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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Troop Zero (2020)

I recommend this as an option for pandemic watching.  It is a misfit kid growing up movie that takes a lot of it's vision from Wes Anderson's Moonlight Kingdom. 
One reviewer described it as the new generation of underdogs, but I think these kids were always there, there was just a lot less sympathy for them in the past. Christmas is the girl who drives the forming of Birdies Troop Zero.  She has no interest in the existing troop in her town and they have no interest in her.  They are girls who see themselves as better than others, and have no compunction about bullying the less fortunate.  They want nothing to do with Christmas and she has no interest in them either.  She is fascinated by space, and when she learns that the winner of a Birdie competition will be included in a record that will go in search of intelligent life in the universe, she is all in on that quest.
She assembles a group of kids that includes physical disabilities, neglect, non-gender conformity, and they are all living in poverty.  Let's go team!  You cannot help but root for them. 

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