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Series · Netflix · 2015

Alvinnn!!! and the Chipmunks

A father is in the house. The show would rather squeak.

There is a man raising three boys who are not easy. That premise does not have to be stupid, and sometimes the show remembers it: Dave is tired, he stays, the brothers have to share a room and a name. Then the pitch goes up and the lesson arrives in a caption. A child can watch an episode. You do not need the afternoon.

If it is on, watch one. Ask which brother had to give something up. If the answer is nobody, turn it off.

The eight

  1. Industry

    4/10

    Dave has a job. The boys' schemes are the point, and school is a gag.

  2. Household

    6/10

    He keeps them. They are brothers. The house is real even when the joke is cheap.

  3. Piety

    3/10

    Nothing is revered except the chorus.

  4. Courage

    3/10

    The adventures are small and safe.

  5. Republic

    4/10

    A neighborhood exists, mostly to be startled.

  6. Temperance

    5/10

    No real cruelty. The volume is the excess.

  7. Truth

    4/10

    A lesson is stapled to the end. You can hear the staple.

  8. Stewardship

    4/10

    Dave is trying to hand them a way to live. The songs hand them a brand.

Live historicallyHave the children in the house divide one job fairly, without a song to make it painless.

Series · Disney+ · 2022

Cars on the Road

A friendship and a road. Slight, inoffensive, and not the first film.

Mater and Lightning drive. The episodes are stops: a diner, a recollection, a town with one joke. The first Cars film was about a famous machine learning to stay. This is a visit to that idea, shorter, with less at stake. Nobody is asked to give up a tour for a town.

Fine for a young child who likes the cars. Do not confuse it with a story that costs the hero anything. It is a drive. Enjoy the drive and do not build a week out of it.

The eight

  1. Industry

    4/10

    A trip, not a job. Radiator Springs is offscreen and still the home.

  2. Household

    5/10

    Friendship. A wedding at the end, which is at least a household beginning.

  3. Piety

    2/10

    None.

  4. Courage

    3/10

    Little danger they do not joke through.

  5. Republic

    4/10

    Towns as episodes.

  6. Temperance

    6/10

    Modest. No cruelty.

  7. Truth

    5/10

    Memory episodes tell a plainer past.

  8. Stewardship

    4/10

    What is handed on is a route, not a duty.

Live historicallyTake the long way to one errand with a child and let them notice one thing.

Annie