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Gay jokes? Really?

posted 15 years ago by dark_isle
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I'm gonna sound like such a fanboy, but are Pixar and Studio Ghibli movies really the only animated films out there anymore that don't rely on these cheap, Monday night "luaghs"? I mean, the caterpillar that just "came out"? Seriously? How is a joke like that even necessary? This is a KID'S movie for god sake...though its getting harder and harder to call them that, since 95% of "jokes" in these movies would go way over the G-crowd's heads...and if any children actually understood them, I feel sorry for them.

When I watched Up, it was an actual "experience" that brought me back to what it was like to be a kid again, to be swallowed by the imagination and escape and to feel the exhilaration of being swept away in a floating house. This...I remembered that sitcom I saw the other night. Thats it.

[–] lest-rj 15 years ago

Ice Age is an animation but not a kid's movie, it's a movie for all ages.
I thought that particular 'joke' (not jokes, joke, and it was more like a comment) was rather funny, Buck is a hilarious character. And yet it wasn't out there, just like you said, little kids might not even understand (though I wouldn't be surprised if they did, kids know a lot these days - I should know, I'm a teacher, and constantly amazed by them - and that isn't a bad thing).

[–] Tudi_Rad 15 years ago

I fail to see how that single joke makes up for 95% of jokes in the movie.

That particular joke was aimed at adults, as was the "yabadabadoo" joke probably aimed at the kids. A bit for everyone.

[–] dark_isle 15 years ago

By 95%, I meant that the 95% of the jokes in the ENTIRE movie were the kind you would hear in a sitcom, so its not just that one joke, its all the others.

[–] mrmoo2001 15 years ago

a GAY joke? OH NOES!!!!

It is only a matter of time before the boys in the audience start groping each other's nudie-bits!!!! This sort of depravity MUST BE STOPPED!

No... hang on... this is the 21st centure, not the 19th...

*ahem*

As a gay I am DEEPLY offended at this film that CLEARLY has an EVIL, HOMOPHOBIC AGENDA!!! We must make a stand and say NO to this film and its message of HATE!

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[–] hard_drive_6 15 years ago

dude...lighten up

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[–] sprungerino 15 years ago

Jesus Christ man, how did you not get the sarcasm?

[–] dark_isle 15 years ago

LoL. Sarcasm failed.

[–] chronarita 15 years ago

Pixar?

Oh, man. Have you actually taken a good look at Cars? With, Mia and Tia "flashing" Lightning, "Get a good peek, city boy?", etc. And of course in Ratatouille with Skinner's fear that Linguini might become "too familiar" with vegetables, as well as Linguini saying "I have a tiny...a little..." while Colette takes a quick glance at his groin.

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[–] dark_isle 15 years ago

I try to forget about Cars, to be honest. I never said Pixar was perfect.

And yes Ratatouille had a bit of innuendo, but it was actually useful as banter between the characters. What purpose did the butterfly joke serve? Nothing. It did not help the characters, it did not evoke response, it did not reveal their personality, it did not move the story. It did nothing. Just some random joke with no relevance to anything thrown in there for giggles for people who still think this low brow crap is funny. Same recycled junk used in Madagascar, Monsters Vs. Aliens, Shrek (though it was hilarious the first time), etc etc.

[–] chronarita 15 years ago

Regardless if you try to forget Cars, it still exists. And it's still got random innuendo. ;)

Also, I'd like to point out that in a deleted scene for Cars, Mack actually was able to stop at a truck stop, with Mia and Tia as waitresses. Would it be suprising to you after their little "moment" that they would be working at a place marked as a "top-down" truck-stop, with all-convertible waitresses?

Man, that movie can really get away with anything and make it out with a G.

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Nathaniel: Sire, do you...like yourself?
Edward: What's not to like?

