Lies, Damn Lies

Some kind of really awesome attack!

Ho hum, another day, another trying to avoid revising for the exam thats on the next day. As you can tell from the sheer excitement in my most recent posts, a LOT has been happening in my life recently. I have been watching a lot of the Futurama box set, and I would reccomend it. I don't think it is as good as the Simpsons or Family Guy, but its pretty damn good. A hope of course with these adult animations is that they make animation more acceptable as an adult form of entertainment. As an anime fan I know for a fact that animation can be used maturely and intelligently (or just really funnily), and doesn't have to be "just for kids" as it is so often relegated to.

In fact it was slightly annoying that many people said they didn't think the Incredibles was that good because it would not appeal to kids. First of all, they SEVERELY underestimate childrens intelligence when they say that. Children DO like darker stories- look at Roald Dahl's books for example. Indeed, the most popular childrens books do have darker elements, and then when the film version is made there is often an attempt to remove those- look at the saccharine in the first two Harry Potter films. However, as Lemony Snicket has shown, and, thinking back, the Neverending Story, or even the Princess Bride (although I demean it by calling it a childrens movie, as stigma gets attatched unfortunately). While kids will not enjoy realistic violence, or too horrific concepts, they can understand evil, and usually death too, and indeed many are willing to face it. Or at least, the interesting children are anyway.

I guess they might be talking about 5 year olds and lower, but frankly at a really young age they'll enjoy any old cack....

posted by Mr K @ 12:13 pm