Buzz Lightyear: Why is the film banned in several countries?

Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and The Eternals, the sequel to Buzz Lightyear’s next animated film from Pixar Studios, is set in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Angus McLain’s feature film is banned for kissing two characters of the same sex. The scene in question has already been censored by Disney, but the studio re-introduced it after an open letter from Pixar staff in March last year regretting that the American giant was censoring love scenes between two people of the same sex.

Indeed, in the story dedicated to the character of Booz Lighter, a friend of the space ranger, Commander Alisha Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) is in a relationship with a scientist, and during a short scene, two women kiss.

The media of the United Arab Emirates announced yesterday that the film was not allowed to be released to the public.Violation of country media content standards“.

Buzz Lightyear joins the growing list of feature films that are censored for inclusion.

After Marvel, Pixar censored

Last April Dr. Strange in Many Worlds of Madness In the Persian Gulf countries, America was banned for introducing the character of Chavez (played by Hochitl Gomez), who, according to his portrayal in comics, is part of the LGBTQ + community.

In November, censors asked Disney to cut scenes from Eternals by Chloe Zhao, but the studio refused.

By 2020, from Pixar Studios, there was already censorship in several Middle Eastern countries and Russia, due to the existence of a homosexual secondary character.