Great female characters in Hollywood’s current animated blockbusters for kids: where are they???
Taken individually, most of Hollywood’s recent offerings for kids have been reasonable quality entertainment. But taken as a group (I’ve been watching them alongside my kids), I’m struck by the lack of female characters in these films. For a while I was thinking “Well, I have only boys, so of course I haven’t been following the ‘princess movies’…” But after I thought about it a little, it hit me that I have kids, and all I’ve done is show them all the (generic) kids’ films that I’ve seen advertised. So why are none of these films about girls or women? Let’s look at them one by one: Ratatouille: This is a cute film overall, and I recommend it. In terms of female characters, there’s a little old lady in the beginning who tries to kill the rats — and she’s kind of an amusing character — but she doesn’t have any lines. She just provides the reason why the rats end up moving to Paris. Then there’s Colette, who is the main human character’s love interest. She actually points out the fact tha
