EVERYTHING WRONG WITH THE BRATZ MOVIE (colorism, stereotypes, cheesy)
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- If you grew up in the early 2000's, you've either seen the movie Bratz or heard of it. Though it can be considered a classic from your childhood, there are a lot of problematic aspects of the movie. In this video, I will be breaking down everything wrong with the movie Bratz!
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As a black kid I absolutely noticed Sasha was the only one without a love interest and thought I was the only one who felt a way about it
I completely agree. I thought that wasn't right at all.
I used to just make Sasha steal Ethan 😂😂😭
I never memorized their love interests so I never noticed 🙃😶
They always do that in film and tv. They don’t want the BG to have a happy ending.
I don't think it's a problem since her character is the best presented than the others. Characters with love interests don't always mean getting a better ending tho. Also, in the end, her parents reuniting is probably better than getting a boyfriend. They're just teenagers.
I hate how they always white/ mix washed Sasha and Yasmin. It made me sad how Sasha didn’t get a love interest in the movie. I’m also sick and tired of the black girl characters in a movie not getting a love interest trope because it kind of goes on to that stereotype of us black girls that “We don’t need anybody”.
Jade too! The actress is also half white
@@bryanna_renaee yep and Jade the only character who was casted right was Chloe.
Or they make us whores
Facts. It's exhausting to see that as black girls and women. it's disingenuous. Thank you for your comment 💗
@@mihlaliralarala3340 you’re welcome 💗
The scene when Yasmin meets Dylan IS a teaching moment. She says ‘you don’t sound deaf’ and he says ‘you don’t look ignorant’ (or something like that) which I think is the perfect response and realistic as I’m sure the deaf community gets ignorant comments like that all the time
Absolutely agree! I actually really liked that part
RIGHT
Reminds me of “you don’t look gay” 😭
Agreed ❤
@@Isabel-sr8ep you don't look straight 😂
As someone that's studied ASL, we have to learn about deaf culture and their experiences. What Yasmine said is something the community encounters a lot. Not right but very much realistic unfortunately.
That's what I thought, too. It's a pretty realistic line that ignorant, close-minded people like to say.
@@vixenvxce1063 yeah i’m glad they made the dude have the clap back that he did
@@gisellediaz5793 I agree. I'm not deaf, and I have much to learn about the community and the advocacy, but I think that the Bratz movie did a fairly decent job at portraying a deaf character. I liked the relationship between Dylan and the music teacher. It was wholesome, and informative.
@@gisellediaz5793 yes
Right
I’m so glad you said yasmin was misrepresented for the Hispanics/Mexican community. I think even the actress later said she regretted taking that part from someone that could represent the character better bc she herself is Spaniard. It did irk me that she would say random Spanish words out of no where like girl…& how she woke up to a a mariachi band? What could’ve been better is if she would up to a Mexican mother yelling at her in Spanish to wake her ass up for school & we would’ve got the hint that “oh she’s Hispanic, got it” instead of the weird Spanish words every now & then & the rest of that intro scene. Honestly If I could recast them, it would be Isabela moner as Yasmin, Lana condor as jade, lovie Simone oppong as Sasha, Payton list for cloe.✨
*Iranian
I would prefer a brown skinned latina girl for Yasmin since shes always been brown for the dolls etc.
@@____Sunflower____ iranian?? shes Spaniard and aussie....born in madrid
@derzie she means the og character Yasmin, not the actress lol
Ah fr. As a Latina it was so annoying to see the stereotypes. Yeah maybe it’s just my house? But we don’t wake up to a mariachi band lol, that’s only for family gatherings/parties/celebrations.
I remember being confused when I saw that Logan was playing Sasha. Sasha was supposed to be a dark skin black girl yet she was played by a light skin mixed girl. As usual, they had a light skin mixed girl portray a dark skin black girl. When I was a kid, I never saw myself represented as a dark skin black girl. Anytime they did use a dark skin actress, she was always loud, mean, and ghetto. She also either didn’t have a love interest or was nothing but a baby mama. Unfortunately in real life, people still believe those stereotypes about dark skin black women.
But why are black women always the one who get the part of single, hotheaded I never understood that I've seen some gorgeous women who were black. I mean everyone has a temper I do but why is it that just because black women are black they are labeled as unlovable and hateful why not us white women too I've seen some unlovable hateful white women, it's stupid of Hollywood to just assume or whatever they do
that shit pisses me off! like for example in the aaliyah biopic they casted alexandria philips.. a light skin black girl. Aaliyah was brown skinned and had prettier features
she was black. what does it matter, why do u guys try to make everything about race and skin color. you never hear a white girl saying “she was a blonde german white girl not a brunette american white girl like me so i wasn’t represented”
@@missygonzales4790 It's almost like white people are not oppressed and white women never need to have that part of them erased. Also hair color isn't oppression lolol. Leave the Black girls alone and just sit out this discussion lol.
