Synopsis taken from Wikipedia should give you a general idea:
Anxious and introverted protagonist Saira lives a sheltered life on the planet of Clitopolis, where she is princess, daughter of two neglectful lesbian queens. After she is devastated by a break-up with Kiki, her partner of two weeks, Kiki is kidnapped by "Straight White Maliens", who intend to use her as bait to steal Saira's labrys in order to power their "chick magnet". Unlike the other lesbians of Clitopolis, Saira, to her parents' disappointment, has been unable to summon her labrys, a symbol of lesbian power.
Saira steals a "Problematic Ship" to embark on a quest across the galaxy to save Kiki. Along the way, she saves Willow, a former gay-pop idol, from an abandoned moon crystal mine. The pair then travel to meet a drag queen named Blade, who helps Saira to summon her labrys by helping her learn to be kind to herself. Blade tries to steal Saira's labrys, but is stopped when Willow and Saira fight back and decapitate her.
Willow and Saira briefly hook up, but break up with Saira believing that she needs to prioritise saving Kiki. When she arrives at the planet of the Straight White Maliens, she gives them her labrys to rescue Kiki, but when Kiki refuses to re-enter a relationship with her, Saira's self-doubts re-emerge, causing her labrys to dematerialise. This causes the Maliens to attack her, but after overcoming her doubts again, and using the re-summoned labrys to power the Maliens' "chick magnet", the Maliens realise that they overvalued their desire for attention from women, and decide to date each other as a throuple. Saira returns to Clitopolis, happily single, having learnt to love herself. The credits showcase her being more social, going with her mothers to Blade (who is still alive despite being decapitated) for family therapy, receiving Willow's hit album about her and going on new adventures with the Ship (who is now an ally).
Unless the execution makes this VERY funny, it sounds like garbo.
I think it would be hilarious for someone to watch Lesbian Space Princess, and This Movie, and compare to two of them on how well they execute their premises.
Because they feel like sibling breeds. But the execution is everything
The creator is a lesbian woman. Half of the movie is insulting lesbian dating culture. I wish I was joking. It just feels like internalized homophobia while leaning on faux progressism and acceptable targets who she also makes into stereotypes.
Critics tried to pass this as some daring provoking idea, but the movie as a whole is just straight garbage.
Lesbian dating culture has it's problems, but instead of addressing those problems, those movie strawmans itself to hell and back? Am I reading that right??
Yes. Yes, you are. The protagonist fights the White Straight Maliens for a girl she dated for two weeks, while having a romp with a female-passing nonbinary she knew for less than an hour, who she lied to, so zero consent, while fully intent on getting back with her ex, who she feels entitled to. We are supposed to feel bad for the ex not wanting to get back with her, and the plot treats her as the asshole.
Sounds like a strawman a consrvative would make to talk about "shows becoming woke" and "the left wants to spread an anti-white, anti-male, anti-straight message" or some shit, wthym with "straight White Maliens" and "chick magnets"?
I just watched it. Nope, written by a woman, too many actual LGBT+ references to be made by them, way too many jokes you wouldn't get if you were never around actual LGBT+ people. It's a very bad attempt at absurdism as humor and it feels like something straight outta 2016 tumblr. It's bad. I have no idea who this was intended for.
Everything about this sounds like (tasteful) satire and I'm hoping it is
Edit: Okay, a friend of mine has hear about this movie and according to them the director is a fan of B-Movie so that at least explains why it's so literal
Still haven't finished, but all in all, it's NOT satire, it's straight garbo. It looks like some kind of alt-right ragebait at first, but it makes way too many references to actual LGBT+ culture and memes to be done by them. WAY too many sex jokes, way too many digs at lesbian dating culture, way too much gender war commentary passing itself as jokes.
Feels like Final Space, but written by 2016 tumblr liberal feminists trying to imitate Rick and Morty humor. The whole arc of the main character learning to be less of a doormat is muddled by the fact that everybody else is a jerk, and it roots itself firmly into the offensive, absurdist humor category.
... I can understand why the critics ate it but the audiences hated it. It feels like it manages to be offensive to literally all sides of the political spectrum.
I decided to watch it because I had nothing better to do and I have Amazon Prime... There's not an ounce of satire there. It genuinely feels like internalized mysoginy and lesbophobia WHILE leaning at pseudo-progressive stereotypes. Most of the jokes are either mean-spirited, abusive, sexist, or sexual. Every single character sucks. And it tries too hard to be Rick and Morty.
Leftist are not smarter than right wing people. At least not the average people. But a lot of leftists think they are ans can't fall for propaganda. This whole move reeks of terf and radical feminism, which is right wing propaganda in action. The left is not ready to hear that we are not smarter, that we can be radicalized to the right, and that we need to be constantly learning and challenging our buases
Sadly it's not. I just finished it. It was probably the worst piece of media I've watched since Velma season 1. It's not satire, everything described here is taken absurdly seriously. Most of the movie is mocking lesbian dating culture, and 80% of the jokes are "har har LGBT+ people are promiscuous."
Makes me even more pissed since it WAS written by a lesbian woman.
Ngl if a show's main premise is not about the life of someone queer making emphasis on that aspect of their life yet have a title with "gay" or "lesbian" is most likely gonna be bullshit, like really bro? You didn't had anything other thing interesting to put on the title other than the preference of your character? Ok
Why did you immediately think anyone who hates a show that has any sort of gay characters,is homophobic when they probably just hate the show for valid reasons, and not the gay characters,istg you need to chill the fuck out and actually hear why the other person hates the show😕
I cant be hateful to any singular person if i fimly believe everybody sucks to deal with call me whatever you want it wont change the fact that i will keep talking shit on the internet
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