6.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Comedy, Animation, Music • 2012 • 79 min
The Suicide Shop (2012)
The Suicide Shop (2012)
Overview
The Suicide Shop is a 2012 animated comedy following the story of a family managing a literal suicide shop in a bleak French city. The youngest son aims to shift the vibe by spreading joy, offering a lighthearted counter to the dark premise. Public bias analysis leans Traditional due to the film's lack of overt progressive themes like LGBTQ or racial diversity, along with its adherence to classic animated storytelling without modern identity-driven twists. Though it subverts family traditions in a Positive light, the core values remain conventionally framed.
Starring Cast
Bernard Alane • Isabelle Spade • Kacey Mottet Klein
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Viewer Rating
6.5
Overview
The Suicide Shop is a 2012 animated comedy following the story of a family managing a literal suicide shop in a bleak French city. The youngest son aims to shift the vibe by spreading joy, offering a lighthearted counter to the dark premise. Public bias analysis leans Traditional due to the film's lack of overt progressive themes like LGBTQ or racial diversity, along with its adherence to classic animated storytelling without modern identity-driven twists. Though it subverts family traditions in a Positive light, the core values remain conventionally framed.
Starring Cast
Bernard Alane • Isabelle Spade • Kacey Mottet Klein
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: High
The film's central narrative explores the universal conflict between pervasive societal despair and the transformative power of individual optimism and joy, without explicitly aligning with or critiquing specific political ideologies.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: High
The animated film features character designs that align with traditional European animation, without explicit representation of racial or ethnic minorities or intentional identity-driven casting. The narrative explores themes of despair versus joy, with its critique focused on societal attitudes rather than explicitly targeting or negatively portraying traditional identities.
Secondary
Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Confidence: Medium
The film portrays a nuclear family whose morbid traditions and parental authority are ultimately subverted and transformed by the youngest child's relentless optimism, celebrating the rejection of unhealthy family norms and the embrace of individual joy.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High
The animated film "The Suicide Shop" does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on a family running a suicide shop in a dystopian city and the youngest son's attempts to spread joy. All character relationships and plot points presented are heterosexual in nature, with no queer representation observed.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
The animated film 'The Suicide Shop' does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes within its narrative. The story focuses on a family running a morbid business and their son's efforts to spread joy, without incorporating any elements related to transsexual identity or experiences.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
The film is an adaptation of a novel. All primary characters, including the Tuvache family members, maintain the same gender as established in the original source material.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
The animated film adapts a French novel whose characters were depicted as white/European. The film's animated portrayals and voice cast maintain this racial depiction, with no characters established as one race in the source material being portrayed as a different race on screen.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: High
Not depicted in the film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.2
6.3
Critic Ratings
7.1
N/A
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