"Earlier this week, parliamentary officials ordered the last-minute cancellation of a screening showcasing the trailer to A Super Progressive Movie, an animated movie about as bad as its title suggests. Produced by right-wing senator and leader of the populist party One Nation, Pauline Hanson, the trailer, uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday (25 November), features a cavalcade of spectacularly unfunny homophobic, transphobic, and racist "jokes," all wrapped in poor quality animation and terrible dialogue."
"Senator Hanson, who just a day prior was suspended from the senate for disrupting parliamentary proceedings by dressing in a burqa, spuriously claimed the suspension came at the "last minute to maximise our inconvenience." She claimed the trailer was wrongfully banned for simply "offending people" rather than for its depictions of minority groups. The film, which will stain select theatres in January, mocks what filmmakers call "crazy lefties", by spreading deeply hateful conspiracy theories, particularly towards LGBTQ+ people."
"Its director said the film is a "hero's journey" which sees characters "venture into the real world to reclaim their ideology's most powerful weapon: the Victimhood." Speaking of victimhood, the movie's right-wing creators depict cisgender white males as shackled, malnourished prisoners abused by "lefty lunatics" in an underground dungeon. Nevertheless, the filmmakers have revelled in the film's cancellation as "deliciously ironic," claiming it is the latest victim of cancel culture."
A homophobic, transphobic and racist trailer titled A Super Progressive Movie was uploaded to YouTube on 25 November and slated for a parliamentary screening. Parliamentary officials canceled the last-minute screening over policy violations. The trailer, produced by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, contains poor animation, offensive jokes and hateful conspiracy themes targeting LGBTQ+ people and "crazy lefties." Hanson, recently suspended for dressing in a burqa, claimed the actions aimed to "maximise our inconvenience" and described the ban as wrongful because it allegedly only "offended people." Filmmakers framed the piece as a "hero's journey" and called the cancellation "deliciously ironic."
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