Written by: Yoni Brenner
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So: worst episode of Everybody Loves Raymond ever? (Which is really saying something!) Except unlike that show, the family here...is made up of more than just suburban whites; but Ice Age 3’s multiculturalism seems shallow, an ostensible celebration of diversity, classic pseudo-liberalism, meant to secrete its embedded conservatism. Yeah, yeah, its “herd” is made up of many different types of animals, and its main married couple is multiracial. (Romano and Latifah would make the best real life celebrity couple.) I suppose it’s nice that Ice Age 3 aims to teach children to accept friends and makeshift-family members of all shapes, sizes and species—even Sid the Sloth, who, mid-film, adopts a few baby dinosaurs, and takes to referring to himself as a “she,” as their “mommy”. Even pan-sexuals can be a part of our families.But they can’t raise their own families. The film’s point seems to be that it takes a mommy and daddy to raise properly a baby, as the Latifah-Romanos are pitched as the movie’s true parental figures; Sid, as the failure. Or at least that it takes a dinosaur mommy to raise dinosaur babies. (But not necessarily a dinosaur daddy, as the dino-mommy spends the film on the run from the presumable father: a savage, a batterer.) So, is Sid meant to represent the adoptive parent? The homosexual? The single father? Or what?
But that’s all small potatoes when it comes to Ice Age’s real agenda: Drill, baby, drill!
Keep reading my discussion with Benjamin Sutton at The L Magazine
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1 comment:
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is an animated comedy full of action and adventure.Scrat tries to start a romantic relationship with Scratte, a female sabre-toothed squirrel. Manny’s newlywed wife, Ellie is pregnant with their child, and he tries to ensure that everything is just right at the time of his baby’s birth.i download Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs movie yesterday....
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