We just took our 34 month old son this afternoon. He was enthralled. Dh and I thought it was cute. George was adorable. My son laughed many belly laughs at certain scenes.
However, I was horrified at all the commercials before the movie. We got to the cinema a little early and even before the previews there were trailers for other movies and lots of ads for...a multinational junk food chain, and multinational soda company, the products from which have never touched my son's lips. I said to my husband, what a captive audience. It just brought to mind some of the articles in Mothering about kids being exploited by marketing from huge companies. The ADA calls for kids to drink very little soda and yet the advertising is all around us. This is why we don't watch television, just certain videos.
Also, even in the movie previews, I was disappointed by the violent slapstick humor. I can't recall the movies but I was saddened by the violence. And these are all, as another poster mentioned, probably rated G.
I also saw a mom give her son a shove when they were walking up the stairs. He was maybe 8 or 9 and they were sitting right behind us. I know everyone has a bad day now and then but it bummed me out. OTOH, I did see a lot of loving parenting from other parents. A lot of people spending time with their little ones watching a cute movie.
However, I was horrified at all the commercials before the movie. We got to the cinema a little early and even before the previews there were trailers for other movies and lots of ads for...a multinational junk food chain, and multinational soda company, the products from which have never touched my son's lips. I said to my husband, what a captive audience. It just brought to mind some of the articles in Mothering about kids being exploited by marketing from huge companies. The ADA calls for kids to drink very little soda and yet the advertising is all around us. This is why we don't watch television, just certain videos.
Also, even in the movie previews, I was disappointed by the violent slapstick humor. I can't recall the movies but I was saddened by the violence. And these are all, as another poster mentioned, probably rated G.
I also saw a mom give her son a shove when they were walking up the stairs. He was maybe 8 or 9 and they were sitting right behind us. I know everyone has a bad day now and then but it bummed me out. OTOH, I did see a lot of loving parenting from other parents. A lot of people spending time with their little ones watching a cute movie.
Because I'm a rookie to the kid's movie thing, I never even thought about trailers (I had researched this movie ahead of time, decided it was appropriate, not scary, etc) and then there were about 4 or 5 trailers that I would consider inappropriate for a lot of the younger children (scary or obnoxious - I avoid "obnoxious" like the plague...)
he's so cute. we were very happy with the simple approach- dh was so afraid they'd make george talk!!!