@@missygonzales4790probably because of the lack of good representation of dark skin black girls
You obviously would never understand considering you just compared hair colors to being a woman but ok
Watching bratz as a half mexican child was so mindblowing. Ive heard a mariachi band TWICE like i dont wake up with a mariachi band and start speaking spanish randomly its EMBARRASING
😭😭
the fact the real bratz girls would never act these kind of ways
honestly cloe’s always been depicted as the typical dumb blonde
Sasha in her original lore is a stereotypical black girl who loves hip hop and dancing who’s also not afraid to tell it how it is and stands up for her friends
Yasmin has always been the shy quiet girl next door type thing that loves all things nature
Jade is honestly just cool level headed and let’s her style speak for herself
@@itsjordyn6219 wasn't cloe smart but she was dramatic in fact all of them were smart
I’ll never get over cloe standing by the window at detention 🤣🤣🤣
Omg even as a child I was like wth is she doing 😂😂🤣🤣🤣 why is she standing there?? And why are they acting like that’s normal ahhggghg 😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I honestly thought it was kinda extra. I was just so confused but it was kind of funny but who thought that it would be good 💀
No for real but cloe has always been extra asf😭
@@itsjordyn6219agreed
BRUHHHH SAME also I’m like why is she standing like a mannequin
it’s crazy how almost all girls in this film were white/white adjacent: Natalia (Yasmin) is half Spaniard half White Australian, Skyler (Cloe) is white American, Janel (Jade) is half white half Chinese and Logan (Sasha) is a half white half black adoptee irl…they didn’t even try to remotely appeal to their urban audience who grew up with these dolls and really felt represented by them, this casting was deliberately whitewashed to appeal to a more “white” audience even though a lot white girls didn’t really play with Bratz dolls…they even whitewashed Dylan who was always brown skinned and sometimes had kinky/curly hair and he was Sasha’s love interest (fucked up she was the only girl without one in the movie…) I remember when the trailer first came out, people were so confused who was who since everyone thought Natalia was playing Cloe and Logan was playing Yasmin 😭 what a mess..imo they need to make a hard reboot of this film and maybe make it a TV-14 series instead with Madelyn Cline as Cloe, Ryan Destiny as Sasha, Lana Condor as Jade and Isabela Merced as Yasmin! (it’s a plus because all these actresses actually look like Bratz dolls 😍) For Dylan I always pictured Rome Flynn playing him 👀 having them explore today’s fashion, social issues, pop culture, college, relationships and more
So basically this whole show is catering to White GP.
"most white girls didn't play with bratz dolls"...... where the hell do you get your information lmao
no, stop with the adult remakes of family franchises. I'm sick of it. Riverdale was fine when it was alone, but then we got Satanic Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Chilling Adventures), Grim, Sexual, Gory, Whitewashed, and anti-Italian Fate the Winx Saga, Sexual Druggy Powerpuff Girls, and Sexual Gory Velma Dinkley. These are kids shows, why are we adding drugs, sex, and violence to them for no reason instead of making an original adult series or making a series already based on adult media??
@@verminlord666 simple facts and statistics? of course there are white girls that played with bratz that’s why I said most not all…I know a bunch of white girls that grew up on them but the majority of the pushback and controversy the dolls faced came from white mothers and politicians, don’t be dense. White mothers refusing their daughters to play with the dolls because how “sexual and disgusting” they looked. They weaponized Bratz to dehumanize women of color and how their influence was affecting “good American girls”…MyScene was created by Mattel directly because of this.
@@finland4ever55 the fact that they had Daphene naked in scooby doo! I too am tried and tired of these irreverent remakes. All these adults theme in a kids show makes me think who they are really making this for
I also never understand why the video of Yasmin dancing with her grandma was used to humiliate Yasmin. Like what’s so funny about? That she has a close relationship with her grandma? Or that she’s doing skincare and wearing a face mask? It doesn’t make ANY sense
Agree
Bruh, she literally said "You don't sound deaf" and he responded "well, you don't sound ignorant" and he made a face and she was all shocked, like how is that not a teaching moment?? He literally called her ignorant right after.
I said I don’t believe someone would just say that
@@ToniBryanneTV one of my friends who is deaf was expressing to me that they have been told that by people who aren’t a part of the deaf community… it happens.
@@miami.wrld1625 crazy
Yo when Sasha told Chloe "Only because you don't have a dad or a bank account!" My jaw dropped. It was completely out of pocket. 😲
It was funny tho. 🤣
@@imthebossmermaid3648true 😂
Exactly. 🤦🏽♀️
@@imthebossmermaid3648Insults are not funny.
@@CeCe_Bride_Of_Jesus_Christ Yes, they are.
I think the bullying wasn’t too inaccurate. I was bullied for years in front of people and no one, including teachers, said anything. The most acknowledgment I got was when once a teacher made his son apologize to me.
Yeah. People don’t say shit when there’s bullies. Not always at least so with the party they probably only laughed cause of fear etc they didn’t wanna be the next victim.
Am I the only one who absolutely loved this movie as a child? I still secretly love it lol😂
Yes you are 🤣🤣🤣🤣 i hated it
I was a bratz fanatic i had all the dolls etc. this had me heated as a kid 😂😂😂
Yeah I did too
I STILL LOVE THIS MOVIE 😍😍😍
I mean, it is low key iconic tho
A kinda problematic thing that they did with Chloe was that basically made her a side character she barely had any lines and her whole personality was made around being clumsy. Personally not the Chloe I know.
they portrayed her as a dumb blonde
In the animated series and movies she was almost always the main character so that could be why.
