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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by BaftaBaby[/i] [br]I was probably meant to be charmed. But I wasn't. The core of the film - based on one or more kids books - makes a predictable attempt to address certain phenomena of the western world. It holds that kids today are too street-smart to cling to the fairy-tale magic of yesteryear. The biggest barrier for me is the oft-repeated assertion that for the magic to be preserved, kids all over the world have to believe. It's that "all over the world" that gets me. Really? [url="http://www.viewzone.com/chocolarte.html"]Boys and girls[/url] from Mali who are kidnapped by Nestles and other multi-national chocolate companies and forced into slavery harvesting cocoa beans on Ivory Coast plantations - all they have to do is believe in friggin Jack Frost? The children whose daily occupation is to sort through the rubbish dumps of Brazilian favelas - all they have do is believe in the tooth fairy? And Israeli and Palestinian kids accidentally maimed in the crossfire of Gaza - all they have to do is believe in Saint Nicholas? That's the kind of "jam tomorrow" that societies have been using for millennia as a tool of control. Please don't accuse me of being a frumpy grumpy killjoy who doesn't know how to suspend disbelief or cuddle up to a cosy kiddy tale. Even Peter Pan, which also depends on kids believing in fairies for fuck's sake - even that beckons out your/my inner child, luring us into "If Only-Land." I adore the way Raymond Briggs' Boy accepts with wonder The Snowman's vitality - let alone his ability to share wingless flight. It's touching, it's funny. It's great. The brilliantly surreal "superhuman" characters of Philip Pullman's Dark Materials reveal so much about acquiring the skills and emotional strength to face life's perils. But this film - yeah, yeah, the animation's terrific - but the premise is based on a spurious and inaccurate set of parables. Sort of Christian-lite. I didn't see it with an audience of children. Especially not kids from all over the world. But, then again, I guess most of them don't get to many films. Bah Humbug![:(!] [/quote]    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature.