#Pawpatrol movie#

#Pawpatrol movie#

Of course, the movie does its best to rectify that with a female scientist (voiced by Yara Shahidi) and a new girl puppy recruit, Liberty (voiced by Marsai Martin). Everything that women have been complaining about in regards to representation in Hollywood is right there. There’s wish-fulfilment in that but there’s got to be more to it than that.Ĭould it be that the puppies are essentially a dog version of the Village People: a construction dog, police dog, recycling dog, water dog, fireman dog and … girl dog? It’s pretty astonishing that a show created in 2013 thought that a good gender balance for the agency was five boys and one girl, whose main character trait is that she’s a girl. The adults in the show are constantly bowing down to the Paw Patrol’s authority. Perhaps the fact that the Paw Patrol gives authority to a child and a pack of baby dogs appeals to children’s general lack of agency. Everyone knows puppies are useless at performing rescues. The premise of a young boy, Ryder, running a rescue agency made up of six puppies - five boys, one girl, because girls can do cool stuff too, they just do it in pink - is silly. We had already watched Paw Patrol: The Movie two years ago but when I suggested to the kids we watch again, there was universal elation even from my almost 10-year-old, who you’d assume would’ve aged out of it by now. This 2021 movie has been hovering around the top two spots on Netflix since it dropped weeks and weeks ago.

Married reviewers and parents-of-three Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie watch the movie kids everywhere can’t get enough of.Īre the creators of Paw Patrol geniuses? Or does the show have subliminal messages encoded in it that turn kids into addicts? If you play the Paw Patrol theme song backwards, does it have words of worship embedded? I know that theme song more intimately than I have ever wanted to know any piece of music and I don’t think so but I just can’t understand what it is about Paw Patrol that has made it such a cultural phenomenon.