The actresses' ages when this movie was shot:
Yasmin: 14
Sasha: 17
Chloe: 20
Jade: 18
And you still called them too old for college 🤣
Yasmin could NOT have been 14! What??
@@Alluringspace I looked it up and Nathalia Ramos (Yasmin) was born in 3 July 1992 and this movie was shot in February - March 2007, making her 14 going on 15 at the time of shooting
Yea lmao it was low key giving hater on her part
Yasmin was 15 during this movie and instead of using someone around her age they use a grown man to flirt with her. 🤦🏽♀️ Dylan who's real life name is Ian Nelson.
The blonde one was poor in cheetah girls too
Meredith's mom was the one with money. They alluded to this in the movie bc her mom is the one that got MTV to sponsor her birthday party and the talent show.
I want to mention how Dylan was whitewashed too. As the doll and in the cartoons he is black (I assume). Or half white half black. So I was pissed to see that they cast some white dude. They completely ruined everyone's characters in this movie lmao.
Hispanic. Why assume black? Bc he has a skin tone that isn't white? How crazy.
Jade is of asian descent yet they added in a half-chinese actress for the role. Why not acknowledge that? Is she not a poc? C'mon, do some research!!!
@@crazysmall.artist He is black. If you actually look at official art for him and designs, he's a black dude. He was just extremely white washed
@@crazysmall.artist word are you going on about?he’s black lmbo
@@crazysmall.artist And people do acknowledge that,stop being so jealous when people talk about black people omg
Yeah that little brother was a total creep. The worst part was when the sister went away, he said “ooh! I like ‘em spicy!” 🤮
Also didn’t appreciate the scene where the football player “confesses” to doing ballet like bro that’s normal for football players. 🤦🏾♀️ But I guess we were meant to mock him because ballet is considered “feminine” istg 😭.
Back in the early 2000s when the film came out it would’ve been a major thing. Even now guys still get picked on for liking ballet. But it’s actually a very masculine thing to do, you have to be extremely strong to do ballet meaning they’re most likely stronger than the average football player.
@@Mysteriofreeflying Being strong isn't inherently masculine, you can be strong and feminine too and you shouldn't have to validate it by saying that it's "masculine" because it's strong. It can simply be okay to do a feminine thing, but if you have to have that lesson they could've picked literally anything else, sewing, fashion, picking flowers, idgaf, but the fact that they couldn't even do their own damn research is what irks me about it. 😬✋🏿
@@imthebossmermaid3648 Look I wasn’t saying masculine specifically just that ballet is genuinely not that feminine tho. (I don’t see gender for either) it’s not typically feminine or masculine.
And I was only saying back in the day people would’ve picked on football players doing ballet. Even now they get hate if they came out gay etc. (football gets more hate for things like this than most sports from what I’ve read)
They could’ve picked anything, and yes they probably should’ve done more research.
I do agree with you guess my wording was a bit off before sorry.
@@Mysteriofreeflying "But it’s actually a very masculine thing to do," You actually were saying it's masculine specifically, why are you backtracking? And while ballet did used to be associated with men when it was first invented, it eventually became associated with women and it is today(which is why it's looked down upon in western society, along with cheerleading and gymnastics), although in some parts of the world such as Cuba ballet is still seen as masculine. Regardless it doesn't matter since both masculinity and femininity are spectrums, people can define masculinity and femininity however they like, my problem is with you outright stating that ballet is masculine because it's strong, as if femininity can't also be strong, but apparently you want to pretend like you never said it in spite of the fact that you clearly did, so that's on you. 🤷🏾♀
@@imthebossmermaid3648 I was saying it’s more masculine in general. But I used strong in a bad wording to that.
But my reply was saying I don’t see a difference between masculine or feminine. And it can’t really be gendered. It’s a strong sport it’s definitely not girly tho.
Or what’s considered girly then yea it’s not girly.
And yes I know you can be feminine and strong I never actually said you can’t. Many women are genuinely strong.
This doesn’t really matter anymore. I think I just worded it wrong at the start and again I am sorry for that but I’m not trying to backtrack.
I didn’t originally intend to say it was a masculine sport I was trying to say it’s not just feminine so I said masculine as in it’s okay for boys.
That surly it would be seen good for boys to do. (Considering back then most people thought the dance was a girly thing to do which it’s not.)
What I’m saying is I agree with you. I agreed before as well. I was mainly speaking on terms of what I’ve heard that people who were men who played ballet were bullied for it and it was called feminine but it’s not a feminine sport it’s just people thinking that yk?
People think that, but it’s not really either. Yk anyone can do it tho it does genuinely take a lot of strength to do.
(Also with the first part I didn’t say it was masculine because of it being strong. I added the strong part afterwards that the sports was strong. That most men who do ballet would be stronger than the average football player. Guess that part is the part that came out wrong.
But anyways it’s not really gendered imo. I don’t think most things are it’s just people say things are yk.
Like Football isn’t really masculine people kinda just said it was. For the most part I don’t think anything should really have a gender cause either can be good at either.
