Todays analogy for "The Emperors New Clothes"
This is a movie where people don't want to dislike the shiny new thing that everyone claims to love, so many are simply chiming in how great it is...while also saying it's not that great. So many reviews make "the message" the highlight of the experience, while many others discuss how it isn't actually that great, yet leave an oddly high review score. It says plenty that the film didn't even represent itself accurately in its marketing, which was a brilliant choice despite being dishonest. It pushed it as a pure comedy for the whole family, but that definitely wasn't what it was. Ultimately, this is a feminist film that convinced the world that you are part of "the patriarchy" if you didn't like it, and people are stumbling over themselves to bobblehead their agreement, lest you be labeled an "ist" of some sort. I assure you, this film will have no staying power, and is destine to forever be on the "$4.99 and under" sales list in a year. Incidentally, I saw this with 2 women, and they both hated it and laughed at their friends for fawning over it because of "the message". Well done world, you've fallen into the mindset of a centuries old fable because so many of you are afraid to think for yourselves.
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