Ms. Chisato's distinctive style always has a girly, cartoony, Pop Art attitude.
He found this delightful; and especially Pop's attitude of "That'll teach you to trust your father".
Everything fit well, the colors popped, the attitude was chic but not old lady, and Mr. Som made his fabric choices pay.
The movie's silliness, like its preachiness, is loud and slightly hysterical, as if young viewers could be entertained only by a ceaseless barrage of sensory stimulus and pop-culture attitude, or instructed by songs that make the collected works of Up With People sound like Metallica.
This year's Tangled brought in "Disney Princess" No 10, Rapunzel, but despite a bit of pop-culture attitude, her ultimate fate is to be ladylike, marry a prince and live happily ever after in her newfound patriarchal milieu, just like her predecessors.
Jimmy Somerville and I used to go to the same pub and then I found myself working with him in a Channel 4 documentary called Framed Youth [featuring gay and lesbian teenagers conducting vox pops about attitudes to homosexuality].
Though it is "made with evident affection and a modicum of visual wit," Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in October, "the filmmakers' tweaking of old-style militancy and old-fashioned racial oppression never amounts to much beyond a sendup of pop-cultural attitudes that were often self-mocking to begin with".
The thing is, The Man is not the man he used to be, and the filmmakers' tweaking of old-style militancy and old-fashioned racial oppression never amounts to much beyond a sendup of pop-cultural attitudes that were often self-mocking to begin with.
And yet, if there's any pop star whose attitude can withstand such a barrage of cheese, it's Sean Paul.
