The minute I saw the trailer for Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken I knew that I wanted to see it. It seemed cute. I firmly believe that coming of age stories for young women are few and far between. And I was eager to see another one. I know that this film didn’t get much attention at the box office but I don’t think that had anything to do with actual film quality at all.
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Overall I think it was a great film. All of the elements of Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken that were necessary were there and they were executed well. We got a great coming of age story with wonderful character development for each of our major female characters. And a really well written generational trauma storyline. I really think the fatal flaw of this film was the fact that it was not marketed very well. I think we maybe saw two trailers for it before it came out and living in the heart of LA seeing no billboards or posters is not good. Barbie was really the first female led film we’ve seen that had decent marketing. Every other female led film in the last decade has had horrendous marketing. It’s completely by design so that when it fails executives can tell us that audiences just won’t see women fronted films. Even though Wonder Woman, Barbie, Sex and the City all proved that was a lie.
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