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Movie · Netflix · 2021

Back to the Outback

A journey home. The lesson about looks is plain, and the home is the right destination.

Back to the Outback is an escape home, which is a better plot than an escape into fame. The ugliness lesson is delivered more than once, and children will not miss it. The part to say aloud is the destination: they are not trying to be liked by the crowd that feared them. They are trying to get back to a place where they can live. Fine for a family evening.

The eight

  1. Industry

    4/10

    The zoo is a job done badly. The wild is where they have to learn to live.

  2. Household

    4/10

    A made family of the rejected. They are trying to reach a real habitat.

  3. Piety

    3/10

    Being seen truly is the hope. It is not quite worship of being seen.

  4. Courage

    6/10

    They cross a country that can kill them.

  5. Republic

    4/10

    A park that used them. A wilderness that does not.

  6. Temperance

    5/10

    Jokes about ugliness, aimed at the people who flinched.

  7. Truth

    6/10

    The fear of them was ignorant, and the film says so without pretending they are harmless in every way.

  8. Stewardship

    5/10

    What they want to hand on is a way home.

Live historicallyAsk where they were going, and why being liked was not the arrival.

Movie · Netflix · 2017

Smurfs: The Lost Village

A search for a role. Gentler than the live-action films, and still a brand wearing a village.

Smurfette's problem, that she is named for what she is and not for what she does, is a real problem, and the film is too slight to do more than pat it. The lost village is a pleasant picture of a people with ordinary skills. Fine for a child who already likes the blue folk. Not a film to start a habit on.

The eight

  1. Industry

    4/10

    The village is full of jobs. Her distress is that she does not have one yet.

  2. Household

    5/10

    A village that functions as a household.

  3. Piety

    3/10

    Wonder, lightly worn.

  4. Courage

    5/10

    She goes into the forest for the people she has not met.

  5. Republic

    5/10

    Two villages, and a villain who would use both.

  6. Temperance

    6/10

    Bright, not cruel.

  7. Truth

    5/10

    Wanting a name is an honest trouble. The film solves it quickly.

  8. Stewardship

    4/10

    A people found. A franchise continued.

Live historicallyName the work each person in the house does, including the child.