Thursday, September 1, 2011

Rated G?

Netflix has two new Disney movies...The Princess and the Frog and Tangled.  I previewed Tangled before I let the girls watch it and realized it was not appropriate.  It was scary in that the little girl was taken from her parents and was being raised by a vane woman who was using the girl's hair for her own youthful appearance.  Ummm...no, I'm not going to let my little girl watch that.  Scary!  I turned it off 15 minutes into it.  Then I had gotten Paige a puzzle that had some of the Disney Princesses on it and one of the princesses was Tiana from the Princess and the Frog.  I thought I would give it a try.  The beginning was great!  Very wholesome and fun with great music.  Then it turned to black magic and voodoo with scary looking goblins in several scenes.  At one point I had to stand in front of Paige and do a little dance to divert her attention from the TV.  Why do such great films have to be so scary?  I suppose in all great writing there is a "bad person" to add to the plot and create a climax, but do children really need that as entertainment?  I'm sticking with Sesame Street, Kipper and Caillou for now.

1 comment:

  1. Oh, darn, those are scary? I guess I remember that even "Snow White" and "Cinderella" had scary parts. Xander and I watched one of the new Tinkerbell movies and I think it was pretty good...I was impressed that she was kind of an engineer!

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