Saturday, March 15th, 2008...6:28 am
Is this the message you want your kids to hear?? Horton Hears A Who movie review
“A person’s a person, no matter how small!”
Yes, it opened yesterday (big) and being the movie loser lover I am, I took Kid to Horton Hears a Who.
Sure, it was colorful, silly and most importantly, less than 90 minutes long, but there was this message.
And they kept repeating it.
And while laughing nervously, I kept thinking how this could be used against parents, if you know what I mean. No vote, no candy, no more tv, whatever you are denying, what if this message is thrown in our faces??
It’s already been shanghaied by anti-abortionists, I read somewhere, who chanted at families as they bought tickets to the movie. Huh? Talk about misplaced target audiences. Those adults have apparently already decided against abortion, at least one time.
Although now that they have raising-a-kid knowledge, perhaps they would be at the very least, pro-choice, if not pro-youth-inasia…. (that is, youth sent to Asia, on a slow boat)
Messages aside, we both liked the movie (’sawright, dog, ’sawright). It didn’t blow me away, but it did leave me with two questions:
1. Why in all of Whoville has it taken this long for CAROL BURNETT to be an animated character?? I hope this will be the first of many. That woman reigns supreme.
2. What is so great about Red Vines? Not that we didn’t pay close attention, but much movie time was spent in negotiations of how many Red Vines Kid is allowed from the mega-sized box (we don’t need another Hot Tamales incident). I don’t get it. They taste like chewy plastic, only with bright red food color (which you don’t SEE in the movie theater). The black ones, maybe, I get….but I also like licorice tea.
If you see this movie, I want to know if your kid uses the message against you later. Please do let me know.
[Also, note that the loftier “you can believe in things you can’t see/smell/hear” message flew over Kid’s head as she announced all the things she did not believe in during our drive home, including but not limited to me, God, and Daddy, but excluding the Easter Bunny.]
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5 Comments
March 15th, 2008 at 6:54 am
Saw it yesterday with my crew, too. They are younger (4, 3 and 2) and they really liked it. I was a tad disappointed, as I thought it would be much, much more than it was.
Interesting message throughout, that’s for sure…
Oh yeah, and there is nothing like Red Vines!
March 15th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Smart kid — She knows what Easter can bring for her and by whom! Did she eliminate Santa Claus, too?
March 15th, 2008 at 11:39 am
She did not mention Santa (playing it safe).
March 15th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Oh man, I can’t believe the anti-choice folks are using this movie as a propaganda tool. I think I feel my headache returning….
March 18th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
I much prefer Twizzlers to Red Vines.
When I was a kid, a big controversial song was Randy Newman’s “Short People Got No Reason To Live.” He lamented, not without reason, that nobody got the joke.
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