s confusion that everybody seems to know that song is a nice touch. “I’ve never heard this song! You know it?!”)

Favorite Subversion of a Trope: Runner up is the the Worldly Six-Year-Old who informs her grown-up friend that if you wear too much makeup men will get the wrong idea, and “men are only after one thing,” and then, when Giselle asks what that is, sheepishly replies, “I don’t know. Nobody will tell me.” But the winner is the cliché that Everything On The News Is Relevant, when the Handsome Prince finds Giselle when she’s on a hyperbolic, fearmongering newscast about a chipmunk who showed up in a restaurant and how this could be the beginning of the Chipmunk Apocalypse. I have seen newscasts that are not nearly as restrained as this one.

Favorite Actor In The Movie, Who is Not Dempsey Because Seriously, Am I The Only One Who Thinks He’s Sort Of Not-That-Sexy?: James Marsden, who was really digging playing Prince Edward in the fine tradition of Sir Lancelot or Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor, about whom David Eddings notes “He was so conceited there was a kind of innocence about it.” Marsden clearly enjoys the hell out of swashing around with his sword drawn and buckling about shouting things like “I have defeated the steel beast!” when he slays a bus and calling people things like “miscreants.” He even beat out Amy Adams, who is pretty awesome too.

2. EEEK!

I found the first season of Ocean Girl on Veoh! All the way from the first episode!

Maybe I’d better explain. When I was in first grade, Ocean Girl was on the Disney Channel, and I was utterly fascinated by it. But I was also seven years old and unable to watch a show with an overarching plot, since I barely ever remembered that TV shows came on at predictable times. So I was left to imagine most of this show and wish I could watch it and love both the mysterious girl on the island and the awesome underwater science station/city. I’m pretty sure I planned to live in one of those if that whole moon colony thing didn’t work out.* I don’t want to say that’s the first time I fell for science fiction, but the very idea of this show definitely had a hand in shaping my young psyche into the geek you see now.

Plus, weirdly, I’m the only person on Earth who remembers it. That’s creepy, so it’s nice to know that it really exists. (I mean, fer cryin' out loud, people remember the Pizza Hut commercial that they had before The Land Before Time on the old cassettes. You'd think someone would remember a show.)

*Dear Future: I am disappointed. I can live without the cake-baking robot arms in my kitchen, the even more ridiculous hairstyles, and the bubble-topped hovercar, but would it kill you to have come up with at least one awesome colony already? Something with a spectacular view of, say, Earth or the ocean floor? Come on. I want my underwater city!