Thread:Mesektet/@comment-27729149-20160128170019/@comment-3581997-20160322013538

Deconstruction is examination and elevation of a a trope, setting of concept and then letting it break down under the rules of the world. Shrek for example is a decontruction of fairy tales and classic Disney films. A movie that embraces and goes with cliche's and tropes used like Happily Ever After, Love at First sight, Damsil in Distress, Prince Charming, and so on, embraces them all but then lets you watch as they break down under preasure. This is not the same as justa spoof because the story is not just making fun of the ideas but actually engaging them at their most logical level and then letting the audiance watch as when you realized how little the concept actually makes sense when looked at with any real depth

Shrek is a deconstruction of fairy tales.

Simpsons and Roseanne were decontructions of family sitcoms.

Resident Evil 4 and Shadow Hearts are deconstructions of horror games.

The Secret World are decontruction of cosmic horror.

Megamind, The Expendables and City of Heroes are deconstuctions of comic book logic. So on

It's not just pointing and going "Ha ha, Aren't those things stupid." It is embracing said ideas to show how they would actually play out if you applied real world logic to them.