Disney movies are delightful, imaginative fun for the entire family. My kids were raised on them. Movies that kids love but adults enjoy too. The stuff you watched as a kid UL my kids weren’t allowed to watch until age 13.
Why are they delightful? What makes them appropriate for the entire family?
What kinds of messages do Disney movies send to kids?
Woody Allen once said: "Steven Spielberg said he makes movies he would have enjoyed as a child. I make movies I will enjoy as an adult."
I give a little side-eye to adults who like children's movies or books. I think it is a symptom of the infantilization of the American mind.
My parents were not big on censorship, though when I was very little they did not allow me to watch movies full of what they called "senseless violence," Freddie Kruger and stuff like that, slasher films.
They let me watch Hair when I was probably 10 years old. To this day it is the only musical I really like!
I didn’t mean Nova or nature. I meant married with children and mad max.
I think there’s an element of you-had-to-be-there to it. There’s a certain pleasure to seeing something through your kid’s eyes that’s difficult to describe. Would I have given Harry Potter or Percy Jackson the time of day if not for the kid? Doubtful. But reading or watching them with my kid has been, at the risk of sounding sentimental, priceless.
Although I do think you have a point about adult fanpersons who get really involved in YA or children’s entertainment for it’s own sake. The Bronies, and other dressers-up. Someone should tell them to look before you LARP. Not that I would lecture or nerd-shame them about it.
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