What the HELL is Regue Chicken? (this movie HATES fat chicks apparently)
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
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Regue Chicken is a Colombian animated film that is confusing to say the least. It is apparently NOTORIOUS to Latin American viewers to the point where many of them told me to skip this movie. So naturally, I reviewed this movie. Oops...
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I like thicc girls. There, I said it.
FATcor
As an Latin American person, i found annoying that Saber butchers spanish words, tought It makes me laugh at points
The reason why people are fat shaming is because in the early 2000s having curvy wasn’t a beauty thing it was an ugly thing that’s why in teen movies they are pencils
You weirded out about step-cousins? Good thing you don't review anime lol
Calling her fat is so wild her body type is incredibly traditionally attractive not even like the hot librarian effect she's literally just regularly seen as attractive
That body type (pear shaped) is literally just due to your bone size/length/width. It can be accentuated by fat distribution, but fat distribution is about as random as your bone size is. So, yeah, really odd to call her fat when she's not fat?
At most, pear shaped, but I don't think it's necessarily regarded as unattractive and that's from my white perspective
@@ToHoldNothingbro you didn’t just say “from a white perspective”
cope
@@ryouds10 Are we going down the road of Hispanic and Latino as more ethnic groups versus racial groups like white? Or was my self deprecation not clear enough?
My guess is that the writers meant for Violetta to be fat, but then someone higher up was like, "she can't be too fat though." And so they made her just have big hips without changing anything in the script.
Yeah I agree it might have been an issue of conflict between different players in parts of the production process. It reminds me of an interesting recurring issue in a cartoon I very much love (Dan Vs) where the deteragonist is often not drawn as looking overweight but the writing suggests that he is. Occassionally it shows but not really. There was also a scene where someone was commenting on bad handwriting, but the handwriting itself actually looked fine.
There has to be good communication and agreement between the writers, character designers, artists, animators, etc of a project or you get weird issues like this.
They could've made her chubby and it still looks cute to the general audience if that's what their worry about, in my opinion.
i feel like a lotta ppl in media production dont wanna portray fat characters with accurate anatomy as cute/sexy bc they dont want ppl to think they have a fetish or want to, god forbid, "'"promote an unhealthy lifestyle"'". not like i think making the main character look like squidward in the krabby patty vault wasnt fueled by horniness, but still.
@@josephinehowell5280 so true I literally only see like pear shaped chubby girls even if they're bigger, and when people depict these characters it's always a joke on how they eat too much or how they used to be skinny but let themselves go. it just sucks ass.
I thought same- "She should be fat, but like, attractive fat!!!" 🙄😂
12:25 I think in this scene "Chicken" is the translation of the word "Gallina" that refers only to female chickens, aside from its shared secondary meaning. So basically the brother was calling him a "girl" and a "coward" at the same time
Gallo is rooster, gallina is hen! That translator owes Saberspark a refund, he went on a rant for nothing!
I mean gallina can still refer to chicken. It's not wrong, just ambiguous. Translation is more of an art than a science.
As a fellow wimpy nerd named Gabriel, I can confirm that we all instantly turn into super ripped muscly gigachads the second we take our glasses off.
Only if your name is Gabriel though. If not then it doesn't work.
LMAO
Aw man... :(
What if your name is Gabriella? What happens then lol
@@StormWalker-ym2eh you get the high school musical experience
@@alpii_3254 oh god no 😭😭😭 it's part of my name and I do need glasses
"A latina complaining about having too much ass would be like me complaining about having too much money on my wallet" -Crítico Histérico
Una de las mejores frases del vídeo
Un grande el Llon
Grande Lloncito
@@ing-alim-2 a great the little llon
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I imagine reason why the movie insists in calling her "fat" it's because they weren't able to call her "fat-_ass"_ (culona) and keep it a PG-rated movie
Either way, rather odd to try to bodyshame her like that since her body-type is often seen as the opposite of undesireable
My theory is that the designers and the writers wanted to actually make her fat but the director said "Don't actually make her fat, we still want her to be kind of sexy for marketing." So they left her with dat-ass™ and didn't change any dialogue.
La traduzione in italiano mi diverte assai
@@kaylawoodbury2308They took all the fat they were going to give her and put it into that bakery on her backside
@@mircopetronellaconcordo
Her cake could start a bakery.
As a Latin American I'm very happy that you're willing to dive into the history of our animation. It's a long and diverse history! Can't wait to see more of this content on your channel!
Bolivar el heroe
25:00 Seriously though, imagine buying tickets to some UFC fighter's great return, and he just pulls out a piano on the octagon while some dancers twirl around. I guess at some point I'd be mad at the ticket money spent, but I think I'd also laugh my ass off.
I mean, if a mf just whips out a full sized grand piano, I'd be too in shock to be pissed.
He trolled everyone in a glorious fashion.
It annoys me that she isn't even fat, she looks fine for a chicken. Also we latino like big thighs, just saying.
I know! Like how is she fat?
i love how the son of the bad guy who is very wide also calls her fat
@@reptilez5798 Very wide? He's fat, not "wide"
Her bottom half is fat, that's what they're talking about, also she's female and that was considered fat for girls
Also "fine for a chicken" she's got fingers and and toes, word your comment better💀
*"DON'T YOU DARE SHAME THE THICCNESS JACK!"* -A wise senator
My god 😂
The greater the mass the greater the force of attraction
@@internetlurker1850fr
Which quote is it from?
You make an interesting point. What's your source?
