I really love this movie! It’s beautiful and has awesome songs
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aMockTie@piefed.world 1 day ago
I think that’s awesome! Mirabel is an amazing protagonist and Encanto is a wonderful movie, in my opinion. I would probably be more confused by dad’s reaction than anything else.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Mac@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Totally agree. It’s a wonderful movie and the soundtrack is really good.
myrrh@ttrpg.network 1 day ago
…it’s because she has cartoonishly large eyeglasses…
aMockTie@piefed.world 1 day ago
I appreciate you trying to help me understand, but I’m sorry to say that I still don’t get it. Are large eyeglasses inherently funny for some reason?
Full disclosure I’m on the autistic spectrum, so I’m sure there is something obvious that I’m missing. In my mind large eyeglasses make a lot of sense because they cover a fuller degree of the field of view for the wearer.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 1 day ago
She looks a lot like the character overall to me
aMockTie@piefed.world 1 day ago
I absolutely agree! But as I said in my initial response, I personally would think of that as more of a flattering compliment than anything else. I don’t understand why the dad found the similarities so overwhelmingly funny that he was on the floor laughing, struggling to breathe, with tears in his eyes.
Apparently OP understood the context as a “sick burn,” and I’m assuming the dad was laughing for some sort of similar mean spirited reason. I just feel like I’m out of the loop and I’m not understanding why the comparison is funny or any kind of burn.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think you’re forgetting that some (especially neurotypical) people have really basic senses of humour. The Dad probably thought no more than haha dolly looks like daughter, and op probably thought the same.
Djehngo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ful disclosure; I’m on the autistic spectrum
Same, since this is something I struggled with for a while and this thread is old I will try to give (my) understanding of humour in general and how it applies here.
Okay, as far as I can tell the root of all humour is something unexpected/surprising/confusing.
A lot of wordplay operates by having you understand a sentence one way then
Where there’s a will, I want to be in it.
The surprise here is that you expect where there is a will there’s a way, and you expect “will” to refer to willpower, the unexpected aspect is that when you get to the end of the sentence it actually means last will and testament.
Comical misunderstandings in comedy fall under this, “edgy” humour is predicated on the idea that people will conform to polite discord then they break it. Cringe comedy is the same but rather than polite it’s “cool” (or whatever the atonym for cringe is.)
In this case the surprise is just that the doll looks like the daughter, you expect the doll to be some random famous character and instead it’s an image of someone you know.
This is mildly amusing but not that funny, what makes it hilarious (I assume) is the feedback loop between father and daughter. If he had been in the shop and seen it by himself there might have been a chuckle but not much more.
He shows her the mildly funny doll, she makes an unimpressed face as seen in the photo; she probably finds it a bit funny, but doesn’t want to give her dad a “win” for something which is vaguely at her expense, so puts on an unimpressed face. Having known her for her whole life Dad understands what is happening intuitively, this is the second layer of funny where the daughter is putting on an act, then it compounds because the contrast between his reaction and hers is amusing and the more he finds the situation funny the more pointed the contrast becomes causing a feedback loop.
The difference in reaction is a classic comedy trope people find funny, thats why most multi person comedy acts have someone play “the straight man”
Sadly I don’t think I can source this since nobody explains any of this so it’s all observation and trial and error
maccentric@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dads reaction is probably a more exaggerated version of my reaction.
I let out a sensible chuckle. I had no idea there was a movie. I just said “Ha ha ha, girl look like doll!”
And thats as far as the joke went for me. But I guess the dad found it way funnier than I did.
Or maybe he was being tickled. By a ghost. A ghost tickler! Like the kind that jerked off Ray in Ghostbusters.
Thats right. In a PG movie, a character got a handjob. Between this, and Marty McFlys mom being horny for her son, the 80s were a different time. I would know. I was there, high on cocaine. Also I was born in '83. Sooooo…like 5 years old.
FatVegan@leminal.space 1 day ago
Since it’s social media, I assume he bought it herself for the picture. But you have to make up someone else spitting his coffee or literally dying of laughter. It’s today’s laugh track.