That’s exactly what it felt like. It’s a shame, too, I feel like I would have been into it if it had committed to any one or two or those directions, but it was just a mess.

Amazing no one has mentioned Bridge to Terabithia (2007). The screenwriters disavowed the trailers, iirc. Looks like a cute kids fantasy movie, starts out leaning that way with a middle-school Manic Pixie Dream Girl, then turns hard into being completely real life and extremely tragic. 14-year old me was not prepared.

I enjoyed this movie, but was it trying to be a Sci fi flick, a dramatic comedy, or a rom com, or a political commentary on environmentalism, or a political commentary on colonialism… It could have been really amazing if it chose any of those options but instead it was pretty messy, sadly.