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Disney… come on.

So, I don’t really like watching bad movies. I usually judge most based on their trailer. I mean you can tell what kind of a movie most are going to be based on the preview. Thus Marley & Me looks exactly like what you would probably expect. A Hollywood romantic comedy with a feel good ending.

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I have one exception though… kid’s movies. I love to watch kid’s movies and it doesn’t matter if they look like they are going to be bad. So, this is a long way of saying that I saw Bedtime Stories starring Adam Sandler. It looked like it’d be predictable, but fun movie… and indeed it was.

But I was shocked when the movie started ripping on being environmently conscious. First, the mother (divorced of course) made some sort of weird birthday cake out of what looked like lawn grass. The main character, Skeeter, brought over chocolate chip cookies and the kids went crazy. That’s fair. Gross food is gross and there is nothing evironmently bad about chocolate chip chookies. So I didn’t even think anything it.

Skeeter drives a huge truck with which he is forced to take up two parking spots. At first I thought they’d explain that he was just running late and accidently park in two parking spots. But I was wrong. He justified his terrible parking  by saying that he didn’t want to scratch the company truck.

Then Skeeter rips on his future love interest for driving a prius. Once again I thought they’d explain it away as flirting. But he didn’t apologize and implide that priuses are for stuck up people. Okay maybe so.

Skeeter then proceeds to give the kids hamburgers which they never had before. fine. Then he lets them watch tv which they don’t have at home. okay.

So all relatively harmless things… but he does it in such a way that implies that they are missing out on great things because they don’t do these things normally. Through the way he acts, he basically is saying “it is lame to care about other people or the environment because then you will turn out up-tight like your mom and have no fun.” This is the main character we are talking about. The “good guy”. The “hero”.

Also, the mother as a child was a loner book worm who turns into a principal. The vibe I got was “If you read books, you’ll have no friends, never get to eat meat, and hate television”. Even thought the mother was nice, this was the subtle hint given by the story.

None of what I’m commenting on were the focus or moral of the story. They were just subtle things in the background. Things that developed the characters. I just felt like Disney was portraying people who care about things in a very negative light. In the past I feel like Disney has sided with nature and things of importants. But this was a harsh departure from those kind of awarenesses.

Anyway, I feel like an overprotective mother writing this. You really have to see the movie to know what I’m talking about. It isn’t that bad, but it stuck out to me.