Tue Jun 20, 2023 – 3:54 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Elemental, the latest animated adventure from Disney-owned studio Pixar, opened this weekend below already-low expectations in the latest apparent flop by an entertainment giant whose struggles in recent years have gone hand-in-hand with a dogged insistence on infusing works targeted toward children and families with sexual and gender messages prioritized by left-wing adults.
Elemental follows “an unlikely pair, Ember and Wade, in a city where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together” as they discover “how much they actually have in common.” The film is being touted in traditional and social media as carrying messages about xenophobia and diversity, as well as for including a water-based character named Lake Ripple, voiced by actor Kai Ava Hauser, who is Pixar’s first expressly “non-binary” character.
Despite – or perhaps partially because of – its “woke” flavoring, Variety reported that Elemental took in just $29.5 million domestically in its opening weekend, with international ticket sales bringing its worldwide total to $44.5 million, both numbers far below its $200 million budget.
“To put those numbers into context, Pixar’s worst-performing movie ever was the first movie it ever did, ‘Toy Story,’ which
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