Response to Are you planning to see Shrek 5 when it comes out? 2025-03-01 16:58:39 (edited 2025-03-01 17:06:12)
No, not unless something in the marketing or reviews suggest that trailer was an extreme misrepresentation of the movie.
My three problems with the teaser:
- That art style looks like AI generated crap. Did the studio "downsize" its animators before making this movie? Did people or algorithms create the new character designs?
- Fiona is smarmy. WTF is with "Momma likes" or whatever that was coming out of her? (a) The main point about the first two movies was that Shrek and Fiona love and admire each other how they look. Leaning on your spouse, who has a history of body disphoria, to act like that about his head on an extreme body shaped completely different than his? Yuck. Not a good sign for their relationship. (b) Uh, also, there's something about how heteronormative media tends to presents marriages this way for mid-aged characters that's setting off a gut alert about the timing of this movie.
- The point of a teaser is to entice viewers to watch for more advertising material. That video only makes me regret knowing a Shrek 5 movie might exist.
At 3/1/25 02:29 AM, EPGstudios wrote:As unlikely as it sounds, there is evidence to suggest that the daughter is transgender.
That could be excellent. That kid on the side is cute, and after all the crossdressing jokes through the series, an explicitly trans character would make sense.
That theme would explain the choice of memes in the teaser trailer. You know, with the body switching.
Problem is I doubt that's true. Fiona's eye color was changed, too. (Edit: Or were they? Might be the strange lighting effects in the trailer making them look darker.)
Plus it's not uncommon (in the US populations, anyhow) for blue-eyed babies to become solidly brown-eyed adults.