And don't forget about the wolves!
(Sunday afternoon. Zach and Russ are trying to think of suitable movies to show Scarlett, who is 5 and princess-obsessed.)
ZACH: I think Stardust would be all right. It's PG-13, but I can't really think of anything I don't want her to see.
RUSS: There's all the dead guys.
ZACH: Yeah, but they're the best part. Do you have any suggestions?
RUSS: How about The Hobbit? It's animated, made by the same guys who did The Last Unicorn.
ZACH: Is there anything scary in it?
RUSS: Well, maybe the giant spiders. And the orcs. And the trolls...and the dragon...and the war...and Gollum. Um, come to think of it, scary things are pretty much constantly trying to kill them.
ZACH: Stardust has a princess in it.
RUSS: Yeah, she'll like that more.
My niece is now obsessed with the MPAA ratings system. She'll actually go through the family DVD collection trying to find G and PG rated movies. When you give a kid a method of dividing things, they latch onto it, I guess. I've been trying to tell her that ratings are only based on the opinion of a few people, and that the rating itself shouldn't be a meaningful test of a movie, but I think she's a bit too young to draw that sort of distinction. Maybe I should show her This Film is Not Yet Rated.
ZACH: I think Stardust would be all right. It's PG-13, but I can't really think of anything I don't want her to see.
RUSS: There's all the dead guys.
ZACH: Yeah, but they're the best part. Do you have any suggestions?
RUSS: How about The Hobbit? It's animated, made by the same guys who did The Last Unicorn.
ZACH: Is there anything scary in it?
RUSS: Well, maybe the giant spiders. And the orcs. And the trolls...and the dragon...and the war...and Gollum. Um, come to think of it, scary things are pretty much constantly trying to kill them.
ZACH: Stardust has a princess in it.
RUSS: Yeah, she'll like that more.
My niece is now obsessed with the MPAA ratings system. She'll actually go through the family DVD collection trying to find G and PG rated movies. When you give a kid a method of dividing things, they latch onto it, I guess. I've been trying to tell her that ratings are only based on the opinion of a few people, and that the rating itself shouldn't be a meaningful test of a movie, but I think she's a bit too young to draw that sort of distinction. Maybe I should show her This Film is Not Yet Rated.