As a fellow 3D animator, do you consider the following to not be exaggerated enough because it doesn't appeal to horny teenage boys?
What you're describing is COMPLETELY different than what's being criticized. Especially since we're talking about something that's very heavily mocapped.
I am not exactly sure what you're asking from me here, but I'll give you my general thoughts on the scene.
I think the choreography and editing in the scene was mediocre, the way Harley was swinging that club?? was very unconvincing, Those gorilla creatures were like 2.5 times her height, (never mind their gigantic mass) and yet she is casually swinging a 2 feet long piece of dry bark to their head and knocking them over. None of it felt "weighty" ..... The whip swings from CW were a bit better though. But that CW was a lot less interesting than the one in the OP, She was stiff, her voice was a bit too monotone and not in line withwhat I would imagine Catwoman would sound like. You can argue they were in peril and panic, but I still think these larger than life figures should be animated with a bit more energy.
As for the "not appealing to horny teenage boys" Well.. they did manage to "cheat" and squeeze in the ass shots in that extreme up shots when they were looking at the ship in the sky, at least they made the ass shots part of the narration so..... take that for what you will.
I am not too bothered by it myself, but I still think it's cheap, lazy and desperate attempt to push the "sexiness" without even bothering to make it about the characters themselves. The difference between the CW in the OP and the one in here is, the one in the OP, we can easily tell she's in a good mood and may even be feeling "sexy" HERSELF.
The actions and the sultriness is actually coming from the character herself! Where as in here, the ASS shots are not coming from the character herself but it's coming from Michael Ba... errr the horny camera man himself!
Aaaaand, what does mocap have anything to do with good or bad FINAL animation? Any animator that's worth its salt shoudl be able to take a half decent mop cap and push it to make it look much better. Or at least Direct a mo-cap actor to achieve better results. (In a nutshell: Not all mocaps are created equal)
I think I was addressing exactly what was being criticized.
