I found the overall representation of the female body in this movie a little sickening. It’s great they’re there, too, as PoC women, but again, they’re background characters, this isn’t groundbreaking placement even for Disney. Our eyes see the group as “diverse” because they’re at different heights and have different hairdoos and possibly because we’ve become pretty accustomed in our culture to reading “black characters” as automatically showing “diversity” of all sorts, but in reality I think this highlights the movie’s appeal to being “empowering” etc. ![]() And not surprisingly, she’s the true comic relief of the bunch. It was a real contrast with the supposed message of size diversity.Īnd even the fat muse- who is, granted, a much better portrayal of a fat person than most stereotyping representations in Disney and other animated movies go- still fits to an extent the idea of the shape the female body will “ideally” take. But what struck me is the image Confessions chose to put in the background, that made it very clear in a way it wasn’t when I was younger that with the exception of one Muse, they all are incredibly thin with tiny, tucked in waists. A confession in Disney Confession tumblr came up that said they drew a lot of inspiration from the fact that the Muses were very diverse in size. Not even slightly.įirst, the Muses struck me as an interesting tidbit before I even re-watched the movie. I would say that yes, this movie has less issues than some other movies, but that doesn’t mean it skirts by scot-free. ![]() It’s witty in a way that can appeal to children and adults without inserting a lot of crass, not-really-funny generic adulty jokes into everything (akak ew, Bee Movie). I think this could effectively summarize how much joy I get out of this movie. “We dance,we kiss, we shmooze, we carry on, we go home happy.” -Hades
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