Bratz been colorist erasing Sasha out many lines
In the animation movies too
@@sangsterxx1897 yea she didn’t cloe and Yasmin sold the best
We should keep in mind this is a movie that was made in the 2000s, we can’t expect a lot of open mindedness from it, plus it’s not really meant to be deep or realistic, it’s a movie for kids/teens, it was more meant to be cartoonish dramatic(?)
I do agree on many points, but others not really.
And when it comes to bullying, I assure you many people don’t do anything to help, not students and let alone teachers/adults, it is a sad reality.
Completely agree!
Seeing Sasha in the animated film Vs the live action is crazy 🙃
I think the thing that bothered me, as a Hispanic and a Latina, was when the grandma kept stuff in her bra and the fact that there was a mariachi band in the kitchen. Like, they were really pushing for those stereotypes and it was just so awkward for me 😂
As a Puerto Rican women, I loved the Yasmin doll growing up and I remember when watching the movie I was like she looks white not Hispanic. Lol So I’m sure lots of kids noticed at the time but we were so excited our favorite dolls were in a movie we disregarded things.
I like Yasmin too :) But what do you think about that food fight? Should they ruin all the food for the movie? :)
Adults being bystanders happens in real life. My 4th grade teacher bullied me.
I’m so sorry that was your experience
WHAT
My fifth grade teacher bullied me. She was a Bitch with a capital B. 🤐
i went to a really small public high school in the country like 250 kids in the entire school … i can never relate to how high school is portrayed in movies 😂
Felt😭 my graduating class was 52 students
I used to watch this movie everyday when we didn’t have cable and I only has a few movies on dvd. This movie is so nostalgic for me lmao
I usually really love your videos, and I have been following you for a while now. While I completely agree with your criticisms namely about the racial stereotypes, racism, colorism and the age gap romance subplot, I always have a small issue with the "it's not realistic" or "this wouldn't happen in reality" style of critiquing. Considering this is a movie based on a line of fashion dolls who go on some of the most remarkable adventures in the cartoon series, a good bit of the entire brand involves suspending reality and really accepting the campy shenanigans that occur in the Bratz universe. While it is a live-action, the movie was never presented as an AU, so I assumed we were still in the Bratz universe meaning that all the ridiculousness and unrealistic plot points were kind of expected. Maybe it's just me but the argument of "it's not realistic" really isn't a solid critique because it really doesn't allow us to explore what exactly is actually lacking in the movie itself. Sometimes it feels like a bit of a cop out. Bratz is a terrible movie but not really for the reason that it's lacking realistic events or interactions. But this is just my opinion! I still very much love and respect your work and look forward to all your future projects!❤❤❤
I agree. To me, It would have been weird to see our icon group of girls in skme regular clothes and tennis shoes and they had a passion for fashion! So as the bratz, them being in heels and such made sense to me. Especially since in the animated movies, they were wearing heels and such in high school.
Agree with you... I mean these girls bought a whole apartment floor being on High school ans went into a Rock Tour and went to France too and almost get killed by one of the contestants 😭
@@ramuneglass9233 right 😂😂 and went into a fairy world like?
To a certain extent I agree with you, on the other hand I do think it's a valid critique when the film seems to intend for a lesson to be learned from the scenario. If you're trying to present real life issues without being metaphorical then expecting a realistic portrayal makes sense otherwise it feels like a disservice to the message they're trying to send.
There's also a difference between campiness in terms of aesthetic and just absurdist narrative. There's basically no reason for there to be certain stereotypes of highschool especially when it's not even a thing and the media is not making commentary on it, it's just there for no reason other than Hollywood can't help but use outdated stereotypes from the early 2000s. At the end of the day it wouldn't necessarily turn me off the movie but I can see how it gets tiring.
fr its very low hanging fruit
as a hispanic person i can confirm that we do not wake up by a mariachi band
Funny that Sasha didnt have a love interest when in the doll line she had a white boyfriend. I believe Chloe or Jade had a black boyfriend too....
Really????😧
In bratz TikTok they explained that Dylan's character is supposed to be black.
@@wiirdee Nah, the doll has always been white.
But in the show them made him more ambiguous
@@monicacreator3168 some of his artwork is him as a black person which is odd because his doll is white
Idk what the 90s/2000s had with the whole « let’s date your step-sibiling » but it was DISGUSTING (yes clueless i’m looking at you)
Well I mean, technically they weren’t related or family in any way since the parents weren’t married, but the fact that they went with that dynamic in the first place is still weird. But I think the weirdest is probably Cruel Intentions 💀
I love Logan Browning but I think she understands the backlash for her character however even at the time at a young age, I didn’t like nor understand why they would cast her a light skin girl (who I found out was biracial later on in life) play a dark skin (and the only dark skin girl on the main cast) girl in the movie. I mean one of the Mowry twins plays Sasha in most of the animated movies and series but still, representation matters.
I also didn’t like how they changed Dylan, I appreciate the asl representation (or the exploitation) but I do believe he had a thing for Sasha atp as well. If I remember the webseries and the movies. They changed every Bratz character to a stereotype and Cloe to that white girl who cries when they find they were being racist or ignorant and they “understand”. (Not saying it happened but that’s her character)
I think they’re redoing the live action or something. I saw something where they have recasted the Bratz with actresses that matches their dolls, it’s on their ig
I agree with the weird take over Hispanic/ Mexican culture but to be fair we cannot talk over Yasmin and white washing. I’m sorry but Hispanics we come in different colours. We aren’t all tanned and dark haired. We are a literal mix of races, so I’m sorry but this is the only point I disagree on.
