Under the (Hypocri)Sea 3D: More Silver Screen Child Abuse to Scare Your Kids
by Debbie SchlusselToday, among the major box office releases debuting at the theater, is “Under the Sea 3D,” a fascinating, visual wonder about sea life. It’s very cool–and occasionally creepy, like when giant, poisonous sea snakes jump out at you from the IMAX screen.
But while this great cinematography would make a great scientific outing for you and your kids, you’ll have to outfit them with heavy duty earplugs or enroll them in a deprogramming seminar, afterward. That’s because narrator Jim Carrey (yup, that guy) repeatedly hits you over the head about how we humans are destroying the underworld (no, not that underworld) and the fish and other wildlife that live there. (No mention, though, of how Carrey and girlfriend Jenny McCarthy repeatedly “global warm” with their private jets and heavy lighting and energy use on movies.)
Yes, just as they did in “Arctic Tale’s” child abuse, your kids are once again told that they and their parents are killing the cute and cuddly sea lions. It’s like they used the same template and did a summer version of “Arctic Tale.” Gee, I wonder how many sea lions Jim Carrey killed with his energy use in making “Yes Man.” Under the Hypocrisy 3D.
Since the movie is only 40 minutes long and has lots of great 3D stuff going on, it’s ideal for antsy kids and antsy adults (like me). But do you really want to subject your kids to a repeated global warming propaganda 2×4 hit over the head? And, by the way, the trailer lies to potential viewers, without any inkling of the global warming fine whine throughout.
It’s a tough decision.
Check out my reviews of this weekend’s other new movies. The best thing about the dull “The International” is when a shoot-out destroys most of the interior of the Guggenheim. I love seeing modern (phony) art destroyed. And read about my experience confronting the moron “parents” who took their young kids to see “Friday the 13th”–more graphic, explicitly sexual, and horrid than the previous gore-fests of the same name. Some might say these parents are prime targets for Jason.
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Ace Ventura is going to lecture me on global warming? I don't think so…
By the way, there's an interesting thing going on in England and Ireland right now. It seems that they've actually started looking at the science behind global warming and they're starting to doubt the movement's theology. Many interesting comments from their environmental ministers lately. Just in time for the next ice age…
Good to know at least someone in that government has a passable head on their shoulders.
Not Ace Ventura – The Grinch.
God bless the Irish. Oh yes, and the English.
Bingo! Anyone remember Captain Planet? An entire cartoon series created to brainwash kids into believing that capitalism was destroying the earth.
Who is letting this stupid woman write blog posts? She seems scared and insulted by everything.
Gee. Another movie to miss.
Ms.Schussel, loved your post about taking kids to violent movies. Will never forget when 'Jurassic Park' was first released. Stood in line near a parent with a toddler WEARING A BARNEY SHIRT! Never mind that in the movie, Barney will try to eat people…
I'm very pro corporations but it's clear that the current green focus is a way for polluting companies cover their polluting nature and push new green products so that they can have consumers replace their old items. I'm not saying this film does this (and I love IMAX) but most of the Happy Feet , NBC green week stuff is for this purpose. What is the most common thing people talk about? The weather. This is business and politicians way of controlling the weather. Just like the con man with the magical weather predicting machine. And to those who think I'm talking conspiracy I'm not, it's just a default, lazy thing that these power types will use if they can. That's why it's so important to oppose it, even if you believe in man made global warming.
Sad. Today we treat children like morons and worry if we offend anybody by making the show too interesting.
There are such fascinating people out there, like "her deepness" Sylvia Earle that understand te sea – and instead we get a stupid actor who knows how to make faces trying to educate them.
The old Frank Capra Bell Telephone clips are still so far ahead of these kinds of things, even today 50 years later. (Even if one of those shows has a bit about CO2 and global warming in it.)
The planet goes through phases and it warms up and cools down, the poles shift polarity, and every once in a while the Earth gets hit by an asteroid that sets it back a few hundred million years.
It seems to me that the best approach would be to use up the resources as fast as we can in order to get humanity and as much or our current nature as possible off this planet before the next one hits.
what
Yeah, I already saw this. It was called Happy Feet.
Any kids movie that has at least one audience member sobbing in fear and anguish (as was the case when I saw it) DID SOMETHING WRONG. Word gets out about stuff like that — Happy Feet didn't do good business for long, and I doubt this film will either.
Won't stop these idiots from making them, though. They're too concerned with pushing an ideology to notice that they're hemorrhaging cash from every orifice, and anyway, as long as even ONE child is "scared straight" by this film, they'll consider it money well spent.
