Entry 58: "Bratz Moviez"

Yo!

I can't believe this is a reality.

Paris Hilton is actually behind bars.

No, seriously, a trailer was released on Apple.com's QuickTime Trailers page last week that I found sort of alarming. American Psycho, Fahrenheit 9/11, and EVERY Saw film (remind me again why they wouldn't stop at three?), and now Lionsgate is about to unleash a full movie based on the infamous line of Bratz dolls, infamous for their notorious "never too young to start dressing like a prostitute" attitude towards fashion. I mean, if you're dealing with a bunch of dolls that impressionable young girls get attached to, that have enough makeup on them to knock a couple centuries off of Sharon Stone, that kinda sends up a red flag to me.

For those who don't know, not only are there versions of these..... things (sorry, my thesaurus isn't nearby to recommend an appropriate adjective that's also rated PG).... in their mid-teens, but also a "Kidz" line with the girls as pre-teens, a "Boyz" line that frankly looks sort of homosexually suspect, if you know what I mean, a "Petz" line (just how much grass were those MGA execs smoking by this point anyway?), and worst of all, a "Babyz" line which had the four original Bratz in their same style of general attire from the "adult...-er...-ish" versions yet actually in diapers!

MGA Entertainment, the company responsible for these monstrosities, have been under fire about these dolls in recent years simply because of the various controversies from the mini-champagne bottles and blind date advocating of the "Secret Date" playsets and the larger, "Big Babyz" dolls wearing thongs, to the "May Lin" doll not actually being of Japanese descent and the Chinese doll manufacturers' wages not even equaling the worth of the dolls they make. Naturally, the next logical step after the dolls, the DVD movies, and everything Bratz in general so far, would of course have to be a movie. But not just any movie. A LIVE-ACTION movie.

Incoming trailer!!!!


Bottom Line: What is wrong with Hollywood?

Do we really need what's basically Legally Blonde 3 that badly? It's getting to the point where Mike Judge was right in Idiocracy... As time goes on, the general American culture is getting steadily dumbed down worse and worse to where anything is a good idea. I would think Lionsgate would have better sense than this to gauge what would and wouldn't be a good investment, but maybe I need to start giving these bigshots a little less credit when they're decreasingly deserving of it.

Also, maybe it's time for parents to start cracking down on what gets this stuff into the home in the first place: The young girls whose allowances and birthday money sneak the goods into the home in the first place. It seems to me that going after MGA is sort of like after the girl signs her soul to the devil, to use a metaphor, chastising the devil instead of preventing the signature from being written in the first place. These products don't buy themselves, you know. Crack down on the kids getting suckered into this corporate chessboard, and maybe that'll be a step in the right direction in ending this product once and for all. You gotta hit 'em in the Achilles' Wallet, parents......

...But that's just me.

-D.