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Awww, and those wellies and umbrella will come in handy once you start your work as a princess in Floridaprincessinwaiting wrote:I liked Monster University, but I just felt it needed more, everything just a little more extreme.
And I loved The Blue Umbrella!!! It was so cute and now I've seen Make Mine Music, it really reminded me of Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet! So sweet! And I'm going to have to buy matching wellies and umbrella in case I meet another umbrella to fall in love with
) to see this in the theater. I was right... I still like the original best. I think what I didn't like was the lack of imagination. It was essentially the same formula as you would find in any college comedy film, including but not limited to "Revenge of the Nerds." Underdog competes against popular jock types on campus, is about to lose, rallies from within to defeat the bad guys, there's a plot twist near the end, and they all live happily ever after. The original Monsters, Inc. was SO MUCH MORE imaginative. This one just let me down. We own every Pixar movie on DVD, many on Blu-ray, so this is going to have a place in our collection, but it isn't even in my top 10 of Pixar films.
I know kids are supposed to be smarter nowadays but do they REALLY see all those things in these type of films. Don't they just watch them because there fun, cute, colourful, simple entertainmentcy1229 wrote:Allow me to play Devil's Advocate for a bit... what do we learn from the following movies:
Aladdin: Stealing is ok because you'll meet a princess and be made sultan (kind of the "flip side" of "Pretty Woman")
Mulan: Breaking the law and running away is ok if you do it for the right reasons
Lilo and Stitch: Oh don't get me started on that one.
Emperor's New Groove: If you're rude, you're cool, and if you're nice, you're not cool
Wall-E: If we just invent the right machines, they'll take care of all of our stupid choices, and we won't have to be held responsible for the crap we're doing to the planet
Snow White: B&E is ok as long as you clean up and cook dinner
I'm sure there are more, but you get my point. To be fair, when my girls were little, I didn't let them watch movies that would give them the wrong idea, so we avoided Emperor's New Groove and Lilo and Stitch. I never let them see "Pocahontas" because for cryin' out loud, she was a REAL person, and they got the story so wrong it's laughable. Now that the girls are 15 and almost 19, I don't worry so much. It's all dependent upon what you want your kids to see or not see as parents. I agree, that message is pretty lousy, but no more lousy than the others I've listed here.
She has survived and they have both turned out fine 
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boilerbabe wrote:Gotta Redbox this one! Maybe tomorrow, b/c I'm sure after round 2 with the yard, bdude and I won't be moving around much in the evening!
Goofyfan wrote:boilerbabe wrote:Gotta Redbox this one! Maybe tomorrow, b/c I'm sure after round 2 with the yard, bdude and I won't be moving around much in the evening!
Advil and shot of Crown will do the trick!!!!
Not even that helps after a day in our yard clearing leaves! Still need to see this flick!