Disney asks, "Are you a Man, or are you a Minnie?" . . .

Rating: 8/10 (1 February 2016)

. . . with its latest unnecessarily-3D flick, THE FINEST HOURS. Though this True Story takes place in 1951-1952, Disney makes clear that it is targeting the 21st Century chick with "Miriam," by having HER propose to the tale's hero. According to THE FINEST HOURS, women think with their Hearts--NOT their Heads. Disney proves that if it were up to Miriam, the 32 survivors of the oil tanker Pendleton all would have drowned. If THE FINEST HOURS bunch had made GONE WITH THE WIND, that yawner would have been 2 1/2 hours shorter, because Mrs. Lincoln would have commanded Abe NOT to contest the Rebels or their Lazy Plantation "Colonels'" Racist Black Slavery System. (Of course, Mrs. Smith would be too busy picking cotton nowadays to raise any Oscar ruckus, had women like Abe's Mary Todd and THE FINEST HOURS' Miriam been able to successfully influence their men.) With its FINEST HOURS, Disney is telling America NOT to be hasty in electing a Woman President. "View THIRTEEN HOURS first, America, before casting your ballots," might as well be Disney's "Tag-Line" for THE FINEST HOURS.