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posted 11 years ago by cooler56
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Basically this movie teaches if you are sheltered all your life it's okay to fall in love with the first loser you meet who just travels and parties and has no aspirations in life. It's Hollywood pushing this American true love crap as usual. Except they are shameless about it. It's worse than "tangled."

[–] StarskyandChinaHutch 11 years ago

You must have been the second loser or something.

[–] batbhai 9 years ago

😁

[–] misstrouble 11 years ago

Go crawl back to your cave and try not watching Any films or read Any books because you obviously have no concept of fun or imagination

[–] batbhai 9 years ago

Agreed 😁

[–] TheFatDruidofNacyl 11 years ago

It is not like she is going to need to learn responsibility and get a job. That loser not only was fun at parties but he did also make her feel special and liked her for who she was not who her father was.

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[–] Splarne 11 years ago

the other bad message... if you find a herd of sheep in the road, it is alright to jump out and eat them without cooking them.

that's a very risky move.

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[–] wez-chad9 11 years ago

I think op was dumped for another guy/gal shortly before watching this lol possibly an american guy/gal lol

[–] TimTaison2020 10 years ago

Poor, poor pussycat
What message do you get from watching Justice League or the Thundercats or Charlie Brown the holy day special

[–] scyza 10 years ago

I didn't think there was anything bad about her falling in love with that boy, it's just a harmless teenage romance. However I didn't like the message that there can only be one "true love" for a person... so if your first time falling in love doesn't work out you're gonna be lonely and sad for the rest of your life? What kind of mother would tell her daughter such a thing?

[–] rbrtck 10 years ago

Basically this movie teaches if you are sheltered all your life it's okay to fall in love with the first loser you meet who just travels and parties and has no aspirations in life. It's Hollywood pushing this American true love crap as usual. Except they are shameless about it. It's worse than "tangled."

First of all, I actually kind of like Hotel Transylvania overall, except for this aspect as well as cheesy things like the song & dance sequences--it's fun and sometimes funny, even if it tries too hard sometimes.

However, I don't think that Tangled promotes the same idea of "true love" at all (and how is this uniquely American anyway?). Eugene (alias "Flynn Rider") had been abandoned and was unloved as a child, so he decided to take (as in steal) from life everything he could, but he finally learned to care about somebody other than himself, and then he proved himself by sacrificing his own life for Rapunzel's freedom (reversing the sacrifice that Rapunzel had just made for his sake). This is, in fact, a bona fide representation of true love, even though things might have started out inauspiciously with him being a double-crossing thief and her bashing his head in for entering her tower uninvited. And at no point does Tangled extol the virtues of falling in love with the first guy you've ever met, let alone that the first "zing" (the term Hotel Transylvania uses) you feel will be the only one ever. Although Eugene happens to be the first man Rapunzel had ever met, big coincidences are common in movies, and the fact that he happens to be her true love is simply one of these.

Unfortunately Hotel Transylvania obviously does seem to put this type of puppy love (which is not really love at all) on a pedestal, and I agree that it's a bad message, especially the part about there only being one such "zing" in everybody's entire life. It's not the relationship itself, necessarily, but how it is framed by the movie. This is probably this movie's biggest flaw, if we can count it as such. If it were just there, then perhaps it could have been overlooked, and I might agree with some of the other posters in this thread, but man does the movie make a big deal about the absolute truth and power of the "zing!"