After I got linked to it via reddit, I was hoping against hope that this was some sort of hoax, a commentary, perhaps, on the degraded, increasingly inane state of mass media entertainment.

No, it's real. IMDB confirms that it will include the voices of Drew Barrymore, Salma Hayek, and Jamie Lee Curtis, all of whom will presumably, some might say hopefully, fall victim to some ancient Aztec curse shortly thereafter. (Or is it Incan? Some reddit commenters have pointed out that the trailer seems rather vague on the matter.)

Late edit: I only just now noticed this, but the rapping chihuahua (two words that should never appear consecutively, by the way), who is ostensibly Aztec (Incan? Mexican? You know, one of those Spanish countries down thurrr), has what is more or less a Brooklyn accent. Sweet.

LOVED Barbara Ehrenreich's piece at the Nation today on Disney Princesses' toxic side effects:

In faithful imitation, the 3-year-old in my life flounces around with her tiara askew and her Princess gown sliding off her shoulder, looking for all the world like a London socialite after a hard night of cocaine and booze. Then she demands a poison apple and falls to the floor in a beautiful swoon. Pass the Rohypnol-laced margarita, please.

...One's sexual inclinations--straightforward or kinky, active or passive, heterosexual or homosexual--should be free to develop without adult intervention or manipulation. Hence our harshness toward the kind of sexual predators who leer at kids and offer candy. But Disney, which also owns ABC, Lifetime, ESPN, A&E and Miramax, is rewarded with $4 billion a year for marketing the masochistic Princess cult and its endlessly proliferating paraphernalia.

Read the whole thing here.