Disney is losing a lot of money. They're at the same stock price as 8 years ago. The parks are being unthemed in places to cut costs. It looks like the Mouse is going through a hard time.
Meanwhile the competitors for the throne have Diversity Officers. It looks like a messed up race, ad both sides are maiming themselves for honor.
I remember seeing a lot of advertising for it. I guess is cause I still use youtube for my kids.
For one thing the gay kid is a huge reason a lot of people I know did not take their kid to it. Out of my wives group of friends, and that is like a lot of mothers with kids, only one wanted to see the movie after they found out the boy was gay. My sister in law did the same and ofc we did not take the kids either.
So the advertising about having a gay character did not help, but you are correct the movie looked awful. The characters were boring, the story looked boring, the color filter was awful. There was almost no competition that weekend and it still bombed.
Gay pozzing is why I didn’t take my kids to see strange worlds and bought the OG puss in boots instead.
I hear the sequel is good, but gotta see the original for lore reasons of course.
Now that shit appears on the Disney app. My kids know that it’s 100% off limits.