Bratz: Rock Angelz is the movie I didn't know I needed
This weekend, I watched the hit 2005 animated movie Bratz: Rock Angelz. This movie was one of the first Bratz films in CGI, and let me tell you- the plot is ALL OVER THE PLACE. The girls start a fashion magazine and use stolen passes to get into hot London punk clubs, but when they lose their passes they decide that the only way to get into the gig is to become a rock band? This movie can be considered capitalist propaganda- the Bratz shop in order to destress about their problems, and it's an implemental part of their lives. They don't have jobs either- Jade has an internship, but only for three hours until she is fired. Chloe meets a TRASH British prince and ignores her best friend Yasmin who finds celebrity judge Byron Powell's (I don't make this stuff up) dog, Ozzy. Jade and Sasha try to do a photo shoot for the magazine, but Sasha micromanages the whole thing and makes her friend feel bad! And this whole time, there's these two evil blond twins (Kaley Cuoco PLA...
I feel like this animation falls under the category we created of doodling in the margins. The intentional contrasting between crude and inappropriate animations next to the logos of family companies is a direct "fuck you" to consumer culture.
ReplyDeleteDon Hertzfeld is one of the first animators I fell in love with. I watched It's Such a Beautiful Day and I could not stop crying. Really powerful. Recently he's been moving to more computer generated 2d animation which is also really incredible and beautiful but personally I also really enjoy the handmade quality of his earlier work. If you have the chance I would totally recommend anything he has created in the past decade. World of Tomorrow is a quick watch.
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