Tags: "anti-american"

11/07/09

I thought to myself: "Where have I seen this theme- man exploiting nature and corrupting an innocent culture with his greedy ways and lust for conquest?"

Then, it came to me: just about everywhere! So, I go on youtube for a clip of Ferngully in order to make my point in a humorous way and bam! I discover that somebody had the same idea:

**update**

It's worse than I thought. One would expect Big Hollywood to ding a movie for its overt liberalism, but Variety?

Thematically, the film also plays too simplistically into stereotypical evil-white-empire/virtuous-native cliches, especially since the invaders are presumably on an environmental rescue mission on behalf of the entire world, not just the U.S. Script is rooted very much in a contemporary eco-green mindset, which makes its positions and the sympathies it encourages entirely predictable and unchallenging.

It's a near 100% rule that people love messages in movies...as long as they agree with them (making a point of not having a message is a message too- nihilism). So, who will love the messages in this movie? Anti-Americans and Naturists.

**update #2**

Apparently, it urges people, indirectly, to root against Americans and encourages military desertions.

**update #3**

A more in-depth analysis here.

Image from Amazon
FernGully: The Last Rainforest (Family Fun Edition)