Planet 51 (2009)

[ilthit]

Not even close to a pass. 

The only named female character was Neera, the girl-next door love interest. I'm pretty sure her or Lem's mothers were never named, and unless I blinked and missed it, none of them ever spoke to each other. All the active characters were male. 

I also thought Neera was very much presented as a prize for the main character Lem, there to show him that the right choice was to be true to himself and stand up for what he believed in and against reactionary military propaganda. I still don't know what to think of the film, except that I'm pretty sure that the military beating hippie protesters shouldn't be made into a joke.