4.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Body Guards (2000)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 4.6
Overview
Fabio Leone and Paolo Pecora are two police officers from Rome, who, together with the careless Neapolitan Ciro Marmotta, are fired from the barracks due their scuppering of a plan to capture a secret agent.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Negative
Trans: Negative
Christianity: Negative
Overview
Fabio Leone and Paolo Pecora are two police officers from Rome, who, together with the careless Neapolitan Ciro Marmotta, are fired from the barracks due their scuppering of a plan to capture a secret agent.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Traditional
Primary
The film is a lighthearted Italian comedy focused on slapstick humor and farcical situations, with no discernible political messaging or engagement with ideological themes, leading to a neutral rating.
The film utilizes primarily traditional casting, consistent with its genre and director, and does not feature intentional race or gender swaps of established roles. Its narrative maintains a neutral to positive framing of traditional identities, without explicit critique or central DEI themes.
Secondary
The film "Body Guards" features a character whose perceived effeminacy and mistaken sexual orientation are consistently used as a source of comedic mockery. This portrayal relies on harmful stereotypes and "gay panic" humor, presenting queer identity as a punchline without any affirming or counterbalancing elements.
The film features a central comedic subplot where a bodyguard mistakenly believes his client is a transsexual woman. The humor is consistently derived from his discomfort, confusion, and prejudiced reactions to this mistaken identity. This narrative choice frames trans identity as a source of ridicule and misunderstanding, without offering any counterbalancing positive or neutral portrayals.
The film, characteristic of the cinepanettone genre, frequently depicts nominally Christian characters as hypocritical or foolish for comedic effect. This comedic portrayal, often lacking significant counterbalancing nuance, reinforces a negative stereotype of adherents rather than offering a respectful or affirming view of the faith itself.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "Body Guards" (2000) is an original Italian comedy featuring new characters. There are no indications of it being an adaptation, biopic, or reboot of existing material with characters whose gender was previously established and subsequently changed.
Body Guards (2000) is an original Italian comedy film featuring characters created for the movie. There are no pre-existing canonical, historical, or widely established characters from source material or previous installments whose race could be altered.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
4.0
5.1
Critic Ratings
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