The most ironic thing to me is how the metalheads were portrayed as the bullies and the reguetoneros as the bullied, when in real life way way waaaay more often than not, metalheads tend to be chill and keep to themselves and reguetoneros are usually the archetypical latinoamerican bullies and violent gang members.
I'm guessing they keep calling Violetta "fat" as a way to sort of make a desirable quality look like a flaw. It keeps the female character humble and therefore accessible (in the realm of imagination), plus makes a flimsy cover-up for the fact the creators drew her sexy on purpose.
It's kind of like when people make a character whose flaw is "too smart/bookworm." They may sometimes suffer social consequences for it in their world, but it's obviously a good quality and is interpreted as such by the viewers, too.
Whistling in Latin American countries at sporting events and stuff is the equivalent to booing so the audience WAS actually upset for that one scene you mentioned.
Thanks bro
Huh. That's weird, from my perspective. I wonder how that started?
...Eh, it's probably too far back in history to remember/research.
@@bluelfsumaIt began as a way to play dirty and a tactic to distract the opposing kicker rival during penalty shootouts. (Like the Anti-Dibu Martinez Rule)
I guess it worked since it was effective because of how annoying and loud the high-pitch whistles are.
Like the vuvuzelas in South Africa 2010
@@waly6002 Oh, thanks! Funny, I thought it would be something farther in history, like... war cries? I guess?? I dunno.
Thanks for the answer, I wasn't expecting one. 👍
Whistling is when you are bored or offended
To be fair, humans love making fun of other humans for having human emotions all the time.
Sounds like a regular day on twitter to me.
@@datboiashy2957 Because it is, for most people on Twitter see having emotions as weak.
Which is why being vulnerable and allowing yourself to feel emotion is so powerful. People are human, and humans feels emotion. And those who think that's wrong and it's something to ridicule likely suppress their own emotions or are simply heartless to the point where they practically have none.
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That's the entire basis of trolling and harassment.
my favorite part of the designs is how the chickens can fluff up their feathers but they usually look like they have smooth human skin so whenever the feathers happen it looks Odd. anyway you should watch una película de huevos i hear it is quite good
33:05 "There's some thing about these character designs that hold my attention" Huh, I wonder what that could be, certainly not the THICC ASF HIPS
Fun fact
This movie was being promoted as "Colombia's first fully fleshed animated movie" . It tried to make it a big deal as well.
But that statement is utterly wrong. Because the actual first animated movie made in Colombia wasn't regué chicken. But Bolivar el héroe. A fantastical reimagining of Simon Bolivar's life that was (and I'm not joking) inspired and made to resemble the Anime going around at the time like saint Seiya and dragon ball z
And it was SO bad, one of the worst animated movies i have ever seen, it just looks like a goddamn parody of what old people think an anime is like, but it's trying to be 100% serious, i can't.
Bolivar el Héroe was so bad, that for years in Colombia, people thought the movie just, didn't exist. That it was just a rumour that other countries made up to make Colombia look bad. Imagine making a movie so bad that people legit think it doesn't exist and it's just a hoax to make your nation look bad lmao
@@lizzzbenoistwell I hope regardless of these two movies being bad, you guys don’t stop trying to make movies. You’ll get there eventually 👍
@@lizzzbenoistexactly. Even today is like a Creepy Pasta. 😂
@@gracekim25bolivar el heroe is so bad, it actually makes foodfight look good. IT MAKES FOODFIGHT LOOK GOOD.
As a great Colombian philosopher once said, “[These] hips don’t lie, and I’m starting to feel it’s right”
It’s perfection.
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@@p-__wrong song
a great Colombian philosopher also said, "We don't talk about Bruno".
💃🏼💃🏼Le do lo de lo de💃🏼💃🏼
0:18 This film was meant to be an animated telenovela, broken down into 40-minute episodes to understand the overall plot and characters.
0:28-8:09-10:56-17:13-18:58-19:50-29:04 The fat shaming comes from the 1950s-2000s where people would call those who were not fat "fat" as a form of bullying. They are referring to Violeta Herrera's butt. I think that the reason that they call her fat is because Dago García is used to television dramas and could not really use any real insults due to the fact this is basically a film for children. Violeta being called "fat", "orphan" and "troublemaker" does not take anything away from the story. It adds more weight to its message of purpose being relative and that you must decide for yourself who you are and what life means to you. Everyone in this film is being told that they are someone that they are not. They are all weighed down by so many labels. Gabriel and Kid Pantaleon love the arts but are pinned down under the weight of needing to carry on their family's cock fighting legacy. Even Emiliano turns out to not be a bully and jerk, and the whole film was set up in a way where you are supposed to dislike him. Maestra is actually Violeta's grandmother, not a teacher.
8:18-29:12-29:23-29:47-32:27 If you know how chickens live and communicate with each other, this film has its accurate touch. From only the strong male becoming most of the chicks to killing each other. I know of a tiny hen who is strong enough to beat a rooster if she does not want to get "intime", but in this flock, she is the only one. If you know this, this film makes a little bit more sense.
8:45-13:42 Gabriel Dangond's father is named Porfirio Dangond, not Porifio Dangond.
