The most common gripes I've read are (1) that the movie doesn't have the charm, spirit, or characters of the original, (2) that people shouldn't be expected to pay additional funds to watch programming on Disney +, and (3) the movie goes above-and-beyond the call of duty to appeal to the Chinese market and winds up catering to their totalitarian government.
While I have seen people on message boards here complaining of SJW nonsense, I don't think this is a mainstream or widespread opinion, and when commenting on the film itself, most people I have noted seem to just dislike the film and say it isn't as good as the original.
Maybe that's not fair to compare the two (I personally think that it looks the most interesting of the Disney remakes since this is bringing something new to the table at least), but that's what I'm seeing.
When I read this defense of the film, it strikes me as an almost preemptive strike against dissent. "You just didn't 'get' the film," always strikes me as a bit of a cop-out, and "If you didn't like it, you're just biased!" doesn't work for me, either. It prevents any honest critique of the film.
Furthermore, finding a film to be "SJW nonsense" might indicate (as you say) alt-right misogynist looney-talk, but it also might point to somebody who just doesn't like propaganda and has detected a whiff of it in such-and-such a film. One of those is a person who needs to grow up and be mature in their approach to equal voices at the table, and the other is somebody who just doesn't want to have a self-righteous finger wagged in their face from marketing departments and executives.
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