Movie · Prime Video · 2015

Jurassic World

Spectacle in place of the lesson the first film already gave. The animal is not the villain.

The first Jurassic Park was about people who would not leave a power alone. Jurassic World opens the gift shop. The courage of going back for a child is the part the standard will count. The hybrid, the crowd, the joke about the asset — that is a film spending an animal as a ride. You can enjoy a chase and still refuse the lesson that life is a product line.

Older children who already know dinosaurs will want it. Watch with them and say the plain thing: they made a creature they did not intend to care for. That is the failure, not the creature.

The eight

Industry
4/10
Handlers and scientists do a job. The job is a mistake they were paid to make.
Household
4/10
An aunt and two boys. The children are there so the chase has a reason to pause.
Piety
2/10
A living thing is a product. That is the opposite of reverence.
Courage
5/10
People go back into the park for the children. That part is real.
Republic
3/10
A corporation owns the wonder and sells tickets to it.
Temperance
3/10
Bigger, louder, again. Appetite for the next hybrid is the plot of the park and of the film.
Truth
4/10
It knows the breeding was wrong. It still wants you to cheer the teeth.
Stewardship
2/10
Stewardship of a creature is the test, and the park fails it on purpose.

Live historicallyName one living thing the house is responsible for. Do its care before you put on anything about a monster.

Movie · Disney+ · 2017

Descendants 2

A sequel about not performing goodness. Still a mascot itself.

Mal flees Auradon because love there requires a makeover. That instinct is fair. The film resolves it with a bigger makeover and a pirate boyfriend and a swordfight among the children of trademarks. The island's injustice — children punished for their parents — remains the only serious idea, and it remains unused except as a set.

If the first is already in the house, this adds little. Watch it only if you will actually talk about whether the 'good' place was asking for a costume. If not, skip. You will not miss a moral you did not already hear.

The eight

Industry
3/10
Image management.
Household
3/10
A romance. Parents still logos.
Piety
2/10
None.
Courage
4/10
She goes back to a harder place.
Republic
4/10
A kingdom that confuses manners with virtue.
Temperance
3/10
The makeover is the plot and the product.
Truth
5/10
She tells the truth that she was faking the princess.
Stewardship
3/10
Another coronation. Little kept.

Live historicallyDo not make a child act grateful and pretty in exchange for being allowed in.