9:17-13:09-13:28-15:03-22:02-30:00 Claudio Padron's name is a reference to William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Dago García and María Mercedes Sánchez changed some of the family relations and the order of events a little and they removed some events while adding others, but there is definitely a little Hamlet in this story. In Hamlet, the character Claudius poisons Hamlet's father and marries his mother. Then Hamlet spends the story first trying to figure out if it is true, and then trying to figure out what to do about it. Claudius also sets up a fight at the end of the story between Hamlet and another character wherein the plan is to put poison on the other fighter's blade in order to kill Hamlet even if he just scratches him. But in Hamlet, Claudius was Hamlet's uncle. He murders his own brother and marries his newly widowed sister-in-law, becoming Hamlet's stepfather, which might explain why the story in this film includes an element that might seem semi-incestuous, but is really not. A chick leaving her compassionate loyal mate for a wealthy one is also something that lines up with reality. Pretty much everybody dies at the end of Hamlet, and that might explain why the climax of this film treats death more casually than one might expect.
12:23-12:25-12:57-26:18 I get why the translator, Miko, chose to use the word "chicken" in this scene, but "chicken" is the translation of the Spanish word "gallina", which refers only to female chickens/hens, aside from its shared secondary meaning. So basically Emiliano Padrón was calling Gabriel a "girl" and a "coward" at the same time.
17:03-17:27-23:04-23:10-28:21-31:26-31:29-34:13 Gabriel's mother Alicia Dangond remarried and Violeta is Claudio's niece. There is literally no family blood between Gabriel and Violeta, because they have just met and step-cousins come from completely different family trees. Them hooking up would be no different than somebody having sex with their spouse. It is quite easy to gain the affection of someone who already knows you than to gain it from a complete stranger. The step-cousin romance stuff is relatively common in soap operas and family dramas.
19:50 Accents in this film are kind of exaggerated. Like the chicken boy can't finish most sentences without going for the accent, which leads to some weird end of sentences and lines in general.
22:46 To be fair, motorcycles are a lot more common in Colombia than they are in the United States of America. It is not just the tough guys that ride them there.
24:43 Whistling in Latin American countries at sporting events and stuff is the equivalent to booing, so the audience was actually upset in that one scene that you mentioned.
31:14 A typical telenovela differs from your American/European type of soap opera, because it actually has a planned ending. Whether it is 100, 150 or 250 episodes, there is a fixed ending. Usually, when the two protagonists actually end up together, and all the villains are either dead, in jail, or turned good meanwhile. There is no dragging the plot through decades with most of the cast being recast or replaced.
Thank you for adding cultural context to this movie!
@@spencerpetunia8268 You are welcome.
Honestly, "emotion-shaming men" does sound like a very Latin America thing to me. I mean, isn't rampant machismo one of our biggest issues. Wasn't this same "emotional soul wants to go against his family's history of mindless violence" plot used in "The Book of Life"?
Also, not sure if the movie actually qualifies as an example, but I have been in some environments where young women who are only somewhat thick have been called fat. It really doesn't take all that much for body shaming to happen.
It absolutely was! Also, I absolutely ADORE The Book of Life. It's one of my favorite animated movies and it's a yearly tradition of mine to watch it for Dia de los Muertos. The apology song performed for the massive bull that was made of all of the bulls slain by the family makes me cry every single time because you can feel how genuinely heartfelt and sorrowful the lyrics are.
i wouldnt really call bull fighting mindless violence.
Saberspark making a mini-rant about the usage of "chicken" and forgetting people use "baby" as an insult was my favorite part.
Yep, calling "chicken" a rooster would be the equivalent of "baby" or "girl" in human
@@kurotenshi8100 Actually no, they're all chicken, chicken would be human, chick would be baby, hen woman, cock/rooster man, pullet girl, and cockerel boy.
@@neerGdyahS I meant it as an insult, trying to figure out why is considered as such in that world
@@neerGdyahSThe og dialogue was meant to be in Spanish tho, they used "Gallina" which means a hen, "Gallo" is for a rooster, and "Pollo" is for chicks. By calling him "Gallina" he basically called him a girl, that was the original phrasing of the movie, coming from a native Spanish speaker.
@@nl5620 I'm pretty sure this part of the convo has been focused on the english sub dialogue, but that does explain the whole thing.
Honestly, Violeta’s dancing was really good. It’s a shame the story couldn’t keep up with that quality.
It's because they used a real dancer as reference
@@kurotenshi8100 Aah, makes sense.
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@@p-__ can i smell it for proof?
@@nissangt-restrella2413 The ff.....?
11:40 It's funny that the evil cousin would call her fat when even if her waist and chest were as wide as her hips she'd still be thinner than him.
Definitely agree that the character designs are lit! The feather floofs when they're pissed is a great character detail. ^^
The dedication is everything. He paid a professional to translate this movie just to make a 35 minute video. Rip Saberspark's wallet 🙏🏻
I wish I had that kind of money!
@@WhitneyDahlindude probably paid two dollars for the dub not that impressive
rip your braincels you have no concept of money
I'll never get over how weird it is for a bird to have teeth
Stay away from Geese.
*coughcoughDaffyDuckcoughcough*
Ducks
well, what about birds having a dump truck of a butt?
@@Violant3 nah, there was a bunny who had a butt like that as well
Being a latina (altough not colombian) and watching saber-ho revivint this movie being able to understand everything is gold. Hope that you'll review more latam animated films.
GRACIAS MIKO POR AYUDAR CON LA INVESTIGACIÓN, realmente un trabajo esplendido creado con tu ayuda y la de los demás colaboradores, se siente increible ver un video donde saberspark y miko hayan trabajado juntos
Lo veo
Dios lo bendiga siempre 🙏
As a Mexican, the Huevo movies are a lot of dumb fun. Most of the humor stems from the fact that ‘huevos’ in Spanish slang means balls
Agarramelos pues.