But in that case it‘s problematic because Yasmine is tanned with dark hair !
And I acknowledged that Hispanics come in all colors, but the lighter skin Hispanics ALWAYS get the shine. What’s wrong with giving darker skinned Hispanics their shine ESPECIALLY when the Yasmin doll was just that?
As a South African who grew up on a steady diet of American pop culture, all of it is problematic. As a kid we watched it all, from Disney, to teen dramas, to horror, and cringe worthy action flicks. It was movie night every other night in my house (this was the late 90's and early 2000's)
That being said, we had a lot of misconceptions on American teen life. I for one thought all teens in the states are in some clique - you either popular and loved by most and hated by the losers, a cheerleader with an athlete (super attractive) for a boyfriend, and rich. That was the trope. I also thought all teens in the states looked way older than teens in SA - then again it looked as though teens in the US drank and smoked and had sx every weekend (disgusting).
That is what kids in other countries see before knowing any better
Sameee,before I moved here and asked my college roomate if this was actually true since that was what they portrayed in their movies😂😭...Before then I used to think what happened in their movies were a 100% real...lol
Me too! Also the over-focus on Prom!!!
I was SHOOK hearing people talk about how real life prom was actually BAD!
For those arguing if Yasmin is middle eastern or Latina , she’s Latina . In her original concept art her name was going to be Lupe which is a very common mexican name . Her name was only changed to Yasmin after the head of MGA Isaac larian was presented the concept of the bratz dolls and decided to start making them ( btw issac larian isn’t the creator of bratz he’s only the head of the company who produces them )
I wish the movie could’ve been the first ep of how jade was working with your thing magazine. And then that’s when the girls made bratz magazine. I would loveee to see a live action tv show
Yasmin's love interest in the movie was actually Dylan. And I'm incredibly disappointed that they took Dylan who was one of the funniest characters in the cartoon, and reduce him to having basically no personality other than "I'm deaf."
Was Dylan even canonically Deaf in the original? (I don't watch Bratz)
@@imthebossmermaid3648 He wasn't, I believe it was only added for the movie to make up for the lack of personality. In the original, Dylan is a bit arrogant and kind of a dork, but a lovable dork. So seeing that being completely stripped away from the character in the live action movie was incredibly disappointing.
@@AngelinsaneAsylum Well I don't mind him being Deaf in the movie but making that his only personality and then whitewashing him on top of that is 😐.
@@imthebossmermaid3648Whitewashing him? He was white in the cartoon too 😅
Okay I wanted to Google before I commented and apparently they changed his race, Dylan literally has two races depending on which series you watch 🤦♀️
@@aquagamer1212 🤣
As a Hispanic, I remember hearing of the movie and being excited because Bratz was a big thing during my childhood and I absolutely loved Yasmin (my middle name is Yasmin lol) and I was extremely disappointed by how whitewashed and how hard they tried to push "Hispanic" onto her character... It wasn't something that sat right with me, when I was younger and now I'm aware why, it's just bad "representation"
dude it's not even just about hiring actors who look like teenagers, it's about GIVING THE KIDS BACKPACKS AND STOP DRESSING THEM IN CROP TOPS AND MINI SKIRTS. it's really just that simple.
A lot teens dress like the latter, plus the bratz were very know for the way they dress aka passion for fashion
This comment was a miss tbh
Ok but.. the og dolls were in crop tops heels etc and in the cartoon movies
I don’t think it was ment to be realistic. Why we can’t just watch the movie w/o trying to relate LOL
I do agree it was very dramatic tho 😂
Facts.
Same
@@yourpinkpillow I don’t really try to relate to movies/characters at all cause I know it’s acting/scripted/dramatized and real life isn’t a script/movie
Yeaaah, plus it’s a movie for kids/teens, I’m glad it wasn’t too “deep” but more cartoonish dramatic
Yes the colorism and racism annoyed me too, as well as the misogynoir and the fact that they got a white stunt double to be Sasha’s double for the cheerleading parts lol. I too wish she had a love interest, and also didn’t like how they didn’t kiss their boyfriends’ on the lips at the end, but on the cheeks. 😭 Literally what. Also Dylan looks way too old to be in high school. At the same time though, he and Meredith’s little sister were the only thing I liked about that movie.
I always felt like they shouldn’t have made a live action movie..it was always better as a cartoon 😅
If anything there is a movie called the clique and the girls in the movie looked more closer in looks as a beginner high schooler than these girls in the movie. At least to me the girls in the bratz movie looked like juniors and seniors.
