I always knew there was something kinky about that little red riding hood story.
Posted on 06/12/2004 1:10:44 PM PDT by Cracker72
TVC Weekly News: Parents Beware: 'Shrek 2' Features Transgenderism And Crossdressing Themes
Summary: The DreamWorks' animated film, "Shrek 2," is billed as harmless entertainment but contains subtle sexual messages.
Parents who are thinking about taking their children to see "Shrek 2," may wish to consider the following: The movie features a male-to-female transgender (in transition) as an evil bartender. The character has five o'clock shadow, wears a dress and has female breasts. It is clear that he is a she-male. His voice is that of talk show host Larry King.
During a dance scene at the end of the movie, this transgendered man expresses sexual desire for Prince Charming, jumps on him, and both tumble to the floor.
In another scene in the movie, Shrek and Donkey need to be rescued from a dungeon where they are chained against the wall. The rescue is conducted by Pinocchio who is asked to lie so his nose will grow long enough for one of the smaller cartoon characters to use it as a bridge to reach Shrek and Donkey. Donkey encourages him to lie about something and suggests he lie about wearing women's underwear. When he denies wearing women's underwear, his nose begins to grow.
An earlier scene in the movie features a wolf dressed in grandma's clothing and reading a book when Prince Charming encounters him. Later, one of the characters refers to the wolf's gender confusion.
TVC's report, "A Gender Identity Disorder Goes Mainstream," explains the transgender agenda and the effort to deconstruct the biological reality of male and female. DreamWorks is helping in this effort by promoting cross dressing and transgenderism in this animated film.
Some people have entirely too much time on their hands.
Only if you play it backwards......or stand on your head while watching it.
Agreed! Way too much time.
DKK
Pinocchio was wearing womens underwear too!
I think it's just a cigar.
I always knew there was something kinky about that little red riding hood story.
Personally, I think Barney (the dinosaur) is gay....
The walrus was Paul.
Too much time on their hands. If anything, the main eason to not see Shrek is that it isn't nearly as funny as the first one.
In a bizare way there is a kernel of truth to this. The cross dressers have been pushing to have their mental illnes removed fromt APA's DSM. (They also have been trying to get the Americans with Disabilities Act modified to remove the specific exclusion of transgenderdness as a valid disability for purposes of ADA claims.)
Shreck has always seemd more a mature fairy tail. The crossdresser shouldhave given shrek an R just for that.
Am I the only one that watched Shrek and understood from second one he movie is anti-establishment? Now, I'm shocked to read here that Shrek 2 would be the same fare! Shocked!
The only thing worse than too much time on your hands is to sit at the feet of fools.
And not masked for children very well.
The classc movie version of Wizard of Oz is full of "adult" sexual references. They are double entendres, subtle -- not the in-your-face crap todays kids have to deal with.
For example ... in the scene where Dorothy first encounters the Scarecrow, he says "You can go this way or that way, or both ways."
Sponge Bob Squarepants has a lot more subtle sexual stuff in it than the in-your-face "cross-dressing is ok" of Shrek II.
It's a funny movie and the cross-dressing stuff is a small part of it -- but you never know what will stick in kid's very open and vulnerable young mind. It could have been easily more underplayed or made more subtle, yet understandable to adults.
However maybe it's better on the table than off -- and in that regard it is too bad that the beloved Northern Italian character of story teller legend -- Pinochio, has his image slammed and trashed in that way. Pinochio is a deep and well-formed, developing charater in the Italian storybook -- the movie, in the most rude and crude Hollywoodish manner ruins that memory. It's a form of theft, theft by the crude and rude impulse. A genius and a master temper their creative impulses -- which include the crude and rude. The creators of Shrek II dimished their genius and showed themselves less than masters of their craft.
(s)AH-HA!!! Society continues to opress the transgendered wolves by showing them in a negative light. Perhaps the ACLU should sue the little girl for breaking and entering! Perhaps there should be Axe registration for the woodsman rushing in and killing the wolf! Why does the woodsman ASSUME the transgendered wolf is the evil one? Perhaps the little girl was torturing the wolf? Perhaps the fair way to correct the oppressed feelings of the transgendered citizens is to force the story rewritten to have the woodsman kill the girl, rescue the transgendered wolf and run off to -assachusetts to get married. (/s)
Perhaps the MPAA should automatically give an R rating to any movie with a homosexual or crossdresser. They relate to sexual content and an R would be appropriate.
That which to you may be "just a cigar" may promote smoking to your children.
'Tis the drip, drip, drip of erosion?
Nope. We all noticed. It's the story of an individual who just wants the government to leave him alone. It's perfect for kids.
What disturbs me is just how many conservative posters of FR think this is just fine stuff for the 10 and under crowd. It would be a shame if they sat through an entire movie with their 4 and 6-year-olds without adult sexual jokes peppered throughout.
"It's the story of an individual who just wants the government to leave him alone. It's perfect for kids"
Well, the property fight is a theme, but not the focus.
Also note the inversion of Western civilization's symbolism -- where good becomes evil and evil, good (symbolically). E.G. moral relativism.
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