As a kid I thought that movie was hilarious 😂
Que onda we XD
Wenas tardes Ñ Ññ
The main girl isn’t even that fat. In fact she looks like any other woman with big hips
I think she looks like a chicken but okay
Long as her ass isn't saggy and wrinkled (Seems pretty firm to me) yah she's normally considered attractive, at least for her butt. COuld make a case about her more simple not so pretty face and how she seems flat chested. But yah, calling her fat makes no sense.
She looks THICC
Cartoon moms with Hartman Hips are usually thicker than that chicken chick.
Culona
14:09
Step 3: *silence*
Step 4: Profit
Whistling is the equivalent of booing in a *lot* of non-English speaking countries. The scene with Gabriel's grandfather coming out of retirement is probably less confusing in its home country.
After looking at literal buff chickens, I never want to look at anything again
Yeah chicken's should just be the thin or kids meal nuggets dinosaur they should be according to google
I've already hidden a buff chicken somewhere in your house
Need more buff cawks - Internet.
I watched season 1 of scissor 7 earlier so this actually my second buff martial arts chicken cockfight today alone
@@kimkillillasfuq8212was just thinking of the same thing. Most of the buff chickens I’ve seen are from that show.
Two funny things that Crítico Histérico commented in his review of this movie and stood in my mind:
1) Claudio's name might be a reference to Foghorn Leghorn, who's called Gallo Claudio (Rooster Claudio) in Latin America and it's kind of a beloved character here, probably because of the dubbing.
2) The design of Violeta's stalker friend (whose name I can't remember now) makes no sense at all since he wears a fraternity jacket. Such things aren't common in Latin America and Crítico Histérico pointed it as an example of Latinamerican productions trying to mimic USA culture due to a lack of sense of cultural identity.
Grande joncito
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Claudio’s name probably is a reference to Foghorn Leghorn. Sometimes symbols refer to multiple things. But one of the things that Claudio’s name is definitely a reference to is William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
I’m not kidding and it’s not a stretch. They changed some of the family relations and the order of events a little and they removed some events while adding others, but there’s definitely a little Hamlet in this story. (Also, The Lion King did the same thing.) In Hamlet, the character Claudius poisons Hamlet’s father and marries his mother. Then Hamlet spends the story first trying to figure out if it’s true, and then trying to figure out what to do about it. Claudius also sets up a fight at the end of the story between Hamlet and another character wherein the plan is to put poison on the other fighter’s blade in order to kill Hamlet even if he just scratches him.
But in Hamlet, Claudius was Hamlet’s uncle. He murders his own brother and marries his newly widowed sister-in-law, becoming Hamlet’s stepfather, which might explain why the story in this movie includes an element that’s semi incestuous but not really. Also, pretty much everybody dies at the end of Hamlet, and that might explain why the climax of this movie treats death more casually than one might expect
@@readwrecks
I don't know why I didn't pick up on that, but once somebody points it out I can't not see how obviously that is.
Doing hamlet seems like a real swing-for-the-fences move but I guess if you're going to go for something go for the biggest most melodramatic thing possible.
@Helterskelter9670
Yeah I was picking up on that characters jacket too and thought really that's a thing over there?!
So seeing it just be a weird cliche thing added for no reason makes sense which is weird to say because it doesn't but now it does.
I kind of love that people were like "no! Don't subject yourself to this movie!" and you went and subjected a poor translator to it. Big lols.
I like that Saber points out Mordecai and the Evangelion characters but completely ignores chicken Mario and Luigi
24:43 In many Spanish-speaking cultures, whistling is their version of booing. That's why you see some of the crowd angrily whistling. Contrast to here in the US, whistling is seen as a positive thing.
Lol Americans getting whistles in Spain.
"They love me. They really love me!"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣@@MillieBlackRose
@@daniapfel2825 yeah that's me. I'm that dumb American. lol. If I went there unaware I would have been thinking, dang I must be looking good today. 😂 This is why if I ever get the chance to go to another country I'm looking up etiquette videos for that country.
@@MillieBlackRose Verry funny what you say
I literally said "Good job, Saber" when he pronounced Granado's full name lol he really tries with his pronunciation
I appreciate that he keeps trying, shows that he is more than willing to make a fool of himself in the pursuit for accuracy, and it comes out of respect for other cultures, so, i love that.
@@Hopper_Arts gotta love content creators that have respect for other cultures 🖤
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@@p-__ 249,200,045 shit counted. 0 shits given.
Why the '
Not gonna lie, thought you were going to mention more in detail how Gabriel's grandfather literally scamming an entire crowd into thinking he would return to wrestling just for him to do a piano concert (AND THE MOVIE WANTS YOU TO FEEL PITY FOR HIM)
there's a Norwegian animated movie called Titina. It follows the dog of the engineer who designed and piloted the first successful expedition to the North pole. It's pretty funny, very pretty, and has some strangely trippy parts to it. Might be worth taking a look
In alot of foreign countries whistling is actually a mock. I remember crowds doing it during a soccer match when their team wasnt doing good.
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@@p-__ jesus christ man!
@@SuccubusStrikerUnofficialits just a bot
Oh right!
@@unripetheberrby6283 huh left?
my one defense of gabriel is that its much easier to stand up to a snooty teacher than your evil stepdad who killed your real dad
Liked the video. Made me laugh how hard you focused in the step cousin thing even though they no immediate blood relation. I mean, lets be real. That’s like shaming a couple because they found out 200 hundred years ago their family shared some ancestry. Which i feel is probably 90% of all relationships haha
Agreed like if they grew up together or something like that then that would be weird (despite no blood relation).
