Info
- Title:: Motocrossed
- Producer:: Steve Boyum
- Year:: 2001
- Runtime:: 110 min
Log
2023-12-16 chloe
once again i coerce my fiancée into watching another dcom, though i sold this one by talking about the gender screwery and how it probably did something to me as a kid.
- omg this is so overt with the gender. she’s a cheerleader! the parents won’t let her race because that’s not something that girls do! and over and over until dean shows up and something resembling an interesting dynamic appears
- chloe called dean a himbo and that’s kind of fair. i appreciate the latent bisexuality (you just don’t get that intimate with a bro!) that he brings to the party
- i’m a little surprised that you don’t hear a single southern accent throughout this whole film. it’s set in the southwest region (like, arizona?) so they can plausibly get away with it, but i consider dirt bike racing to be the exact point where extreme sports and redneck culture intersect. but you just don’t see any of that here!
- does the film say anything about gender? i don’t know. does it say anything about female empowerment? i’m not sure. does it say anything about motocross culture? who knows!
- andi wouldn’t have gotten far at all without dean’s help, but that’s a pretty gender-neutral statement about people helping each other. andi teaches dean about how to get girls, but by appealing to them at their most generic (women listen to boy bands) and it work because faryn is the most shallow and generic of them all. dean kinda learns nothing because he has one thing on his mind and it turns out that he appreciates a tomboy who also has that same thing on her mind… but that seems more a statement about shared interests bringing people together
- i appreciated how the writers invented the fictional country of france just so they could set a villain as coming from there
- as a character, jason doesn’t really do anything. he has a single special interest that they eventually call back to, but otherwise he’s just the goofy comic relief little kid: the michelle tanner of the family
- then again sometimes you just have a kid without thinking about their eventual narrative importance. it happens
- but also jason has extreme tails energy and i support her in her eventual transition