Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror  •  2025  •  95 min

Decorado (2025)

Decorado poster

Decorado (2025)


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Neutral
Family Values: Leans Progressive

Viewer Rating
7.3

Overview

Decorado (2025) is an animated black comedy-horror directed by Alberto Vázquez, adapted from his 2016 short film. In the city of Anywhere, unemployed middle-aged mouse Arnold confides in his wife Maria that he suspects their world is a constructed film set. Voices include Asier Hormaza as Arnold and Aintzane Gamiz as Maria.


Starring Cast

N/A

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

Political: Strong Left
Confidence: High

The film's core conflict revolves around an artificial world dominated by corporate control, critiquing inequality, unemployment, and the erosion of authenticity under unchecked capitalism. This systemic focus drives a clear progressive ideological stance through its portrayal of inescapable exploitation and surveillance.

Diversity: Low
Confidence: Medium

The animated film uses a European voice cast for its animal characters, showing no evident diversity in ethnic representation or DEI-driven casting choices. Its satirical narrative targets capitalist structures and existential despair rather than critiquing traditional racial or gender identities.

Secondary

LGBTQ: Neutral
Confidence: Low

Queer themes emerge incidentally through visual elements like the lavender palette, representing conceptual boundaries in a manufactured world, but lack central LGBTQ+ characters or affirming/problematic arcs, resulting in a neutral net impact.

Family Values: Leans Progressive
Confidence: High

The film centers on a married couple's deteriorating relationship amid unemployment and existential doubts, framing marital stability as fragile under societal pressures without endorsing traditional family norms.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: High

The film contains no transgender characters or themes. Its narrative centers on a mouse's existential crisis in a potentially artificial world, with no exploration of transsexual identities or related motifs.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High

Decorado adapts the director's 2016 short film, retaining the established genders of key characters like male protagonist Arnold and female spouse Maria, with no alterations to their portrayals.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: Medium

Decorado is an animated film featuring anthropomorphic animals, adapted from the director's own 2016 short film of the same name, which also depicts animal characters in a fable setting. No human characters with canonical racial depictions exist in the source, precluding any race swaps.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

7.3

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
6.8
The Movie Database logo
6.3

Critic Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes logo
8.9
Metacritic logo
7.0

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