God bless everyone.
12:15 lol that is actually really funny. Because chickens are actually small and don’t weigh much. We are just seeing this from their point of view
As a latinamerican animator myself, i'm really glad you're opening yourself more to what us south americans have to offer, although maybe you should've started with a good movie, una película de huevos and it's sequel for example, or metegol (do NOT watch the version by the weinstein company, they ruin the script completely), or shows like 31 minutos, etc.
Also i really appreciate that you shouted out Miko and Crítico Histérico, and that you were willing to research so much about our film industry, this is a great video of yours, even with how terrible regue chicken is.
As a side note (and to not lose the heart by editing the previous comment) i gotta say, the voice acting in this movie is SO all over the place. Gabriel's voice is so monotone and uninterested, and one of Violeta's friends has such a horrid, grating voice, like Jesus Christ.
Also, when Gabriel's step brother calls him a "gallina" it's because they're roosters, and gallina is what we call hens, so he's essentially calling Gabriel a girl, still mighty fucked up in that context lmao.
Critico histerico shoutout got me in pure joy
@@Hopper_Artswhat’s the good movies you recommended about?
That shit sucks
31 MINUTOS!!!!!! I think Saber should cover it if he hasn't already! It's a gem >w>
How did they pack SO MUCH PLOT into one movie?
I'm honestly impressed.
It’s easy when you don’t flesh any of them out.
so much plot that went no where. Kinda wish they tied up all the plots they created.
In the lady's thighs, that's how
Ever heard of "Telenovelas"? It's exactly the same, 100 episodes going nowhere is a wild ride.
Too many plotholes I would say for this film....Got tad boring by the middle end part of it.
24:41 Gotta love how even Porfirio is unfathomably dumbfounded at his dad
Bro she wasn’t even fat she was just thicc as hell 💀
I feel like this movie could've worked if the writers just made a few changes.
1. Have Gabriel's parents still be married at the start of the movie and make the bad guy obsessed with his mom. Then, a few months after his dad's death, Gabriel's mom can't pay the bills anymore so Claudio swoops in and offers to let them stay at his house free of charge. This not only make his plan to murder Gabriel's father makes more sense, it also removes any weirdness of Gabriel and Violetta's romance.
2. There's an underlying theme of this movie regarding gender norms and how bullshit they are but it doesn't go all the way with it. Like spark says, Violetta is frequently criticized by the bad guys for not acting like a hen, but the movie never establishes how a hen should act. Now, I know nothing about Colombian gender norms but I feel like one idea for how to do this would be that, instead of the stupid fat-shaming thing, people kept calling out Violetta for being high energy and free-spirited rather than prim and demure and that a proper lady wouldn't be dancing like that to that kind of music. Violetta, understandably, would tell them to shove it but would have no allies outside of some fair-weather friends and the Nice Guy in the letterman jacket. Then when she meets Gabriel and criticizes him for crying, she could apologize to him for that after finding out why he was crying and support his love of playing piano.
3. Instead of ending the movie with a cock fight, Gabriel and Violetta plan to steal Claudio's evil plan folder. Claudio can hold an engagement party after getting the mom to agree to marry him. Then during the party, Gabriel could distract everyone with his piano playing while Violetta takes on the guards watching Claudio's office with her dancing skills. That way, the protagonist can use the things they love doing and were criticized for to reveal the truth and send Claudio to jail. This would tie in with the themes of deconstructing gender norms and make Gabriel confident enough to do what he loves without worrying about criticism while Violetta finally has someone who genuinely supports her and what she loves doing.
There's a nugget of a good story here but it's bogged down by meandering plot points and nonsensical character motivations.
i cant take anything you say at face value anymore after the gender norm statement
@@KazeMunashiiyou are not seriously saying that gender norms arent real or make sense
@@guillermostreiger2307 I guess they've never seen barbies :D
Hell ! This movie could easily have benefited from being a full-fledged series...
I think another route would be the protagonist would like to fight but being told that he was weak and then him realizing that fighting is not always about strength but could be about how you handle it
As a chicken myself id like everybody to know that this move does not represent us
I don't care.
@@ramonandrajo6348Straight to the point lmao
true chicken representation
Wait, you're telling there are no buff chickens?
@@biz-man Thanks. :)
“¿QUÉ HACES BESANDO A LA LISIADAAAA?”
Thanks for adding María la del Barrio
My family is Colombian and Peruvian. This is absolutely a cultural thing. I know several people who grew up being called "the fat one" by RELATIVES. Thinness is one of the most important aspects of the beauty standard in much of South America - even more so than in the US.
What's really weird to me is that some of the chickens in this movie have talons while others seem to have human feet.
for those who dont know: the cartoon "Betty Toons" is based off a very popular latino sitcom called "Betty la Fea." It was so popular, the show got americanized into Ugly Betty
There was Russian remake of this show - "Not Born Beautiful" . And oddly enough it inspired cartoon series too - "No brains"
''Betty, a Feia'' in Brazil :P
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Great video
If you want to hear some recomendation of Argentinian Animated movies you had Manuelita, Martin Fierro, Mercano el Marciano and Boogie El Aceitoso
Some of this are super bizarre productions and other are pretty cool movies.
How has nobody mentioned 20:41 ?
“Marie Curie was the first person to receive two Nobel Peace Prizes in different fields of science.”
