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Movie · Netflix · 2016

Trolls

Happiness as a resource other people eat. The songs are the bait.

Trolls is a bright hunt for a feeling, and the feeling is the product. One character is brave. The rest is a playlist. Small children are safe from any idea and also get nothing sturdy. You can put on a single song they already love and skip the film. The sequel and the specials are the same bargain.

The eight

  1. Industry

    2/10

    Scrapbooking and singing. Survival is an accident of being cheerful.

  2. Household

    3/10

    A friendship, almost a romance. No household.

  3. Piety

    1/10

    The feeling is the sacred object, and it can be bottled.

  4. Courage

    5/10

    One of them goes into the danger for the rest.

  5. Republic

    3/10

    A party, not a people.

  6. Temperance

    2/10

    The film is an appetite for a mood, set to a catalog of songs.

  7. Truth

    3/10

    Sadness is admitted and then cured by a number.

  8. Stewardship

    2/10

    What it hands a child is the next song.

Live historicallyPlay one song if they ask, and do not start the movie.

Movie · Disney+ · 2024

Descendants: The Rise of Red

Another generation of the brand, plus a clock to reset. The weakest of the line.

Red does not want to become her mother. Chloe does not want to become a bystander. The film sends them to the Wonderland of their parents' school days, because a prequel inside a sequel is the current way of not inventing a life. Time travel lets everyone be innocent again. That is the opposite of a moral education, which requires a person to act in the day they actually have.

Skip it. If a child is curious, tell them the interesting part in a sentence — you are not sentenced to your mother's crimes, and you do not get to edit her youth — and then do something in the present.

The eight

  1. Industry

    2/10

    School politics in two eras.

  2. Household

    3/10

    Daughters of famous mothers. The mothers are the plot device.

  3. Piety

    1/10

    A clock instead of a conscience.

  4. Courage

    4/10

    They meddle.

  5. Republic

    3/10

    A campus.

  6. Temperance

    3/10

    A reset is the wish.

  7. Truth

    3/10

    The past is a draft they are allowed to mark up.

  8. Stewardship

    2/10

    Nothing is handed on but a younger costume.

Live historicallyDo not teach a child that a bad institution can be undone by finding the right parent in the past.

Annie