Agreed!!! I loved the clique growing up lol
With the principal thing. I think merideith’s mom is the breadwinner. She alludes to it in two scenes, 1. When he was talking to her on the first day of school and 2. When she was talking to her friends about getting MTV to film
"Adults and people would say something" NO they don't
Sadly yeah. But thats the only thing i dont agree with in this video so overall, nice one
THANK YOU! I personally had a bad experience at school and teachers always stood there not doing anything ^^
yeah, exactly. this was the only thing i didn't like about this video, felt kinda priveledged ngl. in my 9 years of being consistently bullied noone said anything, ever. kids either ignored or joined in, adults didn't give a shit. and if you fought back against the bully (be it by insulting them back, or counterattacking if the fight was physical), YOU were the one punished. teachers only suddenly became aware of what was happening when you defended yourself, THAT'S when it was unacceptable behaviour to them. i literally got in trouble because i kicked in the nuts a guy literally strangling me against a locker while the teacher was in the room.
So sorry that is your experience…never dealt with that. All the adults around be growing up SPOKE UP period
@@nat-coffeebat definitely was a privilege I see now because where I went to school BULLYING was a no no.
Everything you said about movie depictions of bullying was SPOT ON!
As a half mexican girl, with 2 mexican friends and we all sat down n watched this movie. We can all confirm we have Miriachi bands in our kitchen every morning /jk
This movie is so disrespectful towards the original intention of Bratz being diverse, and the movie made them all white/mixed with white. Also, I thought the deaf guy was Dylan, who was also incorrectly portrayed. Dylan was never deaf, and even if he was, that shouldn't be treated like a personality trait. Dylan is supposed to be Black, but the dolls and original animation were so inconsistent too---
I don't like reboots or rebrandings, but with Bratz still being an active franchise, re-creating the dolls, etc, I'm surprised there hasn't been talk about creating another live action Bratz movie. If it happens, I sincerely hope people learn from these mistakes they've made before. They can even bring in other characters from the franchise (Tweevils, Nevra, Felicia, etc)
1. I'm sure Meredith's mum was the one who was rich as she works in film or something
2. I always got the impression that Manny was joking with Cherish, trying to tease her
I don’t think ANY of the Bratz were properly casted. Not even Cloe. Cloe was such a fun, spastic and comically paranoid character in the Bratz cartoon, and how she was played in the movie was so boring in comparison. I actually think that the girl who plays Meredith would’ve made a BETTER Cloe. Her voice is so uncannily similar to how it sounded in the cartoon.
In recent years, I’ve cringed over the fact that I was obsessed with this movie when I was little (because that’s what you do when you outgrow childhood interests). Watching your analyzation of this pushed me to a new level of cringe because everything you said was spot-on. They white washed everyone except Chloe but went as far as giving Sasha the stereotypical role of a black woman. Bratz Kidz existed where they were fashionable 12-14 year olds but upon the girls entering high school in the live action, they dressed them up like seniors with the heels. As for the bullying trope across the board, I’m convinced the people behind the production of these shows and movies never endured bullying themselves.😂
i can relate. i grew up on Bratz and had pretty much every single product including the movies, shows and video games and even when i was younger i found this movie to be a huuuge disappointment. it felt nothing like the Bratz dynamic that you see in every other movie. it didn’t feel like it was connected to the dolls in anyway… just a rip off of the name and characters. this movie doesn’t give off the energy that i’m used to seeing from the brand so yeah, i pretty much pretend it doesn’t exist lol.
Yasmin is actually supposed to be Iranian(I’m assuming at least.) the creator of Bratz is from Iran and the doll was named after his daughter.
So a light skin Spanish girl for the part was way off.
I think the Yasmin doll was supposed to be Hispanic
@@bintousylla5443 how can u say u think when the creator of the show himself said otherwise
Okay but sweetie the creator also said that yasmin can be anything black Hispanic etc etc cause she’s racially ambiguous
@@natalia2spot I think both can be right. The doll could be named after the his daughter but in all version of this character in media she is portray as being Hispanic.
I looked it up and I don’t know what to believe…some articles say she’s Hispanic others Iranian, even Jewish and Italian. I couldn’t find any actual proof.
I just found your channel today and have been binge watching them all day you’re amazing 🫶🏼
They pick older people to play students because actual teenagers are restricted to child labor laws as well as they are in the middle of puberty which means you have to deal with air quotes weird bodies and hormones and they don’t want to deal w it
The actress who played Yasmin was an actual teenager though.
I’m assuming they gave Jade a white father because the actress who plays her, Janel Parish, comes from an asian mother and white father.
IMO I can tell she’s not fully asian so maybe there’s a chance others would’ve probably brought it up as an issue if she did have two asian parents?
Why not just hire a full asian actress to play Jade though?
they do the opposite from what I see. Mixed characters (black/white) are almost always casted with a white mother even when their mother is actually black irl. And then the rest of the show is white/white adjacent people. It’s the erasure of full race people that are not white
@@M123Xoxo 🤷🏾♀️ I don’t know, that’s just my assumption
@@M123Xoxo because jade is actually Eurasian in her older dolls she used to wear the Union Jack flag a lot and the creator said the pretty in punk line was heavily influenced by British rock culture and jade was kinda like the Guinea pig for that line but jade’s dad is British just check out the old lore
@@itsjordyn6219 girl she wore those fits cus it was a london fashion line 😭😭
Pls don’t put a bell on your cat… they hear everything much louder and she has no possibility to escape that sound while walking or so. Also she has no chance of sneaking up or anything, which is the nature of a cat 🥲 i know it’s cute but it’s a lot of stress for the kitty.