Nobel PEACE Prizes… in fields of SCIENCE… 😭😭😭
Fun Fact: In Colombia whistling from an audience is often a way of making fun of what is happening. Hence the sound while the upset attendants although yes, the audio design from this movie is bad.
PS: Thank you Saber for talking about this movie and doing A LOT of research in spanish lol! As a colombian cartoon enjoyer, even tho Regue Chicken is definitely not our biggest pride, it's great to have it as a conversation starter between our favorite movie critics!
But hey, at least it's not Bolivar el Héroe.
So that has to like be a positive in some way right?
@@gamerule18 of course! haven’t seen that one yet tho, is it worth it? Haha I still have it on my list
@@alejandrauruenalopez7432 it's not really the fact that it's the first
But you'll see, I guess
In lots of other countries, not least of which Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas, whistling at sporting events is considered a form of showing displeasure.
Hmm interesting 🤔
@@gracekim25 Watch the World Cup or Olympic soccer if you want to see it for yourself.
We whistle cause we like it
Without a doubt one of the weirdest chicken movies I’ve ever heard about! Always interesting to see you review something like this from a different part of the world and hear your thoughts! Your channel is freaking awesome!
Hi there! just wanted to chime in and notify about the movie sub no longer being up on Drive, is there a way to get this subbed version? Seriously you're a hero for letting non-spanish speaking people watch this movie in its full insanity
Gotta say, as a mexican, I wasn´t expecting the Soraya clip, but I am not dissapointed.
Also, "una película de huevos" is in fact a pun in mexican slang. It's a movie about eggs, so "huevos" but also the expression "de huevos" means it's very good or impressive.
La maldita lisiada is just epic!
@@miramuchachito296 Such iconic, followed by the “ay... me dueleee~”
I laugh every time.
Una Pelicula the Huevos has to be one of the best things to come out of Mexico. Animation, voice acting and humor it's all so clever and well done. Many kids from my generation loved it and still do today.
The whole universe that came out of it is hilarious as well.
@@miramuchachito296, yup, that thing it's the absolute ( mexican ) meme
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If we’re talking about the chicken in the thumbnail, she isn’t even fat. She just has thunder thighs and a triangular shape. That figure is Hella, attractive to many men and women. What are we getting at here?😂
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@@p-__ 💀
I would do her
Literally my dream proportions, dk why they were body shaming.
I don't get it she's super skinny
for "Una película de huevos" is a saga of about 4 movies. You can´t miss that experience XD
My abuela loves to watch telenovelas, so I’ve seen enough of them to say that the clip of one of them you showed accurately represented what goes on in a telenovela every five minutes.
The whole step-cousin romance stuff is relatively common in the soap opera and family drama TV series, so I honestly didn't even bat an eye at it when you pointed it out. Hell, just look at anime and eastern dramas, and you'll find them everywhere.
And at least for this movie, they aren't blood related nor had the time to develop familial bonds to begin wth. They are literally just strangers forced under one roof and left it immediately. If anything, their romance is more sensible than a lot of the insane stuff in the movie that make even less sense.
I’m not sure about other eastern dramas but Japan absolutely takes the cake on that, especially with their plethora of doujinshi and adult animations…
Given that Japan has a lot of SA that goes unreported, I’m a bit scared of what might be happening just beyond the family living room 🥲
Kinda weird how he makes a big deal about it since they were cousins for like 2 days lol. Also the mom will probably leave the villain I assume xD
Gringos are prudes in terms of relationships, even when this doesn't make any sense (step cousins but only in paper, age gaps even though both in the couple are adults over 21 for giving a example, etc).
Isn’t life with Derek apparently that but from the west and step siblings?😅
Why is it so common though? The fact it considered common is low key fucking disgusting
I get that rock and metal are both portrayed as evil a lot, but I grew up with it, and a lot of rock/metal musicians are actually quite wholesome or at least decent people IRL (ie Lemmy Kilmster, George Fisher, Rob Zombie, Dave Grohl, Freddie Mercury, etc.)
Here I think it more comes down to "any other type of music is evil in a movie named after one type". If you watch something like "Rock'n roll high-school" or "school of rock" the bad guys listen to other types of music. Metal and rap usually get the villain role in movies like this because they stand out a bit more.
I'm a long haired metal guy and I don't beat up people who likes different music then me, I don't think I even met someone that stupid. Politics and religion is what usually starts actual fights.
@@loke6664
I also think it's hilarious that they spend as much screen time as they do setting up the whole reggaeton vs Rock thing but they don't really bother representing reggaeton well at all.
Not that I guess they really could if they wanted to keep this fairly "PG" I guess though. Still I can imagine why people were pissed at this movie how dare they call it that and then it's used as a very thin plot gimmick.
True that lol. Growing up used to think Hard Rock Groups (and other genres) were these hard badasses only to grow up and find most are pretty nerdy off stage.
Also did you know that rob zombie is a vegan ?
And I heard lots of people saying that he is a genuinely nice guy
I mean the whole idea of rock is to be extreme and crazy sometimes violent
Rock is the anti wholesome music of jazz and disco music
But not quite evil that’s why liked when the movie trolls world tour made the rock trolls good guys at the end
Again not an amazing movie but honestly a good movie
I like to imagine that the rock trolls where sick of being portrayed as evil so they went all out being evil
It’s a little something
The clip of the "Maldita Liciada" is a classic, great work sir!
