Disney’s Christian Past and Tangled Present
Nov 15, 2010
Mary Ellen Kelly
In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company’s new animated, feature-length, 3-D adaptation of “Rapunzel,” critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only “has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one-dimensional villains,” but also that the film’s “hyped-up story line . . . gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change” in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales. the rest
Megamind
"Megamind' review at World Magazine
...Packed into this funny and engaging story we find a lesson on redemption. Megamind, who thought stealing all the artwork in the museum and painting his name all over town would be satisfying, finds he cares more about the respect of one woman than the subjugation of Metro City. Maybe he never really wanted to be bad after all. Maybe he can change...
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As a Christian parent of young children, an invaluable resource is Focus on the Family's Plugged In movie reviews. It spells out the good and the bad. I simply lists, three "s" words, this many "God in vains", cartoon violence, too scary for under 10 crowd, 2 sexual references, 3 low cut dresses, etc. It also talks about values presented in the movie. A parent can read the review and decide if they want to fork over twenty bucks.
I recommend it to my non-Christian parents, too. Sadly they are often surprised when they go to the BoF website and find that there isn't any gay bashing haters.
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