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PETA and anti-thanksgivings themes aside...


This just looks awful... It just feels like a straight to DVD, five dollar bin at Walmart, type of movie... It looks low-budget, the dialogue in the preview is terrible, and the animation looks average at best... just a cheap money grab from WhoGivesACrap Studios...

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Scott Mosier co-wrote this. He's no advocate of PETA, and is definitely NOT anti-Thanksgiving.

Move along.

"When life gives you lemons, just say *beep* the lemons, and bail!" - Kunu

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SModcast rules! But I think Mosier is just a producer on this.

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This movie doesn't seem like the five dollar bin at Walmart. It is more like the one dollar rack at the Dollar Store.

TAG LINE: True genius is a beautiful thing, but ignorance is ugly to the bone.

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Where are you getting this information? Scott is a movie producer. He's also not a vegetarian. None of what you said is true. At all.

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I'm guessing you don't have kids, amIright?

My five year-old LOVED it, and I thought it was entertaining, with just enough adult jokes (I don't mean dirty jokes, I mean stuff like using Sulu's voice for the time machine) to keep it interesting for us adults, too.

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Just because you have kids doesn't mean you should encourage mediocrity. Finding Nemo is a movie that kids love and it's not cheap and stupid.

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

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I still find Finding Nemo to be overrated.

Son, you got a panty on your head.

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I do have kids and it was a real struggle to keep them interested in this.

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i hope i will live to see my children taste turkey.- a christmas carol

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Dude. This is not anti-Thanksgiving. The moral of this film was that Thanksgiving should be about giving, sharing, and spending time with people you love. It simply reinstated that this can be done without anyone's life having to end.

PETA themes? Animal rights themes, maybe, but not PETA themes. PETA is a terrible, money-grubbing organisation. And this certainly isn't the first children's film to show the world from an animal's perspective, depicting humans as evil and greedy - think of Chicken Run (the humans wanted to make pies out of the chickens) Bambi (a hunter killed Bambi's mother) Babe (Babe's mother was killed by humans) Charlotte's Web (a barnyard pig is rescued from humans) Free Willy (a whale is saved from captivity) 101 Dalmations (Cruelle wants to capture the dogs to make them into fur coats) in every single one of these films, humans are depicted as evil. That's because they are. That is reality.

I won't disagree that the film is terrible, boring, whatever, I didn't like it at all. But all this stuff about PETA and anti-Thanksgiving and vegan "propaganda" is bullcrap.

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Hi Danae,

I just want to thank you for giving an intelligent, meaningful, educational, well-written response on these message boards. Such responses aren't found here very often, as I'm sure you well know.

Best regards,
Marsha

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I think its not cheap and really bad, just not bad enough. Why PETA allow fish to be food?

THRILLER IS MY FOOD!

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