Geez, Saber struggling with the name 'Porfirio' while repeatly calls him 'Porifio' it's way funnier than I Thought (by the way I can't believe that even says Porifio while explaining the plan)
Nice Shot Saber, by the way 😂❤ that's why we love you❤
Can I just say that I really appreciate how the "Saber can't pronounce any names that sound even vaguely non-american" arc is finally over? Thanks for making an effort to improve on that front, man.
The only part I couldn’t help but snicker was his pronunciation of “ReggaeTON” 😂 when it’s “tone”
apart from Dakar.... he is trying at least. ;)
He does fumble the pronunciation a little, but I'm not gonna crucify him for that, also no wonder he can't pronounce Gabriel's father's name, wtf is that name
Reggaetown
@@galaxy_kitten95yeah... i'm only that far into the video rn and i immediatley had to pause and check the comments lol
i've always had this alternate version of this movie in my mind where Violeta wants to become a ballet dancer but is unsure because of her chubby/fat body and people mock her for her weight calling her fatty. Gabriel on the other side is a popular boxing champion following his dad steps, he stills has a fascination for classic music but due to the enviorement and people he lives with he completely shuts down that passion to pursue what people tell him to pursue.
Write that shiz down. Could be good
you should write a new movie lol... this is kind of cool
Isn’t gabriel basically jack hanma without the roids and instead he has a loving father
That would've probably made for a much more intressting plot
Isn’t that the music video for “Hall of Fame” ?
Ok can I just say as a Colombian I’m exited to see you talk about this and more movies of my country
After mentioning the Egg movies, any chance you’ll do a dive in with the Huevocartoon? I could simply that there movies are more family family but their shorts and cartoons that you can find in their channel is pretty much for adults with the swearings and suggestive lines.
A movie about the protagonist having to choose between Fighting or Dancing, and nobody thought of Capoeira as the solution for the entire plot?
That would write itself.
Excuse me sir, good ideas aren't accepted here.
Basically every martial artist that knows ballet is an absolute monster, just sayin
@@kimkillillasfuq8212 Van Damme practiced ballet to learn to do those splits
@@caranostalgico9249 I think Jon Jones did ballet too. One of those high kick Landing fighters with the skinny build
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Orgullo colombiano 🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴
As a Colombian I even remember seeing the ads for this movie on TV and newspapers, I never went to see it (and if I remember correctly my family found the movie "stupid") and only knew about it from the reviews. I am thrilled to see someone from the other side of the pond acknowledge its existence and talk about it. I really wish our animation industry would produce better stuff, there is a lot of potential and interest behind it.
Que verguenza pana a lo bien jajajaja
@@CarlMarxPunk No digo que no lo sea, la mayoría la queremos solo de forma irónica. A eso viene el último comentario XD
Nuestra animación como que, medio está mala no parce? XD
@@lizzzbenoist Incluso en estándares de LATAM chafamos, sin embargo se ve que por lo menos hay intentos de hacer "algo". Por eso me gustaría ver mejores producciones de acá incluso si suena como algo difícil
Yeah there is a lot of potential and good stuff for the countries of Latin American countries. I mean look at animations like ENA(peru).
Yes, those types of fights usually end up with one of the animals being dead (also, they're extremely illegal)
thanks for reminding me about Una Pelicula de Huevos gotta rewatch them bangers
I lost it when he pronounced Reggeton as "Rege-Town" 😂😂
I think you heard wrong, chief.
7:13
10:08
@@Mecharnie_Dobbs I asked someone else about it and he said it wrong the first time apparently. I swear I heard ton only. My bad.
Indeed. The first time he says Regetown, but says it correctly around minute 10
if i had a nickel for every time "FAT SHAMING MOVIE" was on the thumbnail of a Saberspark video, i'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but its weird that it happened twice
I was about to say😂
Dr.Doofersmith is that you? xD
It's pretty normal
I don't get it.
@ramonandrajo6348 There was a Thai/Philippine (iirc) animated Snow White movie that had a plump main female lead that becomes lean when she puts on a pair of magical shoes, as well as seven heroes cursed to be short ugly dwarves unless out of sight of other people, including each other.
I would love to see a series about the history of animation in other countries not only cuz I love history, but also cuz that means he might review the animation that traumatised most kids my age in Iceland. I think it's called the ugly little caterpillar in English? Anyway the spider gave kids arachnophobia and scared kids, meanwhile everything terrified me cuz it was so uncanny. I also hated the puberty short film by the same studio. Main character terrified me when she was "perfect". Also the fact that her parents kidnapped her and sent her to a weird place to fix her was scary.
That sounds like what the creepy spider in “mrs spider’s sunny time friends” did to a lot of American (and presumably also Canadians since the studio was Canadian) kids.
19:17 I genuinely wonder if it's because he's a coward or if it's just laziness on the part of the writers.
If you are interested in Latin American animation you could talk about "Bolivar El Heroe".
Not only is infamous for being bad (it is considered an animation equivalent to The Room), but also it is Colombia first animation film, was shown in theaters despie its (lack of) quality, it has historical characters with unatural hair colors as well its own fanfic worthy original characters, has bloody scenes despite being aimed at kids, and despite being colombian it can be only found with the mexican dub, as the original dub is lost media. The production of the film is also surrounded in mystery.
The film is availbale in youtube, at least in spanish.
So it's like high guardian spice
There was an original Colombian dub of this?!
@pumkin610 dude that doesnt sound anything like high guardian spice
@@lsebastian9086well, yes
The thing about calling someone chicken. I get why the translator choose to use the word cgicken, but in spanish we say "gallina" to call someone a coward. That means hen, so a male chicken calling another male chicken gallina makes sense as its calling him a girl un addition to a coward.
