> Aya the Vampire Slayer wrote:

>> Ken from Chicago comcast.net> wa:

>>> Do cgi movies hate female leads?

>>

>>> The closest one comes to a female lead major release cgi movie is THE
>>> INCREDIBLES, four years ago, and she was the co-lead, the wife of lead,
>>> altho technically, it was male lead (the group is named after the male
>>> lead). For a flat out clearly female lead cgi major movie, you gotta go
>>> back to 2001's FINAL FANTASY.

>>
>> Probably because fart-joke movies don't work as well with female leads.

>
> I think it's more because CGI movies, like all movies, try to incorporate
> a lot of action scenes. And there are few female action heroes in
> animation besides Wonder Woman. That's nothing new; in comic books, the
> preponderance of superheroes are mostly male.

> Remember, at least half of the audience for these movies is young boys.
> And young boys don't like domineering girls, which is why female
> superheroes have been relatively less popular.

>> Ratatouille is one of the few that didn't have any fart jokes. I imagine
>> that Wall-E probably didn't either, although I don't know for sure
>> because I haven't seen it (yet?).
>>
>> Being female myself, I don't actually find myself caring that much that
>> most leads are male. Do black people care much that most hollywood
>> movies have white leads?

>
> Yep, they cared about that a whole lot.
>
> Also, Asians have long griped that there have been very few positive role
> model leads for Asian characters on TV--just spies and villains. (How many
> positive characters can you name besides Star Trek's Sulu and Lost's
> Jin/Sun?)