This movie is one of my favorites. :D Love the characters and the animation is gorgeous. And yes to the range of body types in this movie. So awesome to see a range of body types for a change.
Oh gracious, those trailers. Did you ever see the one with Aladdin? Stitch is such the flirt in it. :D
I know the movie has a sadness to it with the loss the sisters have dealt with and even with Stitch learning he too has no family. The way they deal with their sadness though and in the end form their own family is really nicely done.
I think I saw the Aladdin one once in the cinema. It was mostly the Little Mermaid one that was played round here. Which annoyed me at the time because I preferred the Beauty and the Beast one; I loved Beast's little nervous gulp and Belle's sigh of "I'll be in my room," at the end.
What I loved was this was a Disney movie that acknowledged the existence of social services! In a modern-day setting, Disney's tended to stay to the dad-mum-and-two-point-five-children nuclear family unit, so it was refreshing to see something messier and more troubled - but still good, as Stitch says himself.
Oddly it was mostly the Aladdin won they played where I was at the time. Didn't see the Beauty and the Beast one much either, which was a shame and it was my favorite too. :D Yes! That gulp and the "I'll be in my room" were perfect.
It was a nice change of pace. Given there are families where it is just the kids it was nice to see them tackle that and social services and how the kids are coping. Honestly would like to see them branch out more like that again.
Well, we had a TV series and two other movies out of it so Disney probably feel they got their mileage out of it.
And then when we have an actual case of familial neglect in a Disney movie (*coughFrozencough*) social services are nowhere to be seen!!! Seriously, not one character within the movie calls the king and queen out on their crap. (I know we've talked about this before but it still makes me boggle that a Disney movie could portray emotional abuse as a valid response by wise and loving adults.)
Probably. Doesn't mean they couldn't do something new that isn't connected to those characters. I'd like to see a new setting, with new characters who are in the same boat that Nani and Lilo were.
I know! That still floors me. How did no one go "wait! your majesties, why are we locking the girls away from everyone? this isn't right." ... at least the trolls should have. Makes it kind of hard to look at the parents as supposedly wise and loving given their first response was to lock Elsa away from everyone and Anna in the process too.
Oh gracious, those trailers. Did you ever see the one with Aladdin? Stitch is such the flirt in it. :D
I know the movie has a sadness to it with the loss the sisters have dealt with and even with Stitch learning he too has no family. The way they deal with their sadness though and in the end form their own family is really nicely done.
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Little Mermaid one that was played round here. Which annoyed me at the time because I preferred the Beauty and the Beast one; I loved Beast's little nervous gulp and Belle's sigh of "I'll be in my room," at the end.
What I loved was this was a Disney movie that acknowledged the existence of social services! In a modern-day setting, Disney's tended to stay to the dad-mum-and-two-point-five-children nuclear family unit, so it was refreshing to see something messier and more troubled - but still good, as Stitch says himself.
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It was a nice change of pace. Given there are families where it is just the kids it was nice to see them tackle that and social services and how the kids are coping. Honestly would like to see them branch out more like that again.
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And then when we have an actual case of familial neglect in a Disney movie (*coughFrozencough*) social services are nowhere to be seen!!! Seriously, not one character within the movie calls the king and queen out on their crap. (I know we've talked about this before but it still makes me boggle that a Disney movie could portray emotional abuse as a valid response by wise and loving adults.)
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I know! That still floors me. How did no one go "wait! your majesties, why are we locking the girls away from everyone? this isn't right." ... at least the trolls should have. Makes it kind of hard to look at the parents as supposedly wise and loving given their first response was to lock Elsa away from everyone and Anna in the process too.
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