So it's the same as calling someone a p*ssy basically
I think the translator was thinking the same, but they used chicken/rooster dichotomy.
You did well with the spanish pronunciation, well enough that I was able to understand without thinking two times about what you were saying!
This brought back memories. When I was a kid, my grandma would watch Latin American telenovelas all the time, and I absolutely hated them for all the constant screaming and drama. Now, though? I dig that sappy romance family issues plot twist-ridden shit. Grandma was right with her media preferences. Give me more, and make it juicy. I have to warn the American audiences, though, if you think step-cousin romance is too much, get ready to be thoroughly disturbed by all the other shit happening in this genre. Telenovelas don't coddle their viewers, exploring morally complex situations, often in the most shocking way, is kind of their thing. Also, cultural values, I guess.
On a different note, I love how the feathers on these characters poof up and stand on their ends when they get angry. It gives them feral avian vibes I didn't know I dig. That's how you furry... Less fat shaming would be preferable, though. At least have the balls to actually draw the girl as fat, a girl can be both fat and attractive, you know. Then again, it's not like I haven't seen girls (it's always girls for some reason) be fat-shamed despite being curvy at the very most. Some people just have the fashion magazine Photoshopped model brainrot and want to make it every young girl's problem, it seems.
As a South American, is Saber really asking why that body type is common in Latin American media? 😭😭 Sir have you seen our women? Obviously not ALL of us are curvy bootilicious goddesses (tho we all goddesses, love yall), yall was late to the party simping for post-butt-job Kim K in the 2010s.
I literally did not know until I was a teenager that in American media when women say "does this make my butt look big" or insunuating they had a big butt meant they were fat in a derogatory way.
I'm really glad I got to help you with this video!
Grande Miko!!!
¡Hey, Miko!
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Best thing that can be said about this movie is that it answers the question: "what if a telenovela writer tried to do an animated feature?"
Your translator went above and beyond. I've heard of anime doing the multi-colored subs, too, because at times there'd be multiple voices overlapping and/or characters who sound alike interrupting each other so viewers would get confused.
I guess the stepbrother called him "gallina," which literally means hen. In Spanish-speaking countries, the rooster is a symbol of bravery, while the hen symbolizes cowardice. In the Spanish dub of "Back to the Future," for example, Griff's line "What's wrong McFly? Chicken?" is translated as "¿Qué te pasa McFly? ¡Gallina!".
Finally someone understood it, a dude was tryna teach us our own language but he said "gallo chicken gallina hen" lol
I'd love to see a deep dive into Estonian animation too specifically Priit Pärn who did "Time Out" and "Frank and Wendy"
As someone who knows a lot about chickens the fact that Porifio weighs only 3 pounds is absolutely hilarious, because that means he's only as heavy as the average rooster of most bantam breeds. As a comparison in most gamefowl breeds, and especially the ones that are still used in some countries for cockfights, the average rooster tends to be at least 6 pounds.
I also know a lot about chickens and I think it’s a pretty cool Easter egg that they make Gabriel get all fluffy when he’s super mad - chickens stand their feathers on end when they fight to look bigger.
Cleopatra is a terrible example for a strong woman she couldn’t protect Egypt and had to look for a dude and his army to help her (Cesar). A better example would probably be Hatshepsut who sponsored a trade expedition that brought Egypt a golden age. 20:39
But Cleopatra is so much more *theatrical*, which unfortunately is what sticks in people's minds.
@@conradmills4977 Can’t argue with that
As someone who watched a shit ton of soap operas and telenovelas with my grandmother and mother, sometimes the villains are just like that.
They are evil and they want to see the main character without nothing in the end and it annoys me everytime because if you compare what the main character did to them, the things they hqve already done are enough but no.
They wanna destroy them just because.
Pinoy Teleseryes have even scarier and more memetic villains than those of a typical Mexican/Colombian/Brazilian/Argentinian Telenovela.
Portugal telenovelas have a few examples of that, but its usually abit tamer in some cases... its still fucking hilarious when someone has a problem and wants to ruin someone just becuase of a misunderstadning or trivial acident.
DO THE DEEP DIVE! I would love to hear more about animation's evolution around the world from you and your colleagues!
6:47 i cheered SO loudly when saber mentioned huevos. these films are my childhood
19:45 oh... OH GOODNESS.
"yeah im sorry your dad died, but hey I never even knew my parents and im doing GREAT"
Honestly the animation and character designs look so nice and fluid for this movie.
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@@p-__ oh
Yep I noticed the animation was better than expected., But its so weird how Latin (and tbf German speaking) cultures always seem to create the most deeply alien logic storylines in their cartoons. Italy is still the reigning champ for their Titanic ripoffs...; but like Gabriel's late father; this movie was a contender. I've never been half as deeply confused by the plots of Anime or Slavic made animations as I routinely am by cartoons from central europe or latin america for some reason. Animation is decent, but plot usually gives me a headache.
@@anasevi9456
The motivations and whiplash inducing changes to are what drive me nuts. Also someone else mentioned this is basically a weird version of Hamlet. That absolutely destroyed my brain when I realized they were right.
What's funny about the dancing thing in this movie is apparently roosters do dance to attract a hen and to assert dominance in the flock. Also thicc hips and thighs don't automatically make someone fat. The fat shaming doesn't make much sense. Especially when there are characters that make her look like a stick by comparison.