You all should see the videogame industry. Since the 8-bit nintendo, throught the 16-bit era with the Sega Genesis and the Super Nintendo and beyond. I've pretty much played them all, that being a hobby of mine, playing old emulated console games on my PC. Some of these games made my jaw drop, but I've grown accustomed to every single game, mostly the fututistic ones, but even MANY swords/magic-style roleplaying games, attempting to brainwash the player into believing that Capitalism is the greatest evil ever, and is destroying all the Pure Spirit beings, or Gaia, or the aliens, or whatever else is good and can be destroyed. This is nothing new. That was the point of Godzilla, the old one. Same with old Japanese animations that I saw as a kid. UltraMan was one. Same message. If there are (in a videogame) aliens and humans…its the humans who are the great evil, and the game designers basically apologizing to the universe and its enlightened beings for the crude cowboy humans. If it's on earth, it's the Technology-users vs. the Nature Loving Gaia Energy Symbiotes, and you know who is the evil one. If it's a rich, wealthy civilization, it's ALWAYS because they stole it all from the poor tribal noble savage people, who invariably live in complete harmony with the Great Earth Mother. Here's one now: (Awesome Possom Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt, Tengen, 1993) First line, just before the Bulls**t-laden multi-choice quiz: "In 20 years, mankind has automated the destruction of the environment." Opening screen has our hero, the possum, his head popped out at you through a great big recycle symbol. Sh**ty game, paid for by whom? Who knows, but it's pretty much pandemic in that market, and in the cartoons, and in th kids movies, and even on the damn cereal boxes, and the juice boxes, and in the toys. Propaganda for eviro-whacks has been aimed at kids since the 70's, and it is damn near pure evil the way they do it.
Get an NES emulator, play some games, see what I mean. Or Genesis, or SNES. Go to a pawnshop and get you a stack of $1.00 PSone games, and see what I mean. Almost every single game is nothing more than a candycolored vehicle for this anti-human, anti-progress, anti-tech, anti-defending-ones'-nation propaganda.
-Taqiyyotomist
My kids don't appreciate being on the receiving end of propaganda They're old enough to smell it a mile away. It's undoubtedly in a pretty package, but who needs it? We aren't that desperate for entertainment.
Check out a funny "Global Warming" song at: http://www.myspace.com/rogerweber
It exposes Al Gore as a fraud.
The worst fire-and brimstone Fundamentalist preacher out there is Sweetness and Light in comparison with the cheerless environmentalist gospel being thrown at our kids is sugar-coated forms like this. At least the Fundamentalist is offering a way out! Plus, the enviros demand more blind faith.
IMAX and OmniMAX movies must be controlled by the Radical Green Wackos. On his latest school field trip (indoctrination retreat), my 12 year old was forced to watch Grand Canyon Adventure- River at Risk starring Robert F. Kennedy Jr. When I watched the preview on the museum's website, I couldn't understand why Katherine Hepburn's voice was emitting from RFK Jr's mouth! Very confusing.
I don't know how people can stand to have kids in public school. Yes, I know private schools are outrageously expensive, and homeschool isn't always an option, but I would be afraid I would get arrested. I would be there everyday throwing a fit after hearing all the stories people tell. I applaud everyone who hasn't been thrown out of your child's school for having a cooler demeanor, but I swear, I don't know how you all do it. Field trips of this crap? Forcing them to watch Inconvenient Truth? Shoving environmental crap and recycling down their throats? Yipes!
Screw Japan.
The issue is not that the film is propaganda. It's that it represents propaganda with which you do not agree. Education is not a process by which children learn facts, it's a process by which they learn to think. An intrinsic desire to FIND facts must be instilled in such children.
Children who are taught HOW to think, rather than told WHAT to think, when presented with a film such as this, will look for opposing viewpoints and facts to judge the presented case in the larger context of the information currently available in the world. Because of this characteristic, such "propaganda" poses no threat, if it is easily dismantled.
Your belief that children should be taught WHAT to think, as opposed to HOW, is the core weakness that transforms this film into a threat. Without this property, you would not feel fear.
Uh, Jake,,,, Happy Feet made $200 million at the North American box office and was one of the top 10 hits of the year it was released….
You might want to be careful calling anyone an idiot if you can't get your facts correct.
Thank you for the warning. They know the best way to guarantee an audience is to gear it to the greenie and suck in all those public school funds. Shameful. Plus, they steal all imagination from an audience of kids. Instead of daydreaming of coral and starfish moving with the tide, they compose odes to their own consumerism as it kills the creatures in the deep. But don't worry. The teacher will point out to them it is not their fault but their parents. Que Al Bore to tell kids to rat out their parents.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmPSUMBrJoI
On the first day of Global Warming
Al Gore gave to me
A fear mongering documentary!
…
On the twelfth day of Global Warming
Al Gore gave to me
Twelve new ways of TAXING!
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