The Degradation of Kid Movies

Recently I saw the animated movie How to Train your Dragon. Now it wasnt a bad movie, there were some parts that were really cute however it wasnt deserving of an A. I have been wondering why there was such high ratings for a movie that wasnt all that great.

The conclusion I came to was the fact that more and more kids movies today dont meet any good movie standards. So when one that is moderately good comes along like How to Train your Dragon, critics go nuts. Before the movie the previews were cringe inducing. Yes that bad. Some of the truly atrocious kids movies to come are Marmaduke and some animal movie with Brendan Fraser. It was so bad I didnt catch the title because my brother and I were discussing how we would rather shoot ourselves than see that movie. Also remember G Force from last year? A box office smash but widely slammed by critics for being utterly stupid.

My real question is what happened to good old classic kids movies like Jumangi, ET or Gremlins. Maybe Im just being a tad too stuck in the past, but those movies seemed to me like they were the movies to grow up to. If I ever do have kids I will physically monitor what movies they see to weed out all the ick. I would rather have a kid watch Pulp Fiction than G-Force.

It is these kids movies today that are packed with jokes which are so stupid. Now I can appreciate most kinds of humor, but that kind I just mentioned is a new breed of lame. Filmakers of these movies and producers too should focus more on the storyline than selling tickets to an animated animal talking yuk-fest. After all if a young kid can learn to like a true good story, they can take that all through out the remainder of their lives.