Final: Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension

         When discussing what film to pick for our final, my group talked about a number of different contenders. Soylent Green, Sorry to Bother You, Blade Runner 2049... but all those movies, though deep and high budget, were really depressing. Sure, there are glimmers of hope and the everyman hero manages to expose the truth to some success, but none are really fun. 

        We started talking about sci-fi movies and shows we watched as kids, How to Build a Better Boy, Zapped, Phil of the Future, and others were discussed. But none of them held as much nostalgia for us as the TV movie Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension.  Fun machines, secret agent animals, robots, songs, familiar characters, and cartoon logic all made this the perfect pick as far as we were concerned. What better movie to pick to discuss how we'll be living in 50 years than one that's already affecting us now?

        Phineas and Ferb were how the majority of our generation was introduced to science fiction. This movie was one of our first experiences with the concept of parallel universes and the TV show was based on the idea of currently unachievable feats of engineering. And as we learned while working on this project, they're not too far off from the real scientific theories surrounding implementation.  The creators of Phineas and Ferb also include a barrage of pop-culture references and satirical humor that critiques modern society, consumer culture, and suburbia.

        Parallel universes do exist and we may one day understand how to enter another universe. Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension reminds us that we will have to be prepared for the consequences of those interactions- but not in a way that is emotionally draining and monochromatic.