Not many people saw Battle for Terra, but conservatives who stumbled upon it were irked by the portrayal of a Bible-quoting, American-looking military general as the bad guy. Think E.T.: the Extra Terrestrial, or if Avatar were a CG-animated movie for youngsters. Image Credit: Photo Credit: Lionsgate FilmĪnother staple of liberal films aimed at children: earthlings bad, aliens good. “In Australia, we’re very, very aware of the ozone hole,” director and co-writer George Miller told the Wall Street Journal, “and Antarctica is literally the canary in the coal mine for this stuff, so (the film) sort of had to go in that direction.” The rather obvious political messages were no accident. Human encroachment on the pristine wild, in fact, is the film’s dominant theme, and it’s one that resonates big time with environmentally conscious liberals. But what ought to bother the penguin community more is that fishermen are depleting the food supply. Mumble can’t sing like other penguins can, and for some reason his tap dancing is deemed radical and off-putting. And some progressives were actually disappointed that humans, who eventually return to earth, aren’t sufficiently punished for their mistreatment of the planet. Some conservatives, though, appreciate the film because it doesn’t make capitalism the soul blame for the consumerism that brought down the planet big-government do-gooders that tried to provide everyone with everything they desired are also at fault. The consensus is that this movie about a little robot left on earth circa 2805 after it has been wrecked by trash and over-consumption is meant to appeal to liberals. Image Credit: Photo Credit: Walt Disney Pictures The irony, conservative fans of the film point out, is that the movie reminds kids that climate change predates humans and the industrial revolution by a long shot, so if it wasn’t manmade pollutants that heated the planet and thawed the ice age back then, why must humans be blamed for a warming planet today? Many conservatives assume that the problems faced by Manny the mammoth (Ray Romano), Sid the sloth (John Leguizamo) and Diego the sabre toothed tiger (Denis Leary) due to melting glaciers is meant to convince children of the impending horrors of modern-day global warming. Image Credit: Photo Credit: Twentieth Century Fox Conservatives have embraced the film as a cautionary tale of what could happen to a society if it encourages frivolous lawsuits while discouraging strong and courageous men and women from fighting evil. Image Credit: Photo Credit: Buena Vista PicturesĪ family of superheroes give up their heroics after the populace turns on them and lawyers sue them for the destruction they cause when they battle villains.
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