Don’t want to criticize (love your vids btw!) but pls read about it - for your cute kitty 🥰
Especially since its a white cat! They are more likely to go deaf and the bell makes it worse.
I kept looking at your kitten play with your hoodie strings ☺️ so cute
I really like how you address and debunk a lot of stereotypes in this film and in other media in general.
That's something that I've just started to get into too, and it's very refreshing and such a relief when I dig deep into narrow and problematic stereotypes and breaking them down and pushing away from them.
aside from all the issues of this movie, i would like to point out that as someone who is currently in high school, there are girls and guys (myself included) who do look older than they come out to be. it's not common to see heels in school but trends now have led people to try all different sorts of styles
All the boyfriends were white the bratz boys are really diverse!!
Please take the bell of your cat. It can really harm her ears in the long run. She hears it so much louder than we do.
Thank you for sharing! It doesn’t even fit so it’s off her now😂
Your right bullying is more covert than overt! Because if it’s out in the open the bully will look like a bad person so they do it on the low. And Sasha being extremely light skin in the movie was crazy
your little kitty 🥺🥺
Y’all are being way to critical for a kids movieZ It’s suppose to be cheesy, it was a movie made for kids, not adults and at the end of the day it’s still the bratz universe, so them wearing heels is not far fetched. If that’s the case then bratz themselves should be controversial cause the stuff they wear daily
yeah i think the “this wouldn’t happen in real life” “it’s so unrealistic” is a stupid argument about why a kids movie is bad. who wants something extremely realistic when they’re a kid?
And I literally said it’s still a guilty pleasure of mine, but when watching as adult I found cringy moments😂 the main issue I had was how the dolls were not depicted accurately, everything else was miscellaneous honestly
Right like it’s a movie not a learning lecture
Your kitty is one of the most adorable kitties I have ever seen
Bratz was my movie when I was 15 😭
I wanted to be a Bratz so bad and have a Group of friends pretending to be cool and popular lol
I loved the Yasmine bratz doll so much as a kid that I named my daughter Yasmine 😂💗. I'm Scottish and have zero Spanish heritage but I was born with a beauty spot on my cheek and always identified with that in the Yasmine bratz doll. When my wee girl was born and also had a beauty spot on her cheek I just had to name her Yasmine 💛.
I literally loved this movie sm as a kid bc I was a Bratz fan
But now I just watch it to laugh at it
When Sasha said “you don’t have a dad OR A BANK ACCOUNT” I absolutely lost my SHIT
Love your content! I also remember the theater packed for the film LOL. It is such a trip looking at the movie from an older perspective now that we have all grown up. Great points & thanks for listing the products below!
6:18 I don't think it was an actual crush he had on Meredith's sister, I'm pretty sure it was just him teasing her. Throughout the movie, you can see him having similar interactions to other girls, trying to flirt with them and even going after them, but the ones he has with Meredith's sister feel more like occasional teasing than actual flirting. Sure it's a little weird but I always interpreted their interactions as picking on eachother rather than anything romantic from the dude's end. It definitely would be creepy if it was an actual crush, though.
2-3 years diff is not creep both of them would be kids lol
@@agirloncrack4413 That's a very weird take. You should learn more about consent, maturity, and the science and development of the human brain for those under their 20s. The older you get, the less impactful the age of consent becomes. So a relationship with a 3 year age gap between people in their thirties isn't weird, but a relationship between an 11 year old with a 14 year old is predatory because of the mental gap. Like what the other person said. A common misconception with underaged relationships between gaped partners is the whole "they're both minors!" mentality which is wrong. Just because they're both children doesn't mean that a relationship between two minors can't be predatory/illegal/creepy.
@@vixenvxce1063 But it also could be okay for whatever reason, maybe they're both mentally immature.
@Louis Kingsta I agree but I’m sure it happens a lot more than we think… an 11 year old girl and 14 year old boy “dating.”
@@vixenvxce1063 at 14 the only diff in his life would be eating more junk food and sugar lol
I was SO MAD that Sasha was mixed/light skin. Like im sorry but I saw myself in her and then.. I didn’t
Sasha… is not lightskinned at all. She’s just a brown girl. Maybe not darkskinned, but still brown.
@@chanellllllll8190 fr she’s obviously brown skin mixed race
@@chanellllllll8190 Sasha is dark-skinned, have you seen the Sasha doll? Have you ever seen the Bratz cartoon show clearly showing Sasha as dark-skinned.
@@diamondstar583 im talking about the girl in the movie. Although i dont agree with them not casting a darkskinned girl, i hate that everytime a girl that is not darkskinned is casted this whole “not black/dark enough” narrative is pushed. If it was a noticeably biracial, lightskinned girl i wouldve gotten it. But this girl was literally brownskinned, she had two black parents, and looked overall black. I dont really get the fuss.
thank you sm for talking about the bratz movie, also ur so pretty! 💗💗
Dylan is the character that's deaf, not Cam
4:03 mini jumpscare😂 your kitten is so cute! Great video I love the deep dives
The heels are not unrealistic especially during that time even when I was in high school 2011-2015 (stopped at the beginning at 2013) girls would wear heels on their birthday, when they did “dress to impress“ day, basketball games etc
This video breakdown was good, you should really do a video on everything wrong with the new Monster High movie next
Logan Browning (who plays Sasha) is also a biracial woman
I loved this movie when I was younger. Obsessed with it. What was wrong with me? I wasn’t even a Bratz kid, I was more of a Barbie fan.
