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Black. White. (2006)
This show makes me want to puke!
The adults in that house aren't really great representatives of either race. The white adults are just really awkward and sheltered (especially the wife), and the black adults are extremely stubborn and too judgmental. I live in Chicago and the city and suburbs here are pretty diverse but at the same time very segregated. I don't think there is anything wrong with a person of any color finding comfort being in their own community, that's just how people are and that's not racist. This isn't a culture clash, this is a room full of idiots clashing. It didn't even take one episode to realize that these people just didn't like each other and weren't going to get along at all
Bruno is an oaf, his wife Carmen couldn't be more sheltered and naive, Brian and Renee are both stubborn and far more closed minded than Bruno and Carmen, which is ironic because they constantly accuse Bruno and Carmen of being closed minded. I think the most interesting thing about this show was when Bruno told Brian that he believes black people are conditioned to look for racism and misinterpret a lot of things as racism. I think that this is a fair statement, but I also think it's fair for black people to feel that way. I grew up hating the Green Bay Packers because my Dad is a Bears fan and Bears fans always hate Packers fans
Brian's parents grew up in the times of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., they experienced some really ugly racism first hand! Is it implausible to have that sentiment passed down a few generations? Take a look at the teenagers in this show, they're the only ones who appear sane because they're so far displaced from that type of behavior because they just don't really have that type of experience anymore. I'm not saying that racism doesn't exist anymore, the truth is as long as there are people on earth there are going to be idiots, and as long as there are idiots, there is going to be racism. I honestly just wish that we had better representation all around on this show, the show definitely would be easier to watch if they had people who weren't such idiots.
Chicken Little (2005)
Disney Down the Toilet
Chicken Little is an abomination and would be completely intolerable if it weren't for Zach Braff and about ten minutes worth of great scenes. The thing about recent Disney/Pixar movies was that they were great for children and for the parents. Chicken Little has absolutely nothing in common with any of the Disney/Pixar films, or any of the classic 2D Disney films, it just has no heart and it's full of clichés. Without ruining the movie for you, Chicken Little revolves around the whole "sky is falling" storyline, except that the sky is actually falling on Chicken Little
only it's not pieces of the sky, it's panels falling off of a visiting alien spaceship. So you might be thinking that this is a Disney movie, and this is going to make a great story. No. The rest of the movie consists of jokes we've seen hundreds of times, including fat people trying to fit through small openings and other comic gems that are just as enjoyable. There are a lot of moments in the film where there is absolutely nothing going on except witty banter, which tends to draw on far too long, to the point that you're actually noticing it, but this gives you a free moment to check out the animation which is great
for a few of the main characters. Most of the animals that inhabit Chicken Little's world are not up to Disney standards, they look like cardboard cutouts, the same size, a few different colors, nothing special. They reminded me a bit of characters off of a cereal box. Again, the only redeeming feature of this movie is Zach Braff. You can tell that Braff made an effort to make his character more interesting and entertaining, but in the end this does nothing but prove that Disney is tanked without Pixar.