Gay! Gay! Gay!
(For the humor impaired: This has been a joke. This has been only a joke. If this had been an actual sincere comment, then some real-life Looney Tune would have said it, not me.)
Posted on 02/21/2005 5:38:26 PM PST by pickemuphere
TORONTO (CP) - The hit feature Shrek 2 joins the ranks of animated films to be "outed" by some Christian fundamentalists in the U.S., who charge that cross-dressing and transgender themes have made their way into the beloved kids' movie and warn parents to beware.
Although many people see the Oscar-nominated film as a humorous story about a green ogre and his true love, the Traditional Values Coalition has a different take on the animated feature.
"Shrek 2 is billed as harmless entertainment but contains subtle sexual messages," the coalition says on its website of the movie, a popular DVD rental. The group describes itself as a grassroots inter-denominational lobby with more than 43,000 member churches.
"Parents who are thinking about taking their children to see Shrek 2 may wish to consider the following."
The article then proceeds to describe one of the characters, an "evil" bartender (voiced by Larry King) who is a male-to-female transgender in transition and who expresses a sexual desire for Prince Charming.
In another identified scene, Shrek and Donkey need rescuing from a dungeon by Pinocchio and his nose, which is made to extend as an escape bridge by getting the wooden boy to lie about not wearing women's underwear.
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This has got to be a joke.
Don't these people have anything better to do?
Bones
I thought they made fun of cross dressing in the movie.
it's cold up there
And all this time I thought only the DUmmies had a stick up their ass. I guess this is an affliction that crosses even moral and political lines.
Wonder how these people felt about Milton Berle?
Obviously not.
They were making fun of Michael Jackson with the Pinocchio character. That's what I got out of it, anyway.
Some people just go too far...
It's good that there's people out there that want to bring back decency standards in entertainment, but sometimes there are others who just push the envelope, seeing immoral stuff where there's none.
Who's next??? Tom and Jerry? Captain America? Elmo? The CareBears?
Puh-leese!!!
What was subtle about them?
REALLY important issue--the morality of cartoon characters. Bunch of busybodies with too mush time on their hands.
You don't like it, don't watch it!
I wish they wouldn't do this. You can't fight every battle and this just seems very petty.
I think they are making too much out of this and just gives people a reason to say "Jeez. They can't even take a joke."
Big mistake, IMHO. Pick a target that is worth something if you win.
Don't these people have anything better to do?"
Don't YOU have better things to do rather than demonstrate that you are rather clueless on the subject?
Remember the immense amounts of nonsense regarding "Alladin"?
More exposure of the wierdness in Hollywierd.
Gay! Gay! Gay!
(For the humor impaired: This has been a joke. This has been only a joke. If this had been an actual sincere comment, then some real-life Looney Tune would have said it, not me.)
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