This Chihuahua Thing Is Getting Out Of Hand
9 May 2008, 6:15 PM. By Guanabee Staff
Spotted: A graphic wild posting featuring a chihuahua and the word, “HEEL” on it on the corner of 2nd and B in Manhattan’s East Village. Could this be a teaser campaign for Disney’s new animated monstrosity? Truth and time tell all.
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Call me loco, but I’m thinking that might be a Shepard Fairey broadsheet, or an homage anyway, plastered by one of his minions. Like the “Obey” posters from back in the day. Hell, it might even be Banksy, but it doesn’t seem like his stylo at all.
GD, lighten the heck up. It is just a fun kids’ movie. There have been cartoons about all kinds of kooky animals - remember the lovable French rat recently? Kung Fu Panda is coming up soon. This movie fits in that genre.
And why is everyone pouring the hate sauce on Chihuahuas? They are awesome pooches. They ooze personality, and weren’t they the pets of the Aztec kings?
I’d like to see idea of what kind of movie you would suggest that would be entertaining, culturally relevant, and oh-so-perfect and educational. I think it would be oh-so-boring.
Life is short and there are bigger issues we need to focus on instead of knocking every single Latinocentric item that comes into pop culture. Please share your wish list of acceptable contemporary icons/themes so we will all know what to like and not like. I mean this respectfully!
i’m always amazed when people say there are bigger things to focus on that they don’t see the links between the big things and the small things.
I agree with calaverita. I don’t like being likened to dogs.
OK, LET’S KILL OFF ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING DEALING WITH CHIHUAHUAS SINCE THEY ARE SUCH A DISGRACE TO OUR CULTURE. DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER?
IT IS ME AGAIN. I’M SORRY IF MY MESSAGE SOUNDED RUDE. I JUST WANT HELP BECAUSE I HAVE A PET CHIHUAHUA AND HE IS MY WHOLE LIFE. HE LOVES ME MORE THAN ANYONE IN THE WHOLE WORLD AND MAKES ME LAUGH MORE THAN ANYONE. I WANT TO SEE THIS MOVIE REALLY BAD BECAUSE I LOVE CHIHUAHUAS BUT DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY I AM SUPPOSED TO BE MAD ABOUT IT JUST BECAUSE I’M MEXICAN. WOULD IT BE BETTER IF THE CHIHUAHUAS IN THE MOVIE CAME FROM SOME WHERE OTHER THAN MEXICO? IS IT BECAUSE THEY HAVE ACCENTS? I KINDA HAVE AN ACCENT. I’M CONFUSED!!! I’M IN 8TH GRADE, SORRY THAT I DON’T GET IT. IF YOU CAN FILL ME IN IT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL.
Cindy, can you please explain to Missy why this film should be shunned by all Hispanics?
Anyhoo … Honestly, I agree with Lucille. It’s just an animated film, for crying out loud. You didn’t see White trash protesting Lady and the Tramp back in the day. By bitching about/reacting to every issue that deals with race or ethnicity in the same exact way, you’re kind of reinforcing the stereotype that Latinos are hot blooded (and I’ve heard some say irrational). I’m going to repeat what Lucille said, “Lighten the heck up!” Watch the film (or read the reviews) before rushing to judgment. Most of us have functional brains. I say we use them!
Hey guys, it’s just funnin’ on our part. Yes, the movie looks like a monstrosity–I don’t think anyone can disagree with that. From a critical standpoint, I mean. I personally will reserve judgement on the ethnic or racial implications until i see the turd–and I will see the turd. The chihuahua posters don’t bother me. I think they’re cool. Just wondering aloud if they’re a teaser campaign. p.s. Guana I seriously love you. Are you single?
I used to work in a newsroom and sat next to a film critic and it pissed me off that EVERY movie, he already had his mind made up about it before he went to see it. Pirates, Harry Potter, etc. He only liked the serious, boring art films. There are champagne movies and then there are Boonesfarm flicks. Sometimes you want high art and sip on fine wine. Sometimes you are just in the mood for Boonesfarm, something shit silly. Like Harold and Kumar.
This film, from what I can see from the trailer , they have the setting in Mexico because Chihuahuas, I presume are from there.
What gets me is stuff like The Lion King and the laughing hyenas, the gangster animals of the jungle. They all had ethnic accents. Whoopi, Cheech…Now THAT is something to get worked up about because it just came outta nowhere in the film. I remember thinking “Huh? So not cool.”
Must admit, all this Disney talk makes me wants to go watch something ;-)
P.S. Anyone gonna address Little Missy here?
I’m not responding to this post or the movie. @ Guana :
What I am hearing you say is that people shouldn’t jump to conclusions over something they’ve yet to see. Agreed.
But when you say what I’ve quoted, you imply that it is our responsibility to police stereotypes. The labels themselves are inherently flawed. “Hot blooded”, “spicy”, and all the other not-so-polite ones, are just bullshit labels made to keep us looked at a certain way. You can’t live your life looking over the other guy’s shoulder, worrying whether they are fitting this or the other mold, because it doesn’t work - it keeps them from being a multi-dimensional person. What I believe is that people shouldn’t use or internalize language or labels made up by a willfully ignorant, myopic, white-is-right, culture. They aren’t the right measuring sticks.
And why not “bitch” about it? It seems irrational to me to worry about the bully on the playgrounds’ approval. Would you have people be docile? I know you think people say silly things, and people are overreacting, but everyone’s got to draw their own line in the sand.
Because being patient and waiting for the bad things to go away never worked for anyone.
I hate small dogs! I see their current popularity as a way for childless women to have something to love because men nowa,days don’t want to settle down and have families!!!bring on the shitstorm! Seriously the clothes, carriers and gourmet dog food are overboard.