[–] Ecstasy_Of_Gold 15 years ago

'It is only a matter of time before the boys in the audience start groping each other's nudie-bits!!!! This sort of depravity MUST BE STOPPED! '

hahaha you're amazingly witty i'll give you that The OP is trying to say that a gay joke has no place in a childrens film and it doesn't. It's a cheap laugh, pure and simple. It's a reward for the guffawing, easily pleased parents in the crowd for having to sit through this dross. Who needs clever humour when you can have sexual innuendo and fat jokes.

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[–] Janevra 12 years ago

"The OP is trying to say that a gay joke has no place in a childrens film and it doesn't. "

Why don't gay references (or jokes) have a place in children's films? Why does life have to be presented to kids as heteronormative?

[–] dark_isle 15 years ago

You're right. I try to forget about Cars because its every bit the low brow cartoon everyone else was making those days, with the lame jokes to the "all star" voice cast, which unlike their other films was more an annoyance than a help. It angers me that their making a sequel for it...like, huh?...but I guess theirs gotta be people that want it for it to happen.

[–] chronarita 15 years ago

Toy Story and Cars are the only Pixar movies that are still bringing in money even after their merchandise season has been long gone. I always see little boys with Lightning McQueen backbacks and shirts, so it isn't a movie that's been forgotten.

And my four-year-old brother has it as his favorite film (Next to Bolt and WALL-E.), so there's one fan. ;)

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Nathaniel: Sire, do you...like yourself?
Edward: What's not to like?

[–] galahadfairlight 14 years ago

Not forgetting when Lightning speaks about Doc winning the Piston Cup and Mater says "he did what in his cup?"

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[–] chronarita 15 years ago

Yeah, there's been beer jokes, suicide jokes, crossdressing jokes, etc. in the old Looney Tunes shorts. Nothing new. :)

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Nathaniel: Sire, do you...like yourself?
Edward: What's not to like?

[–] dark_isle 15 years ago

Ice Age 3 = Bugs Bunny

Duly noted. :)

[–] chronarita 15 years ago

A movie cannot equal a character. :O

But in some ways, yes, Blue Sky's features are a bit more like old Looney Tunes shorts than any other animated film studio's features out there.

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Nathaniel: Sire, do you...like yourself?
Edward: What's not to like?

[–] dark_isle 15 years ago

Actually, it can. Transformers 2 is a spitting image of its director: dumb, loud, showy, obnoxious, and endlessly offensive. :D

[–] chronarita 15 years ago

But the dirctor is a real boy.

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[–] ronandboys323 15 years ago

In no way, shape or form was offended by it

[–] insanetheking 15 years ago

It's not about that. It's about that the jokes are crap. They give nothing to the story and are completely random. It's an example of poor script writing, it's just that the movie has so much color and effect flavors people force themselves to swallow the cheap jokes, excusing the movie all together.

Good comedy is an art, and sadly this art is being forgotten.

It takes talent to make some people laugh of a joke that doesn't make fun of or make you laugh at the expense of some character. To some it seems impossible to make a joke like that. Because they have hardly ever seen or heard it.

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[–] Knechtfamily 15 years ago

I KNOW! Why should kids know about sex and homosexuality?! It's destroying our world!

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BTW, I'm not even thirteen and I got the joke and thought it was funny. I'm not going to be "corrupted" or "perverted".

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[–] stazzercise 15 years ago

Like many have said before...first off, adult jokes have been in animation for decades (Looney Tunes, Rocky and Bullwinkle)...and the same for family sitcoms---"ALF" even had an episode where he got addicted to "cotton."
And it has been said since the beginning of the Ice Age series that they were meant to be directed more towards the old Looney tunes humor.

Plus, again, as many said, little kids won't even catch the joke.

[–] Can_a_bitch_get_a_donut 15 years ago

I've often wondered what would happen if Disney or any studio released an animated movie aimed at children with no sexual humor, no profanity, and no violence, but rather than having your typical male/female leading love story, it featured two males that meet, fall in love and in the end live happily ever after.

Would it be rated G, like The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, etc?

We'll find out someday.

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