We found a copy of the movie Chicken Run and thought maybe it was time to let Ouest watch these sorts of full length cartoon movies. Twenty minutes into it she was crying.
“Why is that man being mean to the chicken?!” she screamed with tears welling up and then spilling down her cheeks. Literally screamed.
Ali was with her and calmed her down, but that was the end of that little experiment. This girl does not like mean people, period.
A few minutes later I said to her, “You didn’t like the movie, huh?”
The tears came back immediately and she rambled on in one giant run-on sentence about the mean man and the chicken and how he couldn’t fly but there was a nice chicken that was trying to teach him how to fly but the mean guy… She told me all this with her wet cheeks buried in my chest.
I wonder if she’s ready for The Wizard of Oz?
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DO NOT….repeat….DO NOT….show her the Wizard of OZ. I’m almost 60 and those damn flying monkeys still haunt my dreams. Fair winds.
Jack, you took the words right out of my mouth !
For me, it was Dumbo. The “Pink Elephants” song gave me nightmares as a kid.
Let’s not forget that animated treasure from the house of mouse Bambi. I don’t think any kid is ready for that one.
How ’bout Little Mermaid? She may like that, or Finding Nemo….
Nemo works, but only if you skip past the first five minutes. BTDT
Pretty sure that if Chicken Run was traumatic, Little Mermaid would be too. The witch is pretty much a constant presence… and the overall morals of the Disney version are questionable at best.
Yeah, she saw like ten minutes of Little Mermaid once and it had to be shut off. And seriously, I’m only realizing it now, but what the heck is up with Disney? You have to really want your girl to become a weak-willed man-attacher to enjoy some of their crap.