A bit of a rant in the comments.

Now I know it might not look like bad, one should never judge a movie by its poster, but it actually really is.. bad. Horrible.

I knew this because Saberspark talked about this movie in one of his videos and went into detail about it, and I just wanna say some stuff about the movie as well. Because the movie made me so angry, the way Filipinos were represented in this movie was disgusting.

1. The native Filipinos were portrayed as antagonists and the colonizers as heroes.

And not just villains, stupid and murderous villains. In the movie, Lapu-Lapu and his men decided to fight Magellan just because some antogonist Portugese guy offered his underwear to them in return of fighting Magellan. But in History, what really happened was Magellan was actually the one who got played when Rajah Humabon urged him to fight Lapu-Lapu for him and Lapu-Lapu wanted to defend his homeland.

2. They left out the atrocities done by the colonizers.

They completely left out that the colonizers were actually selfish, greedy asses that murdered and raided the homes of natives in Guam.

3. THIS CHARACTER.

Why is she so heavily sexualized??. Not even I have a waist that small or thighs that thick, and I'm Filipino myself. Also, this is supposed to be a kids movie so sexualization kind of concerns me.

4. THIS COUPLE.

Now here's what's REALLY problematic about this girl. She falls in love with Elcano, the Spanish colonizer. It romanticizes the situation and further villainizes Lapu-Lapu for driving out the colonizers.

Also, Filipino women before the Spanish Colonization were BOSSES. Warriors, leaders, healers, priestesses, brave and tough women. But when the Spanish arrived, women were expected to be submissive, meek, our roles were reduced to housekeeping and childbearing.

They don't even speak the same language

It is quite inaccurate based on the native tribes of the Filipino

1. They barely uses sea shells as part of their clothing or fasion (And not in that way)
2. The most popular Color scheme is Brown, red and white and not greet, try googling it, you would not see any green
3. Before the colonization, women often don't cover their breast as it wasnt considered sexualized. The concept was spread the by westerners an Europeans during the Spanish and American colonization
4. Skirts are always below knee (WTF is that)

I bet they failed their History class

It contradict is self by saying "WITH PHILIPPINES VERY OWN HERO"

That animation is a disappointment

same. I didn't know this was a thing until saberspark reviewed it

I don’t usually try to get offended by stuff but this actually angers me.
Though I’m usually fine with sarcastic or humorous joking around this is just wrong.
…where do I even begin?
I don’t hold anything against Spain, but them actively portraying the colonizers as the good guys is such a scumbag move, I at least understand why some people would, as individuals, have positive opinions of some conquistadors because they spread Catholicism, but this is very obviously a secular film, so that’s irrelevant. Imagine if a similar film was made in Britain or France; it would probably get castigated by the media there!
The only good thing about the poster is that it acknowledged Lapu-Lapu as the “Philippines’ very own hero”, which is sort of negated by Lapu-Lapu being shown as snarling and an obvious antagonist. In fact, in revised versions of the poster, that line and Lapu-Lapu himself are COMPLETELY ABSENT!
Also, what’s with the native Filipinos being portrayed similarly to stereotypical Polynesians? If someone removed all the references to Magellan and the Spaniards and showed me the poster, I’d probably think it was a knockoff Moana or something. Also some of them look like Aztecs, weird.
That one woman who is oversexualized (foreign culture fetish) and falls in love with Elcano (who was a real person btw, so they didn’t even bother with trying to at least make it plausibly align with real history) was based off of some sort of person called a babaylan. I had to research this, because while I take an interest in pre-colonial Philippine history (It is the hereitage of our people after all, and I find topics like Tondo fascinating), Filipino mythology is something I don’t really consider very much. They were apparently a type of shaman, usually female, who were claimed to be able communicate with spirits. So, her leaving the tribe for the Spanish would be deeply upsetting to the tribe’s religious beliefs and deprive them of their main religious.. person… uh.. (Preacher I guess? I don’t know what an animist counterpart of that would be).
In short, she just serves the overused trope of “pretty native girl who wants to go with the protagonists”
Also, the Portuguese spy (pretty ironic since they completely gloss over the fact that Magellan WAS Portuguese but hired by the Spanish) apparently gives the native his underwear to convince them to attack Magellan? What the heck? That’s just demeaning.

I Googled it, there is literally no any 5 star reviews

I tried filtering it, no results

Not even 4, 3 and 2 stars

Literally all one stars

i thought this was only horrible by plot since i havent seen the trailer
but it portrayed us in a bad way?
bruh moment
spaniards mad :skull:

Just watching the trailer has alot of incorrect representation

Why is there a fat guy!!!! Our people are not that fat

That is not how our tribes look like, today or in the past

Neither is their clothing

This bird wasn't even native in the Philippines

They could only be found in the South American Rain forest.

it is a toucan

There was no fight that resulted of the damage of any boat or between the crews

They are re-writing the history

I know they will mis-represent the battle of Mactan

It would be lame battle scene where a couple men battle hundred of Magellan's warriors/brave men and where Magellan died to a poison arrow

They don't live on tree houses

Heck it don't even look like a proper Kubo