Now I love watching people tear it apart.
My daughter is half white (my side) and half black (Jamaican Afro-Caribbean) but is coded in our society as black.
What you’re saying about black girls and women being coded as not deserving of love… I wanted to add this goes down to even grade school living in a predominantly white area.
Playing house, my daughter would lament that she was either not allowed to be a mama or she was only allowed to “marry” the one other kid who was slightly darker than golden brown.
She wasn’t allowed to be “paired up” with any other boy ever (jokes on them she thinks she’s a lesbian anyways lol) or just the ones who “matched” her. In the winter her skin is what white ppl would call a deep tan and in spring/summer/fall in Canada she’s(I’m white and grew up with only 2 close friends ((of 4 close friends)) who were black and everyone else in my life was white so the terms I’m using are only what I know) like a medium depth average for black people, for what I know where I live.
Where we are there are almost no mixed race or just varying degrees of black ppl. There are East Indian folks with deep or medium skin tone, and then many Canadians who immigrated from Africa directly who are my age (35) with kids now attending school. But only a handful where my daughter is at.
We live in a small community (under 200k) surrounded by farming communities.
If my health was different and I could work still (I live with stage c heart failure and cardiomyopathy ((death of the heart muscle)) ) I would move to somewhere like Toronto or even Markham where there is just more equal diversity in the population,
Also I think all Barbie/Bratz/Winx/trollz dolls should be realistic in bodies. I mean in the tv show Bratz and the cartoonish Bratz movies, the only chracter shown being not skinny, was that male fashion designer who played Yasmin's father in her Cinderella story.
I think one reason bullying doesn’t seem real or relatable at least in this generation is cause bullying has changed a lot in the past few years
Has bullying changed that much since the 2000s? I've always thought it was mostly the same, just with cyberbullying added to the mix. I think some people don't find it relatable because they themselves weren't bullied.
Can you do a few story times of your experience with catholic school as a black women? Loved the video I never watched the Bratz movie I was at the age where I was a little too old for it
I’ve always loved this movie. Is it perfect? Fuck no😂it’s cringey and definitely doesn’t do the characters justice but it’s 15 years old y’all. I’m sure the actresses are aware how bad it is
Your lil baby nala is soooooo cute omfg 😭🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍💞
Awwww thank you 😭❤️
I was in high school at age 15 and 16 wearing heels with my matching bag to go with. I also would do my make up before I went. I was a real life Barbie people would say or bratz doll
Actually the actress who played Yasmin was 14 or 15 when she filmed the movie, the others were in their 20's
If they wanted to do the age-gap thing, they should've had it in reverse. With Meredith's sister being the one to crush on Yasmin's brother, with Yasmin's brother trying to resist her advances. Though I suppose it would ruin the character, who is the only good thing about the movie.
Never watched Bratz the movie, shocking since I absolutely loved the dolls and the cartoon series that came along with it.
I love how we get to see your cat's paw🥺
I’m tryna figure why the characters Meredith and her father and sister was even in the movie when it should’ve been burdine and the twevils
Toni your so beautiful I just recently started watching your videos and I love them all so far. Keep up the good work.
Literally when I got bullied a bunch of people where like wtf
Cause I had short hair due to my hair getting knotted easily.
Some guy threw paper at me & told me kms & used the trans slur (which I wasn't trans but also had history with self harm). My best friend found this guy & beat the shit out of him, & turns out this guy's friend had a sister who ended her life so all his friends left him as well.
I made lots of friends after, & have a boyfriend now who I started dating my last year of school. Bullying is hard to do if not passive cause people are ready to throw hands.
The high school stereotypes is exactly why I hate most high school movies/shows. Most of the time they take over the whole message and they suck.
Yasmin is a Persian name, so I always thought she was middle Eastern, not Latina
Like Logan and janelle were around 18/17
Nathalia was also young and so was skyler
I’m so glad you discussed this. The whitewashing really rubbed me the wrong way💯
The Bratz movie was good but I didn’t really like the story it wasn’t really original to Bratz’s brand as well they did us dirty with the casting 😭
Please don't speak upon what you think bystanders "actually do". If they're scared of the bully, they won't do shit. They will stop and stare, whole room will become awkward. And the innocent girl will be physically assaulted... Real story... No one stands up to the bully if they're scared themselves come on.
It was +10 years ago. I'm over it since years ago. Even "apologised" to the bully after ~7 years, adult age. Damn, she is not over it! Emotional maturity progress who? 😑
It happened more than once. No one did shit. After she left the room/area everyone would be like "omg!!! Are you okay!! She is crazy"
Bro I just got assaulted for the first time/s in my life while you all didn't do shit, tf do you think?
It was yeeeears ago. I understand why they didn't do anything. But they didn't even tell any adults..? THAT'S the hurtful part.
(I did tell the teachers a year later but as she was one year older, she had moved on to another school...)
Welcome to fucking Sweden 🇸🇪.
Sorry you went through that