Look, movies today are made to attract an audience…young women and girls especially, are that target audience. That movies continue to show female characters in this light, even when period pieces or fantasies, such as this one, is hardly surprising. A movie is made to MAKE MONEY and if an audience of young “modern” women cannot relate to the female character somehow…it will BOMB, as sure as Johnny Depp is weird and not funny!
You didn’t even mention the movie being shot in 2-D, then being converted to 3-D. Another marketing ploy, but one that falls a little flat on the heels of the spectacular effects in “Avatar”.
But you do what you gotta do to bring people in…and this unexceptional movie is hardly the exception here, either. I do think it will make a boat load of money though…especially in it’s first weekend!
